Calvin-Hope Women's Basketball Live Video Stream - 1-24-26

Calvin-Hope Women's Basketball Audio Stream - 1-24-26

Calvin-Hope Women's Basketball Live Stats - 1-24-26

The 142nd meeting between Calvin and Hope in women's basketball is set to take place Saturday at 3 p.m. inside Calvin's Van Noord Arena.

Tickets to the game are available and can be purchased through the Calvin Box Office at: Calvin Box Office

Calvin comes in at 9-8 overall and 4-4 in the MIAA standings. Ranked 9^th nationally, Hope is 15-2 overall and is second in the MIAA standings with an 8-1 conference record.

Calvin leads the all-time series 72-69 but Hope has won 21 of the last 22 meetings. Calvin snapped a 20-game Hope win streak last February with a 66-62 win over the Flying Dutch in the 2025 MIAA Tournament semifinals in Angola, Indiana. Calvin won 21 games in a row to open the series from Jan. 12, 1966 through Jan. 20, 1979. Since basketball became an MIAA sport in 1978-79, Hope holds a 69-51 series lead and is 54-16 since 2000. Calvin head coach Mark Christner is 1-16 against Hope while Hope head coach Brian Morehouse is 56-23 against Calvin.

Hope won both regular meetings last season, winning 72-64 in Grand Rapids, then winning 77-65 in Holland with the Knights coming back to win in the MIAA Tournament semifinals.

Hope won the first meeting of the 2025-26 season, handing Calvin  67-56 defeat on January 3 at Hope's DeVos Fieldhouse. RyAnn Rohrer had 15 points and Katelyn LaRue 13 points for Calvin. Leah Richards had 14 points, Terin Maynard 13 points and Anna Richards 12 points for the Flying Dutch.

In conference games, Calvin is seventh in the MIAA in scoring offense (58.4 ppg) and is third in scoring defense (53.8 ppg). Calvin is third in the MIAA in defensive field goal percentage (.372) and fifth in offensive field goal percentage (.394). Hope is the MIAA leader in scoring average (82.2 ppg) and is ranked second in defensive scoring average (51.3 ppg). Hope leads the MIAA in field goal shooting (.464) and is ranked second in defensive field goal percentage (.343).

Calvin is 23rd in Division III in blocked shots per game, swatting away 4.8 opponent shots per contest. Junior Lydia Sall leads Calvin individually, averaging 1.94 per-game which ranks 42nd nationally.

Senior guard Anna Fernandez leads Calvin in scoring at 15.2 points a game along with 24 three-point baskets. She was a member of the 2025 All-MIAA First Team and the 2025 D3hoops.com Great Lakes All-Region Third Team. She was named a (4^th Team) Preseason All-American by D3hoops.com. Senior forward RyAnn Rohrer averages 11.8 points a game along with a team-leading 8.1 rebounds a game. As a sophomore in 2023-24, she was also named to the All-MIAA First Team and D3hoops.com All-Region Third Team in 2024. She missed the 2024-25 season due to injury. Junior guard Katelyn LaRue averages 8.1 points a game and has 16 three-point baskets on the season. She was named to the 2025 All-MIAA Second Team. Junior point guard Chloe Wiegers averages 4.8 points and 2.4 assists per contest.

Hope is led in scoring by sophomore post player Leah Richards who averages 12.2 points a contest. The Flying Dutch have a balanced attack with junior wing Maddie Petroelje (11.2 ppg), sophomore post Anna Richards (10.8 ppg) and senior guard Sydney Vis (10.5 ppg), all averaging better than 10 points per contest. Hope is shooting 36.5 percent from three-point range. Petroelje has a team-leading 36 three-point field goals (.462 percentage) to lead the perimeter attack.

Mark Christner is in his seventh year as the head coach of the Calvin University women's basketball program. In seven years as head women's basketball coach at Calvin, Christner has fashioned a won-loss record of 107-57. A 1999 Calvin graduate, Christner played three years of basketball with the Calvin men's basketball program and later served as an assistant coach with both the men's and women's programs. He went on to a 10-year stint as the head men's basketball coach at Waynesburg University (Pa.) before returning to his alma mater in the spring of 2019. He led Calvin to an 18-11 overall record a year ago which included an MIAA Tournament crown and a berth in the NCAA III Tournament. The MIAA Tourney crown was Calvin's first since 2015 while the NCAA III Tourney berth was Calvin's first since 2017.  He has led Calvin to the MIAA Tournament semifinals in his six prior years as head coach. His wife Sara (Plasman) Christner played one year with the Calvin women's basketball program and four years with the Calvin women's softball program

Hope is led by veteran head coach Brian Morehouse who is in his 29^th year at the helm of the Flying Dutch program. He has an all-time won-loss record of 747-105 which includes Division III National Titles in 2006 and 2022.

Saturday's game will be live streamed through the Calvin Video Network and audio streamed through Michigansportsradio.com. For more information on The Rivalry, visit the Calvin-Hope rivalry website at: CalvinHope.com