Canton, NY – The 2026-27 SUNY Canton women's basketball team features 16 student-athletes as the team opens the regular season on Friday when they travel to face Franciscan University at 8 p.m. Canton will remain on the road Saturday to take on Kent State Tuscarawas in a contest hosted by Franciscan. The Roos will play a 25-game schedule as Canton looks for its third SUNYAC playoff appearance in their third season in the conference.
SUNY Canton kicks off home action against Clarkson on Tuesday (11/10). The Roos will host Paul Smith's (11/16) and Bryant & Stratton Syracuse (11/20) before taking a business trip to the West Coast to face Pomona-Pitzer (11/27) and Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (11/28) in Claremont, CA. The team is scheduled to open SUNYAC play December 4 at Plattsburgh. To view the full schedule release, click
HERE.
The Roos will feature 16 players as seventh-year head coach
Chris Klassen brings back 10 returners from last year's team. The 2026-27 Roos will be captained by seniors
Sierra Pabo and
Sadey Sprabary and junior
Kathleen McRobbie.
Canton brings back three double digit scorers from a season ago paced by Pabo, who was named D3hoops.com Second Team All-Region and SUNYAC First Team All-Conference as a junior after averaging 15.0 points, 5.2 rebounds and 4.3 assists per game while shooting 40.1% from the field.
Kathleen McRobbie earned a spot on the SUNYAC Second Team All-Conference list averaging 13.8 points and 6.5 rebounds while posting a 45.8 field goal %.
Kate Grainger returns to the team after averaging 10.8 points and 7.7 rebounds while shooting 33% from behind the three-point line.
Emma Diehl,
Natalie Bush and
Chelsie Tyler all return after seeing upwards of eight minutes per game last year and will look to be key contributors for the Roos this season.
Canton welcomes six new additions to the team. The six freshmen feature five guards and a forward and are listed below in numerical order.
NEWCOMERS
Throughout the season to view available live coverage for all SUNY Canton contests that are available visit the
women's basketball team's schedule page.
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