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2025-26 Women's Basketball Roster

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Ray Soldano

34 Kalifa Ford

  • Height 5-10
  • Class Graduate Student
  • Highschool Brookland High School
  • Hometown Bono, Ark.

Biography

NIL OPPORTUNITIES
Academics
- Dean's List: S25, F25
- Athletics Director's Honor Roll: S25, F25
- Southern Conference Honor Roll: 2025

2025-26 Graduate Student
- Played in 25 games, 17 coming as starts in her final year of college basketball.
- Made her Chattanooga debut and first start in the Blue and Gold on November 3, 2025 in a home win vs. King, where she scored eight points.
- Averaged 24 minutes per game.
- Ended the season with a total of 196 points (7.8 points/game), 97 rebounds (3.9 rebounds/game), 35 steals (1.4 steals/game), 31 assists (1.2 assists/game), and four blocks.
- Was UTC's third leading scorer and third leading rebounder.
- Scored a season-high 20 points in Chattanooga's SoCon opener win vs. Wofford (1/8).
- Had two other games with 18 points: Sacramento State (11/28) and Southern Wesleyan (12/30). 
- Recorded 10 or more points in 10 games.
- Best rebounding numbers came against Western Kentucky (12/19) and Wofford (1/8), as she posted a season-high eight boards. 
- Nine games this year with five or more rebounds. 
- Totaled a season-high five steals in a road win at Lipscomb (11/9), which tied for the most steals in a game by a UTC player this year.
- Had three games this season with a season-high four assists: King (11/3), Austin Peay (11/20), and Western Kentucky (12/19). 
- Ranked second on the team in free-throw percentage at 81% (47-58).
- Won a share of the SoCon Regular Season Championship with a 10-4 conference record. 

2024-25 Graduate Student
- Preseason All-Southern Conference Team
- Did not play in any games for the Mocs in 2024-25 and received a medical redshirt following a season-ending injury.

2023-24 Senior (Valdosta State)
- First Team WBCA Division II All-America
- D2CCA South Region Player of the Year
- Gulf South Conference Player of the Year
- First Team All-Gulf South Conference
- GSC All-Tournament Team
- Helped lead VSU to one of its best seasons in school history with accomplishments including:
- 30-3 record overall matching the school-record for victories in a season
- School-record 27-game winning streak
- Gulf South Conference regular season title with a school-best 23-1 record
- The program's fourth GSC Championship and hosting duties for the NCAA South Regional for the first time in program history
- Played in 31 total games on the year, including making 29 starts for the Lady Blazers.
- Ford finished second in the GSC in field goal percentage at a 47.7 clip on 168-for-352 from the field as her 168 field goals made were good for third in the league and her 352 attempts were good for fourth.
- Averaged 14.2 points per game to lead the team and was fourth in the league in scoring.
- Ranked sixth in the league in steals (57) this season, while she was ninth in the league in free throw percentage at a 79.6 clip on 86-for-108 from the line.
- Finished averaging 27.4 minutes per game.
- Registered two double-doubles on the year.
- Had a total of 20 games scoring 20+ points
- Scored 30+ points two times. 

2022-23 Senior (Valdosta State)
- Redshirted.

2021-22 Junior (Oklahoma Baptist)
- First Team All-Great American Conference
- 1x GAC Player of the Week: (01/31/22)
- Started 25 games and averaged team-bests in points (17.4) and rebounds (9.1).
- Was the only GAC player to rank in the top eight in field goal percentage (8th; 47.5), scoring (4th; 17.4) and rebounding (2nd; 9.1).
- Scored a career-high 35 points during overtime win against Ouachita on Jan. 27.
- Tallied the second-most free throws made (17) in OBU single-game history during contest vs. Ouachita.
- Notched 13 double-doubles, a top-25 mark in NCAA D2.

2020-21 Sophomore (Oklahoma Baptist)
- Saw action in 13 games and started three of them in her sophomore season.
- Ford led the Bison averaging 15.2 points per game second on the team averaging 6.4 rebounds per game.
- She finished the season with 16 assists, 13 steals and three blocks.
- Ford reached a new career-high of 25 points against Northwestern Oklahoma State on February 20.
- Ford also added four steals in the same game against NWOSU.

2019-20 Freshman (Oklahoma Baptist)
- Great American Conference All-Academic Team
- Athletic Director's Honor Roll
- 1x GAC Player of the Week: (12/02/19)
- Saw action in 10 games with 10 starts in her freshman campaign.
- Averaged 17.7 points per game and 8.8 rebounds per game.
- Went for a career high 24 points against Southeastern Oklahoma on November 21.
- Led the team in points per game and rebounds per game.

Brookland High School
- Three-time Arkansas All-State
- 2018-19 Arkansas All-State Tournament Team
- 2018-19 Top Five in Class 4A
- Three-time All-Conference
- 2019 NEA Sun Senior Classic MVP

Personal
- Is the daughter of Rodney and Vickie Ford.
- Has three siblings: Dalon, KaNya, and Kylen.
- Has one daughter: Elleauna.

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 12

    2024-25Graduate Student

    G/F
    5'10"
    12
  • 34

    2025-26Graduate Student

    G/F
    5'10"
    34