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 67-52 at UWF and 124-136 in 9-plus years 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 was the school's all-time leader in every 3-point category at the end of her career.

QUITE A START
* Despite the loss to St. Mary's last Sunday, UWF's 5-1 start is one of the top marks in recent history ... The 5-0 start marked the first such start for the first time since a 6-0 start in 1996-97.

ABOUT VALDOSTA STATE
* Valdosta State is 3-3 on the year with a 0-2 mark in games away from home ... The Blazers losses are to three Sunshine State Conference teams - Eckerd at home the first weekend of the season, and two down in West Palm Beach to Nova Southeastern and at Palm Beach Atlantic.
* Head coach Carley Kuhns is in her first season at VSU after being hired in the summer ... A 2015 VSU Hall of Fame inductee, she spent the last six years as an assistant at Division I Belmont in Nashville ... prior to that she was a graduate assistant at Valdosta ... The 2008 graduate of VSU was a 2-time First Team All-GSC performer who finished her career with 262 3-pointers - good for first at Valdosta and fifth all-time in the GSC..
* VSU has scored at least 76 points in every game with a season-high 101 last week against Trinity )Fla.) in a 101-30 win ... The Blazers average 79 points per game and have a plus-11 rebound margin - they have not been outrebounded once all year.

SERIES HISTORY VS. VSU 
* UWF trails VSU 18-23 in the series record since 1994 ... UWF has won the last three in Pensacola and four of the last six.
* UWF has won five of the last six games ... VSU's win during that stretch came last January when the Blazers snapped a UWF 7-game win streak with a 61-55 win in Valdosta, Ga. ... Prior to the last six games, VSU had won 5-straight and 13 of 15 dating back to 2007.

BREWER ON A TEAR EARLY ON
* Junior F Toni Brewer has averaged 14.0 points (11th in GSC) and 14.8 rebounds (1st in GSC & 2nd in NCAA) with six double-doubles in the first six contests ... Three weeks ago she pulled down a career-high 23 rebounds at Montevallo ... that marked the most in either Division I or II at the time (since has dropped to No. 2 in D2), the second-most in UWF history and the 13th-most in GSC history ... She enters the St. Mary's game with 752 points and 556 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 team in scoring and ranking 8th in the GSC with 14.8 points, while ranking fourth on the team with 3.7 rebounds per game ... She has five games in double figures with 9 points as her lowest single-game output ... Her attacking style has allowed the New Orleans native to shoot 32-for-45 (.750) at the free throw line ... Both of her FT made and attempted are in the top four in the GSC ... She has steadily seen her playing time increase in her first months of college play, loging career-highs of 25 and 28 minutes played in the last two contests..

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 Valdosta State game with 978 points and 684 rebounds ... The Lowell, Ind. native has four games in double figures this year following her career-high 21 points and 16 rebounds against St. Mary's last Sunday ... She is poised to become just the tenth player in program history to surpass 1,000 points, and is just 121 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. 978 - Katie Bobos (2013-pr)
11. 970 - LaKeisha Little (1997-00)

REBOUNDS
1. 798 - Melissa Nafzger (2003-06)
2. 685 - Jennifer Bass (1993-97)
3. 684 - Katie Bobos (2013-pr)
4. 674 - Erin Vierling (2002-06)
5. 609 - Karly Geller (1999-2002)
6. 573 - Segeeta Bland (1999-00)
7. 556 - Toni Brewer (2014-pr)
8. 552 - Lyndsay Munro (2002-06)
9. 528 - Jessica Young (2008-11)
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)
      222 - 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. 94 - Courtney Meyer (2014-pr)
6. 77 - Tara Russ (2004-08)
7. 72 - Wynette Villines (1993-95)

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