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Women's Hoops Welcomes Hood for Homecoming

Lancers, Blazers tip at noon Sunday

Game 3 • Hood (0-1) at Longwood (1-1)
Date & Time Sunday, Nov. 10, 2024 (12 p.m.)
Location Farmville, Va. (Joan Perry Brock Center)  
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FARMVILLE, Va. -- The Longwood women's basketball team hosts Hood for a Homecoming and Alumni Weekend matinée at noon at the Joan Perry Brock Center on Sunday.

STORYLINES
â–ª Longwood and the Blazers have never met in women's basketball. Hood, which opened as the Woman's College of Frederick (Md.) in 1893 and first played basketball in 1898, became co-educational in 1971. It restarted the women's basketball program in 1995-96 after a hiatus.
â–ª A win against Hood Sunday would match the Lancers' best start to a season since 2013-14. That year, Longwood, under the direction of head coach Bill Reinson, opened with a loss at Seton Hall before beating William & Mary and Utah Valley at home. The Lancers also won a third consecutive game in that stretch, knocking off Xavier in Cincinnati to start the year 3-1.
â–ª For the second consecutive game to begin the season, at least nine players put their names in the scoring column. Against Lincoln (Pa.) on Monday, all nine players to see playing time on the court scored. On Thursday at Norfolk State, 10 of the 11 players to appear in the contest tallied points. That marked the first time since Longwood's 103-52 win over Regent on Jan. 27 last season that 10 or more players scored.
â–ª Through games of Nov. 8, graduate guard Kiki McIntyre and junior guard/forward JaMya Robinson are tied for the league lead in steals with seven apiece which is 25th in the NCAA. Furthermore, McIntyre is 41st in the country with 14 field goals made.

SCOUTING THE BLAZERS
Hood, out of the NCAA Division III Middle Atlantic Conference, opened its season at St. Mary's (Md.) Friday with a 77-64 loss.

Senior guard/forward Chanelle Lee posted a double-double of 20 points and 13 rebounds and scored her 1,000th career point in the fourth quarter. Aliyah Taylor scored 11 and grabbed five rebounds, while Na'Vaye Quarles and Libby Kiley each scored 10 points. Kiley led the team with four steals.

The Blazers, under second-year head coach DéRonté Polite, finished 4-21 overall a season ago with three victories coming in MAC play. The Blazers welcomed nine newcomers for 2024-25 after graduating two seniors.

Sunday's game will be an exhibition for the Blazers.

 LAST TIME OUT
Norfolk State used a 13-0 run in the fourth quarter to pull out a 71-62 win over Longwood at Echols Hall on Thursday.

Longwood held leads after the first, second and third quarters and got balanced scoring from up and down its roster, but the two-time defending MEAC champion Spartans received a career-high-tying 32 points from Diamond Johnson and a 14-point, 12-rebound double-double by Kierra Wheeler to secure a come-from-behind victory and extend their home winning streak to 16 games.

Graduate guard Kiki McIntyre posted 20 points, six rebounds, five assists, two steals and two blocks to pace Longwood, which held the lead for nearly 20 minutes throughout the night. Senior guard Mariah Wilson scored 11 points, adding four rebounds and two steals, as well.

THREE'S COMPANY
The Lancers went 9-for-20 (45 percent) from 3-point range at Norfolk State on Thursday. It marked just the third time in head coach Erika Lang-Montgomery's Longwood tenure that the Lancers made that many from distance.

Longwood buried 10 from downtown in an 88-59 homecoming win over Chowan Nov. 12, 2023 and nine more in a 77-64 loss at Presbyterian on Feb. 8, 2023.

The Lancers are 7-11 under Lang-Montgomery when they make at least five 3-pointers in a game.

BAND OF THIEVES
The Lancers made 17 steals in Monday's season-opening 81-70 victory over Lincoln (Pa.). It was the seventh time with head coach Erika Lang-Montgomery at the helm that Longwood had at least 15 steals in a game. The Lancers are 6-1 in those contests.

Longwood led the Big South Conference and finished 21st in the country in steals per game at 10.7. Individually, Kiki McInytre led the league in the category at 2.77 per game, good for 20th in the NCAA, while she collected 83 total steals, which also led the league and was 29th in the country.

BENCH PRODUCTION
Longwood's non-starters averaged 20.2 points per game last season, a figure that was third in the Big South and 97th overall in the country.

Longwood outscored the opponent bench in 13 games in 2023-24 and has done so in both games this season. The Lancers posted an overwhelming 43-7 advantage in the category in Thursday's 71-62 loss at Norfolk State with the help of a team-leading 20-point effort from graduate guard Kiki McInytre, who was the Lancers' first substitute in the game.

WINNING THE FIRST ONE
The Lancers' season-opening 81-70 win against Lincoln (Pa.) on Monday at the Joan Perry Brock Center marked Longwood's first victory to begin a season since defeating Campbell, 71-48. in the Lancer Classic in Willett Hall on Nov. 12, 2010.

LANCERS 7TH IN BIG SOUTH POLL
|Longwood was picked seventh in the 2024-25 Big South preseason poll, announced at the conference media day in Charlotte, on Oct. 15. The Lancers earned  30 points in the poll to finish ahead of Presbyterian (23 points) and UNC Asheville (17).

For the fourth consecutive season and fifth time overall, High Point was chosen first with five first-place votes and 76 total points, followed by Radford with 57 points and one first-place nod and Charleston Southern with 55 points.

Winthrop in fourth, Gardner-Webb in sixth and the Blue Hose in eighth received the remaining first-place votes.

IF YOU BEAT 'EM, JOIN 'EM
Senior guard Mariah Wilson transferred to Longwood after playing her first three seasons and 60 career games at Towson from 2021-24. Wilson averaged 1.5 points and 0.6 rebounds per game in 5.8 minutes for the Tigers.

When head coach Erika Lang-Montgomery brought her team to TU Arena Nov. 12, 2022, Wilson played three minutes in an 83-72 Towson victory.

Wilson has scored 11 points each in her first two games with the Lancers after only tallying double digits two times at Towson.

WELCOME BACK
Longwood assistant coach Ivana Boyd is back in Farmville for her second stint on head coach Erika Lang-Montgomery's staff.

Boyd, who played for Lang-Montgomery at Flagler, graduating in 2020, followed her college coach to southside Virginia as a volunteer assistant when the latter took over the program in the 2022-23 season. Boyd spent a season away as an assistant coach under Special Jennings at Jacksonville in 2023-24, helping the Dolphins to an 11-20 overall record, 5-10 in the Atlantic Sun Conference.

LUCKY 7
The Lancers will play half of their 14 non-conference games in the friendly confines of the Joan Perry Brock Center this season. That reflects a stark contrast from 2023-24 in which Longwood played seven consecutive non-league games away from Farmville from Nov. 15 at James Madison to Dec. 17 at William & Mary, traveling approximately 4,534 miles in that span.

DUNCAN CLASSIC
The Lancers are set to host their first  in-season tournament since the 2010-11 season when South Carolina State, McNeese and William & Mary join Longwood in Farmville for the Shirley Duncan Classic on Dec. 6-8.

The event is named in honor of Shirley Duncan, the all-time winningest coach in Longwood women's basketball history. A 2016 Longwood athletics hall of fame inductee, and one of four associated with the women's basketball program to be part of the hall of fame, Duncan led the Lancers to a 355-263 (.575) record from 1983-05 with four NCAA Division II tournament appearances.

LET'S PLAY TWO!
Longwood freshman forward Montgomery Bedford, a 6-foot-2 native of Baltimore, Md., and product of Baltimore City College, who was recruited to Farmville to play women's lacrosse for the Lancers, walked onto the women's basketball team this fall. Bedford is believed to be one of just four dual-sport student-athletes on Division I women's basketball rosters this season.

The others are Santa Clara forward Lauren Glover, who also plays for the Broncos' women's volleyball team; Cincinnati guard Daylee Dunn, also a member of the Bearcats' track and field team and Cal State Fullerton guard/forward Samantha Schuler, who is also on the Titans' track and field team.

Bedford is the first two-sport student-athlete to play women's basketball at Longwood since Mallory Odell did it from 2017-21, also playing for the softball team.

MS. 1,000
Longwood graduate student point guard Kiki McInytre needs 106 points to reach 1,000 for her career. The Boston native averaged 6.6 points per game last season, appearing in all 30 contests. She averaged 10.9 points per game in 61 games playing at NCAA Division II St Leo, scoring 663 points from 2020-23.

REINSON ON THE CALL
Former Longwood women's basketball head coach Bill Reinson, who coached the Lancers for parts of eight seasons from 2010-18, winning 58 games, returns to Farmville to join the "Voice of the Lancers" Sam Hovan on the call of selected home ESPN+ broadcasts from the Joan Perry Brock Center in 2024-25.

STUDENT-ATHLETES
No fewer than 10 Longwood women's basketball student-athletes were named to the 2023-24 Big South Presidential Honor Roll in June. To be included on the list, student-athletes must maintain at least a 3.0 (on a 4.0 scale) for the academic year.

The players who achieved the feat were Lainey Bone, Malea Brown, Stephanie Davis, Otaifo Esenabhalu, Amor Harris, Kiki McIntyre, Nalani Simmons, Janay Turner Frances Ulysse and Bailey Williams.

Additionally, the Lancers earned their highest semester team grade-point average in history at 3.42 in the spring with McIntyre, Simmons and Turner collecting perfect 4.0 GPAs for the term.

STUDENT-ATHLETES, PART II
Kiki McIntyre and Bailey Williams were named to the 2023-24 College Sports Communicators Academic All-District Team®. To be eligible, student-athletes must have a cumulative GPA of at least 3.5 and be starter or key contributor to their team.

MOVIN' ON UP
Last season's director of basketball operations and Player Development Rachel Balzer earned a promotion to assistant coach in late April. Balzer came to Farmville prior to the 2023-24 after graduating from George Mason in 2023.

BACK TO WHERE IT BEGAN
The Lancers will take a trip to Gainesville, Fla., on Dec. 15 to clash with the Florida Gators. The matchup represents a homecoming for head coach Erika Lang-Montgomery, a 1995 Florida graduate and 1989 SEC All-Freshman Team selection.

Following her time as head coach at Flagler, Lang-Montgomery returned to Florida as an assistant coach from 2019-22 on the staffs of Cam Newbauer (2019-21) and Kelly Rae Finley (2021-22), respectively.

ANOTHER GATOR
Jumping into Rachel Balzer's vacated director of basketball operations role for the 2024-25 season is two-time Florida graduate Jazmyn Simmons.

Simmons spent the last two seasons as a graduate assistant for the Gators after being a student manager since 2019. She provided support for UF women's basketball squads that advanced to the postseason four times, including the 2022 NCAA tournament and WNIT in both 2023 and 2021.

Simmons holds a bachelor's in health science (2022) and master's in sport management (2024) from Florida.

HUDSON JOINS AS GA
Rounding out the Lancers' 2024-25 coaching staff is graduate assistant coach Kristian Hudson.

A native of Birmingham, Ala., Hudson appeared in 114 games over five seasons at FIU (2015-18) and Nebraska (2018-20), accumulating 1,109 points and 400 assists.

Hudson graduated FIU in three years with a degree in psychology before transferring to play for the Cornhuskers. She appeared in the first seven games of 2018-19 prior to sustaining a season-ending injury.

Hudson was part of the WBCA's "So You Want to be a Coach" class, an Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholar, a Big Ten Distinguished Scholar and an Academic All-Big Ten honoree, all in 2020.

She also was a four-time selection to the Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll and named to the Tom Osborne Citizenship Team in both 2019 and 2020.
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Players Mentioned

Stephanie Davis

#12 Stephanie Davis

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6' 0"
Senior
Janay Turner

#21 Janay Turner

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5' 8"
Senior
Bailey Williams

#2 Bailey Williams

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5' 7"
Senior
Malea Brown

#10 Malea Brown

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5' 5"
Senior
Otaifo Esenabhalu

#0 Otaifo Esenabhalu

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6' 2"
Sophomore
Amor Harris

#24 Amor Harris

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5' 9"
Sophomore
Kiki McIntyre

#1 Kiki McIntyre

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5' 6"
Graduate Student
Nalani Simmons

#20 Nalani Simmons

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5' 8"
Sophomore
Frances Ulysse

#13 Frances Ulysse

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6' 1"
Sophomore
JaMya Robinson

#21 JaMya Robinson

G/F
5' 11"
Junior

Players Mentioned

Stephanie Davis

#12 Stephanie Davis

6' 0"
Senior
G
Janay Turner

#21 Janay Turner

5' 8"
Senior
G
Bailey Williams

#2 Bailey Williams

5' 7"
Senior
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Malea Brown

#10 Malea Brown

5' 5"
Senior
G
Otaifo Esenabhalu

#0 Otaifo Esenabhalu

6' 2"
Sophomore
F
Amor Harris

#24 Amor Harris

5' 9"
Sophomore
G
Kiki McIntyre

#1 Kiki McIntyre

5' 6"
Graduate Student
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Nalani Simmons

#20 Nalani Simmons

5' 8"
Sophomore
G
Frances Ulysse

#13 Frances Ulysse

6' 1"
Sophomore
F
JaMya Robinson

#21 JaMya Robinson

5' 11"
Junior
G/F