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Women's Basketball

UWF Welcomes St. Mary's To Town Saturday on Scout Day

Argos look to remain undefeated against 7-1 Rattlers

 
No. 22 West Florida (5-0) vs. St. Mary's (7-1)
Date | Time Saturday, Dec. 3 | 2:00 p.m.
Location Pensacola, Fla. | UWF Field House
Tickets $5 GA | $3 Seniors/Military/Students | UWF students free w/ valid ID
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Series History St. Mary's leads 1-0 | Last game: StMU 75-67 win on 12/3/2005
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WELCOME TO SCOUT DAY
* All girl scouts and boy scouts will be admitted free.

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 67-51 at UWF and 124-135 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
* UWF is 5-0 on the season after a road win against Auburn-Montgomery on Sunday ... UWF is 5-0 for the first time since a 6-0 start in 1996-97 ... 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 IN THE RANKINGS
* UWF is currently ranked 22nd in the D2SIDA Media Poll and the fifth team receiving votes in the WBCA Division II Coaches Top 25 ... The Argos are No. 3 in the D2 South Region Media Poll.

ABOUT ST. MARY'S (TEXAS)
* St. Mary's is 7-1 on the year and has won five-straight games ... The Rattlers have been off since last Saturday when they swept a pair of home games to claim the St. Mary's Thanksgiving Classic ... StMU has an enrollment of 4,100 and is located in San Antonio ... They are a member of the Heartland Conference, which includes defending national champion Lubbock Christian.
* Head coach Jason Martens is in his 11th season at StMU and has compiled a 194-102 record with four NCAA South Central Regional appearances.
* Two players average double-figure scoring for StMU - Kiara Etheridge (13.8 ppg, 9.4 rpg) and LaBraile Fields (10.0 ppg, 4.5 apg, 3.0 spg) ... Etheridge also leads the team in rebounds while Field paces the squad in assistant and steals.

TOUGH DEFENSE ON DISPLAY
* Both teams in today's game bring strong defenses to the court ... UWF ranks 62nd in the NCAA in scoring defense (58.0 ppg), 18th in FG pct defense (32.7%) and 2nd in 3-point FG pct defense (16.1%) ... St. Mary's is equally strong, ranking 18th in scoring defense (53.0 ppg), 30th in FG pct. defense (33.5%) and 13th in 3-point FG pct defense (21.1%).
* St. Mary's is the third team receiving votes in the D2SIDA poll ... The Rattlers are No. 4 in the D2 South Central Region.

BREWER ON A TEAR EARLY ON
* Junior F Toni Brewer has averaged 16.0 points and 17.3 rebounds with five double-doubles in the first five contests ... Two 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 740 points and 541 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, currently tied for the scoring lead with 14.4 points, while ranking fourth with 4.0 rebounds per game ... She has four games in double figures ... Her attacking style has allowed the New Orleans native to shoot 30-for-40 (.750) at the free throw line ... Both of her FT made and attempted are in the top four in the GSC.

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 St. Mary's game with 957 points and 668 rebounds ... The Lowell, Ind. native has three games in double figures this year ... She is poised to become just the tenth player in program history to surpass 1,000 points, and is just 137 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)
--- 957 - Katie Bobos (2013-pr)

REBOUNDS
1. 798 - Melissa Nafzger (2003-06)
2. 685 - Jennifer Bass (1993-97)
3. 674 - Erin Vierling (2002-06)
4. 668 - Katie Bobos (2013-pr)
5. 609 - Karly Geller (1999-2002)
6. 573 - Segeeta Bland (1999-00)
7. 552 - Lyndsay Munro (2002-06)
8. 541 - Toni Brewer (2014-pr)
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)
--- 212 - 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. 93 - 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


 
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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