LOCK HAVEN, Pa. – The Lock Haven women's basketball team is set to open the highly-anticipated the 2025-26 season this weekend (Saturday & Sunday, Nov. 14-15) by competing in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) vs. Mountain East Challenge.
The Bald Eagles are coming off back-to-back 20-win seasons, a pair of PSAC East regular seasons titles and seven straight trips to the postseason.
PSAC/MOUNTAIN EAST CONFERENCE CHALLENGE
Dates: Friday & Saturday, Nov. 14 & 15
Host: Concord
Location: Athens, W.Va.
Venue: Carter Center
LH schedule:
Friday, Nov. 14: vs. No. 16 Fairmont State (2 p.m.)
Saturday, Nov. 15: vs. Concord (2 p.m.)
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HEAD COACH JENNIFER SMITH
Entering 18th season at Lock Haven: 192-269 at Lock Haven
20th season overall: 216-302 overall
Since taking over the Lock Haven women's basketball program, head coach
Jennifer Smith has rebuilt the team into a contender and one of, if not the top team, in the PSAC East.
Overall, Smith enters season No. 18 at Lock (2025-26) as the head coach. Smith is the program's all-time coaching wins leader after breaking the previous record during an historic 2023-24 season.
In 2024-25, Smith reached the 200-career coaching victory milestone and is just eight wins shy of achieving the mark as the leader of the Bald Eagles.
THE BALD EAGLES
- The Bald Eagles are chasing history and will look to become the first team in program history to win the PSAC East three years in a row.
- In 2023-24, The Haven finished 29-4 overall and 21-1 in the conference, both program records, to soar to the outright Eastern Division title.
- In 2024-25, Lock Haven again won 20 games and finished 14-7 in the conference to earn a share of the Eastern Division crown with Kutztown.
- In both seasons, the Bald Eagles reached at least the PSAC Championship final four, while 2023-24 marked the programs first trip to the NCAA Tournament in 30 years.
- The Haven returns its fab four in
Alana Robinson,
Jenadia Jordan,
Madeline Evans and
Rhlyn Rouse. Robinson, Jordan and Evans were all on the All-Conference team last season, while Rouse was named the Freshman of the Year in 2023-24.
- Jordan and Robinson both passed 1,000-career points as juniors, while Robinson is fresh off back-to-back PSAC Defensive Player of the Year awards.
- The Bald Eagles welcomed six new athletes to the program from Pennsylvania, Maryland and Texas.
- To learn more about the 2025-26 incoming class, click
here.
BEASTS OF THE EAST
The Lock Haven women's basketball team was predicted to three-peat as PSAC Eastern Division Champions by the conference coaches.
The Haven received six of the nine first-place votes to earn the top spot in the poll. Kutztown received the remaining three votes to be tabbed the runner up. Bloomsburg, West Chester and Millersville were voted teams three through five. East Stroudsburg, Shippensburg, Shepherd and Mansfield round out the poll.
EAST
1. Lock Haven (6)
2. Kutztown (3)
3. Bloomsburg
4. West Chester
5. Millersville
6. East Stroudsburg
7. Shippensburg
8. Shepherd
9. Mansfield
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The Road Ahead:
The Bald Eagles open the 2025-26 season by competing in the PSAC/Mountain East Challenge on Friday and Saturday, Nov. 14-15, hosted by Concord.
The Haven will take on Fairmont State on Friday at 2 p.m. and the host Concord on Saturday at 2 p.m.
Lock Haven opens its PSAC schedule on Saturday, Dec. 6 by hosting Edinboro at 1 p.m. inside Thomas Fieldhouse.
The Haven's first Eastern Division game is set for Wednesday, Jan. 7 at Shepherd.
