SBC Announces Women’s Basketball Conference Schedule

Aug. 8, 2024

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NEW ORLEANS – The Sun Belt Conference announced the women’s basketball conference schedule on Thursday, which features nine home matchups for the Mountaineers as well as the return of the MAC-SBC Challenge. App State’s non-conference schedule will be announced at a later date. Fans can support the program by putting down a deposit on 2024-25 season tickets today. Season ticket information will be released later in August. 
 
The Black and Gold will open the season with the first installment of the 2024-25 MAC-SBC Challenge on Nov. 4 against Miami (OH) in Oxford, Ohio. The Mountaineers will open Sun Belt play on Dec. 29 with a home clash with Arkansas State. The Sun Belt Tournament is slated for March 4-10 at the Pensacola Bay Center in Pensacola, Fla. All 14 teams will qualify for the tournament with the champions punching their tickets to the NCAA Tournament. 
 
The 2024-25 season will mark the first season in Boone for head coach Alaura Sharp. Sharp was hired on April 5, 2024 as the ninth coach of the App State program after serving as the Presbyterian head coach for six seasons. She led the Blue Hose to the program’s first NCAA Tournament berth and first NCAA Tournament victory over Sacred Heart in the First Four. She also helped Presbyterian to its first Big South Tournament Title, the first No. 5 seed to ever win the Big South women’s basketball tournament, and set the program’s wins record. Prior to her time at Presbyterian, Sharp spent two seasons apiece at Louisiana Tech and Southern Miss as an assistant, helping both teams earn postseason bids. She also made stops at Garden City CC (Kan.) and Lamar CC (Colo.)
 
Returning for the Mountaineers are seniors Emily Carver, J’Mani Ingram, Zada Porter, and Samantha LaFon as well as junior Rylan Moffitt. The 2024-25 roster features four new international additions as freshman Hekla Nökkvadóttir will represent Iceland, junior Elena Pericic will represent Croatia, senior Mara Neira will represent Spain, and senior Georgia Gray will represent Australia. Also joining the Mountaineers this year is freshman Jazlyn Harris, juniors Seneya Martinez and Emily Hege, seniors Eleyana Tafisi and Asjah Inniss, and graduate student Zoë McCrary.
 
App State Women’s Basketball 2024-25 Conference Schedule
Home Games in bold
* denotes SBC opponent
 
Nov. 4 at Miami (OH) (MAC-SBC Challenge Game 1)
Dec. 29 vs. Arkansas State*
Jan. 2  at South Alabama*
Jan. 4 at Southern Miss*
Jan. 9 vs. Troy*
Jan. 11 vs. Coastal Carolina*
Jan. 15 at Old Dominion*
Jan. 18 at Marshall*
Jan. 23 vs. Old Dominion*
Jan. 25 vs. Georgia Southern*
Jan. 30 vs. Louisiana*
Feb. 1 vs. Georgia State*
Feb. 5 at ULM*
Feb. 8 vs. MAC-SBC Challenge Game 2 (Opponent to be announced in January)
Feb. 12 at James Madison*
Feb. 15 at Georgia State*
Feb. 19 vs. Marshall*
Feb. 22 vs. James Madison*
Feb. 26 at Georgia Southern*
Feb. 28 at Coastal Carolina*
Mar. 4-10 at Sun Belt Tournament

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