The Lafayette women’s basketball team ended their season on Monday with a 52-33 loss to Holy Cross in the first round of the Patriot League tournament. The Leopards finish their season with 15-14 record, including 11-7 in conference play, after winning just eight games a year ago with a 2-16 conference record. The 11-7 Patriot […]
The women’s basketball team wrapped up their regular season with an overtime win over Navy last Saturday and a loss to league-leading Bucknell on Wednesday. The Leopards finish with an 11-7 record in the conference, good for fifth place in the upcoming playoffs. The 11 Patriot League wins are the most the program has had […]
The Lafayette women’s basketball team defeated Loyola (Maryland), 76-65 and American, 55-48 last week, earning their ninth and 10th conference wins, the most since the ’92-’93 season. With the victory, the Leopards sweep the season series from the Greyhounds and the Eagles, and improve their Patriot League record to 10-6, good for fourth place in […]
Women’s basketball rolled into Bender Arena last Saturday on a four-game winning streak with a purpose: defeat conference rival American for the first time since 2016. The team rose to the challenge in a resounding 67-52 win. The Leopards stormed out of the gate, nearly doubling American’s offensive output in each of the first three […]
The crowd at Allen P. Kirby Sports Center erupted as senior guard Sarah Agnello calmly sunk a pair of free throws. They were just a formality. The game was over and for the first time since February 21, 2015, the Lafayette women’s basketball team defeated rival Lehigh. Players celebrated on the court, and continued in […]
The Lafayette women’s basketball team opened their season with a lopsided 61-29 home win against Fairleigh Dickinson University (FDU) on Tuesday. Sophomore forward Naomi Ganpo paced the Leopards’ offense, recording a career-high 12 points on 6-9 shooting from the field to go with two rebounds, a steal and a block. Junior forward and reigning Patriot […]
In the women’s basketball team’s first game of the Patriot League Tournament in early March, senior guard Nia Holland drove to the basket to net the game-winning layup with three seconds remaining, giving the Leopards a hard-fought road win. Months before, during the preseason, she was told she would need to retire from the sport […]
Sophomore forward Natalie Kucowski made waves in the Patriot League and in Lafayette history this season during her second year with the women’s basketball program. She has been named the conference’s Defensive Player of the Year, making her the first player in Lafayette basketball history to achieve the honor. Kucowski also made All-Patriot League Second […]
The Lafayette women’s basketball team’s losing streak continued on Wednesday with a 64-40 defeat against visiting Army. Last weekend, the Leopards dropped a road contest against Patriot League leading Bucknell with a 75-43 defeat, the most lopsided loss of the season. The Leopards have dropped to 2-10 in Patriot League play and hold a 7-16 record on […]
The women’s basketball team went into overtime against Holy Cross, eventually losing in a tight 56-53 decision last Saturday. The game began with a strong performance from sophomore forward Natalie Kucowski, who scored 16 of Lafayette’s 27 points in the first half. In the last five minutes of the first quarter, the Leopards defense held […]
The Lafayette women’s basketball team has lost two straight after dropping consecutive contests to American University and Boston University. In the Boston University game the Leopards got out to a hot start, opening a 15-12 lead after the first quarter and a 33-22 lead at the half before the offense went cold in the final […]
Last Saturday, the Lafayette women’s basketball team overcame a 13-point, fourth quarter deficit to defeat the University of Albany in double overtime by a score of 67-66. Then, on Tuesday, the Leopards traveled to Manhattan College where they fell to the Jaspers by a score of 60-49. The victory over Albany brought Lafayette to a record […]
Over Thanksgiving break, the women’s basketball team competed in the Florida Atlantic University (FAU) tournament in Boca Raton, Fl., and lost twice in a weekend sweep on Nov. 23-24. FAU hosted Lafayette, the University of Delaware, and Bradley in the tournament. The Leopards fell to FAU 53-49 on Friday, and then lost to the University […]
The women’s basketball team is off to a hot start after wins over Binghamton and Fairleigh Dickinson this past weekend. Led by second-year head coach Kia Damon-Olson, the team has found their groove early in the season. The Leopards don’t start Patriot League play until early January, but the team is capitalizing on their non-conference schedule […]
