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Women's Basketball

UWF Hosts Spring Hill In Home Opener Tuesday

Argos have won 3-straight to start the season

 
West Florida (3-0) vs. Spring Hill (2-1)
Date | Time Tuesday, Nov. 22 | 5:30 p.m.
Location Pensacola, Fla. | UWF Field House
Tickets $5 GA | $3 military & students | Free for UWF students w/ valid ID
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Series History UWF leads 18-6 & has won the last 11
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ABOUT UWF
* Fifth-year head coach Stephanie Lawrence Yelton has four starters and eight letterwinners back from last year's 17-10 squad that finished tied for third in the GSC regular season at 15-7.
* Yelton is 65-51 at UWF and 122-135 9-plus as a college head coach, which includes a 57-84 mark in at Charleston Southern from 2001-06 ... She is a 1996 North Carolina graduate who graduated as the school's all-time leader in every 3-point category.

QUITE A START
* UWF is 3-0 on the young season with a pair of neutral-site wins and a road win on Saturday at Montevallo ... The last time a UWF team started 4-0 was 11 years ago ... UWF took a foreign tour to the Dominican Republic from Aug. 11-18. The squad played four games, visited local sugarcane villages, orphanages and women's shelters while ministering and sharing the love of basketball.

ABOUT SPRING HILL
* SHC is 2-1 on the year with a pair of wins over West Alabama and a 69-66 OT loss at home to rival Mobile ... Last season, SHC went 10-16 overall and was 8-9 in the SIAC West Division ... Karen McConico is 52-88 in her sixth season at SHC, taking over in 2011 after seven season as an assistant at Division I High Point.
* SHC was picked to finish 4th out of seven teams in the SIAC West Division ... Senior C Leah Washington was a preseason all-SIAC pick after averaging 9.7 pooints and 7.4 rebounds in 2015-16.
* Elise Reilly leads the team in scoring (13.3 ppg), 3-pointers (7), assists (2.3) and FT shooting (9-of-11, 82%) ... Washington is one of three players averaging 8.7 points, while she leads the team with 6.7 rebounds and 2.5 blocks per contest.

BREWER ON A TEAR EARLY ON
* Junior F Toni Brewer has averaged 16.0 points and 17.3 rebounds with three double-doubles in the first three contests ... On Saturday, she pulled down a career-high 23 rebounds at Montevallo ... that marked the most in either Division I or II this season and the 13th-most in GSC history ... She now has 716 points and 519 rebounds in her career.

MULMORE LEADS UWF IN SCORING AS A TRUE FRESHMAN
* Freshman G Imani Mulmore has made quite an impact on her new team, leading the Argos in scoring with 17.0 points, while adding 3.4 rebounds per game ... She has scoring totals of 15 agaisnt Eckerd, 20 against Albany State and 16 at Montevallo ... Her attacking style has allowed the New Orleans native to shoot 25-for-33 (.758) at the free throw line ... Both of her FT made and attempted are second in the GSC, trailing all-GSC pick Taylor Adams of Shorter with 28-for-36.

BOBOS NEARING 1,000 POINTS & UWF REBOUNDING RECORD
* Senior F Katie Bobos has been as consistent a performer as anyone in school history, entering the Spring Hill game with 941 points and 654 rebounds ... She is poised to become just the tenth player in program history to surpass 1,000 points, and is just 145 rebounds from setting the school record.

UWF CAREER RECORD WATCH
SCORING

1. 2,104 - Kristi Jernigan (1989-93)
2. 1,472 - Erin Vierling - (2002-06)
3. 1,446 - Jennifer Baas (1993-97)
4. 1,444 - Michelle Gibson (2003-06)
5. 1,256 - Tanisha Rickman (1998-99)
6. 1,121 - Kelly Barrett (2000-03)
7. 1,069 - Jennifer Morris (1993-95)
8. 1,050 - Amy Drake (2007-10)
9. 1,000 - Lyndsay Munro (2001-06)
10. 970 - LaKeisha Little (1997-00)
--- 941 - Katie Bobos (2013-pr)

REBOUNDS
1. 798 - Melissa Nafzger (2003-06)
2. 685 - Jennifer Bass (1993-97)
3. 674 - Erin Vierling (2002-06)
4. 654 - Katie Bobos (2013-pr)
5. 609 - Karly Geller (1999-2002)
6. 573 - Segeeta Bland (1999-00)
7. 552 - Lyndsay Munro (2002-06)
8. 528 - Jessica Young (2008-11)
9. 519 - Toni Brewer (2014-pr)
10. 470 - Dominique Boykins (2006-10)

ASSISTS
1. 385 - Sydney Jackson (1993-96)
2. 330 - Clenita Jones (2001-04)
3. 302 - Amy Drake (2007-10)
4. 275 - Ann Ching (2003-06)
5. 274 - Kelly Barrett (2000-03)
6. 260 - Toynetta Johnson (2012-14)
T7. 252 - Charlotte Griffin (1998-99)
T7. 252 - Heather Morris (1999-02)
9. 247 - Michelle Gibson (2003-06)
10. 222 - LaKeisha Little (1997-00)
--- 195 - Alex Coyne (2015-pr)

BLOCKED SHOTS

1. 195 - Melissa Nafzger (2003-06)
2. 116 - Regan Rockwell (1994-97)
3. 104 - Juana Coletti (1985-87)
4. 95 - Raquel Miller (2012-14)
5. 87 - Courtney Meyer (2014-pr)
6. 77 - Tara Russ (2004-08)
7. 72 - Wynette Villines (1993-95)

UWF IN THE RANKINGS
* UWF is currently ranked No. 4 in the D2 South Region Media Poll.

WHAT HAPPENED IN THE OFFSEASON
* Former assistant coach Jessie Ivey was named the National Division 2 Assistant Coach of the Year by the WBCA, before accepting a similar position at Bowling Green ... UWF hired former WNBA veteran LaQuanda Quick as her replacement. Quick spent last season at Winston Salem State and has been put in charge of the Argonaut defense ... UWF took a foreign tour to the Dominican Republic from Aug. 11-18. The squad played four games, visited local sugarcane villages, orphanages and women's shelters while ministering and sharing the love of basketball.

UWF PICKED 3RD IN GSC PRESEASON POLL
* The UWF women's basketball team was picked to finish third in the Gulf South Conference preseason coaches poll ... UWF earned a total of 101 points in the voting process, collecting one first place vote, a league-high five second-place votes, one third, three fourth and a fifth place vote.
* Defending regular-season champion Union was picked first, followed by Delta State, which won the GSC Tournament title. Lee followed UWF in fourth, and Shorter was picked fifth.
* Seniors Katie Bobos and Alex Coyne were each named to the 5-member preseason all-conference team ... Bobos was a second-team all-GSC and academic all-GSC honoree last year after averaging 12.8 points and 8.0 rebounds. The Lowell, Indiana native scored in double figures in 21 games and collected eight double-doubles ... Coyne was also a second team choice a year ago after transferring from Southern Miss. In her first season with the Argos, the point guard from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania averaged 10.0 points, 6.7 assists, 2.2 rebounds and 2.3 steals per game. She led the GSC and ranked fifth in the NCAA in assists, and was third in GSC and 49th nationally in steals.

GSC Preseason Coaches Poll
Team Poll Points

1. Union (10) 120
2. Delta State (1) 103
3. West Florida (1) 101
4. Lee 94
5. Shorter 83
6. Alabama Huntsville 66
7. West Georgia 57
8. Christian Brothers 45
9. Valdosta State 44
10. West Alabama 42
11. North Alabama 24
12. Mississippi College 13

First place votes in parenthesis

 

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Players Mentioned

Katie Bobos

#23 Katie Bobos

F
6' 0"
Senior
Toni Brewer

#24 Toni Brewer

F
5' 10"
Junior
Alex Coyne

#00 Alex Coyne

G
5' 3"
Senior
Courtney Meyer

#25 Courtney Meyer

F
6' 2"
Junior
Imani Mulmore

#11 Imani Mulmore

G
5' 5"
Freshman

Players Mentioned

Katie Bobos

#23 Katie Bobos

6' 0"
Senior
F
Toni Brewer

#24 Toni Brewer

5' 10"
Junior
F
Alex Coyne

#00 Alex Coyne

5' 3"
Senior
G
Courtney Meyer

#25 Courtney Meyer

6' 2"
Junior
F
Imani Mulmore

#11 Imani Mulmore

5' 5"
Freshman
G