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2023–24 MOUNT ST. MARY'S MEN’S & WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

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QUICK FACTS LOCATION EMMITSBURG, MD. NICKNAME MOUNTAINEERS, THE MOUNT COLORS BLUE AND WHITE YEAR FOUNDED 1808 PRESIDENT DR. TIMOTHY TRAINOR ATHLETIC DIRECTOR BRAD DAVIS HOME COURT KNOTT ARENA (3,121)

No.

Name

Cl. Sr.

Pos.

Ht.

Wt.

Hometown/High School/Previous School

Pos.

Ht.

Hometown/High School/Previous School

1 2 3 4 5

Dakota Leffew

G G

6-5 185 6-4 190 6-7 190 6-8 190 6-4 210 6-4 190 6-6 210 6-9 210 6-1 160 6-7 220 6-8 210 6-4 205 6-7 210 6-1 185 6-2 195

Hampton, Ga./Jonesboro

00

Isabella Hunt

Sr.

F

5-11 Johnstown, Pa./Bishop McCort

De’Shayne Montgomery Fr.

Ft. Lauderdale, Fla./Hargrave Military Acad. (Va.)

1 2 3 4 5 6

KC Carter

Gr.

G 5-8 Brooklyn, N.Y./Holderness [N.H.] (Cornell)

Jonathan Ogunfuye

Fr.

F

Houston, Texas/Spire Academy Ocala, Fla./Canterbury School Detroit, Mich./Gonzaga (D.C.)

Tessa Engelman

Fr.

F

6-2 Calgary, Alb., Canada/DME Academy [Fla.]

PLAYER TO WATCH Junior Jo Raflo has further established her presence in Emmitsburg in her second year with the team. Through the month of January, she guided the program by leading the Mountaineers in scoring and consistently registering in the top 100 nationwide for three-pointers per contest. The Gainesville, Virginia native transferred to the team following her freshman year at Presbyterian. As of late January, the 5-11 guard is encroaching on 500 points scored and 50 games played and is on pace to reach the top 10 all-time for blocks in a career, after tallying the seventh most all-time for a Mount player in a single season. NOTABLE ALUMNI Susie Rowlyk, a 1995 Mount St. Mary’s graduate and 2006 Athletics Hall of Fame Inductee, is one of two players to have their jersey retired and raised in the rafters at Knott Arena. She is a two-time Northeast Conference Player of the Year (1993-94, 1994-95) and the NEC Tournament Most Valuable Player for 1993-94. A two-time NEC Scholar-Athlete of the Year, Rowlyk was named to the 20th and 25th Women’s Basketball Anniversary Teams. At the Mount, she piloted teams to three conference titles and the team’s first NCAA Tournament appearances. She stands 7th on the all-time list for scoring (1,502 points), and remains in the record books for several categories, including the all-time leader for free throws (425).

Dola Adebayo

So.-R F

Maddie Novak

Gr.

G 6-0 Oxford, Mich./Detroit Country Day (Stetson) G 5-11 Gainesville, Va./Osbourn Park/Presbyterian

Malcolm Dread

So.

G G

Jo Raflo

Jr.

10 11 12 13 15 21 23 24 25 45

Patrick Haigh

Fr.

Altoona, Pa./Bishop Guilfoyle

Gabrielle Kennerly

Fr.

G 5-9 Ellicott City, Md./Howard

George Tinsley

Gr.

F F

Clarks Summit, Pa./Abington Heights

Rosa Revueltas

Jr.

G 5-8 Almeria, Spain/Colegio Altaduna (Ariz. Western)

Jedy Cordilia Dallas Hobbs Terrell Ard, Jr. Ronald Jessamy

Jr.

Tilburg, Netherlands/West Nottingham Acad. (Md.)

11 12 13 15 20 22 33 50

Jada Lee

R-Jr.

G 5-5 Pittsburgh, Pa./Carlynton

Fr.

G

Dallas, Texas/Dynamic Prep

Giana Hoddinott

R-Fr.

G 5-9 Littlestown, Pa./Delone Catholic

Gr.

F F

Marietta, Ga./Putnam Science Academy Philadelphia, Pa./Palmetto Ridge (Fla.)

Aniya Walker

Gr.

F

6-2 Pittsburgh, Pa./Ambridge Area (Duquesne)

Fr.

Jasmine Lindsay-Huskey

Jr.

G 5-10 Middletown, Md./St. John’s Catholic Prep

Josh Reaves

Sr. Sr.

G

Hamden, Conn./South Kent School

Jaedyn Jamison

R-So. F

6-1 Rocky Mount, Va./Franklin County

František Barton

F

Brno, Czech Republic/Get Better Academy [Prague]

Jessica Tomasetti McKenzie Matheny

Sr.

G 5-5 North Potomac, Md./Our Lady of Good Counsel

Joshua Olaosebikan

Jr.

G G

Waldorf, Md./Northpoint

So.

F

5-11 Fairfax Station, Va./West Springfield

Xavier Lipscomb

Sr.

Washington, D.C./St. Stephen’s & St. Agnes School

Jackie Christ

Gr.

C 6-3 Sterling, Va./Dominion (Radford)

PLAYER TO WATCH Leffew, a senior, leads the Mount in scoring, assists and three-point field goals made this season. He became the 50th player in Mount history to reach 1,000 career points with a jumper in the first half of the Mount’s win at Siena. Leffew poured in a career-high 34 points in the Mount’s victory at Marist, and he is among the league leaders in games with 20 or more points this season. Leffew went 5-for-5 from three-point range in the Mount’s home win over Siena, tied for the second-best mark in a game in program history. NOTABLE ALUMNI Fred Carter, who went on to play eight years in the National Basketball Association (NBA), is fourth all-time on the Mount’s scoring list with 1,840 career points. The first African-American resident student at the Mount, Carter averaged 21.9 points and 11.0 rebounds in 84 career games at Mount St. Mary’s. Carter later coached the Mount’s women’s basketball team for three seasons. Nicknamed Mad Dog, Carter was selected in the third round ofthe 1969 NBA Draft by the Baltimore Bullets. He played eight seasons in the league, scoring 9,271 career points while playing for the Bullets, the Philadelphia 76ers, and the Milwaukee Bucks. Carter went on to coach the 76ers from 1992-94. Carter’s #33 is among five numbers retired by the Mount.

Head Coach: Antoine White (Southern Vermont ’16), 7 th Season (2nd as HC) Assistant Coaches: Kelsey Funderburgh (Walsh ’16), 6 th Season , Joe Haigh (Notre Dame ’95), 2 nd Season Assistant Coache/Recruiting Coordinator: Maggie Tien (Washington Adventist ’20), 3 rd Season Director of Operations: Tess Borgosz (Towson ’21), 1 st Season

Head Coach: Dan Engelstad (St. Mary’s ’07, 6 th Season at Mount, 11 th Season Overall) Associate Head Coach: Will Holland (8 th Season) Assistant Coaches: Justin Burrell (3 rd Season), Jeremy Freeman (4 th Season) Director of Basketball Operations: Evan Fisher (1 st Season) Graduate Assistant: Andrew Winton (1 st Season)

HEAD COACH DAN ENGELSTAD Dan Engelstad is in his sixth season guiding the Mount St. Mary’s men’s basketball program. Engelstad was named the 22nd coach in Mount St. Mary’s history in 2018, and it did not take long for him to make his mark on the program. Engelstad guided the Mountaineers to the Northeast Conference title and a spot in the NCAA Tournament in his third season at the helm of the program. Engelstad, a former assistant coach at Mount St. Mary’s under Milan Brown from 2007-10, arrived at the Mount from a successful five-year stint as the head coach at Southern Vermont College (SVC) in Bennington, Vermont. Engelstad led a remarkable turnaround at SVC, posting a 104-34 (.754) record where he was named the New England Collegiate Conference (NECC) Coach of the Year three times. He helped guide the program to a pair of NECC titles, including the program’s first-ever in 2016.

HEAD COACH ANTOINE WHITE Antoine White was named the seventh head coach of the Mount St. Mary's women's basketball program on March 30, 2021. In his first season, he guided an already accomplished team to another successful campaign. After securing a third-place finish in the regular season, the Mountaineers won three straight games in the Northeast Conference Tournament to advance to their second straight NCAA Tournament. White graduated in May of 2016 from Southern Vermont College in Bennington, Vt.. A three-year team captain at SVC, he helped guide his squad to an ECAC Championship in 2015 and NECC Championship in 2016. The Bethesda, Md. native also holds the record for most assists in a single season in program history, tallying 177 during the 2013-14 campaign as he earned Team Co-MVP honors. Prior to his time at Southern Vermont College, White worked as a coach with the KOA Sports travel team, and as the head JV coach and assistant varsity coach at his alma mater, Walt Whitman High School, in Bethesda.

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