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Gophers Travel From a Foggy Performance to Foggy Bottom
The Gophers (7-1) extended DC visit ends with a match-up versus Hall of Famer Jennifer Rizzotti’s George Washington University (6-3) squad. Rizzotti is in her 4th season with the Colonials after leaving Hartford for GW when George Tsipis moved on to Wisconsin. In her first season, GW were conference co-champs and made the WNIT. In Rizzotti’s second season, GW finished fifth; but won the conference tournament and earned the NCAA bid. Last season, the Colonials slumped to 10-20 (7-9 in the A10). That placed them in an eighth place tie with St. Joseph in the 14 team A10. This season GW was projected 7th finishing behind VCU, Dayton, Fordham, St. Louis, Davidson and George Mason. However, the Colonials head into the Minnesota game on a winning note.
Injuries have impacted what should’ve been a veteran led lineup. The Colonial’s core was to be grad transfers, Alexandra Maund and Ariel Stephanson, red shirt junior and Louisville transfer Sydney Zambrotta and junior forward, defensive specialist Neila Lama. Maund spent some time off with an ankle sprain suffered in the seasons second game and Stephanson has just returned from an ankle injury. Zambrotta, who started the season as the offensive leader, has been benched by a stress fracture. Lama has been sidelined by a knee injury suffered in the Maryland loss. Rizzotti said she expects everyone to be back before the Colonials A10 opener. So the Gophers will likely see the freshman lineup.
With the injuries, Jennifer Rizzotti has gone younger. Red shirt freshman, Tori Hyduke, who sat out last season with an injury, and freshman Faith Blethen have stepped up. The season’s low point had to be the home opener (GW’s second game) against Princeton. The Tigers shut down the Colonial offense and emerged with a 75-50 win. Three games later GW dropped a 88-54 contest at Maryland. Then things turned around and George Washington has won four straight defeating Georgetown, Coppin State, Delaware and Quinnipiac.
In Saturday afternoon's 78-67 win versus Quinnipiac, GW placed five players in double figures and were led again by freshman Tori Hyduke with 22 points. Fellow freshmen Taiwo Mayowa (12 points and 11 rebounds) and Faith Blethen (12 points, 5 rebounds and 4 assists) played key roles. It helped that early in the second half GW held the Bobcats without a field goal for 9:27 minutes. George Washington enters their first game against the Gophers, young; but on a roll.
Note: Rizzotti was named an assistant coach on the US National team for the 2020 Olympics.
Note: Ariel Stephanson, the Wake Forest grad transfer, played against the Gophers in 2017 when Minnesota defeated Wake 93-81 in Las Vegas. Stephanson led the Demon Deacons with 20 points. Gadiva Hubbard, led all scorers with 25. Stephanson (Prince George) and Hubbard (Virginia Beach) are both from the Tidewater region.
Minnesota Connection: Maddie Loder played at Orono.
Wins: @Villanova 68-56, @ Memphis 64-63, Georgetown 52-49, Coppin Stater 54-34, @ Delaware 63-49 and Quin
Losses: Princeton 50-75, Lehigh 53-59, @ Maryland 54-88.
Probable Starters:
5’6” G Fr Tori Hyduke: 22 points versus Delaware
6’1” F Fr Faith Blethen: 10 points 3 rebounds and 3 assists versus Maryland
5’10” G Gr Ariel Stephanson: 13 points versus Maryland
6’4” C So Kayla Mokwuah: 10 points 8 rebounds and 2 assists versus Coppin State
6’0” F Fr Mayowa Taiwo: 9 points and 8 rebounds versus Georgetown
Others:
5’9” G Jr Sydney Zambrotta: 18 points, 3 rebounds and 3 assists versus Louisville
5’11” G So. Maddie Loder: 18 points versus Maryland
5’11” F Gr Alexandra Maund: 12 points and 6 rebounds versus Villanova
6’0” F Jr Neila Luma: 11 points and 8 rebounds versus Memphis
https://library.gwu.edu/scrc/university-archives/gw-history/a-brief-history-of-gw
History of The George Washington University:
In 1819, the Reverend Luther Rice, Obadiah B. Brown, Spencer H. Cone, and Enoch Reynolds (all Baptist ministers) set in motion the reality of a college in the District. These men raised the needed funds to purchase land in the nation's capital, petitioned the Congress for a charter, and began organizing a college. On February 9, 1821, President James Monroe signed the Act of Congress which created the College [Columbian College].
The Civil War split the College as it did the nation. When the conflict began, most of the students left their classrooms to join the Southern forces. The faculty as well was split by their opposing loyalties. Dr. A.Y.P. Garnett, Professor of Anatomy since 1854, departed for the South, where he served as physician to Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy. Dr. Robert King Stone remained to become the personal physician to Abraham Lincoln.
In 1904, Columbian University became The George Washington University by an Act of Congress. University President Charles H. Stockton provided guidance, reorganizing the University in 1911 to reduce expenditures and selling property to increase revenue.
The George Washington University the more complex history:
https://www.gwhatchet.com/2018/02/25/coming-to-terms-with-slavery-and-segregation-at-gw/
The Gophers (7-1) extended DC visit ends with a match-up versus Hall of Famer Jennifer Rizzotti’s George Washington University (6-3) squad. Rizzotti is in her 4th season with the Colonials after leaving Hartford for GW when George Tsipis moved on to Wisconsin. In her first season, GW were conference co-champs and made the WNIT. In Rizzotti’s second season, GW finished fifth; but won the conference tournament and earned the NCAA bid. Last season, the Colonials slumped to 10-20 (7-9 in the A10). That placed them in an eighth place tie with St. Joseph in the 14 team A10. This season GW was projected 7th finishing behind VCU, Dayton, Fordham, St. Louis, Davidson and George Mason. However, the Colonials head into the Minnesota game on a winning note.
Injuries have impacted what should’ve been a veteran led lineup. The Colonial’s core was to be grad transfers, Alexandra Maund and Ariel Stephanson, red shirt junior and Louisville transfer Sydney Zambrotta and junior forward, defensive specialist Neila Lama. Maund spent some time off with an ankle sprain suffered in the seasons second game and Stephanson has just returned from an ankle injury. Zambrotta, who started the season as the offensive leader, has been benched by a stress fracture. Lama has been sidelined by a knee injury suffered in the Maryland loss. Rizzotti said she expects everyone to be back before the Colonials A10 opener. So the Gophers will likely see the freshman lineup.
With the injuries, Jennifer Rizzotti has gone younger. Red shirt freshman, Tori Hyduke, who sat out last season with an injury, and freshman Faith Blethen have stepped up. The season’s low point had to be the home opener (GW’s second game) against Princeton. The Tigers shut down the Colonial offense and emerged with a 75-50 win. Three games later GW dropped a 88-54 contest at Maryland. Then things turned around and George Washington has won four straight defeating Georgetown, Coppin State, Delaware and Quinnipiac.
In Saturday afternoon's 78-67 win versus Quinnipiac, GW placed five players in double figures and were led again by freshman Tori Hyduke with 22 points. Fellow freshmen Taiwo Mayowa (12 points and 11 rebounds) and Faith Blethen (12 points, 5 rebounds and 4 assists) played key roles. It helped that early in the second half GW held the Bobcats without a field goal for 9:27 minutes. George Washington enters their first game against the Gophers, young; but on a roll.
Note: Rizzotti was named an assistant coach on the US National team for the 2020 Olympics.
Note: Ariel Stephanson, the Wake Forest grad transfer, played against the Gophers in 2017 when Minnesota defeated Wake 93-81 in Las Vegas. Stephanson led the Demon Deacons with 20 points. Gadiva Hubbard, led all scorers with 25. Stephanson (Prince George) and Hubbard (Virginia Beach) are both from the Tidewater region.
Minnesota Connection: Maddie Loder played at Orono.
Wins: @Villanova 68-56, @ Memphis 64-63, Georgetown 52-49, Coppin Stater 54-34, @ Delaware 63-49 and Quin
Losses: Princeton 50-75, Lehigh 53-59, @ Maryland 54-88.
Probable Starters:
5’6” G Fr Tori Hyduke: 22 points versus Delaware
6’1” F Fr Faith Blethen: 10 points 3 rebounds and 3 assists versus Maryland
5’10” G Gr Ariel Stephanson: 13 points versus Maryland
6’4” C So Kayla Mokwuah: 10 points 8 rebounds and 2 assists versus Coppin State
6’0” F Fr Mayowa Taiwo: 9 points and 8 rebounds versus Georgetown
Others:
5’9” G Jr Sydney Zambrotta: 18 points, 3 rebounds and 3 assists versus Louisville
5’11” G So. Maddie Loder: 18 points versus Maryland
5’11” F Gr Alexandra Maund: 12 points and 6 rebounds versus Villanova
6’0” F Jr Neila Luma: 11 points and 8 rebounds versus Memphis
https://library.gwu.edu/scrc/university-archives/gw-history/a-brief-history-of-gw
History of The George Washington University:
In 1819, the Reverend Luther Rice, Obadiah B. Brown, Spencer H. Cone, and Enoch Reynolds (all Baptist ministers) set in motion the reality of a college in the District. These men raised the needed funds to purchase land in the nation's capital, petitioned the Congress for a charter, and began organizing a college. On February 9, 1821, President James Monroe signed the Act of Congress which created the College [Columbian College].
The Civil War split the College as it did the nation. When the conflict began, most of the students left their classrooms to join the Southern forces. The faculty as well was split by their opposing loyalties. Dr. A.Y.P. Garnett, Professor of Anatomy since 1854, departed for the South, where he served as physician to Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy. Dr. Robert King Stone remained to become the personal physician to Abraham Lincoln.
In 1904, Columbian University became The George Washington University by an Act of Congress. University President Charles H. Stockton provided guidance, reorganizing the University in 1911 to reduce expenditures and selling property to increase revenue.
The George Washington University the more complex history:
https://www.gwhatchet.com/2018/02/25/coming-to-terms-with-slavery-and-segregation-at-gw/
