Syracuse, N.Y. – Le Moyne College Wright, III '85 and Cathy Lassiter Endowed Head Men's Basketball Coach Nate Champion '14 has announced the addition of six transfer student-athletes for the 2024-25 season.

The newcomers include graduate student guards Will Amica (Syracuse, N.Y./West Genesee/UAlbany) and Robby Carmody (Mars, Pa./Mars Area/Notre Dame/Mercer), redshirt junior forward Dwayne Koroma (Berlin, Germany/Bishop Walsh (Md.)/Iona/Salt Lake C.C./UT Arlington), junior forward Freds Pauls Bagatskis (Riga, Latvia/Complejo Educativo Mas Camarena/Georgia Tech/UT Arlington), junior guard Zek Tekin (Istanbul, Turkey/Ozel Esenkent Okaynus Anadolu Lisesi/Siena) and redshirt freshman forward Trevor Roe (Syracuse, N.Y./Fayetteville-Manlius/Radford).

Amica was named the All-Central New York Player of the Year and won a Class AA New York State Championship in 2019 at West Genesee High School, where he scored over 1,000 career points.

He spent the last four years at UAlbany, playing in 29 games with two starts for the Great Danes. He joins the Dolphins with at least two years of eligibility.

He scored six points against UMass Lowell during his lone appearance in the COVID-shortened 2020-21 season, then missed all of 2021-22 due to injury.

Amica played in nine games with two starts during the 2022-23 campaign before missing the final 19 contests due to injury. He scored a season-best eight points with two assists and two steals during a win at Immaculata.

He then appeared in 19 games off the bench in 2023-24. During a non-conference win over Sacred Heart, Amica scored six points in 16 minutes, then he pulled down four rebounds with four points at Binghamton.

Carmody was named the 2018 Gatorade Pennsylvania Player of the Year and was ranked among the top 100 high school prospects in his recruiting class coming out of Mars Area High School, where he scored over 2,000 career points. He began his collegiate career at Notre Dame before transferring to Mercer University for the 2023-24 season. He has one year of eligibility remaining.

He was featured in the starting lineup during his collegiate debut against University of Illinois-Chicago, becoming the first true freshman to start a season opener for Notre Dame since the 2002-03 season. He appeared in nine games during the 2018-19 campaign before suffering a season-ending injury.

Carmody logged 16 minutes with four steals and three field goals during the 2019-20 season opener at North Carolina, then tallied 13 points on 4-of-6 from the field and 5-6 from the line in 21 minutes during the home opener against Robert Morris. A knee injury ended his 2019-20 season after seven games.

He then missed the 2020-21 campaign and all but one game of the 2021-22 season. Carmody appeared in six games during his graduate season with the Fighting Irish in 2022-23.

Carmody then transferred to Mercer University, where he played in 29 games with 19 starts for the Bears during the 2023-24 season, averaging 7.5 points in 17.4 minutes per contest.

During the second game of the year at Chicago State, Carmody shot 9-13 from the line and tallied 18 points in 28 minutes to help the Bears to a 66-61 win. He poured in 20 points on 7-13 shooting from the field during a win over VMI. During a win over UNC Greensboro, he shot 4-4 from the field, 3-3 from three-point range and 8-8 from the line to finish with 19 points in 21 minutes.

Koroma, who played for the Berlin Tigers before finishing his high school career at Bishop Walsh in Cumberland, Maryland, spent his first collegiate season at Iona College in 2020-21 and joins the Dolphins with two seasons of eligibility remaining.

Koroma played in all 18 games with 12 starts for the Gaels during the COVID-shortened season, averaging 15.1 minutes per game. He started the final 10 games of the season as the Gaels won the MAAC Championship and earned a spot in the NCAA Tournament.

Koroma pulled down seven boards with three assists and one block in his first career start at Hofstra, tallied 10 points and five rebounds at Quinnipiac, delivered 10 points against Quinnipiac in the First Round of the MAAC Championship, and logged 17 minutes in the First Round of the NCCA Tournament against second-seeded Alabama.

Koroma then transferred to Salt Lake Community College mid-year and sat out the remainder of the 2021-22 season before putting together a productive campaign for the Bruins in 2022-23 as a third-year freshman. Koroma averaged 9.0 points, 5.0 rebounds, 1.6 assists and 1.1 steals to help Salt Lake compile a 29-5 record and a Region 18 Championship. He scored in double figures in 12 different contests and produced four double-doubles.

Koroma spent the 2023-24 season at University of Texas at Arlington where he played in 33 games with 14 starts. He pulled down 11 rebounds in 27 minutes during the season opener against Oral Roberts.

During a win over Alcorn State, Koroma scored 12 points on 6-of-9 shooting with four rebounds and three assists in 30 minutes. He tallied 10 points and eight rebounds at Grand Canyon in 31 minutes.

Koroma recorded 11 points, six rebounds and three assists in 23 minutes off the bench during a Western Athletic Conference (WAC) Tournament victory over Stephen F. Austin, then contributed 12 points on 5-of-5 shooting from the field and 2-of-2 from three during an 87-84 win over second-seeded Tarleton State in the semifinals.

Before beginning his collegiate career in America at Georgia Tech, Bagatskis, who has at least two years of eligibility remaining, gained experience playing for the U18 and U16 Latvia National Teams, including a solid showing at the 2019 FIBA U16 European Championships.

He completed his high school career at Complejo Educativo Mas Camarena in Spain, then appeared in nine games during his freshman season with the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets in 2022-23.

In the summer of 2023, Bagatskis represented Latvia at the FIBA U20 European Championships, B Division in Skopje, North Macedonia and averaged a team-high 17.3 points per game with a tournament best 27 made threes. He registered 29 points on 8-13 from three with eight rebounds and three assists during a win over Finland, then tallied 41 points on 10-14 from three-point range during a win over Albania.

Bagatskis played his sophomore season at the University of Texas at Arlington with Koroma. During his second game with the Mavs, he scored 11 points with three made threes against UT Tyler, but then suffered an ankle injury in practice that kept him out for the remainder of the season.

Tekin will join the Dolphins with two seasons of eligibility remaining after playing two seasons for the Siena College Saints. Tekin attended Özel Esenkent Okyanus Spor Lisesi in Istanbul, Turkey, and was an effective player for Anadolu Efes Spor Kulubu in Turkey's U19 League, averaging 15.2 points, 3.4 rebounds, 3.5 steals and 1.6 assists in 27.1 minutes over a 25-game span.

As a freshman for the Saints in 2022-23, Tekin appeared in 29 games with five starts. He dished out three assists with two made field goals against Florida State, scored seven points with three assists and a steal during his first career start against Rider, recorded four assists, four rebounds, two steals, five points and zero turnovers in 30 minutes during a conference win at Marist and registered a season-best 10 points with a season-high four steals in 16 minutes off the bench at Iona.

Tekin then played in 23 games with 20 starts as a sophomore in 2023-24, upping his averages to 9.0 points, a team-high 3.0 assists, a team-high 1.1 steals, and 2.1 rebounds in 23.3 minutes per game.

He provided 16 points, four assists and three steals during a 73-71 win over Holy Cross in the season opener, then poured in a career-best 23 points with five rebounds, four assists and four steals in 32 minutes during a 67-65 conference win over Rider.

Tekin delivered a career-high seven assists in back-to-back games against Brown and Fairfield, then produced another 20-point outing during a conference matchup against Saint Peter's, contributing 22 points on 8-of-16 shooting from the field and 5-of-7 from the line to go along with five rebounds, two steals and two assists in a season-high 35 minutes played.

Roe, who was a 1,000-point scorer and an All-Central New York honoree at nearby Fayetteville-Manlius High School, returns to the area to compete for the Dolphins after spending his freshman season at Radford University in 2023-24 and has four seasons of eligibility remaining.

Roe, whose father Matt played basketball at Syracuse (1986-89) and Maryland (1989-90), scored 500 points during his senior season with the FM Hornets, recording at least 30 points in seven different games, including a 40-point outing against Corcoran, en route to earning First Team All-League and First All-CNY honors.

The sextet joins previously-announced freshmen Jakob Blakley (Elgin, Ill./Walter Payton Preparatory) and Isaac Nyakundi (Duluth, Minn./Duluth East/The MacDuffie School (Mass.)) as newcomers to Le Moyne, while the Dolphins return seven members from last year's 15-17 squad and also added graduate student Sam Donnelly (Vernon, N.Y./Vernon-Verona-Sherrill), who has spent the last two years as a practice player with the women's team, during the Spring semester.