By Cristhian Plasencia/Asst. Sports Director The Panthers’ women’s basketball team will say goodbye to their decorated senior forward Kiandre’a Pound, who will graduate with her master’s degree. Pound won Conference USA Freshman of the Year in the 2014-15 season with the Panthers and also made the Conference USA All-Freshman Team. Pound led the team […]
By Cristhian Plasencia/Asst. Sports Director With the offseason underway for the Panthers, the coaching staff is looking to improve upon their last year’s weakness by adding the incoming freshmen class. “We need more of an inside presence, which we are going to get right away with Chelsea Guimaraes. We have expanded her game a […]
By Cristhian Plasencia/Asst. Sports Director With her collegiate basketball career officially over, former Panthers’ forward Kiandre’a Pound will now adjust to her new phase in life, becoming a full-time mother. Pound redshirted the 2014-15 season with a medical hardship waiver due to her pregnancy. In March 2016, the former Panther welcomed her daughter Kynsley. “It […]
By: Cristhian Plasencia/Asst. Sports Director Women’s basketball senior Kiandre’a Pound led FIU to a dominant 86-65 win over the Florida Atlantic Owls on Senior Day at the Ocean Bank Convocation Center, as she posted yet another double-double. Playing her last home game in FIU, Pound made the most of her final performance “It meant […]
By Cristhian Plasencia/Asst. Sports Director The women’s basketball team finds themselves battling it out with the bottom three teams of the conference, trying to punch their ticket into the 2018 Conference USA Basketball Championship. FIU missed the tournament last season, as they finished 13th in the 2016-17 season with a 5-24 overall record and […]
By Cristhian Plasencia/Asst. Sports Director The women’s basketball team (6-16) lost on the road to Charlotte 49ers, 80-57, on Sunday at the Dale F. Halton Arena. Alexis Gordon kept the Panthers in the game with her eight points in the second quarter, as she scored a game-high 24 points. It wasn’t enough however, to level […]
By Cristhian Plasencia/Asst. Sports Director As a prominent forward, an earnest graduate student and an independent mother, Kiandre’a Pound epitomizes the characteristics of work ethic. It all started in her hometown Gifford, Florida. “I was about six years old sitting around the house, and I told my dad I was bored,” Pound said. Andre Pound, […]
By Dalton Tevlin/Contributing Writer In one of the more thrilling contests of the season, the FIU Women’s Panthers came out victorious over C-USA leaders Rice, 68-58, snapping their 8 game win streak. The Panthers were led by an offensive triple threat of junior guard Kristian Hudson, red-shirt junior forward Kiandre’a Pound, and the hot […]
By Cristhian Plasencia/Asst. Sports Director Following a suspenseful finish, the (3-11) FIU women’s basketball team failed to secure a victory against (10-4) UTEP losing 77-76 on Friday night at the Ocean Bank Convocation Center. With three seconds left in the fourth quarter, junior guard Kristen Hudson carried the game on her shoulder, as she released […]
By Cristhian Plasencia/Contributing Writer The FIU women’s basketball team fell to the No. 24-ranked University of Miami, 77-69, in the team’s season opener on Friday night at the Watsco center in Coral Gables. Throughout the third quarter, the Panthers were leading the Hurricanes. In the seventh minute, guard Kristian Hudson extended the Panther’s lead by […]
By Steven Melendez/Staff Writer Kristian Hudson was the best player for FIU women’s basketball team last year and she is now returning for what looks to be another big season for her. Aside from starting in all 29 games, Hudson led the team in multiple statistical categories including points (12.1), assists (4.3), steals (48), […]
