Blair, Walker and Foster to Represent Tech at ACC Tipoff MondayBlair, Walker and Foster to Represent Tech at ACC Tipoff Monday
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Blair, Walker and Foster to Represent Tech at ACC Tipoff Monday

Head coach Karen Blair, Talayah Walker and La’Nya Foster travel to Charlotte for the annual media day

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Head coach Karen Blair, Talayah Walker and La’Nya Foster are set to represent Georgia Tech women’s basketball at the 2026 ACC Tipoff from the Hilton Charlotte Uptown Monday. 

The Yellow Jackets have the morning session of Monday’s ACC Tipoff, where the trio will take part in press conferences, interviews, photo shoots and more with local, regional and national media outlets. Three different live segments will be available for fans to tune in on either the ACC Network or ACC Network Extra. 

Live ACC Network/ACC Network Extra Segments 

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Blair leads the Jackets in year two at the helm, following a WBIT berth last season. She became the first head coach in program history to lead Tech to a postseason berth in their first season. The Jackets won 14 games including key victories over No. 18 Notre Dame, Clemson, Stanford, Miami and Florida State in the first round of the ACC tournament. Tech finished seventh in the nation in defensive rebounds per game and 32nd in total rebounds per game.  

Walker, a junior from Odenton, Md., burst on to the scene a year ago at Tech, earning 2026 All-ACC First Team honors. She started in all 33 games and accrued the most points by a Jacket since 2015-16 (576). With back-to-back 30-point games against No. 18 Notre Dame and SMU, she became the first Yellow Jacket to do so since 1995 and first in ACC play since 1993. She added one more 30-point game against Miami to become the Tech single-season leader for 30-point games (3). 

Foster, a senior from Riverdale, Ga., started in the final 22 games last season and played a pivotal role in Tech’s push to the ACC tournament and WBIT. She scored 22 in Tech’s 95-90 overtime win over No. 18 Notre Dame and had 25 at home against Stanford. The 2023-24 Atlantic Sun Conference Freshman of the Year (at Austin Peay) has played in 96 career games totaling 905 points and 501 rebounds. 

2025-26 marked the first season for Blair, Walker and Foster at Georgia Tech. 

The Jackets enter 2026-27 with a challenging slate, staring down 16 of 30 games that are against teams that made the 2026 NCAA Tournament. Walker and Foster are joined by five other returners, Inés Noguero, Ariadna Termis, Erica Moon, Déborah Mukeba and Leyre Urdiain. New to The Flats this year are graduate Antonia Bates (G/F, Rutgers), juniors Kyndal Walker (G, Maryland) and Anna Conza (G, Oglethorpe), sophomores Sofia Muñoz (G, UAB), Penda Dieng (F, Xavier) and Jordan Ode (G, Michigan State) and freshman Autumn Washington. 

Click HERE for the full 2026-27 Georgia Tech women’s basketball schedule. 

 

SECURE YOUR SEAT - 2026-27 GEORGIA TECH WOMEN'S BASKETBALL SEASON TICKETS 

Season tickets are now available for the 2026-27 Georgia Tech women's basketball campaign inside McCamish Pavilion. The Yellow Jackets embark on year two of the Karen Blair Era featuring a competitive non-conference slate with matchups against Georgia, West Virginia, Georgia State and West Georgia. Tech’s ACC slate is headlined by home games against Clemson, Duke, NC State, Syracuse and Virginia Tech. Courtside, reserved sideline and general admission seats are currently available.  

Fans who purchase season tickets will receive an exclusive LED desk light, while supplies last! Limit one light per account. Click HERE to secure your spot today. 

 

Full Steam Ahead 

Full Steam Ahead is a $500 million fundraising initiative to achieve Georgia Tech athletics’ goal of competing for championships at the highest level in the next era of intercollegiate athletics. The initiative will fund transformative projects for Tech athletics, including renovations of Bobby Dodd Stadium at Hyundai Field (the historic home of Georgia Tech football), the Zelnak Basketball Center (the practice and training facility for Tech basketball) and O’Keefe Gymnasium (the venerable home of Yellow Jackets volleyball), as well as additional projects and initiatives to further advance Georgia Tech athletics through program wide-operational support. All members of the Georgia Tech community are invited to visit atfund.org/FullSteamAhead for full details and renderings of the renovation projects, as well as to learn about opportunities to contribute online. 

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