SAN DIEGO – Head coach Stacie Terry-Hutson has announced the signing of Sofia Kelemeni, who averaged 9.3 points per game last year as a junior at San Jose State.
“Sofia’s versatility will provide us with mismatches on both ends of the floor,” Terry-Hutson said. “At 6’0”, she is a great shooter for her size, something we witnessed firsthand while she was at San Jose State.”
The 6’0” Kelemeni (KEL-eh-meh-KNEE) is a native of Kavala, Greece, and appeared in 64 games while making 23 starts across three seasons at San Jose State. This past season she averaged career-highs in points (9.3), rebounds (4.7), and field goal percentage (42.7%) while playing 23.1 minutes per game before her season was cut short by injury after 15 games.
She had three games in double-digits and two with 20+, highlighted by a career-high 27 points against Bethesda. In her last two full games, she averaged 21.0 points and 6.5 rebounds while shooting 58.6% (17-for-29) from the floor.
As a sophomore in 2023-24, she averaged 5.5 points, 3.8 rebounds and 2.3 assists while shooting a career-best 34.6% from three in 24.1 minutes per game. She had five games in double-digits and averaged 14.3 points, 5.7 rebounds and 3.3 assists per game over the final three games of the season. She had 12 points on four three-pointers with six rebounds and five assists against the Aztecs on Feb. 10, 2024.
Kelemeni has played for the Greece U16 (2019), U18 (2021-22) and U20 national teams (2024). In the summer of 2024, she averaged 7.5 points, 3.4 rebounds and 2.0 assists while shooting 54.5% from the floor in the FIBA U20 EuroBasket Division B group phase.
Kelemeni is the fifth transfer addition for the Aztecs this offseason and fourth to come to San Diego State from another Mountain West school, joining forwards Kennedy Lee (Nevada) and Maria Konstantinidou (Fresno State) and guard Carlie Latta (Utah State). The Aztecs also signed Nala Williams (Cal State Dominguez Hills), the DII National Player of the Year, and have two incoming freshmen Kendall Mosley and Aubrey Cook.
The Aztecs are coming off a 25-win season, the third most in school history, where they won the Mountain West tournament and advanced to the NCAA tournament.