BUIES CREEK, N.C. - Campbell opens the 2024-25 season on Monday in a 5:30 PM tip against Mount Olive at Gore Arena. The game will be broadcast on FloCollege. 

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Single game tickets for women's games are available at GoCamels.com/tickets for just $10. Kids 12 and under receive free admission with the purchase of at least one adult ticket. Courtside seating is also available starting at $20. TO PURCHASE YOUR SINGLE GAME TICKETS please click HERE or call the Athletics Ticket Office, at 1-877-GO-HUMPS.

NATIONALLY RANKED DEFENSE

• Campbell is the only program in the nation to be ranked in the top-25 in scoring defense in each of the past eight seasons
• In the Ronny Fisher era (since 2016-17) Campbell has held 41 opponents to 40 points or less and 103 opponents to 50 points or less
• Last season Campbell ranked:
  • 8th nationally and 1st in the CAA in scoring defense (55.1 points per game allowed)
  • 31st nationally in field goal percentage defense (37.1%)
  • 10th nationally in three-point percentage defense (26.5%)
• Additionally, Campbell ranked 23rd nationally giving up only 13.8 fouls per game

• Return eight players from last year's squad that finished 17-14 overall, 9-9 CAA and reached the CAA Quarterfinals
• Key returners include juniors Gemma Nunez and Gianni Boone along with senior Audrey Fuller
• Nunez led team in minutes (33.0), assists (3.4) and steals (1.3) last season while averaging 5.6 points and 4.6 rebounds
• Boone returns as the Camels leading returning scorer after averaging 6.5 points on 49.1% shooting from the field last season. She scored 10+ points seven times off the bench
• Fuller averaged 4.7 points, 2.8 rebounds and 1.0 assists, scoring 10+ points four times 
• Added five freshmen with guards Ciara Alexander (Atlanta, Ga.), Jasmine Felton (Elizabeth City, N.C.), Emerson Thompson (Butner, N.C.) and Olivia Tucker (Durham, N.C.) alongside forward Mikayla Taborn (Youngsville, N.C.)
• Voted to finish 8th in the CAA Women's Basketball Preseason Poll

SCOUTING THE OPPONENTS

• Mount Olive finished 8-19 last season, going 6-12 in the Conference Carolinas (NCAA D-II)
• The Trojans defeated UNCW, 51-47, in an exhibition to open last season
• Senior guard Alexis Durham (4.9 PPG) returns as the leading returning scorer
• Mount Olive is led by Wendy Lee in her 24th season at the helm. Lee has connections to Campbell, having served as a graduate assistant under Wanda Watkins for two seasons (1996-98). Lee is married to former Campbell men's basketball coach Billy Lee.

SERIES HISTORY

• Campbell meets Mount Olive for the 8th time and first since 2003
• The Camels are 7-0 in the series which dates back to 1985

A WIN WOULD...

• Be the 618th win in Division-I program history (617-486)
• Be head coach Ronny Fisher's 250th career victory (249-234)
• Be Coach Fisher's 153rd win at Campbell (152-90)

HOMEGROWN TALENT

• Campbell enters the 2024-25 season as one of six D-I programs without a transfer on its roster for a second-straight season (Air Force, Brown, Cornell, Princeton, South Dakota St.)

ON THE COURT TO ON THE STAFF

• Campbell added former standout Shy Tuelle (2018-24) as an assistant coach this offseason
• Tuelle, who holds the program records for three pointers made in a career (301) and in a single-season (80) completed her sixth season as Camel last season
• Taylor Cotter (2023-24) also joined the Campbell staff as director of operations and player development. Cotter joined the program as a walk-on last season

HEAD COACH RONNY FISHER

• A three-time Big South Coach of the Year, Ronny Fisher enters his ninth season at the helm of Campbell women's basketball and 17th as a head coach overall
• Over the previous eight seasons, Campbell has won 152 games for an average of 19 wins per season (152-90)
• Fisher enters the 2024-25 season with 249 career wins (249-234), which ranks 2nd most amongst active CAA coaches trailing only Charleston's Robin Harmony with 317 wins (317-183)
• Under Fisher, the Camels claimed the 2019-20 and 2021-22 Big South regular season titles and finished as Big South tournament runners-up in 2019, 2021 and 2022
• Fisher has also led Campbell to its first-ever WNIT berth in 2021-22 along with two other postseason appearances in the WBI. He helped the Camels claim their first ever postseason win in the 2019 WBI
• Previously served as head coach at Presbyterian (2008-16)

LAST SEASON RECAP

• Campbell finished 17-14 overall and 9-9 in its first CAA campaign in 2023-24
• Senior forward Christabel Ezumah received All-CAA Third Team and All-Defensive team honors
• Sixth-year guard Shy Tuelle was named the CAA Scholar-Athlete of the Year while fifth-year forward Brittany Staves received the CAA's Dean Ehlers Leadership Award
• Ezumah, Tuelle, Staves along with Svenia Nurenberg, Sarah Hammack Fitzgerald and Taylor Cotter all graduated from Campbell last Spring
• Tuelle (2nd, 150 games played), Staves (3rd, 141 gp) and Nurenberg (6th, 120 gp) all ranked in the top-10 in program history for games played. The trio of graduates combined for 115 wins, two Big South regular season titles (2019-20, 2021-22) and the program's first WNIT appearance (2022)

WANDA WATKINS COURT

• Campbell dedicated its home court at Gore Arena to legendary student-athlete, coach and administrator Wanda Watkins who retired from the athletic department at the end of the 2023-24 academic year
• For 35 seasons, Watkins served as head coach of the Campbell women's basketball team before moving to an administrative position in June of 2016.  While in charge of the Camels on the court, Watkins led her teams to 549 victories, 10 appearances in Division I conference championship games and the program's first-ever trip to the NCAA tournament

CAMELS IN THE CAA

• The 2024-25 season marks the second for Campbell as members of the Coastal Athletic Association after departing for the league in the summer of '22
• Full CAA membership includes Charleston, Delaware, Drexel, Elon, Hampton, Hofstra, Monmouth, North Carolina A&T, UNC Wilmington, Northeastern, Stony Brook, Towson and William & Mary
• Drexel won the CAA Championship last season to earn the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament
• Five programs, including Drexel, earned postseason tournament bids last season. Regular season champions Stony Brook earned a WBIT berth while Charleston, Monmouth and NC A&T earned berths to the WNIT

CAA PRESEASON POLL

• 1. NC A&T (11 first-place votes) - 166 points... 2. Drexel (2) - 148... 3. Towson (1) - 134... T-4. Charleston - 124... T-4. William & Mary - 124... 6. Delaware - 119... 7. Elon - 86... 8. Campbell - 76... 9. Stony Brook - 70... 10. Monmouth - 65... 11. UNCW - 59... 12. Hofstra - 50... 13. Northeastern - 33... 14. Hampton - 19...