2021 Hercules Tires MAAC Basketball Championships Program

WOMEN’S ROSTER No. Name Cl.

Pos.

Ht.

Hometown

0 3 5

Lauren Saa

R-Fr.

G/F 5-11 Dudley, United Kingdom

PLAYER TO WATCH Preseason All-MAAC Second Teamselection Amanda Mobley is the Broncs’ floor general. She led the Broncs with 5.0 assists per game, good for second in the MAAC last season, while also pacing the Broncs at 34.4 percent from long range (12 th -MAAC). She added 1.7 steals per game, good for seventh in the league. Mobley scored in double figures 13 times and dished out double-digit assists for the first time in her career, an overtime victory at Marist on Jan. 16, when she posted a double-double of 11 points and 10 assists. She got out to a quick start in 2020–21with double-figures scoring in four of her first five games, before she got bit with the injury bug. But she’s begun to round back into form late in the season, as evidenced by an 18-point, nine-assist performance in an overtime victory against perennially- powerful Quinnipiac on Jan. 23. NOTABLE ALUMNI Stella Johnson rewrote the Rider record book in her four years at the school. She became Rider’s all-time leading scorer with 2,167 points and was the first-ever All-American in program history. Johnson also became Rider’s first-ever Metropolitan Basketball Writers Association Player of the Year in women’s basketball. Johnson was picked a Senior CLASS Award Second- Team All-American. She earned MAAC Player of the Year in 2019 and 2020, becoming the sixth player all-time to achieve the feat in back-to-back years. Johnson finished 2019–20 as the leading scorer in Division I at 24.8 points per game. She set a new MAAC Championship single-game record, scoring 37 points in the Broncs’ Quarterfinal win over Niagara. Following her prodigious Rider career, Johnson was drafted by the Phoenix Mercury, made her WNBA debut with the Chicago Sky and currently plays for the Washington Mystics.

Amanda Mobley Maya Hyacienth

Jr.

G 5-7 Coopersburg, PA

So.

G 5-10 Nottingham, United Kingdom

10 11 13 14 15 20 23 24 33 44

Molly Lynch

Fr.

G 5-9 Sea Girt, NJ

Daija Moses

Sr. Fr. Fr. So.

G/F 5-10 Toronto, Ontario

Raphaela Toussaint

F F F

6-0 Kingston, Ontario

Sofie Bruintjes Anna Ekerstedt Lenaejha Evans

6-4 Zwolle, The Netherlands

6-2 Varberg, Sweden

Jr. Jr. Fr.

G 5-8 Conway, SC

Teresa Wolak

F

5-11 Bridgewater, NJ

Makayla Firebaugh Sophia DeMauro Victoria Toomey

G 5-10 Winchester, VA

So. So.

G 5-9 Staten Island, NY

C 6-2 Dunmore, PA

Head Coach: Lynn Milligan (Rider ’92) – 14 th Season Associate Head Coach: Pam Durkin (Rider ’97) – 14 th Season Assistant Coaches: Marritta Gillcrease (Rider ’15) – 4 th Season, Steven Harney (Dickinson ’09) – 3 rd Season

HEAD COACH LYNN DONOVAN-MILLIGAN

Lynn Donovan-Milligan ’92, ’94 is in her 14 th season as the head women’s basketball coach at Rider University. The two-time MAAC Coach of the Year (2017, 2020) has guided one of her student-athletes to All-MAAC honors 18 times, including five First Team selections, eight Second Team honorees and five Third Team picks, along with seven All-Rookie Team selections. On three occasions, one of her players earned MAAC Player of the Year (Stella Johnson – 2019, 2020, Robin Perkins – 2017), while she’s also mentored student- athletes to Defensive Player of the Year (Amari Johnson – 2020) and Sixth Player of the Year (Ali Heller – 2011) recognition. 2019–20 was arguably the Broncs finest in program history. Milligan earned her second MAAC and Metropolitan Basketball Writers Association Coach of the Year in leading Rider to its first-ever MAAC Regular Season Championship. The top-seeded Broncs advanced past Niagara in the MAAC Quarterfinals before the remainder of the tournament was canceled due to COVID-19. Milligan led Rider to an 18-2 league mark, with 18 wins being the most for the team in league play in program history.

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