Via FSU sports information:
Florida State Women’s Basketball has been picked to finish ninth in the Blue Ribbon Panel ACC Predicted Order of Finish, announced on Wednesday night on the new show ACC PM on the ACC Network.
Freshman guard Ta’Niya Latson was one of six members chosen to the Blue Ribbon Panel Newcomer Watch List. The Miami native is ranked as the top-ranked shooting guard in the 2022 signing class and recently earned Florida Dairy Farmers Miss Basketball as well as Florida’s Gatorade Player of the Year in 2022.
The Blue Ribbon Panel pegged Louisville as the predicted league champion in 2022-23, while Virginia Tech senior center Elizabeth Kitley was named the preseason player of the year.
Latson joins Ashley Owusu of Virginia Tech, Saniya Rivers of NC State, Dyaisha Fair of Syracuse, Haley Cavinder of Miami and Clemson’s Ruby Whitehorn on the newcomer watch list. The list includes freshmen and first-year transfers, with Latson and Whitehorn being the only freshmen in the group.
Coach Brooke Wyckoff begins her first season as the permanent head coach of Florida State. When she served as the Interim Head Coach in the 2020-21 season, the Seminoles were predicted eighth in the league’s coaches poll and finished fourth, highlighting a remarkable achievement for Wyckoff.
The 2020-21 Seminoles are the only team in the league to be picked as low as eighth in the ACC preseason coaches poll and finish with a Top-4 seed since the conference expanded to its current group of teams in the 2014-15 academic year.
A mix of youthful talent and veteran leadership highlights the FSU roster in 2022-23. Transfers Jazmine Massengill (112 games) and Taylor O’Brien (102 games) have each played over 100 games in their collegiate careers. Incoming freshmen Latson and Brianna “Snoop” Turnage give the Seminoles skilled young players who can make immediate impacts.
Returning All-ACC Freshmen O’Mariah Gordon and Makayla Timpson will be counted on for heavy production in their sophomore years, while returnees Sara Bejedi, Mariana Valenzuela, Erin Howard and Valencia Myers all played significant minutes a season ago and add to the team’s experience.
Florida State hosts two exhibitions to get itself going prior to the start of the 2022-23 season. FSU hosts West Georgia on Oct. 30, at 2 p.m. The Seminoles then host Flagler on Thursday, Nov. 3, at 6 p.m. Both exhibitions are free to attend with general admission seating.
The Seminoles begin their official season at the Donald L. Tucker Center on Monday, Nov. 7, vs. Bethune-Cookman at a special start time of 11 a.m. FSU will host its education game, which provides a field trip to several schools across the Big Bend area.
Blue Ribbon Panel Preseason Player of the Year
Elizabeth Kitley, Sr., C, Virginia Tech
Blue Ribbon Panel Preseason All-ACC Team (60 voters)
Elizabeth Kitley, Sr., C, Virginia Tech (49 first-place votes)
Hailey Van Lith, Jr., G, Louisville (7)
Olivia Miles, So., G, Notre Dame (3)
Deja Kelly, Jr., G, North Carolina
Diamond Johnson, Jr., G, NC State
Jakia Brown-Turner, Sr., F, NC State
Jewel Spear, Jr., G, Wake Forest
Ashley Owusu, Sr., G, Virginia Tech
Morgan Jones, Grad., G, Louisville (1)
Taylor Soule, Grad., G, Virginia Tech
Blue Ribbon Panel Newcomer Watch List
Ashley Owusu, Sr., G, Virginia Tech
Saniya Rivers, So., G, NC State
Dyaisha Fair, Sr., G, Syracuse
Ta'Niya Latson, Fr., G, Florida State
(tie) Haley Cavinder, Sr., G, Miami
(tie) Ruby Whitehorn, Fr., G, Clemson
Blue Ribbon Panel Predicted Order of Finish (60 voters)
Louisville (31) - 1068
Virginia Tech (17) - 984
NC State (8) - 963
Notre Dame (4) - 942
North Carolina - 895
Miami - 674
Duke - 627
Georgia Tech - 623
Florida State - 553
Syracuse - 379
Virginia - 303
Clemson - 275
Boston College - 271
Wake Forest - 256
Pittsburgh - 187
Florida State Women’s Basketball has been picked to finish ninth in the Blue Ribbon Panel ACC Predicted Order of Finish, announced on Wednesday night on the new show ACC PM on the ACC Network.
Freshman guard Ta’Niya Latson was one of six members chosen to the Blue Ribbon Panel Newcomer Watch List. The Miami native is ranked as the top-ranked shooting guard in the 2022 signing class and recently earned Florida Dairy Farmers Miss Basketball as well as Florida’s Gatorade Player of the Year in 2022.
The Blue Ribbon Panel pegged Louisville as the predicted league champion in 2022-23, while Virginia Tech senior center Elizabeth Kitley was named the preseason player of the year.
Latson joins Ashley Owusu of Virginia Tech, Saniya Rivers of NC State, Dyaisha Fair of Syracuse, Haley Cavinder of Miami and Clemson’s Ruby Whitehorn on the newcomer watch list. The list includes freshmen and first-year transfers, with Latson and Whitehorn being the only freshmen in the group.
Coach Brooke Wyckoff begins her first season as the permanent head coach of Florida State. When she served as the Interim Head Coach in the 2020-21 season, the Seminoles were predicted eighth in the league’s coaches poll and finished fourth, highlighting a remarkable achievement for Wyckoff.
The 2020-21 Seminoles are the only team in the league to be picked as low as eighth in the ACC preseason coaches poll and finish with a Top-4 seed since the conference expanded to its current group of teams in the 2014-15 academic year.
A mix of youthful talent and veteran leadership highlights the FSU roster in 2022-23. Transfers Jazmine Massengill (112 games) and Taylor O’Brien (102 games) have each played over 100 games in their collegiate careers. Incoming freshmen Latson and Brianna “Snoop” Turnage give the Seminoles skilled young players who can make immediate impacts.
Returning All-ACC Freshmen O’Mariah Gordon and Makayla Timpson will be counted on for heavy production in their sophomore years, while returnees Sara Bejedi, Mariana Valenzuela, Erin Howard and Valencia Myers all played significant minutes a season ago and add to the team’s experience.
Florida State hosts two exhibitions to get itself going prior to the start of the 2022-23 season. FSU hosts West Georgia on Oct. 30, at 2 p.m. The Seminoles then host Flagler on Thursday, Nov. 3, at 6 p.m. Both exhibitions are free to attend with general admission seating.
The Seminoles begin their official season at the Donald L. Tucker Center on Monday, Nov. 7, vs. Bethune-Cookman at a special start time of 11 a.m. FSU will host its education game, which provides a field trip to several schools across the Big Bend area.
Blue Ribbon Panel Preseason Player of the Year
Elizabeth Kitley, Sr., C, Virginia Tech
Blue Ribbon Panel Preseason All-ACC Team (60 voters)
Elizabeth Kitley, Sr., C, Virginia Tech (49 first-place votes)
Hailey Van Lith, Jr., G, Louisville (7)
Olivia Miles, So., G, Notre Dame (3)
Deja Kelly, Jr., G, North Carolina
Diamond Johnson, Jr., G, NC State
Jakia Brown-Turner, Sr., F, NC State
Jewel Spear, Jr., G, Wake Forest
Ashley Owusu, Sr., G, Virginia Tech
Morgan Jones, Grad., G, Louisville (1)
Taylor Soule, Grad., G, Virginia Tech
Blue Ribbon Panel Newcomer Watch List
Ashley Owusu, Sr., G, Virginia Tech
Saniya Rivers, So., G, NC State
Dyaisha Fair, Sr., G, Syracuse
Ta'Niya Latson, Fr., G, Florida State
(tie) Haley Cavinder, Sr., G, Miami
(tie) Ruby Whitehorn, Fr., G, Clemson
Blue Ribbon Panel Predicted Order of Finish (60 voters)
Louisville (31) - 1068
Virginia Tech (17) - 984
NC State (8) - 963
Notre Dame (4) - 942
North Carolina - 895
Miami - 674
Duke - 627
Georgia Tech - 623
Florida State - 553
Syracuse - 379
Virginia - 303
Clemson - 275
Boston College - 271
Wake Forest - 256
Pittsburgh - 187
