WICHITA, Kan. - Wichita State women's basketball coach Terry Nooner continues to build his first roster at Wichita State, adding graduate transfer Femi Funeus from Southern Miss.

Funeus will play her final season of college basketball as a Shocker after spending the 2022-23 season at Southern Miss. She spent the first four seasons of her career at Seton Hall, but missed essentially two full seasons due to injury.

"Femi Funeus is an extremely skilled forward with huge upside," Nooner said. "At 6'2", she can play both on the perimeter and in the post. Her ball-handling skills relative to her size, as well as her shooting touch and range, will allow her to have an immediate impact for our program. Femi is a dominant offensive rebounder and extremely hard worker. She has the competitive fire and spirit we look for in a Shocker, and she is committed both in the classroom and on the court. Femi comes from a wonderful family, and they are extremely excited about their daughter being part of Shocker Nation."

As a junior in 2020-21 at Seton Hall, Funeus suffered a season-ending injury just one minute into the second game of the season. She transferred to Southern Miss for the 2022-23 campaign and made her return to the court after 714 days, playing in a game for the first time since Dec. 11, 2020. She played in 27 games total, making 21 starts as the Lady Eagles' primary forward. Funeus averaged 6.7 points per game and 5.9 rebounds per game, and set season-high points and rebounds against Troy (12/29) to collect her first career double-double with 16 points and 11 rebounds. She totaled four games with double-figure scoring and three games with double-digit rebounds. She posted the second-best field goal percentage on the team at 49.2 percent.

A native of Miami, Fla., Funeus was one of the top-ranked players out of the state of Florida after playing two seasons at American Heritage School. She was the 2017 and 2018 Sun Sentinel Broward County 6A-1A Player of the Year. Funeus scored 21 points and averaged 15 rebounds per game as a senior, and led Heritage to its first girls basketball state championship in 2018.