GREEN BAY, Wis. - The Green Bay women's basketball team is set to welcome Illinois State for the home opener tomorrow, presented by Jill & Company at Coldwell Banker Real Estate Group. Green Bay is seeking their first win of the 2023-24 campaign after falling to Northern Iowa in the regular season opener.
GAMEDAY INFORMATION
Saturday, November 11 – Green Bay, Wis. – Kress Center
Green Bay (0-1, 0-0 HL) vs. Illinois State (1-0, 0-0 MVC)
12:00 PM CST
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History
ABOUT THE REDBIRDS
Head Coach Kristen Gillespie leads the Redbirds with a 111-70 overall record at ISU. Gillespie is in her 14th season overall of coaching, making stops at Benedictine (Illinois, four seasons) and Lewis (two seasons) before becoming ISU's eighth head coach in 2017. DeAnna Wilson is the returning leading scorer for the Redbirds, averaging 13 points and 7.2 rebounds per game. Caroline Waite, a Bradley transfer, averaged 12.9 points per game a season for the Braves. Maya Wong is another name to watch after shooting a blistering 85.7 percent in the season opener at Omaha. She went six-for-seven and tied Waite with 17 points, second-best on the team.
OFFSEASON TRANSACTIONS
April 11: Green Bay adds
Natalie Andersen from the transfer portal.
July 5: 11 players are tabbed to the Horizon League 2023 spring academic honor roll.
July 5: Jada Patterson is named director of operations & content creator.
July 20: Patrick Bowlin is promoted to Assistant Coach.
August 1: The WBCA ranks GB sixth in the nation in GPA for the 2022-23 season.
August 9: The 2023-24 non-conference schedule is released.
August 22: Horizon League unveils conference schedule.
August 29: Megan Vogel is promoted to Associate Head Coach and
Sarah Bronk is promoted to Assistant Head Coach.
September 27: Megan Pingel is named Assistant Coach.
October 18: Horizon League selects Green Bay to finish first in the Under Armour Preseason Poll.
WELCOME TO TITLETOWN
Green Bay welcomes four newcomers to the 2023-24 squad. The Phoenix bring a trio of true freshmen (
Maren Westin,
Sophie Lahti, and
Meghan Schultz) and one transfer (
Natalie Andersen, IUPUI). Westin and Andersen are guards, while Lahti and Schultz bring height to the forward position. Schultz stands at six feet, four inches, surpassing
Kendall Renard as the tallest player on the team.
HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS
The Phoenix once again boast a roster of mostly homegrown talent. Of the 13 players on the roster, 10 are from the dairyland. Only
Maren Westin (Becker, Minn.),
Sophie Lahti (Pine City, Minn.), and
Jenna Guyer (Circle Pines, Minn.) are not from Wisconsin.
RACE TO 800
Head Coach
Kevin Borseth is quickly closing in on 800 career wins. Borseth began his career in 1987 with Division II institution Michigan Tech, winning a whopping 225 contests in 11 seasons. The 2023 Horizon League Coach of the Year has racked up 482 wins in his time in Green Bay, recording a win percentage of 77.6 in two decades with the Phoenix. In between his stints in Titletown, Borseth went 87-73 at Big Ten foe Michigan.
MEGHAN'S BACK, TELL A FRIEND
Assistant Coach Meghan Pingel returns to Green Bay's bench in the coaching ranks after graduating in the spring of 2022, completing a six-year collegiate career as a guard. Pingel provided consistency all over the hardwood, shooting 35.7 percent while racking up 340 assists and 277 rebounds. During her final season in Titletown as a student-athlete, Pingel recorded a career-high 22 points versus North Dakota State. Pingel was on the 2017-18 team that won the Horizon League regular season and Tournament Championship, making it to the First Round of the NCAA Tournament. Green Bay currently has eight players who were teammates with Pingel during the 2021-22 season, which was her final season as a player.
NAT ATTACK
The Phoenix added
Natalie Andersen from the transfer portal in early April. Andersen, a six-foot forward, brings length and size to the squad. In her four years with the IUPUI Jaguars, Andersen totaled 747 points and 388 rebounds. She was remarkably consistent from the floor, shooting 44.85-percent overall and 37.46-percent from beyond the arc. Andersen has proven to be stellar from the charity stripe, knocking down 83.84-percent of her free throws.
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