FIUSPORTS.COM QUICK FACTS UNIVERSITY INFORMATION LETTERWINNERS RETURNING No. Name Pos. Ht. Yr. MPG PPG RPG Hometown/ Previous School Location...... , 2 Cheyanne Daniels F 6-3 Fr. 20.2 2.5 4.1 Miami, Fla./Miami Senior HS Founded/Opened...... 1965/1972 5 Fujika Nimmo G 5-8 Fr. 25.4 8.3 2.6 Davenport, Fla./Haines City HS Enrollment...... 54,000 21 Diene Diane G 5-10 Jr. 26.3 6.6 3.6 Sable-Sur-Sarthe, France/Gulf State College Nickname...... Panthers 24 Alexus Wykoff F 5-11 Jr. 6.1 1.1 1.1 Magnolia, Texas/Blinn JC Mascot Name...... Roary 25 Giulia Bongiorno G 5-10 Fr. 13.5 2.0 1.4 Rome, Italy/ Liceo G.B.Vico ...... FIU Fight Song 30 Jiselle Thomas G 5-9 Jr. 25.2 11.1 4.4 Norwalk, Ohio/ High Point Colors...... Blue (PMS 282) & Gold (PMS 871) 34 Shante Walker F 5-11 Jr. 14.5 3.4 3.2 West Park, Fla./ South Broward HS Affiliation...... NCAA Division I (FBS) Conference...... Conference USA (East Div) School President...... Dr. Mark B. Rosenberg Director of Sports & Ent...... NEWCOMERS No. Name Pos. Ht. Yr. Hometown/Previous School Team Twitter...... @FIUFootball 1 Raquel Ferrer-Bernad G 5-6 Jr. Lleida, Spain/ Casper College Athletics Twitter...... @FIUAthletics 10 Liz Satter F 6-2 G Glencoe, Ill./ Penn Website...... FIUSports.com 12 Emerald Ekpiteta F 5-11 G London, England/ Niagara Conference Website...... ConferenceUSA.com 15 Kyla Nelson G 5-11 Sr. Worthing, England/ Pitt 23 Alma Danielsson F 6-2 Jr. Uppsala, Sweden/ Palm Beach State STADIUM INFORMATION Venue...... Ocean Bank Convocation Center Capacity...... 5,000 Ticket Office Phone...... (305) FIU-GAME

FIU WBK HISTORY First Year of ...... 1975-76 All-Time Record...... 714-558 NCAA Appearances...... 6 (‘10-‘11, ‘17-’19) Bowl Record...... 2-3 Most Wins in Single-Season...... 9 (2018) NFL Draft Picks...... 10 # - Wins in 2003 (2-10), 2004 (3-7) and 2005 (4-6, 3-4 SBC) were vacated THE PANTHERS IN 2020 2019-20 Record...... 6-23 C-USA Record/Finish...... 3-15/13th Newcomers...... 5 MEDIA INFO Head Coach...... Jesyka Burks-Wiley Alma Mater...... Boston ‘09 PRACTICE COVERAGE Record at FIU...... 0-0 (1 year) Due to COVID-19 restrictions, practices this week will Career Record...... 0-0 (1 year) be closed to the media. Interviews are available upon Assistant Coach...... Robyn Scherr-Wells request. All interview requests must be directed to TYLER BRAIN Alma Mater...... Michigan ‘01 the FIU Athletic Communications Office at least 24 Communications Director Assistant Coach...... Tim Sylver hours in advance. Please send all requests via email Secondary Football Contact C: 256-616-3097 Alma Mater...... USF ‘01 to [email protected]. Email: [email protected] Assistant Coach...... Dan Wendt Alma Mater...... Chaminade ‘08 MEDIA AVAILABILITY Athletic Trainer...... Kelsey Greenwald All interview requests should be made to FIU Director Strength Coach...... Brandon Bou of Communications Tyler Brain at least 24 hours in Academic Advisor...... Christina Estevez advance. All media availability times are subject to change. Please contact Tyler Brain for any changes in FIU Athletics Address the schedule. 11200 SW 8th Street OBCC 211 POSTGAME INTERVIEWS Miami, FL 33199 For home games, all FIU postgame press conference Ocean Bank Convocation Center Address will be held over Zoom after each game following a 11200 SW 8th Street 10-minute cooling off period. No interviews will be OBCC 211 allowed on the field with players and/or coaches Miami, FL 33199 immediately following games. Coach Davis and select FIU players will be available over Zoom following REFER AS FIU PANTHERS games. Florida International University has a long and storied history across all of its Division I NCAA programs. We respectfully ask that you refer to our University’s athletic programs as the FIU Panthers.

Please refrain from using any of the following Fla Int’l = use FIU Golden Panthers = use Panthers

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TYSON RODGERS Assistant AD, Athletic Communications (Football) Office: 305-348-2084 Cell: 662-418-2982 Email: [email protected]

CHRISTINA ANDERSON Director of Athletic Communications (MBB, VB, BEACH VB) Office: 305-348-1496 Email: [email protected]

CHRIS SANTIAGO Senior Multimedia Producer (Video Coordinator) LIVE STATS Office: 305.348.6666 Live statistics for home FIU games will be made available on FIUSports.com Email: [email protected] (http://fiusports.com/sidearmstats/wbball/summary). Stat monitors featuring StatBroadcast will be made available. A.J. RICKETTS Multimedia Assistant/ Voice of the Panthers MEDIA CREDENTIALS (TF, XC) Credentials for FIU home basketball games are for working media only. Requests for Cell: 850.898.4914 media credentials should be made by contacting Tyson Rodgers via email at tyson.rod- Email: [email protected] [email protected] in the FIU Athletics Media Relations office. Requests from media covering visiting teams will be confirmed first with each opponent’s sports information contact.

TYLER BRAIN All credentials that cannot be mailed will be left at Media Will Call, which is located Athletic Communications Assistant (Secondary FB, BSB, WG) at Gate 4 (northwest corner of the arena). Will call will open two (2) hours prior to Office: 305.348.2084 tipoff. Members of the media picking up credentials at Will Call must provide photo Cell: 256.616.3097 identification and the name must match the name on the credential. Email: [email protected] PHOTOGRAPHERS CHRISTIAN ALMANZA Photo credentials are issued on a game-by-game basis. FIU will adhere to all NCAA Athletic Communications Intern guidelines regarding baseline photography. (MSOC, WSOC) Email: [email protected] PARKING Parking passes are not issued for basketball games at the Ocean Bank Convocation Center, and members of the media must pay to park on campus. Parking is available MIKE GUERRERO in either Lot 10 or the Panther Parking Garage (Parking Garage - of PG - 3) which is Social Media Manager located conveniently outside Gate 4. Office: 305.348.0261 Email: [email protected] PHONE LINES A limited number of phone lines are available in the press box for media. FIU provides an ISDN, and Ethernet connection and one business telephone line free of charge to the primary visiting radio outlet.

WIRELESS INTERNET Ocean Bank Convocation Center offers free wireless Internet service to media mem- bers. Instructions will be provided on game day.

PRACTICE POLICIES Practices are closed to the media and public, unless approved otherwise by Tyson Rodgers ([email protected]).

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NUMERICAL No. Name Pos. Ht. Year Hometown/ Previous School (Transfer School) 0 Emily Atsinger G 6-7 Sr. New Lenox, Ill./Lincoln Way-West (Lake Michigan/Joliet) 1 Raquel Ferrer-Bernad G 5-6 Jr. LLeida, Spain/ (Casper) 2 Cheyanne Daniels F 6-3 Fr. Miami, Fla./Miami Senior HS 3 Alana Swift G 5-6 Fr. Philadelphia, Penn./Imhotep Charter School 5 Fujika Nimmo G 5-8 Fr. Davenport, Fla./Haines City HS 10 Liz Satter F 6-2 G Glencoe. Ill/ Loyola Academy (Penn) 12 Emerald Ekpiteta F 5-11 G London, England/City of London Academy (Niagara) 15 Kyla Nelson G 5-11 Sr. Worthing, England/ Oaklands (Pitt) 21 Diene Diane G 5-10 Jr. Sable-Sur-Sarthe, France/Lycee Suzanne Valodonne (Gulf Coast State) 23 Alma Danielsson F 6-2 Jr. Uppsala, Sweden/Celsiusskolan (Palm Beach State) 24 Alexus Wykoff F 5-11 Jr. Magnolia, Texas/ Magnolia HS (Blinn JC) 25 Giulia Bongiorno G 5-10 Fr. Rome, Italy/ Liceo G.B. Vico 30 Jiselle Thomas G 5-9 Jr. Norwalk, Ohio/ Norwalk HS/ High Point 34 Shante Walker F 5-11 Jr. West Park, Fla./ South Broward

ALPHABETICAL No. Name Pos. Ht. Year Hometown/ Previous School (Transfer School) 0 Emily Atsinger G 6-7 Sr. New Lenox, Ill./Lincoln Way-West (Lake Michigan/Joliet) 25 Giulia Bongiorno G 5-10 Fr. Rome, Italy/ Liceo G.B. Vico 2 Cheyanne Daniels F 6-3 Fr. Miami, Fla./Miami Senior HS 23 Alma Danielsson F 6-2 Jr. Uppsala, Sweden/Celsiusskolan (Palm Beach State) 21 Diene Diane G 5-10 Jr. Sable-Sur-Sarthe, France/Lycee Suzanne Valodonne (Gulf Coast State) 12 Emerald Ekpiteta F 5-11 G London, England/City of London Academy (Niagara) 1 Raquel Ferrer-Bernad G 5-6 Jr. LLeida, Spain/ (Casper) 15 Kyla Nelson G 5-11 Sr. Worthing, England/ Oaklands (Pitt) 5 Fujika Nimmo G 5-8 Fr. Davenport, Fla./Haines City HS 10 Liz Satter F 6-2 G Glencoe. Ill/ Loyola Academy (Penn) 3 Alana Swift G 5-6 Fr. Philadelphia, Penn./Imhotep Charter School 30 Jiselle Thomas G 5-9 Jr. Norwalk, Ohio/ Norwalk HS/ High Point 34 Shante Walker F 5-11 Jr. West Park, Fla./ South Broward 24 Alexus Wykoff F 5-11 Jr. Magnolia, Texas/ Magnolia HS (Blinn JC)

COACHING STAFF Head Coach: Jesyka Burks-Wiley Assistant Coach: Robyn Scherr-Wells Assistant Coach: Dan Wendt Assistant Coach: Tim Sylver Assistant DOBO: Kaity Healy

PRONOUNCATION GUIDE Giulia Bongiorno Julia Bone-jor-no Fujika Nimmo Foo-gee-cah Nemo Alma Danielsson All-muh Jiselle Thomas Juh-Zale Diene Diane Jenny “Deedee” Jenny Shante Walker Shanty Emerald Ekpiteta Ek-pee-te-tah

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0 EMILY ATSINGER 1 RAQUEL FERRER-BERNAD 2 CHEYANNE DANIELS 3 ALANA SWIFT

5 FUJIKA NIMMO 10 LIZ SATTER 12 EMERALD EKPITETA 15 KYLA NELSON

21 DIENE DIANE 23 ALMA DANIELSSON 24 ALEXUS WYKOFF 25 GIULIA BONGIORNO

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