FLORENCE – During its final season of the NCAA Division I transition, the University of North Alabama women's basketball team set six school individual and team records. Program records were passed at the single-game and single-season levels for the 2021-22 campaign.
UNA began its assault on the record books with the first game of the season. During a 114-42 home win over Blackburn College, the Lions connected on 16-of-39 3-point attempts, breaking the previous record of 35 attempts set against Southern New Hampshire in 2009 and Mississippi College in 2017. The team was also just one made 3-pointer away from tying a single-game mark of 17 treys set in 2008.
Attempting and making shots from three-point range would be a sign of things to come for the Lions throughout the season. As a team, UNA set program records with 828 three-point attempts and 283 three-pointers made. The totals led the ASUN Conference in both categories and surpassed the 2019-20 UNA team that went 269-of-764 from long range to hold the previous records.
UNA's Julia Strachan did the most damage from long range. The graduate transfer from Adelphi led the ASUN with 91 made three-pointers. Her 43.8 percent from three-point range also led the league and was 12-best in the nation at the Division I level.
Strachan added her name to the UNA record books on Feb. 3 at Flowers Hall. Her 11 three-point baskets set a new single-game record, passing Emma Wallen, who knocked down 10 treys set on Jan. 2, 2018 at Mississippi College. Strachan also led all scorers during the 84-68 victory, scoring 35 points and tying a North Alabama Division I era record.
Skyler Gill also broke a school record during the same game against the Dolphins. The true freshman from Wichita, Kan., recorded eight blocked shots to set a new program single-game mark. The total passed her own previous school record of seven blocks set earlier in the season against Jacksonville State. It also tied her with Brittany Panetti's (2017-20) single-season total of 51 blocks set during the 2018-19 campaign.
The following game against North Florida, Gill blocked three more shots to claim the single-season school record. She finished the season with a school-record and ASUN-leading 76 blocks on the year. She finished the season atop the ASUN standings and fourth in the nation with an average of 3.2 blocked shots per game.
