{"id":821007,"date":"2026-05-25T12:05:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T12:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/821007\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T12:05:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T12:05:34","slug":"how-cara-consuegra-rebuilt-roster-ahead-of-third-season-at-marquette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/821007\/","title":{"rendered":"How Cara Consuegra rebuilt roster ahead of third season at Marquette"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marquette women\u2019s basketball coach Cara Consuegra<\/a> has seen every side of roster construction in the transfer portal era.<\/p>\n

After getting hired by MU in 2024, she quickly had to put together a team<\/a>. Last year, it was the complete opposite with the Golden Eagles being the only squad in college hoops to bring back every player from the previous season\u2019s roster.<\/a><\/p>\n

This off-season was kind of a hybrid. MU kept one key player (Halle Vice), but lost another (Skylar Forbes transferred to West Virginia<\/a>) while also saying goodbye to a big senior class and a few other transfers. That left plenty of spots to fill, so Consuegra and her staff had to work fast.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think what we learned in our first year is just how important character of kids is to us,\u201d Consuegra said on May 22 in her office at the Al McGuire Center. \u201cObviously, we want to bring in the most highly talented players that we can, but also players that we think will fit our culture, will fit Marquette culture.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur mindset here is we don’t want to do this every year if we can help it. We want to bring in kids that want to be here for other reasons than maybe the financial benefit. So I think that’s harder to do, but I think it’s doable. We tried really hard to do that our first time. I think actually that paid off. Everybody stuck around.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Cara<\/p>\n

Cara Consuegra has been the women’s basketball coach at Marquette since 2024.<\/p>\n

Marquette adds deep class of transfer players<\/p>\n

The sheer number of players in the transfer portal seems daunting. How do you even begin to sift through over 1,000 names to find what you are looking for?<\/p>\n

\u201cWe’re fortunate we had a strong staff,\u201d Consuegra said. \u201cOur days literally during the portal were \u2026 9 a.m. portal meeting, let’s talk about everybody that’s gone in the portal in the last 24 hours.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe kind of broke it up among our staff by leagues. So (this person) is doing the ACC and (that person) is doing the Big Ten, just to make it easy.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut you might say, \u2018Hey … do you know so and so can you make a call?\u2019 So we also worked collaboratively, but it helped us just kind of organize it. So we’d have a morning meeting, we work on the portal all day and then we’d have like a 5 p.m. meeting about what happened throughout the day. Who do I need to follow up with and things like that. So I think organization is huge.”<\/p>\n

The Golden Eagles used every avenue to land players, including:<\/p>\n