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2025-26 Women's Basketball Roster

Erik Schelkun
Erik Schelkun

21 Nicole Stephens

  • Position Guard
  • Height 5-7
  • Class Graduate Student
  • Highschool Pickerington Central
  • Hometown Pickerington, Ohio
  • Prev School Columbia
  • Twitter Nicole__S21
  • Instagram nicole_stephens.21

Biography

2024-25 (Graduate)
• Earned CSC Academic All-District Honors
• Appeared in all 30 games with 25 starts
• Averaged 6.4 points, 2.5 rebounds, and 3.0 assists per contest
• Posted career highs with 22 points, four made threes and four made free throws in win at Duquesne (1/15/25)
• Recorded career-high seven assists and had five points vs La Salle (1/11/25)
• Tied for the team lead with seven points in A-10 opener at Richmond (12/29/24)
• Had 15 points and tied a career high with three threes vs South Dakota (11/26/24)
• Recorded a career-high five steals and had seven points at No. 16 Duke (11/14/24)
• Made Dayton debut with a team-high 15 points with three steals, three threes, and three rebounds vs SEMO (11/5/24)
• Named to the 2024-25 Atlantic 10 Commissioner's Honor Roll

2023-24 (Senior - Columbia)
• Appeared in 30 games with one start
• Averaged 4.4 points, 1.6 assists, and 2.6 rebounds per game
• Had career highs in minutes played and shooting percentage at all three levels

2022-23 (Junior - Columbia)
• Played in seven games before missing the remainder of the season due to injury.
• Had six points and four rebounds in a season-opening win at Memphis (Nov. 7).
• Posted a career-high five rebounds in a win at Delaware (Nov. 10).
• Netted a season-high seven points and grabbed two boards at No. 7/8 Iowa State (Nov. 20).

2021-22 (Sophomore - Columbia)
• Played in 24 games in her first competition season, averaging 2.0 points and 9.1 minutes per game
• Made her collegiate debut and scored her first points in the season-opening win against Hampton (Nov. 9)
• Made her Ivy League debut in the Ivy opener against Yale (Jan. 2)
• Scored a season-high 12 points in 13 minutes off the bench in a win at Harvard, going 5-of-7 from the field and 2-for-3 from the perimeter (Jan. 15)
• Made her postseason debut in the Ivy League Semifinal victory over Yale (Mar. 11)
• Played 14 minutes off the bench and scored two points in the Ivy Championship Final against Princeton (Mar. 12)
• Played in all four games during Columbia's run to the WNIT Quarterfinals
• Played 17 minutes and dished out a season-high five assists in a First Round victory over Patriot League Regular Season Champion Holy Cross (Mar. 16).

2020-21 (Freshman - Columbia)
  • Season canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic

High School
• Graduated from Pickerington Central High School in 2020
• Named to Super 12 Basketball First Team once and District 11 All-Star team twice
• Earned Second Team All-OCC and Second Team All-District honors in 2019
• Was Third Team All-Ohio, First Team All-District, and First Team All-OCC as a senior
• Led her team to four OCC titles, four district titles, two regional titles, a state championship, and a state runner-up

Personal
• Daughter of Tom and Maryanne Stephens
• Has two siblings, T.J. and Kyle
• Majoring in Sociology

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

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    2024-25Graduate Student

    Guard
    5'7"
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  • 21

    2025-26Graduate Student

    Guard
    5'7"
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