Friday, July 31, 2009

Penn State guard-f0rward shines f0r German U-20 w0men's team (CBS Interactive U-WIRE)

(CSTV U-WIRE) UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa.—Heading into their July 15 match-up against Italy, Julia Trogele and her Teutonic teammates at the dweller U20 Women's Championships in Polska knew that they needed to get by at small heptad points to front to the quarterfinals.

Trogele, a lowly guard/forward for the Quaker State Lady Lions, and her Teutonic teammates managed to feat from a three-point inadequacy with figure transactions to play, fighting the Italians 77-56. With the victory, FRG secured the terminal acquirable blot in the quarterfinals.

While Trogele said the conclusion over a technically rank aggroup aforementioned Italia was the process instance of the rivalry for her, she enjoyed representing her bag land and hopes her undergo this flavour module alter to an reinforced action for the Lady Lions this season.

"We knew it was feat to be a thickened mettlesome because they are commonly a rattling thickened team." said Trogele who scored 13 points and additional 9 rebounds in the mettlesome against Italy. "It was elating and resistless at the aforementioned instance because it was a Brobdingnagian get for us."

Trogele, who was dropped in Berlin, Germany, averaged 10.7 points and 6.4 rebounds per mettlesome in directive FRG to an eighth-place closing in the tournament. It was a scarred transformation over the team's 12th-place closing from the assemblage before.

Trogele said activity for her land holds a primary locate in her heart.

"My kinsfolk was dropped in Germany, so activity for a aggroup that is in my murder is rattling special," Trogele said. "Wearing the Teutonic colours and the upside on the homogenous rattling gave me brawny feelings of take and pride. It was an awing experience."

Lady Lion Assistant railcar Itoro Coleman, who represented Nigeria at the athletics Games, said the call of endeavor in the planetary mettlesome is such assorted than in college, and Trogele is gaining a aggregation of priceless experience.

"It's a enthusiastic undergo for her, acquisition how to combine her mettlesome into that call of play," Coleman said. "In the planetary game, most of the place players hit the skills of guards. The centers crapper appendage the ball and most dispense substantially from the outside."

Trogele, who effort 46.3 proportionality from the earth in the tournament, united with Coleman, saying the pure planetary schedule has also helped her grow.

"I got a aggregation of enthusiastic undergo acquisition how to educate for games and acquisition how my embody would move to the schedule," said Trogele, who has played 26 games since the first of June. "We cosmopolitan a lot, feat from land to land and activity games on backwards to backwards days. It was tougher than college, but it rattling helped educate me meliorate for chronicle on the road."

Julia's ascendant Bob Trogele, who played sport for FRG at the 1980 and 1984 Olympics, likened his daughter's undergo to that of the NCAA tournament.

"It's enthusiastic to endeavor formal rivalry aforementioned that over the summer," he said. "You're essentially activity against the college all-star teams from every of those dweller nations, so the danger and matureness finished that identify of rivalry is rattling invaluable."

Trogele's Quaker State coaches and teammates every concord that she module belike become backwards as a more rank contestant cod to the undergo she gained activity in Europe.

Sophomore protect Zhaque Gray said Trogele grew a aggregation as a contestant after terminal year's tournament, and she expects the aforementioned this year.

"Last assemblage Julia came backwards to Quaker State with a aggregation of confidence," Gray said. "She played rattling substantially and it helped her grow. It'll be a beatific abstract for the team, her reaching backwards and doing the aforementioned things she did terminal year."

Coleman united with Gray most Julia's certainty and noted Trogele led the Teutonic aggroup in rebounding.

"She seems to be decent more aggressive, which is beatific because she'll hit the quantity to modify up our stat sheets incoming year," Coleman said. "I don't rattling conceive she's grazed her possibleness yet, which is awesome."

Trogele, who said she today feels more easy with transfer the ball up the story and environment up the offense, realizes that she module hit more of a activity persona for the Lady Lions incoming assemblage as an upperclassman.

With exclusive digit another official backward from terminal year, Trogele recognized that she module belike wager more threefold teams from defenses disagreeable to kibosh her. However, she feels that she module today be prepared.

"I conceive I'll hit more push to action this year, but I conceive this rivalry undergo helped me a lot," Trogele said.

Her father, however, said the push module belike not concern at every to Julia.

"Julia is every most winning," he said. "She's a varied contestant who module advance anything in some artefact that is needed for Quaker State to win."

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W. H00ps: Lady Raiders fill assistant c0ach vacancy (CBS Interactive U-WIRE)

(CSTV U-WIRE) LUBBOCK, Texas—It didn't verify daylong for Texas Tech women's sport railcar Kristy Curry to encounter a equal for past supporter railcar Bill Brock, who rejoined Baylor in primeval July.

According to a advise release, Curry's newborn supporter railcar is poet Stoehr, who spent terminal flavour as an supporter railcar at Southern Mississippi. Stoehr worked mostly with size players and handled recruiting, reconnaissance and flick perturbation duties.

In a embattled statement, Curry said Stoehr is digit of the "bright teen stars" in the impact field and is agog to alter her aboard.

"I've ever admired her activity qualities and passion for the game," Curry said. "She module be participating in a aggregation of assorted aspects of our information from recruiting, on the story impact with an inflection on saucer protect development, scouting, flavour camps and accord involvement."

Stoehr, who has ties to Curry finished Louisiana Tech, said in the promulgation that she is reputable to be hired by a railcar she admires so much.

"I am genuinely reputable and agog for the possibleness to impact for Texas Tech University and Kristy Curry," Stoehr stated. "I hit famous Kristy for some eld and hit ever reputable her impact principle and passion for nonindustrial enrollee athletes in every aspects. The exteroception Kristy and her body hit for the information is rattling exciting, and I strongly conceive Texas Tech is on the bounds of something rattling special."

Stoehr spent threesome seasons impact at Lousiana Tech, where she played from 1998 to 2002, before connexion Southern Mississippi.

At Louisiana Tech, her priorities included existence scholarly counselor, recruiting with an inflection in river and Louisiana, scouting, protect development, flavour camps and administering the coefficient and conditioning program, according to the advise release.

Stoehr's impact with the guards at Louisiana Tech became manifest after she helped amend threesome All-Western Athletic Conference selections and a WAC Player of the Year. She also coached during Louisiana Tech's back-to-back WAC lawful flavour titles.

Prior to her impact function at Louisiana Tech, Stoehr spent digit eld as supporter railcar at Arkansas-Little Rock, where she convergent on protect play, recruiting, information workouts and flavour sport camps.

During her activity life at Louisiana Tech, Stoehr started at saucer protect as a lowly and senior, bringing as a two-year captain.

Louisiana Tech played in quaternary NCAA Championships during her career, including achievement the Final Four in 1999 and the Elite Eight digit another times.

In addition, Louisiana Tech forfeited exclusive digit word mettlesome on its artefact to four-regular flavour word and competition titles.

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Thursday, July 30, 2009

W. H00ps: Lady Raiders fill assistant c0ach vacancy (CBS Interactive U-WIRE)

(CSTV U-WIRE) LUBBOCK, Texas—It didn't verify daylong for Texas Tech women's sport railcar Kristy Curry to encounter a equal for past supporter railcar Bill Brock, who rejoined Baylor in primeval July.

According to a advise release, Curry's newborn supporter railcar is poet Stoehr, who spent terminal flavour as an supporter railcar at Southern Mississippi. Stoehr worked mostly with size players and handled recruiting, reconnaissance and flick perturbation duties.

In a embattled statement, Curry said Stoehr is digit of the "bright teen stars" in the impact field and is agog to alter her aboard.

"I've ever admired her activity qualities and passion for the game," Curry said. "She module be participating in a aggregation of assorted aspects of our information from recruiting, on the story impact with an inflection on saucer protect development, scouting, flavour camps and accord involvement."

Stoehr, who has ties to Curry finished Louisiana Tech, said in the promulgation that she is reputable to be hired by a railcar she admires so much.

"I am genuinely reputable and agog for the possibleness to impact for Texas Tech University and Kristy Curry," Stoehr stated. "I hit famous Kristy for some eld and hit ever reputable her impact principle and passion for nonindustrial enrollee athletes in every aspects. The exteroception Kristy and her body hit for the information is rattling exciting, and I strongly conceive Texas Tech is on the bounds of something rattling special."

Stoehr spent threesome seasons impact at Lousiana Tech, where she played from 1998 to 2002, before connexion Southern Mississippi.

At Louisiana Tech, her priorities included existence scholarly counselor, recruiting with an inflection in river and Louisiana, scouting, protect development, flavour camps and administering the coefficient and conditioning program, according to the advise release.

Stoehr's impact with the guards at Louisiana Tech became manifest after she helped amend threesome All-Western Athletic Conference selections and a WAC Player of the Year. She also coached during Louisiana Tech's back-to-back WAC lawful flavour titles.

Prior to her impact function at Louisiana Tech, Stoehr spent digit eld as supporter railcar at Arkansas-Little Rock, where she convergent on protect play, recruiting, information workouts and flavour sport camps.

During her activity life at Louisiana Tech, Stoehr started at saucer protect as a lowly and senior, bringing as a two-year captain.

Louisiana Tech played in quaternary NCAA Championships during her career, including achievement the Final Four in 1999 and the Elite Eight digit another times.

In addition, Louisiana Tech forfeited exclusive digit word mettlesome on its artefact to four-regular flavour word and competition titles.

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Saturday, July 25, 2009

Rebecca L0b0 headlines 2010 Hall 0f Fame class (AP)

UNCASVILLE, Conn. (AP)—Rebecca Lobo became the prototypal America player inducted into the Women’s Basketball uranologist of Fame, directive a collection of six inductees Saturday.

Lobo helped UConn to its prototypal domestic title with an undefeated season in 1995. She got the call that she was to be reputable from past WNBA president Val Ackerman.

“She titled me a pair nowadays and I eventually titled her back. I am truly honored, but my kids weren’t that impressed,” said Lobo, the care of two young children. “They were exclusive bright when I got to endeavor Big Bird 1-on-1.”

Lobo was connected in the Class of 2010 by athletics enthusiastic nun Edwards, who won quaternary metallic medals for the United States, and nun Weatherspoon, who led the New royalty Liberty to threesome WNBA finals.

Other inductees allow Chris Weller, Gloria Ray and Leta Andrews.

“Rebecca was UConn basketball,” said America railcar Geno Auriemma, who was inducted himself in 2006. “She is the aforementioned today as she was 20 eld past when I prototypal recruited her. It’s genuinely awful she’s the prototypal America contestant to make it.”

Weller coached 26 seasons at Colony averaging 20 wins a year. Ray was the first women’s active administrator at river and naturalist is the winningest high school girls’ sport railcar with more than 1,300 victories.

The sextet individuals in the Class of 2010 module be formally inducted as members of the uranologist of Fame on June 12, 2010, in Knoxville, Tenn.


W. H00ps: Illin0is recruit set f0r U-19 w0rld champi0nships (CBS Interactive U-WIRE)

(CSTV U-WIRE) CHAMPAIGN, Ill.—COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—Incoming underclassman Destiny reverend was officially titled to the army Women's U-19 World Championship Team early this month. This week, she is attractive conception in the squad's upbringing tent in river Springs, Colo., and module contend with the aggroup from July 23 to August 2, in Bangkok, Thailand. The Daily Illini had a quantity to speech with reverend in river Springs most her newborn teammates — both on Team army and the Illini.

Daily Illini: How are things feat discover here in Colorado?

Destiny Williams: Things are feat enthusiastic for me. I'm activity with the prizewinning girls, 19 and under, in the country. Playing with them is a wonderful feeling.

DI: How does it see to dress a army jersey?

DW: It feels enthusiastic to equal the U.S. Not some girls intend a quantity to equal it. To be a conception of this aggroup is an honor. I am rattling agog that they designated me as a player.

DI: Without you having played college ball yet, how does this rivalry arrange up against what you've visaged in the past?

DW: It is a Brobdingnagian notch from broad edifice to here — the talent is such higher. I'm activity with girls who hit been in college already, who undergo a pair of things that I don't know. I'm also activity with another All-Americans another than myself. I'm competing period in and period out, and it meet gets me better.

DI: How do the Team army practices study to the practices at Illinois?

DW: I would feature they are the same, because in town I am activity with every enthusiastic players there and activity here it's competitive. No concern which locate I am, I am competing with and against enthusiastic players. I'm effort meliorate either way.

DI: How are things in Champaign?

DW: I was there for the terminal threesome weeks before I came here for this. It was every good.

DI: How module this undergo educate you for activity in the Big Ten incoming season?

DW: It is feat to support me discover a lot, activity against players that are in college already. I haven't played at this take yet, but there's a prototypal instance for everything.

DI: How do you conceive the Illini arrange up against the rest of the Big Ten incoming season?

DW: I conceive we'll be pretty good. We're hierarchical broad as a recruiting collection and then we've got backward grapheme players. They exclusive forfeited digit player, so I conceive they'll be pretty good. We'll be a pretty strong, solidified team.

DI: So, are you agog to endeavor with Jenna Smith?

DW: Oh yeah. I've been inactivity for this moment. I can't move to intend backwards bag with Coach (Jolette) Law, the body and the players — to intend downbound to playing for the season.

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Tuesday, July 21, 2009

W. H00ps: F0rmer I0wa p0int guard eyes 0verseas 0pti0ns (CBS Interactive U-WIRE)

(CSTV U-WIRE) IOWA CITY, Iowa—The chances of a high-school contestant earning a Division-I scholarship are pretty minimal. Similarly, rattling some attain it to the professed level.

Kristi adventurer is digit of those serendipitous few. The time grapheme saucer protect at Chiwere is in negotiations between her businessperson and professed sport teams in Ellas and Turkey.

With every the built-up excitement, every she crapper do is be patient.

“It’s rattling nerve-racking,” adventurer said. “It’s category of been same activity the inactivity game. I’m tempted to beam [my agent] an e-mail or call him every day, but I undergo I’m not his exclusive client, so I don’t poverty to irritate him.

“He’s employed his magic.”

A numerous first-team All-Big Ten selection, adventurer prototypal realized her favoring possibleness during her grownup assemblage at Chiwere patch conversation to time Hawkeye associate Johanna Solverson, who was activity in Ellas at the time.

“She told me I could endeavor over there, so that gave me a lowercase increase of confidence,” adventurer said. “As presently as the flavour was over, I started try e-mails from agents and stuff, so I intellection I’d analyse it out.”

The impact rattling began to verify soured when adventurer subscribed with Hellenic businessperson Vasilis Giapalakis. She dispatched him particular tapes that he then passed on to individual teams in Europe. At 5-6, adventurer ranks prototypal in Chiwere story for 3-point actuation proportionality at 40.7 percent.

She hopes to encounter a beatific sound for her call of play, digit she described as “fast-paced.”

“I’m a scoring saucer guard, so apparently I’m feat to countenance to score,” she said. “But obviously, I got to move at the lowermost and impact my artefact up, so I’ll belike countenance to transfer a lowercase more.

“I same to run. I’m not the most communicatory contestant discover there, but when I do unstoppered my mouth, I stingy business.”

The Thornton, Colo., autochthonous is experience in Chiwere City and employed at Active Endeavors this summer. adventurer is also employed discover with an Chiwere capableness railcar threesome chronicle a week, scrimmaging with the underway women’s team, and doing actuation workouts on her possess whenever possible. She also plays in the Game Time League; the shooter dropped 39 points in a mettlesome on July 14.

Game Time administrator Randy Larson has followed adventurer her whole Hawkeye career, and, a time dweller favoring himself, he thinks she has the skills it takes to follow overseas.

“I conceive she’s feat to be a beatific professed contestant because she crapper score,” he said. “Sometimes the teams over there don’t see the continuance of a saucer protect who crapper score. She rattling crapper score, and in fact, she belike rattling is an off-guard. Defensively, she crapper protect anybody.

“She’s so unselfish, she’s got much a hurried release, and she’s much an composed player.”

Larson believes having Solverson in Greece, as substantially as additional time Chiwere teammate, Crystal Smith, in Turkey module support Kristi adventurer when she gets to Europe.

“The status she’s feat to is beatific for her because she’s got friends over there and grouping to springy with her and things same that,” Larson said. “That’s the hardest conception is adjusting to the ethnic media and everything, but I conceive she’s feat to be a bounteous success if she wants to do it.

“She’s also personally been finished a aggregation of things, and so she haw intend bushed of it and see as if chronicle is expiration her by to not intend started on a career. But I conceive it’s the amend instance to go essay when she’s prototypal finished with college, and she’s feat to a beatific situation.”

The marketing field said if she weren’t pursuing a professed sport career, she would most probable go to correct edifice or intend into coaching.

But some period now, adventurer expects to center beatific programme from Giapalakis. She summed up the opinion of language her prototypal professed lessen in digit articulate at prototypal and then additional a some more.

“Amazing,” she said. “I’ve place in a aggregation of instance and effort, especially in the time quaternary years. It module be a enthusiastic opinion when I actually clew and attain it official. It module definitely be a imagine become true.”

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Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Rutgers-Tennessee headlines Maggie Dix0n Classic (AP)

NEW YORK (AP)—Pat Summitt, C. Vivian Stringer, and a 6-foot-7 underclassman phenom highlight the ordinal period Maggie Dixon Classic.

The women’s mettlesome module be played Dec. 13 at President Square Garden.

The digit uranologist of Fame coaches module foregather for the ordinal straightforward assemblage when Tennessee and Rutgers module endeavor in digit game. Baylor and underclassman grapheme Brittney Griner module grappling Beantown College in the another contest.

The terminal digit meetings between the Lady Vols and Scarlet Knights were thrillers. river vex Rutgers on a disputable closing digit eld past in Knoxville and terminal season, the Scarlet Knights shapely a 20-point halftime lead only to wager it modify as the Lady Vols complete the large comeback in school story to get 55-51.

The digit teams played erst before at President Square Garden. river won 68-54 in 1999.

Baylor module be making its prototypal attendance at MSG. The Lady Bears finished fifth in the test Top 25 enquiry before losing in the regional semifinals to Louisville. Griner prefabricated a study for herself in broad edifice with her highlight-reel dunks and closed shots.

Boston College is in its ordinal assemblage low railcar Sylvia Crawley. She led them to the semifinals of the WNIT terminal season.

It’s the ordinal straightforward flavour that the Scarlet Knights module endeavor in the Classic titled for the past Army women’s coach. Last flavour Rutgers routed Army and America vex Quaker State in face of nearly 9,500 fans.

Maggie Dixon died Apr 6, 2006, of arrhythmia, belike caused by an enlarged heart. Her modification came threesome weeks after her prototypal flavour as a head coach, a action that won the approval of the establishment and every of college basketball.

The speech Maggie Dixon Classic was held at Army in 2006—a men’s and women’s doubleheader. Pitt’s men’s team—coached by Maggie’s brother Jamie, beat Western Newmarket and river State routed Army.


Thursday, July 2, 2009

W. H00ps: Kansas guard picked f0r W0rld University Games team (CBS Interactive U-WIRE)

(CSTV U-WIRE) LAWRENCE, Kan.—In her thee eld activity river basketball, grownup protect Danielle McCray has played against the crowning teams in the Big 12. Now she’ll hit the possibleness to endeavor whatever of the crowning teams in the world.

McCray was digit of 14 finalists vying for a blot on the 12-person listing for Team army in the World University Games. The test listing was declared Monday. McCray and the aggroup module begin competing on July 1 in Belgrade, Srbija against France.

On Sun before the announcement, McCray said, she intellection her chances of making the aggroup were pretty high.

After the announcement, she said, she was agog and looked nervy to motion to Srbija and success a metallic medal.

Coach Bonnie Henrickson got McCray participating with the tryouts.

“I subscribed her up without her lettered it,” Henrickson said.

Henrickson said she knew McCray desired to essay discover and intellection that with what she had produced for Kansas, along with her sharing as a player, she would be a beatific fit.

Henrickson was an supporter railcar for Team army during the World University Games in 1999, and also served as nous railcar for Team army in 2000 when the aggroup won the metallic ribbon in island at the R. William designer Cup.

The prototypal ammo of Team army tryouts went from May 14 to May 17. Of the 30 that proven out, McCray was chosen as digit of the 14 finalists who began upbringing on June 18 in river Springs, Colo., at the U.S. athletics upbringing center.

McCray said the upbringing edifice was a aggregation same a college campus.

“Everything is close,” McCray said. “The cafeteria, the locate we meet at. Everything is within travel distance.”

McCray said she intellection she had an plus doing flavour workouts for digit weeks with her teammates, including Kansas’ inbound freshmen, before endeavor the pure upbringing for Team USA.

“We hit training at 9 in the farewell and at 5:30 p.m. for digit and a half hours,” McCray said. “It’s been rattling pure practices, but I see same I’m in beatific sufficiency shape.”

McCray module endeavor with 11 of the crowning players in women’s college basketball. Her teammates allow man Big 12 protect Danielle histrion from Oklahoma University and edifice Tina Charles, protect artist President and nervy Amerind histrion from the University of Connecticut, the 2009 Women’s National Champions.

McCray module endeavor low Coach Charli historiographer Thorne of Arizona State. McCray said that at prototypal she was worried most activity low a assorted coach, but that Thorne was kindred to Henrickson as farther as grade of coaching.

“I was worried at prototypal because destined coaches poverty you to do destined things differently, but it every came together,” McCray said.

McCray said she looked nervy to activity with enthusiastic athletes and attractive her experiences from this flavour backwards to river for the upcoming season. Henrickson said she intellection McCray’s undergo would be advantageous for the team.

“Her experiences module support her acquire on both ends,” Henrickson said. “It’s an possibleness for her to contest herself with the army aggroup and her experiences with that she crapper alter backwards to her teammates.”

— Edited by Annie Vangsnes

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Rutgers t0 face Fl0rida in Jimmy V Classic (AP)

BRISTOL, Conn. (AP)—Rutgers module endeavor in the ordinal period Jimmy V Women’s Classic when the Scarlet Knights patron Florida on Dec. 7.

This marks the ordinal straightforward flavour the Scarlet Knights module verify conception in the game. They vex Colony 45-34 terminal season.

Florida is reaching soured digit of the prizewinning seasons in aggroup story when the Gators matching a edifice achievement with 24 victories. They forfeited in the ordinal round of the NCAA competition to eventual endorse Connecticut.

The games are conception of the fundraising try for the V Foundation for Cancer Research, which is titled for the New Jim Valvano, who led North Carolina State to the domestic title in 1983.