ASUN Notebook: UNF's Ariana Munoz, JU's Isa Dostal, named to ASUN's 'Winners for Life Team'
University of North Florida women’s soccer player Ariana Munoz and Jacksonville University volleyball player Isa Dostal were named to the ASUN’s 2021-22 Fall “Winners for Life Team,” made up of one representative from each of the conference institutions for student-athletes for their excellence on and off the field.
Munoz, a graduate senior who led Bolles to a state championship and three regional championships, is on UNF’s Student-Athlete Advocacy Committee and the school’s Title IX Committee. She is an ASUN honor roll student, with a 3.95 grade point average in health science, and volunteers as a youth soccer coach with Jacksonville FC and tutors middle school students.
After transferring to UNF from Miami, she made the All-ASUN team and the All-South Region team in 2020 and has helped the Ospreys to a 19-6-3 record in the last two seasons.
Dostal, a senior middle blocker and a native of Slovenia, played in 26 games last season with team-high totals of 168 kills and 67 blocks.
She is a business administration major and was on the Conference USA honor roll while at Marshall, before transferring to JU. She completed a summer internship with Herman & Partners Marketing and Advertising firm in Fort Lauderdale and is fluent in English, Slovenian, and Italian.
The Winners for Life team honors a campus citizen that is respected as one who shares and/or demonstrates the ASUN Core Values: Education, Honesty, Student-Athlete Experience, Fairness, Health, Ambition, Respect, Diversity, Inclusion, Leadership, Responsibility, and Sportsmanship.
Penn cuts loose for Knights
There’s been a lot of basketball played at Louisville’s Freedom Hall since 1967.
Bellarmine senior guard Dylan Penn turned in a performance unmatched by a player on the home team in that arena in more than 50 years.
Penn scored 38 points on Tuesday in the Knights’ 85-63 victory over Central Arkansas, the most point scored by a home-team player in Freedom Hall since Louisville's Wes Unseld had 45 points in a victory over Georgetown College on Dec. 1, 1967.
Penn hit 18 of 22 from the floor (.818), most of them slashing to the basket or in transition since he attempted only two 3-point shots (making one). He tied the program record for field goals in one game set in 1959 by future Bellarmine coach Joe Reibel.
Oddly enough, Penn was held scoreless in a 66-61 victory over Eastern Kentucky in the Knights’ previous game, misfiring on second attempts from the floor. It was only the second time in three seasons he had been held without a point.
Turner sparking Stetson
Former Nease star Kiya Turner is playing well again for Stetson women’s basketball team in her second season since transferring from Middle Tennessee.
Turner, a 5-foot-6 junior guard, scored a season-high 15 points in last week’s 73-62 victory over North Florida and is averaging 7.3 points, 4.0 rebounds, 2.5 assists and 1.5 steals per game this season.
Last year, she averaged 10.4 points and 5.1 rebounds.
The only other player with First Coast ties who is on the roster of an ASUN school besides UNF and JU is Stetson’s Wheza Panzo, a 6-7 junior forward. He is averaging 2.6 points and 2.1 rebounds and matched his season-high of eight points against the Ospreys last week.
On the tee
First Coast college golf teams will begin their spring schedules in late January and early February.
JU will host its Sea Best Invitational Jan. 31-Feb. 1 at the TPC Sawgrass Dye’s Valley Course, with UNF one of the participating teams.
The women’s teams at JU and UNF will resume their schedules on Feb. 7-8 with tournaments at opposite ends of Florida. The Dolphins play in the Lady Bison Bay Point Classic in Panama City (hosted by Lipscomb University) and the Ospreys will play in the FAU Paradise Invitational, at the Osprey Point Golf Club in Boca Raton (hosted by Florida Atlantic).
This article originally appeared on Florida Times-Union: Ariana Munoz of North Florida, Isa Dostal of Jacksonville earn ASUN award
