It might be a stretch to say that Cleveland Staters are everywhere, but not by much. After all, a total of 13 Vikings women’s basketball alumnae played professionally in 2025-26, or are under contract to do so in 2026-27, a list that includes ten different countries in just about every corner of the globe. Here’s the latest on each, including how they did last season and, if known, where they will be in the fall.
Sara Guerreiro (G/BC Pharmaserv Marburg 🇩🇪)
It would be hard to find a more ideal pro debut that Guerreiro’s rookie season with BC Pharmaserv Marburg in Germany’s top-division DBBL. She quickly established herself as a valuable sniper by averaging 12.0 points per game, largely on the back of a 34.5 percent rate from three-point range. However, the fun truly began following Marburg’s seventh-place finish, when the team went on a Cinderella run to the league championship series before falling to a Keltern team that only lost once during the regular season. Guerreiro was particularly excellent during a 3-1 semifinal series win over Halle, including 25 points in a pivotal game three. She has continued to receive calls from the Portuguese national team as well, including a recent turn at the FIBA EuroBasket Qualifiers.
Barbara Zieniewska (G/GiroLive Panthers Osnabrück 🇩🇪)
Should Guerreiro stay in Germany for another year, she will run into an old friend: Zieniewska, who signed with the DBBL’s GiroLive Panthers Osnabrück for the 2026-27 season three weeks ago. That move is the latest step in what’s been a gradual climb up the ladder for the Polish wing. Her first professional team was in Iceland, where she was a clear mismatch for the quality of the league, but she spent last season with Virtus Cagliari in Italy’s second division. She helped that squad sneak into the playoffs by averaging 12.1 points per game, while playing 35 minutes or more during most outings.
Meghan Kenefick (F/Bad Homberg 🇩🇪)
Following a blink-and-you-missed-it stint as a Viking – she played 15 minutes across four games as a true freshman in 2020-21 – Kenefick spent the bulk of her successful college career at Central Connecticut State. Then, after graduating in 2025, she headed to Germany and joined Bad Homberg in the second-division 2.Bundesliga. The six-footer from Virginia had a pretty nice 2025-26 campaign for the Falcons, as her 11.9 points, 6.6 rebounds, and 2.1 assists per game were instrumental to the team’s 20-2 record and first-place finish in the South Division. However, they were quickly bounced from the playoffs in two straight games by Bochum, the North Division’s fourth place team.
Shey Magassa (C/Manresa CBF 🇪🇸)
Early this month, Magassa became the newest addition to this list when she signed with Manresa CBF, in Spain’s second-division Liga Femenina 2. The versatile Parisian can play just about anywhere on the floor, but was listed as a center in Manresa’s announcement, so it appears that’s how she’ll try to help the squad move up the table after it finished .500 last year.
Grace Ellis (F/Northside Wizards 🇦🇺)
Ellis enjoyed a superb 2026 season with the Wizards after moving over from the Brisbane Capitals, her team not only last summer in the NBL1 North, but during her junior career as well. She averaged a double-double for the season, including 15.9 points and 10.5 rebounds per game, though it was mostly the latter effort that won her praise from around the conference. It also merited a solid individual awards haul, including a placement on the NBL1 North’s All-Star Five second team, along with the Wizards’ Coaches Choice honor. As a team, Northside finished in fifth place with an 11-5 mark – thanks also, in part, to former Oakland star Kahlaijah Dean, who was with the team for the first half of the season. That record was good for a playoff spot, though they were quickly eliminated by the Mackay Meteorettes in the quarterfinals on July 25th.
Jordana Reisma (C/TFSE ðŸ‡ðŸ‡º)
Two months after Reisma’s college career ended with Missouri’s defeat in the second round of the WBIT, she popped up in the NBL1 West with the Mandurah Magic (the NBL1 is divided into five regional conferences, though each essentially operates as an independent league, with no overlap until the national finals). However, her stay down under turned out to be brief – just six games – as the former All-Horizon League star signed with TFSE in Hungary’s top division for the 2026-27 season on July 2nd. In her stint with the Magic, Reisma fired in 12.2 points and grabbed 6.7 rebounds per game.
Taylah Levy (G/Inner West Bulls 🇦🇺)
Levy teamed up with former Youngstown State forward Lilly Ritz to lead the Central Districts Lions to the 2024 NBL1 Central title, but then took a year away from basketball. Suffice it to say that her return this summer didn’t look much like her previous campaign, as the Bulls’ NBL1 East season was a disastrous 0-20 effort. For her part, Levy is still broadly respected as one of the more dynamic guards in any NBL1 conference, and she backed that up with 24.5 points, 6.1 rebounds, and 4.4 assists per game. Those averages include 38 points on 13-for-24 shooting in her penultimate game of the season, on June 14th against the Maitland Mustangs – a contest the Bulls nevertheless lost by 40.
The 2021 WBI champion is, of course, a dual-sport athlete, and she was undoubtedly thrilled to turn her attention to Australian rules football and her GWS Giants club in late June. She is set to begin her fourth AFLW season on August 16th.
Isabelle Gradwell (G/ŽKK Cinkarna Celje 🇸🇮)
Though Gradwell’s destination for the upcoming season is still unknown – as is true of most players in this post, pro basketball is typically a year-to-year endeavor – it’s probably safe to say that it will be somewhere different. Gradwell has truly made the most of her opportunity to see the world, including stops in Spain, Mexico, Paraguay, and Portugal. She then spent 2025-26 with Cinkarna Celje, by far the dominant club in the Slovenian league. How dominant, exactly? Celje has won the last 15 (that’s one-five) titles and 22 overall since 2000. With that context in mind, it’s hard to argue that the sharpshooters’s 13.5 points and 5.8 rebounds per game put the team over the top this past year, though they certainly helped.
Shalonda Winton (F/T71 Dudelange 🇱🇺)
Gradwell wasn’t the only CSU alumna to win a championship this past season, as Winton led T71 to the regular season and playoff titles in Luxembourg’s highest division. She was no less than one of the league’s top players, finishing sixth in both scoring (20.1 points per game) and rebounding (9.2 per game), and second in assists (5.4 per game). Winton ended her Vikings career in 2013 as one of the best players in program history, a resume that includes a Horizon League title, two first-team all-conference selections, an HL Defensive Player of the Year award, and 1,840 points. The 35-year-old has followed that up with a 13-season professional career, the last seven of which have been spent with T71. Winton’s previous successes have included selection as the league’s forward of the year in 2019 and a Luxembourg Cup win in 2024.
Anyia Pride (F/Freseras Irapuato 🇲🇽)
A former Kate Peterson Abiad recruit who didn’t see much of the court at Cleveland State from 2017-19, Pride has bounced around quite a bit. That includes collegiate stops at a trio of NAIA schools after leaving CSU, including Shawnee State, Talladega, and finally Langston, where she also served as a GA in 2023-24. Then, following professional stops in Lebanon and Nicaragua, Freseras Irapuato in Mexico (incidentally, one of Gradwell’s former teams) signed Pride for the season’s stretch run back in March. Though the Cincinnati native earned 18.5 minutes per game, during which she hauled in 3.3 rebounds, she couldn’t stop Irapuato’s late-season skid on the way to a 4-12 record and a quick playoff exit.
Mariah Miller (G/Jaguares UAM Managua 🇳🇮)
Back in March, former Vikings coach Chris Kielsmeier revealed a conversation he had with Miller, a star player from the early part of his tenure at the school. Miller graduated in 2020, then spent a season in Finland, but didn’t enjoy it and had given up on her playing career. Kielsmeier encouraged her to give it another shot after a couple years stateside, and that’s appeared to be good advice, as Miller has spent the last two seasons in Cyprus, Chile, and, most recently, Nicaragua.  She flourished during that latter league’s fall-only schedule, helping the Jaguares to a second-place finish with scoring (18.4 points per game) and rebounding (11.3 per game) averages that were among the league leaders. Miller even got to play against Pride, who was also in the circuit at the time, going 3-2 against her former CSU teammate.
Aminata Ly (C/Sporting Bkennaya 🇱🇧)
Ly’s second full professional season after graduating from Fordham (following three years with the Vikings) found her with Sporting Bkennaya in Lebanon, where she logged an absolutely monstrous effort – 16.5 points and 16.3 rebounds per game – though it wasn’t enough to get Bkennaya to the playoffs. She has continued to compete internationally for Senegal as well, including most recently at World Cup Qualifiers in March. That tournament saw Ly play seven minutes in a blowout loss to Team USA, which included the likes of Caitlin Clark, Paige Bueckers, Angel Reese, and several other household names.
Filippa Goula (G/U.S. Colomiers 🇫🇷)
After spending two years as a reserve guard with the Vikings, Goula ended her Division I run as a starter at Oakland last season, helping the Golden Grizzlies find solid footing at the beginning of the Keisha Newell era. With her stock on the upswing, she earned a 2026-27 deal with Colomiers in June. The French third-division side finished in ninth place last year, but has quickly retooled with Goula and another high-profile import in former Kennesaw State star Alexis Poole.
Isabella Geraci (WR/U.S. National Flag Football Team 🇺🇸)
This post wouldn’t really be complete without mentioning Geraci, who no longer plays basketball, but likely has the highest athletic profile of any former Viking hooper as a member of the national flag football team since 2024. In her first year on Team USA, she caught 39 passes for 464 yards and five touchdowns on the way to a gold medal at the IFAF World Championships in Finland. However, archrival Mexico got the best of the U.S. during a pair of major tournaments last year, the World Games and the IFAF Americas Continental Championships (though the Americans still earned silver and bronze medals, respectively). The chance for Geraci and the rest of her squad to get revenge is rapidly approaching, as the 2026 iteration of the IFAF World Championships begins on August 13th in Germany.
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