Bulldog Women Selected to Finish Fifth In Frontier Preseason Poll

Lindsey Branch, UMW Sports Information

DILLON, Mont. – In a preseason poll of Frontier Conference women's basketball coaches, the Montana Western women's basketball team was picked to finish fifth for the 2024-25 season.

Providence was selected as the preseason favorite to win the 2024-25 Frontier Women's Basketball conference title, the preseason coaches' poll was announced Wednesday.

Carroll and Rocky Mountain were tied for second in the preseason poll with 19 points each. Montana State-Northern placed fourth in the poll with 12 points, followed by Montana Western fifth with nine points and Montana Tech sixth with six points.

Montana Western placed one on the Frontier Preseason All-Conference Team with senior Joelnell Momberg.

Momberg, a senior guard from Box Elder, Mont., played in 28 games for the Bulldogs last season. She scored a total of 342 points, averaging 12.2 points per game, 3.4 rebounds per game, shot 79.6 percent from the free throw line and 38.4 percent from the 3-point line. She was named honorable mention all-conference honors after last season.

2024-25 Frontier Conference Women's Basketball Coaches' Preseason Poll

Place	School	Votes
1	Providence (5)	25
T-2	Carroll (1)	19
T-2	Rocky Mountain	19
4	MSU-Northern	12
5	Montana Western	9
6	Montana Tech	6
First place votes in parenthesis

2024-25 Frontier Conference Women's Basketball All-Conference Preseason Team:

Name	School	Position	Class	Hometown
Ashlee Maldonado*	Providence	Guard	Graduate	Sunnyside, Wash.
Kyndall Keller	Carroll	Guard	Graduate	Havre, Mont.
Gracee Lekvold	Rocky Mountain	Guard	Senior	Scobey, Mont.
Keanna Salave'a	Providence	Forward	Sophomore	Vancouver, Wash
Sydney Dethman	Rocky Mountain	Forward	Senior	Brockton, Mont.
Joelnell Momberg	Montana Western	Guard	Senior	Box Elder, Mont.
Willa Albrecht	Carroll	Guard	Senior	Billings, Mont.
*Preseason Player-of-the-Year