In 2025, Adriana Shipp-Davis joined the Howard University women's basketball team as a graduate assistant.
In her first season, HU went 26-8 (13-1 MEAC) en route to winning the MEAC Regular Season and Tournament Titles. The 26 wins are the most by any Howard team, men or women, in program history. Howard appeared in the NCAA Tournament, grabbing a No. 14 seed, which is also the highest in school history. Individually, Zennia Thomas and Zoe Stewart were selected to the BOXTOROW All-American First Team. Thomas also won BOXTOROW HBCU Division I Women's National Player of the Year and MEAC Player of the Year. Ariella Henigan took home MEAC Rookie of the Year.
Before joining Howard, Shipp-Davis was a standout student-athlete at Radford (2024-25) and Longwood (2020-24). As a redshirt junior (2022-23), she was named to the Big South Second Team.
In high school, Shipp-Davis was a four-year letter winner with Deep Creek High School (Chesapeake, Va.) where she was named to the all-tidewater honorable mention team, first-team all-conference and first-team all-district.
