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2008 Coaching Changes
As the 2007-2008 comes to a close, please check below for the latest team transactions for the upcoming season. Be sure to check out the WBCA Resource Center to search for jobs or resumes.
Coaching Changes
NEW! Academic Progress Rate Changes
NEW!! Fall 2008 freshmen are required to have 16 core courses to qualify – check now with your recruits to be sure they will meet the requirement.
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2008-09 Basketball Rules Changes.
The Basketball Rules Committee has approved the 2008-09 Rules changes. Please click on your respective division to view the whole list of the changes as well as the Points of Emphasis.
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DI Coaches…USA Basketball U18 Team
7-18-08 The Women’s U18 National Team has reported to DC and will not be released prior to departing for Argentina July 20. Therefore it is NOT permissible for DI coaches to have contact with those psa’s during the July dead period. Coaches may speak to parents (counts towards call limits) and corre
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NEW WBCA Employment Opportunities
The WBCA is currently seeking a marketing intern for a one-year, full-time internship.
The WBCA is also looking to hire a Manager of Awards and Communications Coordinator for a full-time position.
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Lisa Leslie's golden glow: 36-year-old helps U.S. team to 4th straight Olympic championship
8-25-08--Lisa Leslie will take her neck full of clanking gold medals and go home now, a well-decorated hero. But for the U.S. women's basketball dynasty, there is no end in sight.
While it won't be easy to replace Leslie, the 6-foot-5 center who has anchored four straight undefeated Olympic
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An Invitation to Present
The WBCA is searching for speakers to present at the 2009 WBCA National Convention in St. Louis.
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A&M Hall grows by 8 tonight
8-29-08--Eight members will be inducted into the Alabama A&M University Athletic Hall of Fame at 7 tonight at the Ernest L. Knight Reception Center.
The Class of 2008 includes Michelle Byas (basketball), and former women's basketball coach Press Parham, who will be inducted posthumously. <
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OSU's Andrea Riley suspended one NCAA Tournament game
8-28-08--The NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Committee has handed Oklahoma State guard Andrea Riley a one-game NCAA Tournament suspension for a "fighting situation" that occurred during the second half of the Oklahoma State-LSU regional semifinal game on March 29 at the New Orleans Regional
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Losing Record but a Winning Gate
8-29-08--A list of the WNBA teams with the three highest attendance averages doesn't elicit surprise. Detroit, New York and Los Angeles have long histories of success, boast some of the premier players in women's basketball and are regular playoff contenders.
More curious, though, is that
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Engendering competition
8-28-08--When interim coach Jessie Kenlaw mapped out the areas in which the Washington Mystics needed to improve during the Olympic break, defense and tenacity topped her list.
As Washington embarked on a month of practice while the WNBA regular season paused for the Beijing Games, Kenlaw
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Jackson has ankle surgery, will likely miss 4-6 weeks
8-28-08--Seattle Storm star Lauren Jackson had surgery on her right ankle Thursday in Australia.
Storm coach Brian Agler spoke to Jackson as she was walking out of the hospital in Sydney following the surgery. Jackson told Agler that a bone spur, which had lodged in her ankle joint, was rem
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T-Mobile Partners with WNBA
8-28-08--T-Mobile, the wireless network provider, plans to strengthen its partnership with the WNBA (Woman’s National Basketball Association). The company will be presenting the league’s MVP (Most Valuable Player) in the upcoming months.
T-Mobile has been the telecom partner of the WNB
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LUDACRIS LENDS SUPPORT TO “DREAM PINK” NIGHT
-- Upcoming R&B Artist Jarvis to Perform at Halftime--
ATLANTA, August 27, 2008— Upcoming R&B artist Jarvis, the newest addition to the Disturbing Tha Peace record label, will headline the entertainment with a halftime performance at the Atlanta Dream’s “Dream Pink” game on August 29, 2008.
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Wofford to host five Terriers Go Pink Days during 2008-09
August 27, 2008
SPARTANBURG, S.C. – Wofford athletics will continue its support for breast cancer research by holding five “Terriers Go Pink” Days throughout the 2008-09 academic year. The five events will cover each of the women’s sports which have home events: soccer, volleyball, bas
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Hoops facility costs $30 million
8-28-08--Riding the wave of move-in madness at Virginia Tech, returning students may have taken notice of a number of construction sites throughout campus. In the fourth section of this four-part series, the Collegiate Times will provide an update on the coming changes to the athletic departmen
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Basketball star displays perfection
8-28-08--Consistently stopping dribble penetration and forcing an opposing player to drive with their off-hand: these are defensive skills that will never be found in a basketball box score. Becoming a lock-down defender is a task that requires resourcefulness and a love for studying opponents'
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Val Ackerman Recipient of Basketball Hall of Fame Lifetime Award
8-26-08--Val Ackerman, current President of USA Basketball & former and founding President of WNBA, will receive the 2008 John W. Bunn Lifetime Achievement Award from the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame during Enshrinement festivities September 4-6 in Springfield, Massachusetts.
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CVCC adds women hoops
8-26-08--For the first time in its 50-year history, Catawba Valley Community College will offer women's basketball and men's baseball.
The college's Board of Trustees accepted a recommendation from CVCC President Garrett Hinshaw to add the two new athletic programs next fall as a way t
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Women's Basketball Preps for Canadian Exhibition Trip
8-25-08--The LSU women’s basketball team, which has advanced to five straight NCAA Final Fours, began preparations Monday for a Labor Day weekend exhibition trip to Vancouver, Canada.
According to NCAA regulations, teams are allowed to make a trip away from the United States every four yea
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Americans establish Olympic camp for Iraqi girls
8-25-08--During the next Summer Olympics in 2012, Sarah Hillyer hopes to be rooting for the Iraqi women's basketball team.
It may be a long shot, but it's at least a possibility now that Hillyer and other former collegiate players have organized the first Iraqi women's Olympic basketball tr
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Ex-UConn recruit DelleDonne enrolls at Delaware for volleyball
8-25-08--Elena DelleDonne has enrolled at Delaware and joined its volleyball team as a non-scholarship member, less than one week after she was released from her basketball scholarship at the University of Connecticut.
At a news conference Monday, DelleDonne said she has no intention of pla
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The Southeastern Conference and ESPN/ABC agree to long-term deal
The Southeastern Conference and ESPN/ABC have reached a 15-year agreement, beginning in 2009-10, for the broadcasting more than 5,500 events, including football, men's and women's basketball, "Olympic sports" and championships.
The main networks, ESPN and ESPN2, will continue to air Saturda
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Snead State hires new women’s basketball coach
8-21-08--Jarrod Plummer’s first week on the job at Snead State Community College was a busy one. Recently tabbed to lead the women’s basketball program, Plummer spent his first day on the job at a coaches’ retreat. After that, Plummer got busy on the recruiting trail, trying to find the players he w
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OU women's basketball: Plumley hasn't enrolled for fall classes
Oklahoma point guard Jenna Plumley might be finished at OU.
OU associate director of media relations Jared Thompson confirmed Thursday that Plumley, a 5-foot-4 junior from Red Rock, has yet to enroll for the fall semester, which starts Monday.
Plumley was suspended for the 2008-2009 season
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WOMEN'S BASKETBALL U.S. IN FAMILIAR TERRITORY
8-22-08-The U.S. women's basketball team passed its first test of the Olympics, beating Russia in its closest contest in Beijing. Now it's on to a fourth successive gold-medal game.
Diana Taurasi scored 21 points and Tina Thompson added 15 to help the United States pull away from Russia 67-52 on
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Nicole Beauregard Named Women’s Basketball Coach
8-21-08--Nicole Beauregard has been hired as the head women’s basketball coach at The College at Brockport as announced by Director of Athletics Lin Case.
Beauregard takes over the head coaching duties after Michele Carron stepped down from coaching for health reasons after 16 years at the helm.
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U.S. women roll past South Korea to Olympic semis
8-20-08 Sylvia Fowles and the U.S. women's basketball team were too big for South Korea to handle.
Fowles scored 26 points and grabbed 14 rebounds to lead the U.S. to a 104-60 rout of South Korea on Tuesday night and advance to the semifinals of women's basketball.
The Americans w
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Shock sign McWilliams-Franklin to extension, Shields to 7-day deal
8-20-08 The Detroit Shock signed six-time WNBA All-Star Taj McWilliams-Franklin to a one-year contract extension and free-agent Ashley Shields to a seven-day contract on Tuesday.
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Jackson opts to have ankle surgery, could end WNBA season
8-20-08 Australian and WNBA star Lauren Jackson will undergo surgery on a nagging right ankle injury after the Olympics are over.
A statement released by the Australia Olympic Committee said Jackson has an impingement at the front of her right ankle joint. She has required repeated injectio
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Roesch joins USAFA women's basketball staff
8-19-08 Lt. Jennifer Roesch has agreed to become an assistant coach on the Air Force women's basketball staff, head coach Ardie McInelly announced last week. Roesch was a four-year letter winner on the Falcon basketball team from 2001-05.
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Nation's top recruit Delle Donne withdraws from UConn
8-19-08 Elena Delle Donne, who was the top-rated women's basketball player in the 2008 recruiting class, has decided not to attend Connecticut, the school announced Saturday.
In a statement Monday, Delle Donne said she would enroll at the University of Delaware this fall. Her statement did
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Carol Owens is the BCA Coach of the Week
8-19-08 Carol Owens, the USA Women's U18 National Team, is this week's BCA Coach of the Week. Coach Owens led the team to a gold medal, finishing undefeated in the Women's FIBA Americas U18 Championship in Argentina. The first-place finish qualified the USA for a bid in the 2009 FIBA U19 World Champ
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Ruppel Takes Helm of Women's Basketball Program
8-19-08 Luke Ruppel, who has fourteen years of head-coaching experience at all levels, has been named interim women’s head basketball coach at Vassar College. Ruppel takes over for previous head coach Angel Mason, who accepted an assistant coaching position at her alma mater, Butler University.
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Shock's Ford undergoes surgery on right knee
8-19-08 Detroit Shock forward Cheryl Ford has had surgery to reconstruct the anterior cruciate ligament in her right knee.
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Former UConn forward re-signs with Sun
8-19-08 Former University of Connecticut star Asjha Jones signed a three-year contract extension with the WNBA's Connecticut Sun.
Terms of the deal announced Wednesday weren't released.
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Colby names Clancy assistant women's basketball coach
8-19-08 Christine Clancy, who was an assistant coach at Smith College the last two years, has been named the assistant coach for women's basketball at Colby College.
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Joan Bonvicini Joins Sport Tours International Staff
8-19-08 Joan Bonvicini, one of only 18 head coaches in Division I women’s basketball history to win 600 games, has joined the staff at Sport Tours International according to company president Lee Frederick. Bonvicini, most recently the head coach at the University of Arizona, will help Sport Tours m
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U.S. women finish pool play unbeaten after blowout
8-19-08 Tina Thompson scored 10 of her 15 points during a 21-0 run in the second quarter and the U.S. women's basketball team beat New Zealand 96-60 on Sunday night.
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Thompson keys third quarter run as US beats Spain
8-15-08 — Tina Thompson scores nine of her 17 points in a decisive third quarter run and the U.S. women's basketball team pulls away from Spain 93-55 in a sloppy game Friday night.
The U.S. had won its first three games by an average of 47 points, putting the game away by the half in all the vic
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Sirens dumped from league
8-14-08--The Christchurch-based Sirens women's basketball franchise have been dumped from the Australian league (WNBL), after a single season.
The team's future became uncertain two weeks ago when a sponsor withdrew and left the team with insufficient funding to stay in Christchurch.
Welling
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Jimmy V Pairings Announced
8-13-08--The women's game, held at Rutgers University in Piscataway, N.J. for the third consecutive year, will feature national powers Georgia vs. Rutgers at 7 p.m. ET on ESPN2. The men's doubleheader, held at the famed Madison Square Garden for the sixth consecutive event, will pit defending S
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NCAA reveals 8 finalists for women's Final Fours
8-14-08--The new Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, already slated for the 2012 Super Bowl, is one of eight finalists for the NCAA Division I women's basketball Final Four that year.
The NCAA said Wednesday the five tourney hosts from 2012 through 2016 will be selected from among Indianapolis; C
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U.S. women's basketball team still perfect, and so is Lisa Leslie
8-14-08--Lisa Leslie set a United States Olympic shooting record, going 7-for-7 from the field Wednesday, as the women's team rolled over Mali, 97-41.
Another record?" said Leslie, who scored 16 points. "Oh well, records are meant to be broken.
It feels good, but we just wanted to get
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Lowell honors grandmother who once scored 102 points in a basketball game
8-13-08--Gayle Waldrop Fulbright scored 3,613 points for the Lowell High School Women's Basketball Team between 1952 and 1956. She once scored 102 points in a single game - also a county record that still stands.
Fulbright returned to Lowell Monday, where she was honored by the town for her upco
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NCAA names women's basketball committee head
8-13-08--Duke associate athletic director Jacki Silar has been chosen chairwoman of the NCAA Division I women's basketball committee for 2008-09.
She succeeds LSU senior associate athletic director Judy Southard, who chaired the committee the past two years.
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Test your Women's Basketball Knowledge with the New Video Game
8-18-08 -- Remember the schoolyard basketball game H.O.R.S.E. ? Remember how much fun it was to beat your opponent at this game? Well, Ronald Robinson Entertainment can bring those memories back to life. Introducing the new video game..Show me your game.
"Show Me Your Game" takes the simple
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Fron Named Women's Basketball Head Coach
8-8-08-- The Spring Hill College Department of Athletics and Recreation announced the hiring of Ray Fron as the new head coach of its women's basketball program on Friday. Fron comes to The Hill following an extremely successful 12-year tenure as the assistant women's basketball coach at Aquinas Co
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Tina Thompson leads U.S. women's basketball win over China, 108-63
8-12-08--With an average victory margin of 42.5 points through two games, the U.S. women's Olympic basketball team could be forgiven for any of the following:
Daydreaming. Overconfidence. Hubris. Gold-medal sizings.
But anyone wondering if Team USA is looking past Mali, Wednesday's ligh
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Wildcat women off to see the world
8-11-08--After several years of planning, the Weber State University women's basketball team embarks today on what coach Carla Taylor calls "the trip of a lifetime."
The Wildcats leave today for a 10-day, two-country tour of France and Switzerland where they will play three games against foreign
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