By Cristhian Plasencia/ Asst. Sports Director The FIU women’s basketball team will have a new identity going into the upcoming season with only four players returning from the 2017-18 season. “The first step is to get the young ladies to gel. Of course, you want it to be natural. That’s the toughest thing as […]
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 Plasenica/Asst. Sports Director The FIU women’s basketball team are looking to fill their starting lineup vacant spots, as seniors depart due to graduation this spring. Senior Kiandre’a Pound started at the power forward position. She averaged 12.9 points per game and averaged 8.9 rebounds per game. When Pound missed a couple of […]
By Cristhian Plasencia Women’s basketball freshman guard broke into the starting lineup after head coach Tiara Malcom was forced to shift personnel. Freshman TaMiracle Taylor, out of Fort Lauderdale High School, started at the shooting guard position in the last three games, due to Alexis Gordon’s absence. “We had some things going on internally within […]
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 Female basketball players stand a much higher chance of knee ligament injuries compared to their male counterparts, according to a study by the American Journal of Sports Medicine. “ACL injuries are one of the common injuries in women’s basketball, besides the usual ankle sprains,” said Coach Tiara Malcom, FIU […]
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 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 In the 1980s, Shelley Patterson, used her own money to purchase her shoes and warm-up gear during her stint at Washington State. Meanwhile, men’s basketball players had their gear fully paid for, and flew to their opponents’ city. The women’s team would travel on a bus for away games. “When […]
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 […]
