FIU Women’s Basketball Announce Key Player Signings

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MIAMI, FL – The FIU Women’s Basketball team has announced the signings of several players over the past weeks as the upcoming 2025-26 season approaches.

Adama Badjie-Coly

Badjie-Coly was born in Mataro, Spain, and is entering FIU during her junior year.

She spent the past two seasons at Casper College. During the 2024-25 campaign, she started in all 35 games, averaging 12.0 points, 8.1 rebounds, and 2.4 assists in 23.8 minutes per game.

Her highlight of the season was when she put in an impressive double-double performance (19 points and 11 rebounds) in the second game of the D1 Women’s Championship, earning herself Player of the Game honors.

🏅Player of the Game!

The @jerseymikes Sub Above Player of the Game for Game 2 of the 2025 @MyCreditUnion1 #NJCAABasketball DI Women's Championship is Adama Badjie Coly of Casper!

Badjie Coly had a double-double with 19 points and 11 rebounds.https://t.co/Z5y8egheKB pic.twitter.com/M6WZujc1L6

— NJCAA Basketball (@NJCAABasketball) March 25, 2025

During the 2023-24 season, Badjie-Coly started in 34 of her 35 games, shooting 43.5% from the court and 34.4% from the three-point line in 18.3 minutes per game.

The 5’10 guard used to play for CB Boet Maresme Mataro. While there, Adama Badjie-Coly played in the U18 Catalonia Championship, where she was awarded MVP.

Rhema Collins

Collins was born in Nassau, Bahamas, and is entering her junior year at the collegiate level.

Her first two seasons of college basketball were spent at Ole Miss. Appearing in 14 games, Collins averaged 2.9 points and 2.1 rebounds per game during the 2024-25 season. She was able to score in double-digit margins twice, including a career-high of 12 points against Tennessee State. Rhema Collins was also able to set and tie a career-high of five rebounds against Boston College and Tennessee State.

The 6’2 guard missed the first seven games of the 2023-24 season but eventually averaged 5.0 minutes per game in 11 contests. Collins had a season-high of five points against Mississippi Valley State. She was able to grab a season-high of four rebounds against Alcorn State and Kentucky.

Collins played a fundamental role in leading her high school, The Webb School, to back-to-back Tennessee Division II-A State Championships in 2021 and 2022.

‘23 Rhema Collins buzzer beater to send the game to overtime vs Tree of Hope in the Silver Bracket semi-final.🎥🔥🔥🔥 @rhemaco11ins @TheGirlsCircuit @MiamiSuns pic.twitter.com/7ohWYEQXxc

— Miami Suns Team Fowles (@Team_Fowles) July 13, 2021

At the national level, she represented the Bahamas at the 2019 Centrobasket U17 Women’s Championship. Rhema Collins is the second Bahamian to play under current Ole Miss head coach, McPhee-McCuin, joining Valerie Nesbitt as the other to do so from 2020-21.

Selene Romero

Romero was born in Guanajuato, Mexico, and is entering her sophomore year of college.

The 6’5 forward spent the 2024-25 season playing for Bethesda University, where she started in seven of her 22 games. She averaged 2.3 points, 3.5 rebounds, and shot 55.6% from three-point range in 13.4 minutes per game.

In high school, Selene Romero helped lead her team to the CONADEIP National Tournament, where they finished in fourth place, and she was voted as the team’s MVP.

Romero has played for several clubs, including Leones Anahuac, where she was selected for the U17 and U18 Mexican National Team. She has played with other teams in the past, such as the Guanajuato State Team (2020, 2022), the Venice Beach Summer League in Los Angeles, and Juegos CONADE (2022).

#MexBasquet 🇲🇽🏀 ¡Concentración de la preselección U18 en Veracruz! #nadanosdetiene

21 jugadoras están en Orizaba para los entrenamientos y visorias que se están realizando, para conformar a la selección femenil que participará en el FIBA Americas U18, del 6-12 junio (sede TBC). pic.twitter.com/F7GR4iosPo

— MexBasquet 🇲🇽🏀 (@mexbasquet) February 4, 2022

Isamery Telleria

Telleria was born in San Francisco de Macoris, Dominican Republic, and is coming to FIU as a graduate student.

She spent the past two seasons at Jacksonville University. As a senior, Telleria started in two of her 17 games, shooting .314 from the floor and .357 from the three-point line. Isamery Telleria had a season-high of eight points against Florida Gulf Coast University.

In her junior season, she started in seven of her 23 games, shooting .366 from the field and .349 from three-point range. Telleria averaged 6.0 points and 1.7 rebounds in 21.1 minutes per game.

Before playing at Jacksonville, the 5’9 guard played two seasons at Odessa College, where she was able to earn WJCAC 1st team All-Conference.

Congratulations to @IsameryTelleria on making WJCAC 1st team All-Conference 🏆💙 pic.twitter.com/uEhjjZzUtm

— Odessa College Women’s Basketball (@ocwranglerwbb) March 15, 2023

Isamery Telleria has also achieved success while representing Puerto Rico on the national stage. In 2022, she was part of a silver medal-winning team at the Caribbean Women’s Championship in Cuba.

Also in 2022, she won a bronze medal while playing at the XIX Juegos Bolivarianos in Valledupar, Colombia. Her first bronze medal came in 2019 when she was with the U17 team at the Centrobasket Championship in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

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