Adia Barnes’s Arizona Wildcats had a really excellent day on Wednesday.
For the 2024–25 campaign, Barnes acquired two new players to the squad, both of whom were forwards. Jorynn Ross, who played her freshman year at Pepperdine, joined the programme earlier in the day, while Ajea Yoakum, who played her final two seasons at Florida International, joined later in the evening.
Yoakum, a graduate student, finished the previous season with an average of 10.4 points and 5.6 rebounds per game.
She scored a career-high 30 points (10 of 11 from the field) in a game against Alabama A&M in December. She scored 10 of those points in the second quarter of the game. Last year, she was selected for the Honourable Mention team in Conference USA.
She spent her first two years of college basketball at Eastern Arizona. Yoakum is from Portland, Oregon, and played at Benson Polytechnic High School, winning a 6A championship in her junior season.
Ross, who will be a sophomore, knows Breya Cunningham and Jada Williams, as all three of them participated in the U16 National Trials.
For the first time in quite a few seasons, the Wildcats should have real depth at the post position. Yoakum and Ross join Cunningham, Isis Beh, Montaya Dew, previous walk-ons Brooklyn Rhodes and Erin Tack, fellow transfer Sahnya Jah and freshman Katarina Knezevic.
Barnes still has the option of adding another transfer to reach the cap of 15 players.
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