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2025–26 QUINNIPIAC WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

QUICK FACTS LOCATION HAMDEN, CT NICKNAME BOBCATS COLORS NAVY AND GOLD YEAR FOUNDED 1929 PRESIDENT DR. JUDY OLIAN ATHLETIC DIRECTOR GREG AMODIO HOME ARENA M&T BANK ARENA (3,570)

WOMEN’S ROSTER

No.

Name

Cl. Fr. Fr.

Pos.

Ht.

Hometown/High School/Previous School

2 3 5

Ella Ryan

G G G G

5-8

Brentwood, TN/Brentwood

Aniyah Neal

5-11 Syracuse, NY/Loomis Chaffee

Paige Girardi

Jr. Jr.

5-9 5-9 6-3 6-3 5-7

Warwick, NY/Warwick Valley

10 12 14 15 20 21 22 23 24

Maria Kealy

Donegal, Ireland/Loreto Letterkenny

Ella O’Donnell Emma Lizotte Karson Martin

Sr.

F F

Shankill, Ireland/Rathdown

So.

Saco, ME/Thornton Academy

Jr.

G G G G

Woodstock, GA/Woodstock

Sydney Ryan

Sr.

5-10 Brentwood, TN/Brentwood/Furman

Jackie Grisdale

Gr.

5-9 6-1

Poland, OH/Poland

Reagan Sipla

So.

St. Charles, IL/St. Charles North

Anna Foley

Jr. Jr.

F/C 6-3

Andover, MA/Andover

Ava Sollenne

G

5-6

Greenwich, CT/St. Luke’s

Head Coach: Tricia Fabbri (Fairfield ’91) – Thirty-First Season Assistant Head Coach: Bill Sullivan (UConn ’95) – Fourth Season, Second as Associate HC Assistant Coach/Recruiting Coordinator: Carly Fabbri (Quinnipiac ’18) – First Season Assistant Coach: Cur’Tiera Haywood (Quinnipiac ’23) – Second Season Director of Basketball Operations: Ashley Hopper (La Salle ’23) – Second Season Strength & Conditioning Coach: Brijesh Patel (Connecticut ’02/’04) – Eighteenth Season Athletic Trainer: Becky Mella (Ithaca ’95) – Fifteenth Season SID/Athletic Communications: Patrick Kraemer (Quinnipiac ’22) – Third Season

PLAYER TO WATCH A graduate student from Poland, OH, and three-time team captain, Jackie Grisdale leads the Bobcats in scoring, averaging 13.8 points per game (as of Jan. 15 th ). Grisdale has started every game for the Bobcats this season and averages 34.2 minutes per game. Earlier this season, Grisdale became the 28 th member of Quinnipiac’s 1,000-Point Club as she drained a three-pointer to reach the feat in the win at Boston College. Grisdale followed up that performance with another game for the record books, tying QU’s single-game record, which was set by Grisdale last season, for made threes in a single game with seven in the win at Cornell. Grisdale is one of the league’s most efficient three point shooters, ranking in the top five in three-point percentage, three-pointers, and three-pointers per game. NOTABLE ALUMNI After graduating in May 2019 with 538 points, 231 assists, 130 steals and three MAAC Champi-onships and NCAA Tournament appearances with the Bobcats, Edel Thornton returned home to Ireland to play professionally. Since returning home, Thornton rejoined Team Ireland and is now currently serving as the Irish National Team’s senior captain. In three games at the 2022 European Championships, Thornton averaged 9.7 points, 3.3 assists and 3.0 steals per game for Team Ireland.

HEAD COACH TRICIA FABBRI The first full-time female coach in school history, Tricia Fabbri, entered her 31 st year as the coach at Quinnipiac University. Fabbri was hired in 1995 after a three-year stint as an assistant coach at her alma mater, Fairfield University. As a player under Coach Dianne Nolan, the former Tricia Sacca won two MAAC championships, scored 1,622 points, grabbed 1,037 rebounds, and earned three First-Team All-Conference selections and an All-Team selection. She was twice selected to All-Conference teams, a feat later matched by her daughter, Carly, in 2017 and 2018 at Quinnipiac. The all-time winningest coach in Quinnipiac women’s basketball history, Fabbri currently has 556 career wins (as of Jan. 15 th ), ranking 17 th among active Division I head coaches. During her twelve year tenure in the MAAC, Fabbri and Quinnipiac have won four MAAC championships, three NCAA Tournament games, and two WNIT games. Quinnipiac has had two Players of the Year, a Defensive Player of the Year, two Rookies of the Year, and three Sixth Players of the Year. Fabbri has been named conference Coach of the Year five times.

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