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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL UNC Greensboro Monday, November 24, 2014 • 7:00 p.m. Farmville, Va. • Willett Hall (1, 807) 4 Big South Network THE MATCHUP 2014-15 Schedule Longwood UNC Greensboro N 15 at Wake Forest L, 64-60 N 17 at Florida L, 91-46 Lancers Spartans N 20 at Richmond L, 80-50 Farmville, Va. Greensboro, N.C. N 24 UNC GREENSBORO 7 pm N 29 at William & Mary 2 pm 2014-15 Record ....................................... 0-3 (0-0) 2014-15 Record .........................................1-2 (0-0) Conference................................................ Big South Conference........................ Southern Conference D 2 at High Point* 7 pm Last Game......................... L, 80-50 at Richmond Last Game.................. L, 69-60 vs. USC Upstate D 6 at Virginia Tech 5 pm D 14 UNC ASHEVILLE 2 pm Head Coach ..............Bill Reinson (Phoenix, ‘00) Head Coach ................. Wendy Palmer (Virginia, ‘96) D 16 at Virginia 7 pm Career Record ..................35-83 (Fifth Season) Career Record .....................20-73 (4th Season) D 19 at Clemson 7 pm Longwood Record .......................................... Same UNCG Record ................................................... Same D 22 GEORGE MASON 7 pm vs. Richmond ................................................... 0-3 vs. Longwood .................................................. 0-0 D 28 GARDNER-WEBB* 2 pm D 30 at Winthrop* 7 pm THE OPENING TIP LAST TIME OUT J 3 CAMPBELL* 2 pm • Longwood opens its 2014-15 home slate • Despite having eight players score and J 5 COASTAL CAROLINA* 7 pm Monday evening, as the Lancers play three players with nine or more points, J 10 RADFORD* 2 pm host to UNC Greensboro at 7 p.m., inside Longwood dropped a hard-fought game J 13 at Liberty* 7 pm Willett Hall. The game will mark the first of at Richmond Thursday night in the Rob- J 17 at Presbyterian* 5 pm 12 home contests throughout the season ins Center, 80-50. J 24 CHARLESTON SOUTHERN* 2 pm for the Lancers • Raven Williams scored a season-high 12 J 27 WINTHROP* 7 pm • Longwood opened the 2014-15 regular points to pace the Lancers in the contest, J 31 at Campbell* 7 pm season with its first three contests on the including a 2-of-4 (.500) performance F 2 HIGH POINT* 7 pm road, as the squad traveled to face Wake from beyond the arc in the first half. The F 5 at UNC Asheville* 7 pm Forest, Florida and Richmond. Overall, Richmond, Va., native also recorded a F 7 at Gardner-Webb* 3 pm eight of Longwood’s first 10 games are team-best three assists and two steals F 10 at Radford.* 7 pm on the road. in the loss. F 14 at Coastal Carolina* 1 pm • Longwood is in its fifth season under the • Deborah Headen played her best game F 17 LIBERTY* 7 pm guidance of head coach Bill Reinson. In of the young season, as the junior tallied F 21 PRESBYTERIAN* 2 pm 2013, Reinson led the Lancers to the Big 10 points in the contest. Shannon Mosby F 28 at Charleston Southern* TBA South Championship game, before falling and Micaela Ellis both provided a spark to Liberty. off the bench, as Ellis was 3-of-4 from M 3-8 Big South Tournament TBA three-point range and finished the night with nine points and Mosby added five Home games in BOLD CAPS points. * Big South game THE LINEUP All times eastern and subject to change No. Name (Ht., Yr.) Pos. PPG RPG APG Notables 2 • Brenna Robbins (5-10, So.) G 1.7 3.3 0.3 Has recorded three or more assists nine times in career 3 Daeisha Brown (5-3, Jr.) G 16.0 5.0 2.3 Third in the Big South averaging 16.0 PPG 4 • Raven Williams (5-8, Jr.) G 4.7 3.3 1.7 Averaged 3.3 assists last season to lead the team, team captain 5 Shannon Mosby (5-3, R-Fr.) G 2.5 2.0 0.5 Scored first career points at Richmond 10 Micaela Ellis (5-5, Fr.) G 4.7 0.7 1.3 Scored five points in first game of career at Wake Forest (11/15) 14 Treasure Avery (5-7, So.) G 1.7 1.3 -- Strong rebounder despite size 15 Victoria Wickman (5-4, Fr.) G -- -- -- A walk-on from Grundy, Va. 20 • Kyndal Skesick (5-9, Jr.) G 8.7 2.0 1.0 Second on the team,averaging 10.0 PPG facebook.com/ 21 Jaclyn Reagan (5-9, Jr.) G 2.7 2.0 0.3 Has made 2-of-5 (.400) of her threes this season LongwoodLancers1839 22 • Khalilah Ali (6-0, Jr.) G/F 4.3 6.3 0.3 A career .408 shooter from the floor 23 Autumn Childress (5-10, Fr) G 1.7 1.0 -- Scored first collegiate basket at Florida (11/17) 25 • Deborah Headen (5-9, Jr.) G 4.7 2.0 1.3 Started 13 games as a sophomore, team captain 32 Rianna Frazer (5-4, Sr.) G -- -- -- Lone senior on the 2014-15 team, team captain twitter.com/ 34 Emily Nylen (6-5, So.) F -- -- -- Tallest player on the team LongwoodLancers • denotes projected starter 2014-15 Longwood Women’s Basketball LONGWOOD GAMEDAY > Notes BY THE NUMBERS Media Information LONGWOOD WBB • This season marks the 99th season MEDIA CONTACTS for Longwood women’s basketball, as QUICK FACTS Todd Lindenmuth, Athletic Communications the Lancers have a record of 566-541 Manager since 1970. The Lancers officially made UNIVERSITY Email: [email protected] the jump to Division I for the 2007-08 Name .......................................... Longwood University Cell: 919-724-8161 season and are 61-121 in those seven City/Zip ........................................Farmville, Va. 23909 Chris Cook, Assistant VP/Athletics seasons. Prior to making the jump to Founded ...............................................................1839 Communications Enrollment (Undergraduate) ................................4,507 Division I, Longwood made four NCAA Email: [email protected] Nickname .........................................................Lancers Office: 434-395-2718 Division II Tournaments (1995, ‘96, ‘97, Colors .......................... Navy Blue (PMS 289) & White Cell: 434-808-5127 ‘03). Fight Song ................................... Hail to Longwood U! Jacob Bell, External Relations Assistant • Longwood will face a total of five Affiliation ............................................. NCAA Division I Email: [email protected] schools from a power five conference Conference ...................................................Big South Office: 434-395-4802 this season - Wake Forest, Florida, Vir- President ..................W. Taylor Reveley IV (Princeton) Cell: 615-424-6743 ginia Tech, Virginia and Clemson. The Director of Athletics .........................Troy Austin (Duke) five games against the power five is the Athletics Phone ....................................(434) 395-2057 INTERVIEW REQUESTS Tickets Phone ......................................(434) 395-2138 most of any team in the Big South this All interview requests for Longwood Website ...........................www.LongwoodLancers.com women’s basketball players and coach- season. Twitter ..........................................@LongwoodLancers es will run through the Longwood ath- • Through games played on Saturday, letics communications office. Contact Nov. 18, the Lancers rank first in the Big PROGRAM HISTORY Todd Lindenmuth or Chris Cook to set up South with three-pointers made this Seasons of Basketball ..............................................98 an interview. season with 17. The Lancers are aver- First Season ................................................... 1920-21 aging 5.67 treys made and are led in Record Since 1970 ...............................566-540 (.513) LONGWOODLANCERS.COM three-point field goals by Kyndal Sker- Division I Eligible ....................................2007-Present For unparalleled coverage of the entire sick and Micaela Ellis with four apiece. Division I Record ....................................61-120 (7) intercollegiate athletics department at • Longwood returns 87 percent of its NCAA Tournament Appearances ............4 (Division II - Longwood, access LongwoodLancers. ........................................ 1995, 1996, 1997, 2003) com. The official site of Longwood ath- scoring from a season ago, including NCAA Tournament Record ..................................... 2-4 letics features in-depth coverage of its top three scorers. Daeisha Brown Longwood players, coaches and staff as [15.3 ppg], Raven Williams [11.4 ppg] TEAM INFORMATION well as game notes, player biographies, and Kyndal Skersick [9.1] all return for 2013-14 Overall Record ....................................... 8-22 statistics and updates on the Longwood the Lancers. Big South Record/Finish ........................... 5-15/9th women’s basketball program. • Daeisha Brown has started 54 of 59 Home Record ...................................................5-11 career games at Longwood. The ju- Away Record ................................................... 3-10 GAMEDAY CREDENTIALS Neutral Record .................................................. 0-1 Credentials to Longwood basketball nior has enjoyed a fantastic start to Starters Returning/Lost ............................................4/1 home games are available upon request the season, averaging 23.0 points per Letterwinners R/L...................................................10/2 through the Longwood athletics com- game in two games played. Newcomers .................................................................2 munications department. Credentials • Longwood named three players team are issued at the discretion of the Long- captains — senior Rianna Frazer, junior wood athletics department and may be Deborah Headen and junior Raven Wil- revoked at any point due to inappropri- liams. ate behavior, inappropriate use of the credential, non-sanctioned transfer of the credential or other reasons deemed worthy of credential revocation