Jasmine Martin ’15 Signs Professional Contract in Australia
12/14/2016 1:43:00 PM | Women's Basketball
Martin's Signing Ensures All Five Starting Members of the 2014-15 MAAC Champion Bobcat Squad Have Signed Professional Contracts
HAMDEN, Connecticut – Former Quinnipiac women's basketball standout Jasmine Martin '15 signed her first professional contract on Tuesday night as Martin announced she will be playing for the Stirling Senators in Australia. Martin's signing gives Quinnipiac women's basketball six alumnae currently signed to professional overseas contracts – including all five members of the starting lineup that led the Bobcats to the 2015 MAAC Championship, 31-4 record and 20-0 mark in MAAC play.
Martin joins her former running mates from the record-setting 2014-15 season with overseas deals including Samantha Guastella who plays for BBC Etzella in Luxembourg and has signed with Hume City in Australia for 2017 as well as Nikoline Ostergaard, Val Driscoll and Gillian Abshire who all play for the Virum Vipers in Ostergaard's native country of Denmark. Both Martin and Guastella will play in the same country but for teams in different divisions of the Australian State League. Martin's Stirling Senators play in the SBL while Guastella's Hume City Broncos play in the The sixth Bobcat alum currently playing overseas is Felicia Barron '12, '13 who plays for Eintracht Braunschweig in Germany.
That illustrious 2014-15 senior class of Martin, Guastella, Ostergaard, Abshire and Driscoll paved the way to stardom for the Quinnipiac program in the MAAC as the Bobcats became the first school to go 20-0 in conference play. That 31-win campaign set a program record for most single-season victories as the Bobcats received votes in both the USA Today and Associated Press Top 25 polls during the season.
A three-time team captain, Martin guided the Bobcats to one of the program's most-successful four-year runs in program history. Upon her arrival on campus in 2011-12, Quinnipiac had never won a conference title and had advanced to just two national postseason tournaments in 14 seasons playing in the Div. I ranks. In her four years, Martin helped lead the Bobcats to the first two conference titles in program history, taking the NEC crown in 2013 and winning the MAAC in 2015. Quinnipiac recorded 104 victories across Martin's four years and made a pair of WNIT appearances, giving the Bobcats four national postseason tournament berths from 2011-15.
One of the most elite scorers in program history, Martin finished her career third all-time and second in Quinnipiac's Division I history (since 1998-99) in points with 1,689. A highly adept shooter from the mid-range and three-point territory, she closed her career with sixth all-time in field goal makes (564) and second to Guastella in three-point field goals (194). A two-time All-Conference performer (Second Team All-MAAC 2013-14, Third Team All-NEC 2012-13), Martin played her best ball in the tail end of her career as she was named the 2015 MAAC Tournament MVP and pumped in a game high 24 points in the NCAA Tournament First Round against Oklahoma.
Another productive season in her senior year made her just the second player in program history (Francine Perry '85) to average double figures in scoring all four years at Quinnipiac. She also became just the third Bobcat in program history to reach the 1,600 career point mark, joining all-time leading scorer Perry (1,855) and Quinnipiac's Div. I all-time leading scorer Erin Kerner '09 *(1,799) in the exclusive 1,600 career point club.
Martin joins her former running mates from the record-setting 2014-15 season with overseas deals including Samantha Guastella who plays for BBC Etzella in Luxembourg and has signed with Hume City in Australia for 2017 as well as Nikoline Ostergaard, Val Driscoll and Gillian Abshire who all play for the Virum Vipers in Ostergaard's native country of Denmark. Both Martin and Guastella will play in the same country but for teams in different divisions of the Australian State League. Martin's Stirling Senators play in the SBL while Guastella's Hume City Broncos play in the The sixth Bobcat alum currently playing overseas is Felicia Barron '12, '13 who plays for Eintracht Braunschweig in Germany.
That illustrious 2014-15 senior class of Martin, Guastella, Ostergaard, Abshire and Driscoll paved the way to stardom for the Quinnipiac program in the MAAC as the Bobcats became the first school to go 20-0 in conference play. That 31-win campaign set a program record for most single-season victories as the Bobcats received votes in both the USA Today and Associated Press Top 25 polls during the season.
A three-time team captain, Martin guided the Bobcats to one of the program's most-successful four-year runs in program history. Upon her arrival on campus in 2011-12, Quinnipiac had never won a conference title and had advanced to just two national postseason tournaments in 14 seasons playing in the Div. I ranks. In her four years, Martin helped lead the Bobcats to the first two conference titles in program history, taking the NEC crown in 2013 and winning the MAAC in 2015. Quinnipiac recorded 104 victories across Martin's four years and made a pair of WNIT appearances, giving the Bobcats four national postseason tournament berths from 2011-15.
One of the most elite scorers in program history, Martin finished her career third all-time and second in Quinnipiac's Division I history (since 1998-99) in points with 1,689. A highly adept shooter from the mid-range and three-point territory, she closed her career with sixth all-time in field goal makes (564) and second to Guastella in three-point field goals (194). A two-time All-Conference performer (Second Team All-MAAC 2013-14, Third Team All-NEC 2012-13), Martin played her best ball in the tail end of her career as she was named the 2015 MAAC Tournament MVP and pumped in a game high 24 points in the NCAA Tournament First Round against Oklahoma.
Another productive season in her senior year made her just the second player in program history (Francine Perry '85) to average double figures in scoring all four years at Quinnipiac. She also became just the third Bobcat in program history to reach the 1,600 career point mark, joining all-time leading scorer Perry (1,855) and Quinnipiac's Div. I all-time leading scorer Erin Kerner '09 *(1,799) in the exclusive 1,600 career point club.
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