Menomonie Memorial Day Tournament

#1 posting 5.25.2006
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COLLEGE NEWS
Or in this case JC/Community College news. Waukesha County Technical College will no longer be fielding a team. It cuts $150,000 from the budget as the trustees are trying to save some money. Here is more from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

COACHING OPENINGS

SIGNINGS
IA
Bethany Mahmens, Northeast will be headed to Ashford University.
MI
Angela Guisfredi, Lake Linden will play for Michigan Tech

Here is a list of players that already have made verbals. If you know of others let me know and then the list will be updated. The list is by class, alphabetical by player, within each state. This is list does not include any 2006s.
VERBALS

TOURNAMENTS
DAKOTA SHOWCASE
Here is a list of players that will be taking part in the Dakota Showcase June 29-July 1 in Sioux Falls. The two missing teams are ECI from ND.
This site will fill you in on the background of the Dakota Showcase and during the tournament you will be able to find boxscores after the games, stats, and all sorts information
This is the site for the Miss Basketball Showcase in Kearney, Nebraska July 13-16 with information that will be updated on site as the tournament rolls on.
WI
Memorial Day Classic in Menomonie this weekend 16Gold/18 this is pool play 16gold/18 brackets 16blue 15gold/16 15blue 14pool 14brackets Court locations Play ends on Sunday. There will be no games on Monday

MN AAU
The Nate Vanek Memorial tournament will be held at Prior Lake this weekend. With Memorial Day coming and the State Tournament just past the field is pretty thin. The Rochester Shock is in one pool of three and Elite Storm in the other. There is no age classification, just high school. Finals on Sunday at 6

AAU ROSTERS

OVERSEAS
WI
UW LaCrosse coach Lois Hereen will be taking a team of WIAC players over to London June 19-27 in a Goodwill Series games. Here is the press release from UW Platteville which has Holly Kaiser, Liz Tesch, and Lisa Grantman on the roster.

BOOK PROGRESS
I have finished entering data for ND teams in the Grand Forks, Fargo & Wahpeton areas. Now I go through Bismarck, Minot, Williston and Dickinson. I finished the team portion of MN last week. I will be looking to get another computer sometime today. In the next few weeks, I will have a part time worker entering the mountain of information that goes into the publication.
The MN, US, and college books should be ready to roll out by the time of the MN Girls Basketball Fall Clinic in late September/early October. Cost is a low, low $99 for the whole package. More information on ordering will be presented late in the summer and September.

Next up: later today with the MN 14u Championship game between Metro Stars and MN Stars. I kept seeing Stars all weekend. Also a Look at the Lynx vs Detroit last night.
This weekend: a comparision between the teams I coached in AAU back in the day (we were 15u state champs in 1997) what happened to them after that tournament, and what may happen to the current crop. Plus The all tournament teams from last weekends state tournament.