OXFORD — The Miami University women’s basketball team has a set roster for the 2025-26 season.
RedHawks coach Glenn Box, who will enter his third season at the helm, made the announcement this past week.
Miami returns Tamar Singer, Amber Tretter, Nuria Jurjo and Ilse de Vries from this past season’s squad that went 19-12 and competed in the WNIT for the first time since 2019.
Tamar Singer, 5-foot-4 sophomore guard (Haifa, Israel)
Singer averaged 6.3 points and a team-best 4.2 assists and 2.2 steals a game for the RedHawks this past season. She shot 75% from the free throw line and 32% from behind the 3-point arc.
“Tamar makes a difference for this team,” Box said. “She gets us up-tempo. She gets us playing fast — which is much more fun to watch, let alone coach.”
Singer played in every game except two — because of an ankle injury — during her freshman season at Miami.
Amber Tretter, 6-foot-1 junior forward (Ferdinand, Ind.)
Tretter will return as the team’s best scorer, who averaged 11.2 points a game this past season behind Enjulina Gonzalez (16.8) and Maya Chandler (11.6). Gonzalez transferred to Georgia and Chandler graduated.
Tretter played in all 31 games in during the 2024-25 season, adding 9.2 rebounds and 1.1 assists a game.
Tretter earned All-MAC Honorable Mention each of the last two seasons and was named to the All-MAC Freshman Team. She has 20 double-doubles for the RedHawks.
Tretter has 508 career rebounds and is on pace to be just the second Miami player in program history to record 1,000 career rebounds.
She had 20 rebounds on Feb. 22, 2025 — which is second most in program and Millett Hall history.
Nuria Jurjo, 5-foot-10 junior guard (Barcelona, Spain)
Jurjo played in 29 games and made four starts last season. She averaged 2.1 points and 1.6 rebounds a game.
As a freshman at Miami, Jurjo played in 29 games and made 11 starts. She averaged 2.4 points, 2.3 rebounds and 1.7 assists a contest.
Ilse de Vries, 6-foot-3 sophomore forward (Groningen, Netherlands)
Ilse de Vries played in 27 games and made 25 starts this past season, averaging 4.8 points and 3.1 rebounds a game.
de Vries scored 10 points and added six rebounds in her collegiate debut against Appalachian State.
Emily VanTimmeren, 6-foot-3 redshirt freshman forward (Allendale, Mich.)
VanTimmeren attended Jenison High School in Michigan and enrolled at Miami this past December.
She played the three previous seasons at Grand Rapids Catholic Central, which is the same high school Miami assistant coach Megan Belke graduated from.
“Emily is a young player with oodles of young talent just waiting to be unleashed,” Box said. “She is coming to Miami with a workman-like approach, and she fits right into our culture. She is ready to grow both on and off the court. We are ecstatic both she and her family are a part of our family.”
VanTimmeren averaged 11.7 points, 8.7 rebounds and 3.1 blocks per game as a junior. She recorded a triple-double last season, securing 12 points, 11 rebounds and 10 blocks.
Ashton Elley, 5-foot-10 senior guard (Little Rock, Ark.)
Elley is a transfer from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She averaged 3.7 points, 1.9 rebounds and 42% from beyond the arc during her three years at UAB.
Elley played in 30 games this past season.
Mio Sakano, 5-foot-10 sophomore guard (Yamanashi, Japan)
Sakano currently attends South Georgia College, where she averaged 13.8 points, 5.4 rebounds and 3.5 assists in 2023-24. She shot 51.9% from the floor and scored in double figures in 21 of 29 games last year.
“Mio is another young lady who fits us,” Box said of the junior college transfer. “She’s a worker and a grinder. She brings versatility, IQ and force to our program. Mio fills stat sheets, as she does winning things. We are ecstatic that we have Mio.”
Sakano is an IMG Academy graduate in Japan.
Brooke Blumenfeld, 6-foot redshirt sophomore forward (Northbrook, Ill.)
Blumenfeld is a transfer from Northern Illinois, where she played in 29 games and started in 13 this past season.
She averaged 9.1 points, 2.6 rebounds and shot just under 50% from the floor.
Amber Scalia, 5-foot-9 senior guard (Stillwater, Minn.)
Scalia is a transfer from St. Thomas-Minnesota, where she averaged 14.8 points, 3.6 rebounds and 3.0 assists this past season. She fired 83% from the free throw line.
Clara Gonzalez Planella, 5-foot-8 senior guard (Barcelona, Spain)
Gonzalez Planella is a transfer from Jacksonville State, where she played in 23 games and started in eight this past season. She averaged 8.3 points and 3.0 rebounds a game.
Macie Taylor, 5-foot-7 redshirt junior guard (Troy, Ohio)
Taylor is a transfer from Wright State, where she played in 32 games and started in 17 this past season. She averaged 7.8 points a game and shot 83% from the free throw line.
Anna Hurst, 5-foot-8 freshman guard (Silver Lake, Ohio)
Hurst is a Stow-Munroe Falls High School graduate who bounced back from two ACL injuries in four years. She was a standout point guard at Stow.
