Pennsylvania womens basketball players gear up for March Madness

The Keystone State will be well-represented in the Big Dance

Iowa Hawkeyes guard Lucy Olsen, a Spring-Ford High School graduate, goes up for a basket Friday, March 7, 2025, in a quarterfinals game at the 2025 TIAA Big Ten Women's Basketball Tournament between the Iowa Hawkeyes and the Ohio State Buckeyes at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. The Buckeyes defeated the Hawkeyes, 60-59. / Grace Smith/IndyStar / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images

March Madness is underway and Keystone State will have a number of players playing in the NCAA Division I women’s basketball tournament, as the explosive growth of womens sports will be on full display. Here’s a list of the players who are playing, according to their listed hometown.

Arkansas State

Kennedie Montue, 5-11, guard, Pittsburgh, Plum

Columbia

Perri Page, 5-11, forward, Pittsburgh, Chartiers Valley

Fairfield

Sydni Scott, 5-8, guard, Prospect Park, Cardinal O’Hara

Farleigh Dickinson

Ava Renninger, 5-6, Yardley, Arcbishop Wood

Bella Toomey, 5-11, Philadelphia, Penn Charter

Harvard

Alayna Rocco, 5-10, guard, Pittsburgh, North Catholic

Elle Stauffer, 5-11, guard, Doylestown, Germantown Academy

Iowa

Lucy Olsen, 5-10, guard, Collegeville, Spring-Ford

Kansas State

Alexis Hess, 6-1, forward, Blandon, Fleetwood

Liberty

Caroline Shiery, 6-3, forward, Harrisburg, Central Dauphin

Maryland

Ava McKennie, 6-2, guard, McSherrystown, McDonogh (Md.)

Mississippi State

Quanirah Montague, 5-9, guard, Philadelphia, Atlantic City (N.J.) High School

Norfolk State

Diamond Johnson, 5-5, guard, Philadelphia, Neumann-Goretti

North Carolina

Ciera Toomey, 6-4, forward, Dunmore

Maggie Doogan, 6-2, forward, Broomall, Cardinal O’Hara

Richmond

Anna Camden, 6-3, forward, Downingtown, The Shipley School

--Josh Rizzo |rizzo42789@gmail.com| @J_oshrizzo