#1 posting 8.2.2006
your daily dose of girls basketball news & information
VERBALS
MN
Jenny Theisen, Champlin Park to MN State Moorhead
VERBALS
SIGNINGS
HAWAII
Chaminade has signed three players for the inaugural upcoming season: Simrin Cummins, Lake Benton, OR CC; Katherine Carlisle, Grays Harbor College; Marion Murphy, Solano CA California. Here is the press release.
HOW TO RECRUIT
Here is how Texas El Paso does its recruiting. I picked this article up from True Hoop.
BANNING MALE PRACTICE PLAYERS?
College teams use male practice players and the women players find it helps. It is a hot topic and proposed bans look like it doesn't have broad support. Here is the post from Women's Hoop Blog.
COACHING NEWS
SD
Rapid City Stevens is looking for a new coach. Lance Luitjens resigned his position as coach and accepted a principal job in Parker, Colorado. RCS was 50-34 in four years under Luitjens. More from the Rapid City Journal.
COACHING OPENINGS
TOURNAMENTS
MICHIGAN
The State tournament will be held at Eastern Michigan's Convocation Center starting in 2007
NATIONAL TEAM
Seimone Augustus of the Lynx was named to the USA national team that will be playing in Brazil September 12-23. More from the St. Paul Pioneer Press.
MN ELITE CAMP
Hallie Hoganson, Detroit Lakes won the 1 on 1 tournament at the MN Elite camp last week.
SUMMER LEAGUE
MN
Chisago Lakes will have the semifinals and finals of their summer league tonight. The original date was moved due to the heat.
Hancock won the Alexandria SL. There were 12 teams involved in this league. They were the #1 seed in the tournament. They opened with #8 Brandon-Evansville and beat them 52-20. Sauk Rapids was the next victim in the semifinals 41-30. Host Alexandria fell in the finals 46-43. Hancock was 21-4-1 for the summer season.
HS TRANSFERS
Next up: more from the Lynx/Storm game offensive style; and the last two championship games from the Meltdown.