City of Basketball Love

Josh Verlin (@jmverlin)
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(Ed. Note: This article is part of our 2025-26 season coverage, which will run for the six weeks preceding the first official games of the year on Nov. 4. To access all of our high school and college preview content for this season, click here.)

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Philly hoops are represented throughout the country on Division I programs from coast to coast.

Each year, well over 100 Philly-area ballplayers are spread around Division I rosters, from East Coast to West Coast, North to South, low-major to high-major and everywhere in between. Each fall, CoBL rounds up all of those local prospects to update you on how their careers are going and what’s expected of them in the year to come.

We’ve split the area’s D-I alumnae into a three-part list, with all the representation being too big to run at once. Here’s Part 2 of our 2025-26 CoBL alumnae roundup, featuring 20 more players who are on scholarship on a Division I roster this season.

(If we’re missing someone, let us know: cityofbasketballlove@gmail.com)

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2025-26 Women's Alumni Roundup: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 

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Deja Evans (Jr. | Drexel)
Evans enjoyed a strong freshman year at Binghamton (8.1 ppg, 7.1 rpg) and despite a jump up in competition to the CAA as a sophomore, improved her numbers to 9.4 ppg and 6.1 rpg while hitting 46.8% of her shots, a significant improvement from the 38.8% mark as a college rookie. The 6-2 post from Archbishop Wood also blocked 2.3 shots per game, giving her 112 blocks in her career thus far (58 games). Topped out at 22 points in a game as a sophomore, with three double-doubles. 

Kaitlyn Flanagan (Sr. | Holy Cross)
Flanagan’s been one of the best point guards in the Patriot League (and perhaps a few other leagues, too) since her arrival at Holy Cross, but especially over the course of her first three years in Worcester (Mass.). The 5-8 PG, who was a starter on Plymouth Whitemarsh’s unbeaten state championship squad her senior year of high school, was a second team All-Patriot League selection after averaging 9.7 ppg and a league-high 5.2 apg, and she’s racked up 311 dimes in the last two years alone. 

Grace Galbavy (Fr. | Wake Forest)
The 2024-25 PIAA Class 6A Player of the Year and the all-time leading scorer in Pioneer Athletic Conference history (1,869 points), Galbavy heads down to the ACC to begin her college career. An athletic 6-0 wing with long arms, Galbavy is an excellent defender and three-level scorer who always seemed to be at her best in crunch time for Perkiomen Valley, helping lead them to a 6A state title in March.

Logyn Greer (Fr. | Colorado)
A 6-4 wing forward who can play all over the court, Greer heads out to Boulder (Colo.) coming off a standout career at Friends’ Central. A 1,000-point scorer who also stuffed the stat sheet with rebounds and blocks, Greer was a two-time first-team all-state selection and helped FCS to back-to-back runner-up finishes in the PAISAA (independent school) state tournament. She’s at her best inside defensively but outside offensively, where she’s a strong 3-point shooter.

Hannah Griffin (Jr. | Holy Cross)
After playing spare minutes in 10 games as a freshman, Griffin’s role seemed similar as a sophomore, as the 5-6 guard from Gwynedd Mercy Academy played a total of 20 minutes in her first six appearances of the 2024-25 season, spread from November into January. But starting with a Jan. 22 game against Army where she played 15 minutes, Griffin became a significant part of the HC rotation, averaging 14.7 mpg (1.4 ppg, 2.1 rpg) for the last 14 games of the year.

Casey Harter (Jr. | Northwestern)
Harter’s building a quality career at Northwestern, going into her third year as a major part of the Wildcats’ rotation. In her first two seasons, she’s played in 57 games with 41 starts, including 25 starts in 27 games as a sophomore. Last year, the 5-11 point guard from Souderton averaged 6.8 ppg, 2.5 rpg and 2.0 apg on .397/.359/.775, with her season high coming in the season opener, when she dropped 18 points against Illinois State.

Amber Howard (Soph. | Buffalo)
A former standout at Bensalem, Howard had a quiet freshman year, making eight brief appearances at North Carolina A&T. She’s up in New York for her sophomore year, where she’ll hope to have more of an on-court impact. 

Gianna Johnson (R-Fr. | Delaware)
A 6-5 forward out of the George School, Johnson missed her entire freshman season with an injury. The tallest member of the Blue Hens’ roster by a couple inches, she’ll have a good size advantage against just about the whole Coastal Athletic Association.

Olivia Jones (Fr. | Harvard)
One of the best rebounders around, Jones will take her tough, physical style of play up to Cambridge this fall. A Harrisburg native, Jones played two years at Cedar Cliff and then spent her upperclassman seasons at the Westtown School, finishing her prep career with over 1,000 points and just seven rebounds shy of 1,000 of those as well. A 5-10 wing, Jones gets a lot done around the bucket, either by slashing to the hoop or on second-chance opportunities.

Zahra King (Soph. | SMU)
A 5-10 wing from Brooklyn, King played her high school ball at Westtown School, though she sat out most of her senior year in 2023-24. She got into 19 games as a freshman at Cal, averaging 2.8 ppg and 1.3 rpg, with a season high of 13 points coming against Austin Peay, and now finds herself at SMU for her sophomore season. 

Emily Knouse (Fr. | Saint Joseph’s)
The fourth local product on the SJU roster (alphabetically), Knouse comes to Hawk Hill after establishing herself as one of the area’s top shooters during her four years at Archbishop Wood. A 5-11 wing, Knouse’s best asset is no doubt her ability to light it up from the arc with good size and physicality, something St. Joe’s will need following the graduation of one of the program’s all-time great shooters in Mackenzie Smith. 

Aidan Langley (Fr. | Towson)
A 6-1 forward from Coatesville who played her last three years at Westtown, Langley was never one of the Moose’s stars due to their high-level depth, but was always productive with her minutes. A skilled ‘4’ who can put the ball on the floor, rebounds well and scores from inside and the mid-range, Langley could very well have a more productive college career than a high school one from a statistical perspective.

Helena Lasic (Sr. | Penn)
In three years at Penn, Lasic — a 6-4 post who went to the Westtown School — has played in 21 games, including 10 appearances her junior year. She’s scored a total of 17 points and grabbed 19 rebounds, with four blocked shots.

Sanyiah Littlejohn (Fr. | George Mason)
Littlejohn turned in the green-and-gold of Lansdale Catholic for the same colors at George Mason, as the former Crusaders point guard will try to find similar levels of success in the Atlantic 10. A 5-8 guard, Littlejohn won a PIAA championship with LC as a sophomore and helped lead them back to Hershey as a senior, finishing as the state runner-ups this past year.

Grace McDonough (Fr. | James Madison)
It’s back-to-back Lansdale Catholic alums, as McDonough had two strong years with the Crusaders after starting her high school years off at Souderton. A 6-2 forward, McDonough became one of the area’s top post scoring threats, with a strong mid-range game and great footwork and finishing abilities around the bucket. 

Maeve McErlane (R-Jr. | Colorado)
McErlane makes her return to the court this year after sitting out last year due to injury, but she's doing it in new digs out in Colorado after spending the last three years at DePaul. The 5-10 guard out of the Academy of Notre Dame started 25 of 31 appearances for in 2023-24, averaging 4.6 ppg, 2.9 apg and 2.2 rpg for the Blue Devils, with her career high a 26-point game against Alabama State. 

Laine McGurk (Jr. | Drexel)
An athletic 5-10 wing guard out of West Chester Rustin, McGurk has appeared in 59 games in her Drexel career thus far, all off the bench. As a sophomore, she averaged 4.3 ppg, 2.1 rpg and 1.2 apg, her scoring number a little down from freshman year (6.4 ppg) but the other numbers higher. Her top output last year was a 14-point outing against Monmouth, which she also complemented with three rebounds, assists and steals apiece.

Clare Meyer (Sr. | Dartmouth)
The first Division I player to come out of Germantown Friends GBB, Meyer has put together a strong career at Dartmouth, where she’ll be going into her third year as a starter, with 78 career appearances and 59 starts under her belt. Last year, she averaged 6.7 ppg and 4.8 rpg, her scoring number down slightly from the year before (8.2 ppg) though her shooting percentage went from 40.5% to 43.2%.

Grace O’Neill (Sr. | Drexel)
O’Neill has been an indispensable part of the Dragons’ rotation since her freshman year, as evidenced by the fact that her lowest minutes per game average of her career was 32.1 as a sophomore; for her career (94 games, 93 starts), she’s averaging 33.9 mpg, putting her on pace to play more than 4,000 minutes in a DU uniform. As a sophomore, the 5-7 Archbishop Carroll product and Swiss Army Knife wing/guard averaged 5.2 ppg, 5.6 rpg and 3.6 apg.

Lauren Patnode (R-Fr. | La Salle)
A 6-0 wing out of the Perkiomen School, Patnode suffered a preseason injury and missed her freshman year; with an almost entirely new roster around her, Patnode will have her chance to earn minutes in this year’s Explorers rotation.