That’s Cara Consuegra’s first high school recruit commitment since taking the Marquette job in mid-April.
Goal #1 for Cara Consuegra when she was hired as Marquette’s new women’s basketball head coach was to make sure that she had a roster ready to go for 2024-25. With that wrapped up and seemingly done in early June, the recruiting attention shifts to getting a Class of 2025 signing class on the board.
It was always going to take a minute get that operation truly ramped up, which is natural when there’s a coaching change, but Consuegra and her staff are officially on the board in 2025 with Friday’s commitment from Kameron Herring.
Committed!!!!!! #GoldenEagles
Thank you @cconsuegra and the coaching staff for believing in me @CoachDCLT @CoachKD_MU @coachchaiahuff Can’t wait to get started @MarquetteWBB @Bouncenation_J @WoodwardBBall pic.twitter.com/r5VAy3szVL— Kameron Herring (@kameron_herring) August 23, 2024
Herring lists herself as a 6’1” guard in her Twitter bio, and who are we to argue with her? She attends Woodward Academy, which is a pre-K through 12 school located just a stone’s throw away from Hartsfield-Jackson Airport in Atlanta, and she’s been playing for Bounce Nation on the club circuit.
Cara Consuegra did have a bit of an advantage when it comes to the combination of getting her recruiting operation at Marquette spooled up and building the relationship with Herring to get to this point. Megan Duffy offered Herring a scholarship back in July of 2023, so Herring was already at least a little familiar with what’s going on here in Milwaukee. Conseugra made that offer up to date and official back in late May of this year. As far as other offers go, Herring was drawing Big East interest from both Providence and Georgetown, including an official visit to Friartown back at the beginning of July. Duffy re-offered Herring in early May for her new job at Virginia Tech, and Clemson got involved in late May. Herring was also drawing interest from the Ivy League, including offers from Harvard and Penn, and she took an official visit to the Quakers in early May. Ivy League teams aren’t taking goofs on the academic side, so that’s a fun side note here.
Max Preps is incredibly helpful here, as they’ve got three years worth of stats for Herring. She’s averaging 11.6 points, 5.2 rebounds, 1.3 assists, and 1.9 steals per game for her prep career at Woodward, but a quiet-ish freshman year is holding those numbers down. Herring went for 15.2 points, 6.2 rebounds, 2.1 assists, 2.5 steals, and 1.2 blocks per game in 2023-24, and all of those numbers are career highs. Marquette is going to need her to recapture her sophomore year long range shooting at some point, as she hit for 35% from three-point land that season, but under 28% in her other two campaigns.
I don’t have any quality videos of gameplay to embed here, but Herring does have a Hudl page. Bad news: It hasn’t been updated since March of 2023.
And now, the brand new scholarship chart!
Yep, that’s what it looks like when you have absolutely no freshmen on the roster for 2024-25. Gets real sparse in 2027, but that’s Future Cara Consuegra’s problem to deal with.
At least for the time being, there’s a solid reason to believe that Kameron Herring will have some kind of role in the rotation as a freshman. Marquette projects to have just 11 women on the roster right now, and more to the point: Herring is one of five projected Golden Eagles for the 2026-27 roster. It’s probably in Consuegra’s best interest to get Herring spooled up since she’ll need her to contribute pretty much right away as a sophomore if nothing else. Then again, she’s going to have a senior heavy roster there, and the name of the game is “Win Basketball Games.”