Season Recaps
UNOH Season Recaps
2025-26 |
Women's Basketball
Overall Record: 18-11
Conference Record: 12-10
Season Result: WHAC Quarterfinals
UNOH women's basketball has been become a consistent force in the WHAC under the leadership of head coach Matt Vavro who concludes his fourth year at the helm. Vavro took over the program in 2022 coming off just three wins the previous year. In the four seasons since, the Racers have earned a place in the post season three times while setting a new single season wins record at 20-10 a year ago and the program's first ever WHAC Semifinal appearance.
The 2025-26 Racers continued that success putting together an 18-11 campaign, matching the program's previous wins record, and claiming the best home winning percentage (.824) in the history of the program. The year also marked the program's best two-year span ever earning 38 wins and the first time with back-to-back winning seasons since 2013-14 and 2014-15 seasons. On November 1, 2025 UNOH upset No. 23 Shawnee State 68-61 for the program's first victory over a ranked opponent since 2020.
Vavro now sits just twelve wins away from becoming the program's all-time winningest coach and sits currently as the only one to carry an overally winning percentage above .500 (.534).
UNOH averaged 71.8 points per game after setting the program record at 79.9 last year giving them back-to-back seasons averaging 70+ for the first time since 2009-10 and 2010-11. They also topped two records set last season with 29.0 defensive rebounds per game and 3.8 blocks per game.
Alysia Lawson began the year with 46 points against Great Lakes Christian, breaking her own single game record, starting her on the path to becoming the program's all-time leading scorer with 2,218 career points. She ends her career averaging 20.9 points per game, a program record, and now sits first or second in ten different career categories.
Freshman Lori Huffman fell just five rebounds short of the program's single season record but set a new mark for the program after averaging 11.6 per game. Fellow freshman Sanaiiya Gray also got herself into the record book logging 66 blocks over 29 games for a 2.4 average, both are new single season program highs.
Eight times a Racer was honored as a conference player of the week giving Coach Vavro 26 during his four-year tenure after nine total in the program's previous 15 seasons combined.
Two Racers landed All-WHAC Second Team honors with two also being named to the WHAC All-Freshman Team. Four players earned mentions on the WHAC All-Academic and NAIA Scholar-Athlete Teams led by Olivia Thompson who earned her second for both. Thompson also became the program's first ever three-time nominee for the WHAC's Champions of Character Team.
Key Wins
November 1: 68-61 vs. #23 Shawnee State
Top Team Performances
Biggest Win: December 13 vs. Defiance, 95-47
Points: 111 vs. Great Lakes Christian (10/23)
FG Made: 46 vs. Great Lakes Christian (10/23)
3-Pt FG Made: 16 vs. Lourdes (2/18)
FT Made: 27 - 3 Times
Assists: 28 vs. Great Lakes Christian (10/23)
Rebounds: 58 vs. Great Lakes Christian (10/23)
Steals: 12 vs. Defiance (12/13)
Blocks: 9 vs. Shawnee State (11/1)
Top Individual Performances
Points: 46 - Alysia Lawson vs. Great Lakes Christian (10/23) - Program Record
FG Made: 19 - Alysia Lawson vs. Great Lakes Christian (10/23) - Program Record
3-PT FG: 6 - Brooke Asher at Lawrence Tech (1/24) & Sanaiiya Gray vs. Lourdes (2/18)
FT Made: 10 - Olivia Thompson at Defiance (2/7)
Assists: 9 - Brooke Asher vs. Bryant & Stratton-Ohio (11/4)
Rebounds: 22 - Lori Huffman vs. Bryant & Stratton-Ohio (11/4) & Midway (11/11)
Blocks: 6 - Sanaiiya Gray vs. Shawnee State (11/1) - Program Record
Conference Awards
WHAC Second Team: Olivia Thompson, Brooke Asher
WHAC Freshman Team: Brooke Asher, Sanaiiya Gray
WHAC Champions of Character Team: Olivia Thompson
WHAC Offensive Player of the Week: Alysia Lawson (3x), Olivia Thompson
WHAC Defensive Player of the Week: Sanaiiya Gray (2x), Lori Huffman (2x)
Academic Honors
NAIA Scholar Athletes: Olivia Thompson, Cadiance Fuduloff, Celeste Rummell, Micaha Marbury
WHAC Academic Team: Olivia Thompson, Cadiance Fuduloff, Celeste Rummell, Micaha Marbury
Men's Basketball
Overall Record: 9-19
Conference Record: 7-15
UNOH men's basketball wrapped up the third year of the Westerlund Era with a 9-19 overall record going 7-15 in conference play. Combined with their 15 wins a year ago, the Racers logged the program's best two year stretch since the 2017-18 and 2018-19 seasons.
The 2025-26 Racers averaged 77.7 points per game putting them second all-time behind only last year's team (86.2) while holding opponents to 44.6% shooting, the program's best since 2015-16. The team's first win of the season came in overtime at Goshen College where UNOH tallied 112 points marking the program's third highest total and most in a game since 2013 when the record was set (117). On January 3, 2026, UNOH recorded one of the most historic wins in program history defeating Cornerstone 78-68 at Mol Arena in Grand Rapids for the first time ever after going 0-17 in the previous 19 seasons.
UNOH also hit a new milestone with 20 steals against Cleary in February toppling the program's previous record of 19 that stood since January 18, 2014. Their 16 made three-pointers against Bryant & Stratton-Ohio was the program's most since 2018 and their 57 total rebounds versus Wright State-Lake marked the most in a game since November 10, 2018.
Senior Antonio King highlighted his senior campaign as the team's leading scorer averaging 19.4 points per game logging 25 games with 20 or more points in his two-year career at UNOH while going over 30 six times with five of those coming this season. He averaged 7.3 rebounds per game in the 2025-26 campaign, the program's best since 2010-11, and 6.9 per game for his career, the second most all-time. His efforts resulted in his second All-WHAC First Team honor making him just the third Racer in 19 seasons to pick up more than one first team mention and the first since 2017 (Lawrence Jackson - 3x).
Top Team Performances
Biggest Win: November 11 vs. Wright State-Lake, 99-70
Points: 112 vs. Goshen (11/1)
FG Made: 40 vs. Wright State-Lake (11/11)
3-Pt FG Made: 16 vs. Bryant & Stratton-Ohio (10/25)
FT Made: 26 at Cleary (2/11)
Assists: 19 vs. Lourdes (2/18)
Rebounds: 57 vs Wright State-Lake (11/11)
Steals: 20 at Cleary (2/11) - Program Record
Blocks: 8 vs. Siena Heights (12/3) & Lourdes (2/18)
Top Individual Performances
Points: 34 - Antonio King vs. Rochester Christian (1/17) & Cornerstone (2/14)
FG Made: 14 - Antonio King vs. Cornerstone (2/14)
3-PT FG: 6 - Antonio King vs. Bryant & Stratton-Ohio (10/25) & at Cornerstone (1/3)
FT Made: 12 - Kahlil Davis at Goshen (11/1)
Assists: 7 - Kahlil Davis at Shawnee State (10/29)
Rebounds: 18 - Jyheim Spencer vs. UM-Dearborn (1/10)
Conference Awards
WHAC First Team: Antonio King
WHAC Champions of Character Team: Caleb Chapman
WHAC Offensive Player of the Week: Antonio King (4x)
Academic Honors
WHAC Academic Team: Demarcus Harris
WOMEN'S SOCCER
WHAC Regular Season Champions
WHAC Tournament Champions
Overall Record: 17-4-0
Conference Record: 10-1-0
Season Result: NAIA National Championship First Round
UNOH women's soccer has consistently improved under the leadership of head coach Elisha Fry going from 14-6-3 (.674) in her first season to 14-4-4 (.727) in year two and 17-4-0 (.810) in her third this year earning National Tournament bids all three seasons. The Racers' conference record has seen the same level of improvement after going 8-2-1 (.773) and finishing third in 2023 to 10-1-0 and a conference championship in 2025. UNOH also swept through the WHAC Tournament to double up their titles for the fifth time in program history and first since 2019.
The 2025 Racers averaged 3.43 goals per game and 10.0 points per game, both the program's highest averages since 2016, with a +2.8 scoring margin, the best since 2019, outscoring conference opponents 55-7. The team tallied 72 goals with 13 different players netting multiple times and 66 total assists, the program's most since 2016. The campaign was highlighted by the program's best offensive performance of all-time against Defiance where they scored 18 goals and assisted 18 times for 54 total points, all program records. Three different Racers netted a hat trick in that match with three more scoring a brace.
Mathilda Berg Karlsson became the single-game leader in points with twelve as part of a 9-2 rout of Indiana Tech on October 22 where she scored four times and assisted four times. Karlsson has tallied 63 points in just two seasons with the program putting her fourth in program history. Senior Vivian Purmonen scored eight times in 2025 and will finish fifth all-time with 25 career goals. Goalkeeper Sophia Eisner moved into second place all-time in career wins (36) and shutouts (20) with eight more combined shutouts on her resume.
With their conference title, UNOH swept the offensive and defensive player of the year awards winning both for just the fifth time in program history. Six Racers landed All-WHAC First Team honors, the second most ever in a season and most since 2017, with two more earning second team awards and one swiping All-Newcomer honors.
Thirteen Racers earned mentions on the WHAC All-Academic Team with Allyson Barger earning the honor for a third time making her just the second player in program history to hit that mark. Barger was also named to the NAIA Scholar Athlete Team for a fourth time becoming the first player in program history to accomplish that feat. Two others earned their second Scholar Athlete honor with seven more making the list for the first time giving the team ten total in 2025 and marking the fourth straight season with at least nine mentions.
National Rankings
Preseason: 24
Highest: 21
Final: 23
Key Wins
September 13: 2-0 vs. #18 Campbellsville
November 12: 1-0 vs. (RV) Aquinas
Top Team Performances
Biggest Win: October 1 vs. Defiance, 18-0 - Program Record
Points: 54 vs. Defiance (10/1) - Program Record
Goals: 18 vs. Defiance (10/1) - Program Record
Assists: 18 vs. Defiance (10/1) - Program Record
Shots: 54 vs. Defiance (10/1)
Shots on Goal: 33 vs. Defiance (10/1)
Saves: 4 @ Indiana Wesleyan, vs. St. Thomas, vs. The Master's
Top Individual Performances
Points: 12 - Mathilda Berg Karlsson vs. Indiana Tech (10/22) - Program Record
Goals: 4 - Mathilda Berg Karlsson vs. Indiana Tech (10/22) - Ties Program Record
Assists: 4 - Celia Catalan Keck vs. Cleary (9/24) & Mathilda Berg Karlsson vs. Indiana Tech (10/22)
Shots: 9 - Vivian Purmonen & Camila Rico vs. Defiance (10/1), Mathilda Berg Karlsson vs. Indiana Tech (10/22)
Shots on Goal: 7 - Camila Rico vs. Defiance (10/1)
Saves: 4 - Sophia Eisner @ Indiana Wesleyan (8/27) & vs. The Master's (11/20)
NAIA Awards
NAIA All-American: Mathilda Berg Karlsson (Third Team), Sophia Eisner (Third Team)
NAIA Offensive Player of the Week: Mathilda Berg Karlsson
United Soccer Coaches Honors
USC All-American: Sophia Eisner
USC All-North Region: Sophia Eisner, Judy McIntosh, Mathilda Berg Karlsson
Conference Awards
WHAC Offensive Player of the Year: Mathilda Berg Karlsson
WHAC Defensive Player of the Year: Judy McIntosh
WHAC First Team: Sophia Eisner, Vivian Purmonen, Mathilda Berg Karlsson, Risa Nishida, Judy McIntosh, Celia Catalan Keck
WHAC Second Team: Ella Beaton-Hill, Kristine Mehlbye
WHAC All-Newcomer Team: Camila Rico
WHAC Champions of Character Team: Ella Betschon
WHAC Offensive Player of the Week: Vivian Purmonen, Mathilda Berg Karlsson
WHAC Defensive Player of the Week: Sophia Eisner, Celia Catalan Keck
Academic Honors
NAIA Scholar Athletes: Allyson Barger, Rhiannon O'Looney, Sophia Eisner, Alivia Chambers, Celia Catalan Keck, Judy McIntosh, Kathryn Haas, Kristine Mehlbye, Silje Eikeland, Mathilda Berg Karlsson
WHAC Academic Team: Allyson Barger, Rhiannon O'Looney, Vivian Purmonen, Sophia Eisner, Celia Catalan Keck, Alivia Chambers, Silje Eikeland, Mathilda Berg Karlsson, Judy McIntosh, Kristine Mehlbye, Katie West, Ewelina Johansson Maahl
MEN'S SOCCER
Overall Record: 13-5-2
Conference Record: 8-2-1
Season Result: WHAC Semifinals
LIMA, OH - UNOH men's soccer improved their overall winning percentage almost 20% from 2024 to 2025 going from .526 a year ago to .700 this season. The Racers also increased their conference winning percentage 15% going from .625 to .773 this season upgrading their conference standing from fifth to third.
The Racers averaged 3.35 goals per game, a program record, with a +2.2 scoring margin which is the program's best since 2016. As a team, UNOH racked up 175 total points averaging 8.8 per game with 67 goals and 41 assists, all the program's most since 2016. The season also included the program's best conference start since 2018 opening 7-0 versus WHAC opponents outscoring them 41-3 during that stretch.
Eguzki Hashimoto became the first men's soccer player to net four times in a single match doing so in 9-2 drubbing of UM-Dearborn on September 20 and earning NAIA Offensive Player of the Week honors for his efforts, just the third all-time and first since 2016. Hashimoto was quickly followed by Michel Tentchou who repeated that feat in an 11-1 rout of Defiance just ten days later while adding an assist for a record setting nine-point outing, the program's most ever in a game. It was Tentchou's second hat trick of the season doing so in back-to-back matches becoming the first men's player to net three times twice in the same season.
In his ninth season at the helm, head coach Tyler Brock picked up his 100th victory at UNOH and now stands with a 104-46-32 record with the program.
Four Racers were named All-WHAC First Team, the program's most since 2019, highlighted by the program's first Newcomer of the Year since 2019 with two more landing second team honors
UNOH was also well represented academically with an incredible 21 athletes being named to the WHAC All-Academic team more than doubling the program's previous record. Also, in it's previous 13 years of existence, the program had just five total NAIA Scholar Athletes but almost tripled that number in 2025 alone placing a remarkable 14 student-athletes on the list.
National Rankings
Preseason Ranking: Unranked
Highest Ranking: 22
Final Ranking: 25
Key Wins
August 24: 3-1 vs. #24 Governors State
September 1: 1-0 vs. (RV) Westcliff
September 6: 1-0 @ (RV) Trinity Christian
September 17: 3-2 @ #24 Spring Arbor
Top Team Performances
Biggest Win: October 1 @ Defiance, 11-1
Points: 29 @ Defiance (10/1)
Goals: 11 @ Defiance (10/1)
Assists: 7 @ Defiance (10/1)
Shots: 40 @ Defiance (10/1)
Shots on Goal: 25 @ Defiance (10/1) - Program Record
Saves: 7 @ Trinity Christian (9/6)
Top Individual Performances
Points: 9 - Michel Tentchou @ Defiance (10/1) - Program Record
Goals: 4 - Eguzki Hashimoto @ UM-Dearborn (9/20) & Michel Tentchou @ Defiance (10/1) - Program Record
Assists: 2 - Raul Oliu vs. Missouri Baptist (9/10) & Cleary (9/24), Reece Benjamin vs. Siena Heights (10/11), Michel Tentchou vs. Cleary (11/1)
Shots: 7 - Michel Tentchou @ Defiance (10/1)
Shots on Goal: 5 - Michel Tentchou @ Defiance (10/1)
Saves: 7 - Alexandre Torres @ Trinity Christian (9/6)
NAIA Awards
NAIA Offensive Player of the Week: Eguzki Hashimoto
Conference Awards
WHAC Newcomer of the Year: Raul Oliu
WHAC First Team: Raul Oliu, Michel Tentchou, Eguzki Hashimoto, Aimar Lezana
WHAC Second Team: Leonard K.Assouan, Luka Heins
WHAC Champions of Character Team: Arokya Shrestha
WHAC Offensive Player of the Week: Eguzki Hashimoto, Michel Tentchou (2x), Leonard K.Assouan
WHAC Defensive Player of the Week: Aimar Lezana, Reece Benjamin
Academic Honors
NAIA Scholar Athletes: Alejandro Cortes, Alfie Roffey, Devid Sturgis, Eguzki Hashimoto, Eric Kjellsson, Giovanni Fraga, Guilherme Dias, Guilherme De Lemos, Jayson Janofski, Jonah Day, Josh Pearson, Luka Heins, Niko Suarez, Reece Benjamin,
WHAC Academic Team: Jonah Day, Eric Kjellsson, Niko Suarez, Pablo Archilla, Reece Benjamin, Eguzki Hashimoto, Luka Heins, Jayson Janofski, Calum Loomes, Josh Pearson, Alfie Roffey, Marcos Vidan, Ognjen Stanic, Bainbridge Abitheira, Nolan Blewitt, Alejandro Cortes, Guilherme Dias, Giovanni Fraga, Carlos Navarro, Jonathan Rinehart, Devid Sturgis
VOLLEYBALL
Overall Record: 5-25
Conference Record: 2-18
LIMA, OH - UNOH volleyball was under new leadership for the 2025 campaign as Bill Bonham took over the helm from previous head coach Josh Kreiner.
Senior Abigail Martin logged 19 kills in a 3-0 win over Lourdes to open conference play marking the program's most in a three-set match since 2018. Martin also reached the 1,000 kill plateau and finishes her career as just the fifth Racer to accomplish that feat with 1,001 career kills. Fellow seniors Savanna Reed and Shamyria DuBose also end their careers with historic marks. Reed logged 2,299 assists over her four years putting her fourth all-time while DuBose closes her two years at UNOH with a 0.69 blocks per set average, the program's third highest average and best since 2017.
A four-set program record was set by Aliyah Saylor who recorded seven service aces against Madonna on September 26 which ties for the third most in any match in program history. Rhema Pernell matched the all-time record for solo blocks earning five at Lourdes on October 10.
Savanna Reed highlighted the academic honors for the Racers becoming just the fifth volleyball player to land on the WHAC All-Academic team for a third time and the first ever to make the NAIA Scholar Athlete list three times. Six others joined her on the academic team with two earning the honor for a second time and four for the first time. Two others picked up their second Scholar Athlete honor and two made the list for the first time.
Top Team Performances
Points: 65 vs. Bryan (8/23)
Kills: 52 @ Shawnee State (9/6)
Hitting Percentage: .356 vs. Lourdes (9/10)
Assists: 49 @ Shawnee State (9/6)
Service Aces: 11 vs. Bryan (8/23)
Digs: 87 vs. Siena Heights (9/17)
Solo Blocks: 9 @ Lourdes (10/10)
Block Assists: 20 vs. UM-Dearborn (9/27)
Total Blocks: 13 @ Lourdes (10/10)
Top Individual Performances
Points: 21.0 - Abigail Martin vs. Lourdes (9/10)
Kills: 19 - Abigail Martin vs. Lourdes (9/10)
Hitting Percentage: .471 - Abigail Martin vs. Lourdes (9/10)
Assists: 35 - Paige Hoodlebrink @ Siena Heights (10/29)
Service Aces: 7 - Aliyah Saylor vs. Madonna (9/26) - Four-Set Record
Digs: 30 - Riley Treece vs. Fisk (8/22)
Solo Blocks: 5 - Rhema Pernell @ Lourdes (10/10) - Ties Program Record
Block Assists: 8 - Shamyria DuBose vs. UM-Dearborn (9/27)
Total Blocks: 8 - Shamyria DuBose vs. UM-Dearborn (9/27)
Academic Honors
NAIA Scholar Athletes: Savanna Reed, Aliyah Saylor, Julia Brodman, Gianna San Filippo, Riley Treece
WHAC Academic Team: Savanna Reed, Aliyah Saylor, Julia Brodman, Riley Treece, Gianna San Filippo, Shamyria DuBose, Maggie Czachowski