Duke snags fourth top-50 commit in PG Fleary

Autumn Fleary, the No. 12 enlistee and the apical constituent defender successful the girls' SC Next 100 people of 2026, has committed to play astatine Duke, picking manager Kara Lawson's Blue Devils implicit UCLA, North Carolina and LSU.

Fleary, who made the announcement Saturday, is the 4th top-50 perpetrate successful the people and the 2nd 5-star perpetrate this week for the Blue Devils alongside No. 16 Bella Flemings. Fleary and Flemings articulation No. 25 Sanai Green and No. 43 Taylor Sofilkanich successful Duke's 2026 people truthful far.

"I chose Duke due to the fact that it genuinely felt similar family," Fleary told ESPN. "Coach Kara Lawson and her unit are unthinkable radical who attraction profoundly astir their players connected and disconnected the court. The team's culture, identity, and thrust to triumph align perfectly with who I americium arsenic a idiosyncratic and arsenic an athlete. I cognize Duke volition propulsion maine to turn some academically and athletically, and hole maine for the adjacent level."

Fleary, retired of Sidwell Friends successful Washington, D.C., is an all-around constituent defender connected some ends of the tribunal with elite antiaircraft shot unit skills and a savviness with the shot that separates her from the remainder of the class. This summer, she led her Team Takeover squad to the Nike EYBL Championship portion averaging 19.1 points, 3.4 rebounds and 3.1 assists per game.

Jadyn Donovan, a inferior guardant connected the Duke squad, besides hails from Sidwell Friends and came up done the Team Takeover pipeline.

Lawson, a erstwhile constituent defender and present besides the caput manager of the U.S. women's nationalist team, has a strong, balanced recruiting radical that should diagnostic successful the top-5 of ESPN's people rankings for 2026. The Blue Devils signed conscionable 1 freshman successful the 2025 people -- No. 4 Emilee Skinner -- but are ranked seventh successful the women's AP Top 25 preseason canvass and archetypal successful the ACC coaches' poll.

Duke opens the 2025-26 play against No. 16 Baylor connected Nov. 3 successful Paris (noon ET, ESPN).