GREEN BAY, Wis. - The Green Bay women's basketball team is set to play its first road game of the 2025-26 season at Loyola Chicago on Thursday at 5 p.m. CST. The Phoenix is coming off a season-opening 85-37 victory over UW-Stevens Point on Monday.
 
GAMEDAY INFORMATION
Green Bay Phoenix (1-0, 0-0 HL) at Loyola Chicago (1-0, 0-0 A-10)
Thursday, November 6, 2025 | Gentile Arena
5:00 PM CST
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ABOUT THE RAMBLERS
The Ramblers are coming off a 59-55 win over Milwaukee in their season opener. Head Coach Allison Guth is in her fourth season at Loyola Chicago, posting an overall head coaching record of 35-57. Freshman Alex-Anne Bessette led the Ramblers with 12 points and three steals. Sophomore Alexa Kinas and junior Audrey Deptula added nine points apiece.
 
LAST TIME OUT
The Green Bay women's basketball team opened the 2025-26 season with a dominant 85-37 win over Division III UW-Stevens Point at the Kress Center Monday night. The Phoenix had four players score in double figures, led by Meghan Schultz, who had a career-high 20 points and nine rebounds in her first collegiate start. Carley Duffney added 12 points while Kristina Ouimette and Julianna Ouimette helped out with 10 points each off the bench. Green Bay did an excellent job taking care of the basketball, dishing out 27 assists while turning the ball over just 11 times. Maddy Skorupski and Kamy Peppler finished with seven assists each, leading GB.
 
KARIUS ERA
After winning the Horizon League and making the NCAA Tournament in her first season as the Phoenix, Head Coach Kayla Karius will look to do the same in year two with an overhauled roster. Green Bay graduated seven seniors and 85.2% of its scoring from 2024-25. The 2025-26 Phoenix features eight newcomers, consisting of six transfers and two true freshmen. After two seasons as the head coach at South Dakota and her season with the Phoenix, Karius holds an all-time coaching record of 66-35.
 
A NEW ROLE
Entering her final season with Green Bay as their longest-tenured player, Jenna Guyer is coming off her best career season with the Phoenix and looks for an even bigger year in 2025-26. Guyer played 35 games off the bench for GB last season, averaging 7.0 points, 3.1 rebounds, and 1.2 assists in just 15.5 minutes per game. Guyer's big breakout came in a Jan. 1 comeback win over Northern Kentucky, where she scored 22 points in 26 minutes on 8-of-10 shooting from the field, 2-of-2 on threes, and 4-of-4 on free throws, all career highs. Guyer helped lift the Phoenix over PFW with her stretch of eight points in five minutes to clinch GB's second straight Horizon League tournament championship.
 
A KEY ADDITION
Former Oakland standout and the lone Horizon League All-League player left in the league from a season ago, Maddy Skorupski, will wear the Green & White in her senior season. Skorupski was second in the Horizon League in scoring last season at 16.1 points per game, and led the conference with 2.8 steals per game, 0.7 more steals per game than any other player. Skorupski led the Grizzlies in scoring, assists (3.1 per game), steals per game, free throw percentage (75.9%), field goals made (180), and minutes per game (34.8). Skorupski had the single highest scoring performance of any Horizon League player last year with her 38-point explosion on Feb. 1, in a 77-63 win over Detroit Mercy, where the Clarkston, Michigan native shot 12-of-19 from the floor. Skorupski scored six points, had six rebounds, and seven assists in the Phoenix victory over Wisconsin-Stevens Point on Monday.
 
CARLEY'S COMEBACK
A disciple of Kayla Karius during their time together at South Dakota, the two-time CSC Academic All-District and former 1,000-point scorer of Green Bay Preble High School returns home to Green Bay as a senior. Carley Duffney was an efficient member of the Coyotes squad, her 10.9 points per game, 41.6 field goal percentage, 4.1 rebounds, 2.0 assists, and 0.6 steals per game a season ago, all ranked second on South Dakota, trailing only Grace Larkins, who ranked third in scoring nationally. Scoring double figures 17 separate times last season, Duffney ranked 68th in D1 for free-throw percentage, at 83.9%. The Green Bay native's best came in the form of a 24-point day on 9-of-16 shooting in a 62-88 losing effort to Summit League rival Oral Roberts, scoring 40% of the team's points. Duffney scored 12 points in GB's season opener against Wisconsin-Stevens Point.
 
POINT PEPPLER
Previously an All-Freshman Team selection for the Horizon League in 2022-23, and the 2022 Wisconsin Miss Basketball award winner, Kamy Peppler spent the last three seasons with Milwaukee in the Horizon League. Last season, the Hortonville, Wis. native, led the Panthers in assists with 4.7 per game, only trailing Green Bay's Bailey Butler for the most in the Horizon League (4.9). Peppler led the Panthers in steals with 1.4 per game while also averaging 9.3 points per game, 23rd in the conference. Peppler's standout showing in her 2024-25 campaign was a near triple-double on Feb. 19th, where she scored 26 points on 9-of-16 shooting, a season-high eight rebounds, and eight assists. Peppler scored eight points and dished out seven assists in GB's season opener against Wisconsin-Stevens Point.
 
WINNING WITH KARIUS
Head Coach Kayla Karius earned her 60th career win in her third season as an NCAA Division I head coach on February 15, 2025, with a 76-60 win against Detroit Mercy.
 
Fastest to 25 wins - Green Bay HC history *since becoming a Division I program
1. Matt Bollant - 29 games (2007-08)
2. Kayla Karius - 30 games (2024-25)
3. Carol Hammerle - 33 games (1987-88)
4. Kevin Borseth - 41 games (1998-99)
 
PHOENIX FAMILY
Two pairs of sisters will see their first action in Green Bay together this season. The duo of Kamy and Kallie Peppler each transferred from Milwaukee, and Julianna Ouimette, who spent last season as a redshirt, welcomes her younger sister Kristina to the Tundra. Green Bay is one of two teams in DI with a pair of sisters on the team (Montana State is the other).
 
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