Dorothée Durivage ’28

by Dorothée Durivage ’28 on November 13, 2025

In her first in-season game as a Friar, Sabou Gueye ’26G put up a great fight against the Howard University Bisons despite the women’s basketball team’s loss. On Tuesday, Nov. 4, the guard from Dakar, Senegal led the Friars with 16 points and managed a game-high four steals. Gueye is a graduate student who transferred to Providence College this year from Florida A&M University, where she played one season as a Rattler. While she was there, Gueye appeared in 27 games with 26 starts and averaged 11.1 points, 4.9 rebounds, 2.6 assists and 2.0 steals per game while shooting 46 percent from the field. Gueye’s performance on Tuesday shows a continuation of the skills she displayed at Florida A&M where she recorded 18 double-digit scoring games, eight of which she scored15 or more points.

 Prior to her season as a Rattler, she played the 2022–2024 seasons at New Mexico State University. With the Aggies, Gueye appeared in a total of 57 games and was part of the starting lineup for eight of those games. From 2020–2022, Gueye was part of the 2021 NJCAA National Championship team at Northwest Florida State College. At the beginning of her college career, she helped Northwest Florida to a 51–5 record and played in 21 games, averaging 2.1 points and 1.1 rebounds in 6.1 minutes per game. 

Prior to her college career, Gueye attended Putnam Science Academy and competed in Basketball Without Borders Africa in 2017 and 2018, where she became a two-time Basketball Without Borders All-Star. Gueye has also played outside of college since the beginning of her NCAA journey; in 2024, she competed with the Senegal Senior National Team at the 2024 FIBA Women’s Basketball World Cup 2026 Pre-Qualifying Tournament in Rwanda.

The women’s basketball team has only played three games so far this season: the exhibition game against Franklin Pierce University, the season opener against Howard, and their most recent game against Central Connecticut State University. Gueye did not play in the first game, but her performance against Franklin Pierce shows that she could become a crucial player for the Friars’ women’s basketball team. The growth she has shown over the course of her college career so far indicates that she is able to do great things on the court and could be a key player for the success of the Friars this season. Seeing as she has been getting better every year, Gueye still has room to better her game and be an even more impactful player than she already is. It will be exciting to watch her play as the Friars have four home games in Alumni Hall in the next two weeks against Boston College, Northeastern University, and Yale University.