Northern Arizona Lumberjacks women's basketball

Northern Arizona Lumberjacks women's basketball
2024–25 Northern Arizona Lumberjacks women's basketball team
UniversityNorthern Arizona University
Head coachLoree Payne (8th season)
ConferenceBig Sky Conference
LocationFlagstaff, Arizona
ArenaFindlay Toyota Court
(capacity: 11,230)
NicknameLumberjacks
ColorsBlue and gold[1]
   
NCAA tournament appearances
2006
Conference tournament champions
2006
Conference regular season champions
1998, 2023

The Northern Arizona Lumberjacks women's basketball[2] team represents Northern Arizona University, located in Flagstaff, Arizona, in NCAA Division I women's competition. The school's team competes in the Big Sky Conference.[3][4] Loree Payne, formerly the head coach at the University of Puget Sound, was named the head coach of the lumberjacks in April 2017.[5] The women's basketball team reached the conference tournament championship in 2023. The Lumberjacks play home games at the Findlay Toyota Court.

  1. ^ "Northern Arizona University Visual Identity Guide". Retrieved December 5, 2022.
  2. ^ Northern Arizona uses "Lumberjacks" as its athletic nickname for both sexes. This contrasts with the other NCAA Division I school with that nickname, Stephen F. Austin State University—the latter school uses "Lumberjacks" only for men's teams and "Ladyjacks" for women's teams.
  3. ^ "Northern Arizona University". nauathletics.com.
  4. ^ "Northern Arizona" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-03-19. Retrieved 2017-03-18.
  5. ^ INFORMATION, NAU SPORTS. "NAU Roundup: Loree Payne named women's basketball coach". Arizona Daily Sun. Retrieved 2017-04-08.