Friday, November 18
Dublin, Ireland
1:30 p.m.
University of North Florida
vs
Rider
From the Jump - Women's Basketball Plays Pair of Games In MAAC-ASUN Dublin Challenge
11/17/2022 2:00:00 PM | Women's Basketball
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - North Florida women's basketball has back-to-back games to be played as a part of the MAAC-ASUN Dublin Challenge against Rider and Marist from Nov. 18-19 at the National Basketball Arena in Ireland.
The Ospreys will face off against Rider on Friday, Nov. 18, at 1:30 p.m. EST, followed by a quick turnaround to play Marist on Saturday, Nov. 19, at 8:30 a.m. EST.
ORLANDO, Fla. - North Florida women's basketball (4-3) concluded its stay in Orlando with an 80-70 victory against Rider (3-2) thanks to career high point totals from Janesha Green and Tiffany Tolbert Saturday, Nov. 23.
LAST 5 vs. BRONCOS
Date    Result    Location
11/23/19Â Â Â Â W, 80-70Â Â Â Â Orlando, Fla.
ORLANDO, Fla. - North Florida women's basketball couldn't overcome a hot-shooting Marist team as it fell 69-54 Friday in the ASUN/MAAC Challenge at the HP Fieldhouse.
LAST 5 vs. RED FOXES
Date    Result    Location
11/22/19Â Â Â Â L, 54-69Â Â Â Â Orlando, Fla.
The Ospreys will sport an 11-player roster throughout the 2022-23 season, which is the lowest it has been since the 2017-18 season.
The Ospreys have plenty of new faces to go around with six transfers and three freshmen bringing their talents to Jacksonville, Fla.
Elysa Wesolek (South Carolina), Brianna Livingston (Monmouth), Selma Eklund (UNC-Wilmington) come directly from D-I programs, while Kristy Hamze (Queens), Lyric Swann (CCBC Essex) and Jaelyn Swann (CCBC Essex) are additions from D-II/NJCCA institutions. Lyric and Jaelyn Swann do have experience playing at the D-I level, as they previously played for UMBC before transferring to CCBC Essex.
UNF brings in three freshmen after only have one on the roster this past season (Kaila Rougier). Maddie Millar, the only in-state product on the team, and Sarah Taub are guards with stellar shooting abilities. Helena Rafnsdottir also joins as a freshman after playing for her club team in Iceland since she was five years old, as well as the Icelandic Women's National Team.
Assistant coach Myron Brown is also welcomed as a newcomer to the squad, as he joins the Ospreys' coaching staff after being the head women's basketball coach for Thomas University since 2017.
Lyric and Jaelyn Swann both transfer in from CCBC Essex in Maryland to join the Osprey roster. They are one of 15 sets of twins playing for the same Division I women's basketball team this season.
This is also the second consecutive year that UNF will sport a set of sisters on the squad, as Jazz and Jaida Bond both played for the Ospreys this past year.
North Florida makes it two years in a row that they have a player transfer in from another current ASUN squad. Kristy Hamze played for Queens (N.C.) the past two seasons, who will now join the conference in their first year as a Division I team.
Last season, Jaida Bond transferred into UNF to join forces with sister, Jazz, where she came in from North Alabama as a previous all-conference selection.
Helena Rafnsdottir (Iceland), Selma Eklund (Sweden) and Brianna Livingston (Canada) all join the Ospreys this season representing three different countries. Rafnsdottir and Eklund both have experience playing for the national teams of their respective countries.
It's the third straight season rostering three or more international players, while it also being the first time since 2014-15 that three or more players come from unique countries outside the United States.
UNF will make the trip out the Dublin, Ireland, to compete in the MAAC-ASUN Dublin Challenge, joining Eastern Kentucky as the fellow ASUN member playing against MAAC foes.
They are scheduled to compete against Rider on Friday, Nov. 18, at 2:30 p.m. EST, followed by a matchup against Marist the next day on Saturday, Nov. 19, at 9:30 a.m. EST.
UNF plays 17 of their 29 games this season inside the state of Florida, including 13 of the 17 matchups played at UNF Arena.
The Ospreys will visit six different states in their travel schedule on the year, along with their pair of games overseas in Dublin, Ireland.
UNF will visit Wisconsin, Ireland and Alabama before Christmas break, and will return with trips to North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee and Arkansas.
Out of this year's road slate, the Ospreys will play against four Power Five opponents in Wisconsin, Miami (FL), Auburn and Alabama.
Emma Broermann leads this team as the unquestioned leader heading into the 2021-22 season. She enters he senior season as the only player on the team with more than one year of experience playing for UNF.
Last season, she was the only player on the team to start all 30 games played. The Okeana, Ohio, native also had the second-best field goal percentage (.602) and the ninth-most blocks (25) in the conference.
Broermann enters her senior season with the Ospreys sitting in the top spot for field goal percentage (.550), as well as the 10th-most blocks (37), in D-I program history.
UNF will have the week off after flying back into the states to prepare for a home matchup against Saint Joseph's on Sunday, Nov. 27, at 12:30 p.m.
The Ospreys will face off against Rider on Friday, Nov. 18, at 1:30 p.m. EST, followed by a quick turnaround to play Marist on Saturday, Nov. 19, at 8:30 a.m. EST.
FROM THE JUMP
- First time playing outside of the United States since the Junkanoo Jam at Grand Bahama Island in 2005.
- UNF played Rider and Marist in the ASUN-MAAC Challenge in 2019 hosted in Orlando, Fla., going 1-1 in those games.
- Will be the third time in four seasons that UNF has opened three of their first four games on the road.
- Lyric Swann is the first Osprey to score 16 or more points in the first two games of a season since Tesh Hanson in 2016.
- Through two games, UNF ranks among the top 25 teams in the nation for three-point percentage at 42%.
- The Swann sisters, Lyric and Jaelyn, have combined for 53 field goal attempts out of the team's 131 total shots taken.
- They are also the top two players on the team in playing time, as they both average over 27 minutes played.
- Lyric and Jaelyn Swann's mom, Karyn, also played on the same court in 1993 on the same day the sisters will be playing in Ireland.
- Kristy Hamze joins Lyric and Jaelyn as the three Ospreys to be averaging double-digit point totals.
- Emma Broermann has been dominate on the boards averaging seven rebounds a game, as it is split up evenly between offensive and defensive rebounds with a 3.5 average on each side.
SCOUTING REPORTS
- Rider: The Broncos are 1-2 coming off an overtime win at St. Francis Brooklyn...suffered pair of losses to NJIT and Drexel to open the season...will also play Eastern Kentucky after UNF in MAAC-ASUN Dublin Challenge...Makayla Firebaugh, a Third Team Preseason All-MAAC selection, leads the team in scoring with 13.7 points per game...four players have double-digit rebounds...Amanda Mobley has 19 total assists through three games.
- Marist: The Red Foxes are 0-3 to start the 2022 season with those losses coming to Villanova, Penn and Green Bay...will play EKU the day before playing UNF in Ireland...Zaria Shazer and Kiara Fisher only two players with double-digit scoring averages...both Shazer and Fisher were selected to the Third Team Preseason All-MAAC team last month...Kendall Krick, as well as Shazer, share the most points in a game so far this season with 18 points.
AN OSPREY WIN WOULD...
- Be the first victory in D-I program history on international grounds.
- Make UNF 2-0 all-time against Rider.
- Also give the Ospreys their first win over Marist in program history.
- Be back-to-back seasons for UNF with a 3-1 start.
LAST TIME VS. RIDER & MARIST
ORLANDO, Fla. - North Florida women's basketball (4-3) concluded its stay in Orlando with an 80-70 victory against Rider (3-2) thanks to career high point totals from Janesha Green and Tiffany Tolbert Saturday, Nov. 23.LAST 5 vs. BRONCOS
Date    Result    Location
11/23/19Â Â Â Â W, 80-70Â Â Â Â Orlando, Fla.
ORLANDO, Fla. - North Florida women's basketball couldn't overcome a hot-shooting Marist team as it fell 69-54 Friday in the ASUN/MAAC Challenge at the HP Fieldhouse.
LAST 5 vs. RED FOXES
Date    Result    Location
11/22/19Â Â Â Â L, 54-69Â Â Â Â Orlando, Fla.
ELEVEN
The Ospreys will sport an 11-player roster throughout the 2022-23 season, which is the lowest it has been since the 2017-18 season.
NEWBIES
The Ospreys have plenty of new faces to go around with six transfers and three freshmen bringing their talents to Jacksonville, Fla.Elysa Wesolek (South Carolina), Brianna Livingston (Monmouth), Selma Eklund (UNC-Wilmington) come directly from D-I programs, while Kristy Hamze (Queens), Lyric Swann (CCBC Essex) and Jaelyn Swann (CCBC Essex) are additions from D-II/NJCCA institutions. Lyric and Jaelyn Swann do have experience playing at the D-I level, as they previously played for UMBC before transferring to CCBC Essex.
UNF brings in three freshmen after only have one on the roster this past season (Kaila Rougier). Maddie Millar, the only in-state product on the team, and Sarah Taub are guards with stellar shooting abilities. Helena Rafnsdottir also joins as a freshman after playing for her club team in Iceland since she was five years old, as well as the Icelandic Women's National Team.
Assistant coach Myron Brown is also welcomed as a newcomer to the squad, as he joins the Ospreys' coaching staff after being the head women's basketball coach for Thomas University since 2017.
TWIN TIES
Lyric and Jaelyn Swann both transfer in from CCBC Essex in Maryland to join the Osprey roster. They are one of 15 sets of twins playing for the same Division I women's basketball team this season.This is also the second consecutive year that UNF will sport a set of sisters on the squad, as Jazz and Jaida Bond both played for the Ospreys this past year.
CONFERENCE CONNECTIONS
North Florida makes it two years in a row that they have a player transfer in from another current ASUN squad. Kristy Hamze played for Queens (N.C.) the past two seasons, who will now join the conference in their first year as a Division I team.Last season, Jaida Bond transferred into UNF to join forces with sister, Jazz, where she came in from North Alabama as a previous all-conference selection.
INTERNATIONAL FACES
Helena Rafnsdottir (Iceland), Selma Eklund (Sweden) and Brianna Livingston (Canada) all join the Ospreys this season representing three different countries. Rafnsdottir and Eklund both have experience playing for the national teams of their respective countries.It's the third straight season rostering three or more international players, while it also being the first time since 2014-15 that three or more players come from unique countries outside the United States.
INTERNATIONAL PLACES
UNF will make the trip out the Dublin, Ireland, to compete in the MAAC-ASUN Dublin Challenge, joining Eastern Kentucky as the fellow ASUN member playing against MAAC foes.They are scheduled to compete against Rider on Friday, Nov. 18, at 2:30 p.m. EST, followed by a matchup against Marist the next day on Saturday, Nov. 19, at 9:30 a.m. EST.
SUNSHINE STATE
UNF plays 17 of their 29 games this season inside the state of Florida, including 13 of the 17 matchups played at UNF Arena.
ROAD RUNNERS
The Ospreys will visit six different states in their travel schedule on the year, along with their pair of games overseas in Dublin, Ireland.UNF will visit Wisconsin, Ireland and Alabama before Christmas break, and will return with trips to North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee and Arkansas.
Out of this year's road slate, the Ospreys will play against four Power Five opponents in Wisconsin, Miami (FL), Auburn and Alabama.
BROERMANN TIME
Emma Broermann leads this team as the unquestioned leader heading into the 2021-22 season. She enters he senior season as the only player on the team with more than one year of experience playing for UNF.Last season, she was the only player on the team to start all 30 games played. The Okeana, Ohio, native also had the second-best field goal percentage (.602) and the ninth-most blocks (25) in the conference.
Broermann enters her senior season with the Ospreys sitting in the top spot for field goal percentage (.550), as well as the 10th-most blocks (37), in D-I program history.
LOOKING AHEAD
UNF will have the week off after flying back into the states to prepare for a home matchup against Saint Joseph's on Sunday, Nov. 27, at 12:30 p.m.
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