Falcons to Host Wooster in Friday Exhibition

Friday, October 24

Bowling Green, Ohio

7 p.m.

Bowling Green State University

Wooster (Exhibition)

Johnea Donahue v Toledo | 2024-25 season

Photo by: Drake Harlett, BGSU Athletics

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By: by Mike Cihon, BGSU Strategic Communications

Bowling Green State University women's basketball fans can get their first look at the 2025-26 Falcons on Friday evening (Oct.24), when BG faces the College of Wooster in an exhibition. Tipoff is set for 7:00 p.m. at the Stroh Center.

Tickets for the game are available at the following link: BGSU-WOOSTER TICKETS.

Head coach Fred Chmiel and his staff return a total of nine players, including eight letterwinners, from last season's roster. The returnees include junior Paige Kohler, who was named to the Preseason All-MAC First Team on Tuesday. Kohler finished second on the Falcons in both scoring and rebounding, with 13.6 points and 4.6 boards per game a year ago.

Sophomore Johnea Donahue also returns after starting 17 contests last season. Donahue was named to the MAC's All-Freshman Team last season, and also was chosen to the MAC All-Defensive Team in her first year in the Orange and Brown. She led the entire conference in steals per game (2.46 spg).

Other returnees include a pair of fourth-year Falcons in senior Emily Siesel and redshirt junior Jasmine Fearne. Siesel and Fearne each played in 28 of BGSU's 31 games off the bench, and Fearne finished fourth on the team with 20 three-point field goals made. Another senior, Kendal Moxey, is back for her second season in the Orange and Brown. She shot an even 50 percent from the field last winter.

Junior Taya Ellis started five games last year, averaging nearly four points and leading the Falcons in blocked shots, while sophomore Laila Harrison was penciled into the starting lineup four times in her freshman campaign. Another sophomore, Lauren Gerken, returns after averaging 7.2 points and 4.6 rebounds per contest in 10 games last year. Gerken had a 20-point game in a win over Stetson,and started her final five games before suffering an injury in December and missing the remainder of the season.

Redshirt freshman Sofia Moschen is back after joining the team for the Spring 2025 semester. She did not see game action in '24-25.

BGSU's four newcomers include three transfers and a freshman. Senior Kaia Woods began her career at Washington State, and played for fellow MAC member Akron two years ago. Junior Joniyah Bland-Fitzpatrick spent the last two seasons at Seton Hall, playing in a total of 37 games for the Pirates, while fellow junior Jaedyn Cook spent the 2024-25 season at Odessa (Texas) College after beginning her career at East Carolina. Freshman Ky'Aira Miller, a Cincinnati native, joins the Falcons after helping Purcell Marian H.S. to four state championships and graduating as the program's assists leader.

Following the Wooster game, the Falcons will prepare for the regular-season opener at Louisiana on Monday, Nov. 3. That game, part of the MAC-Sun Belt Challenge, is the first of six consecutive contests away from home. BGSU's regular-season home opener is set for Sunday afternoon, Nov. 30, vs. Purdue Fort Wayne.

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