Notre Dame women’s basketball adds graduate transfer Anna DeWolfe
Notre Dame has made its first move in the transfer portal this offseason. The Fighting Irish are adding Fordham guard Anna DeWolfe to the 2023-24 roster.
DeWolfe is a 5-8 guard out of Cumberland, Maine. She averaged 18.4 points per game this past season, which was good for No. 32 in the nation. For reference, Sonia Citron led Notre Dame in scoring at 14.7 points per game.
DeWolfe is a three-time All-Atlantic 10 First Team member and ranks No. 3 on Fordham’s all-time scoring list with 1,883 points. She was one of 30 players in the country to average at least 20 points per game in 2020-21; she scored 20.8 points per game that season and was named Atlantic 10 Co-Player of the Year. For her career, DeWolfe has 17.0 points in 111 games. She started 109 of those.
“We are so excited to welcome Anna to our Notre Dame family!” Notre Dame head coach Niele Ivey said in a statement. “She will bring experience and a dynamic skill set that will translate well into our system. She is a competitive combo guard with an incredible motor. What I love most about Anna is her work ethic, toughness and passion for the game. She matches our team’s identity perfectly!”
DeWolfe isn’t afraid to fire away from three-point range. She has attempted 7.0-plus threes per game in each of the last three seasons, and her hit rate from distance has not ever dipped below 30 percent. She shot 35.4 percent from three this past season and is a career 33.7 percent three-point shooter. She’s made 40.8 percent of her total field goals in her career.
Notre Dame lost three-point specialist Dara Mabrey to graduation. The Irish are getting five-star freshman Emma Risch to bolster three-point shooting, but DeWolfe has proven she can make shots at this level over the course of four seasons. In two WNIT games, DeWolfe scored 21 and 22 points.
DeWolfe registered at least 50 assists in every season she played at Fordham. She just posted a career-high 83 this past season. That would have ranked second on the Notre Dame roster behind Olivia Miles’ 192. Citron had 82.
Miles will lead the Notre Dame backcourt when she gets back from offseason knee surgery. Citron is the team’s leader in the meantime. Risch comes in with fellow five-star guard Hannah Hidalgo, who just set the McDonald’s All-American Game scoring record with 26 points last month.
Notre Dame isn’t done in the portal, most likely. Ivey needs to add a post player to replace the departed Lauren Ebo. Here’s a look at the scholarship players Notre Dame currently has on the 2023024 roster.
- Freshman guard Hannah Hidalgo
- Freshman guard Emma Risch
- Sophomore guard KK Bransford
- Sophomore guard Cassandre Prosper
- Junior guard Olivia Miles
- Junior guard Sonia Citron
- Senior forward Maddy Westbeld
- Senior center Nat Marshall
- Senior center Kylee Watson
- Graduate student guard Jenna Brown
- Graduate student guard Anna DeWolfe
