A USF Fan's Guide to Every Women's Basketball Addition
Let's take a look at all of the players new USF head coach Kristy Curry has brought in this offseason.
For the first time since the 1999-2000 season, a full-time coach not named Jose Fernandez will lead the USF women’s basketball program.
The Bulls are the fourth team for new head coach Kristy Curry. She is 52-40 in her previous opening seasons as a head coach with Purdue, Texas Tech and Alabama.
Curry will have high expectations placed on her in Year 1 at the helm. She has a .632 winning percentage as a head coach and has reached the NCAA Tournament 14 times.
She is also taking over a premier non-power conference program. USF has recorded 15 straight winning seasons. USF women’s basketball has posted 20-win seasons in four of the past five years.
With high expectations come high-stakes offseason acquisitions for Curry. Every move is pivotal for her, especially with the amount of talent leaving USF either through graduation or the transfer portal.
Curry was able to retain C Lana Vukcevic, F Fatou Diakite, G Stefanie Ingram, and G Lee Teichman from last year’s roster.
Let’s take a look at the players Curry has brought in.
Guards
Departures:
Katie Davidson, Janette Aarnio, Edyn Battle, Jelena Bulajic, Brooklyn Hall, Kierston Lewis-Williams and Raina Tomasicka
Savannah Curry (Temple)
She started 25 games for the Owls last season and averaged 7.4 points per game. Curry scored in double figures eight times last season. The year prior, she earned American Athletic Conference All-Freshman Team honors after appearing in all 32 games for Temple and averaging 2.2 points per game.
Before Temple, Curry played at The Westtown School, where she averaged 16.4 points and 5.4 rebounds per game during her senior season, earning McDonald’s All-American nominee honors.
Gabby Kennerly (Mount St. Mary’s)
She played 47 games for Mount St. Mary’s over the past two seasons. Kennerly was the Mountaineers’ leading scorer through 16 games last season, averaging 15.1 points per game before a knee injury sidelined her for the remainder of the year.
She recorded three 20-point games and one 30-point game last season. Her career-high outing came against Iona on Dec. 21. Kennerly also averaged 2.3 steals per game last year.
The year before, during her redshirt freshman season, she started all 31 games for the Mountaineers and scored in double figures 18 times while averaging 10.7 points per game.
Kennerly also played her high school basketball career in Maryland at Howard High School, where she was named county player of the year in 2022 and 2023.
Hannah Kohn (Clemson)
She spent the past two seasons with Clemson after beginning her collegiate career at Chattanooga, where she earned SoCon All-Freshman Team honors.
Last season, Kohn appeared in 33 games and made 12 starts for the Tigers, averaging 4.7 points per game. Her signature moment came in February when she drilled a game-winning 3-pointer from the top of the key to lift Clemson to an upset victory over No. 9 Duke.
Kohn has shot 37% from 3-point range during her collegiate career. The 2024-25 season was her best, as she averaged 9.2 points per game while appearing in 31 games. She made 2.55 3-pointers per game, ranking third in the ACC during the 2024-25 season.
Kohn is from Oviedo and played at Hagerty High School, and her uncle is Reggie Kohn, who was a four year starter for USF from 1999 to 2003.
Kate Novik (DePaul)
She is a high-profile transfer who arrives with a proven track record in a power conference.
Novik played last season at DePaul and earned All-Big East Second Team honors after averaging 12.2 points and 6.4 rebounds per game. She scored in double figures 22 times last season.
She also led the Blue Demons with 110 assists while being the only player on the team to average double figures in scoring.
Before DePaul, Novik played her first two seasons at Morehead State, earning second-team All-OVC honors during both her freshman and sophomore seasons.
Novik is originally from Belarus.
Amourie Porter (Winthrop)
She earned first-team All-Big South honors in each of the past two seasons at Winthrop.
Last season, Porter averaged 16.3 points and 7.3 rebounds per game. She scored in double figures in 26 of the Eagles’ 31 games.
The year before, she averaged 13.1 points and 6.3 rebounds per game.
Before her time at Winthrop, Porter played her freshman season at Cal State Bakersfield, appearing in 29 games.
Porter played her high school basketball career at Glen Burnie High School in Maryland. She helped lead Glen Burnie to a state championship during her senior season after the program won just one game during her junior year. Porter was also a McDonald’s All-American nominee.
Serenity Hardy (Winter Haven High School)
Winter Haven High School is about an hour from USF’s campus, making Hardy one of the biggest hometown additions on the Bulls’ roster.
She was named Florida Miss Basketball for the 2026 class and is ranked as the top shooting guard prospect in Florida. Hardy averaged 23.9 points per game during her senior season. In 2024, she won a state championship with Winter Haven.
Forwards
Departures:
Carla Brito, L’or Mputu and Ines Piper
Mallory Collier (NC State)
She spent the past three seasons with NC State.
Last season, Collier appeared in 16 games, all off the bench. NC State earned a No. 7 seed in the NCAA Tournament, and Collier played five minutes in the Wolfpack’s Round of 32 loss to Michigan, scoring three points.
Collier saw her most action during the 2024-25 season, appearing in 29 games and making 11 starts. That year, the Wolfpack went 28-7, earned a No. 2 seed in the NCAA Tournament and advanced to the Sweet 16.
During her freshman season, Collier appeared in 16 games on an NC State team that reached the Final Four.
She has never averaged more than 3.1 points per game in a season but owns a 58.5% career field goal percentage.
Collier was ranked as ESPN’s No. 55 player in the 2023 recruiting class out of high school. She played at Bartlett High School in Tennessee.
Kendall Puryear (Purdue)
She played 59 games over the past two seasons with Purdue.
Puryear started 14 games for the Boilermakers last season and averaged 6.6 points per game. Her minutes increased late in the season, as she averaged 18 minutes per game over Purdue’s final nine contests after averaging 15 minutes during the first 21 games.
During her freshman season in 2024-25, Puryear averaged 7.2 points per game, ranking 11th among Big Ten freshmen.
She played at Blue Springs South High School in Missouri, where she was a McDonald’s All-American nominee during her senior season.
Lisandra Vetesina (Tallinn Sports Academy, Estonia)
She is the other freshman addition Curry brought in with this class.
Vetesina played on the Estonia U18 national team and averaged 7.3 points and 7.1 rebounds per game during the U18 EuroBasket tournament.
She also competed with TSA Tallinn in several of Estonia’s top leagues, including Estonia-NKML, EGBL U19 and WBBL.
Vetesina averaged 11.3 points and seven rebounds in 10 games en route to helping TSA Tallinn win the Estonia-NKML championship this year.