Johnson, Taylor Verbals; Dream Team?

#1 posting 8.11.2006
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VERBALS
SD
Vanessa Johnson, West Central 2009, has made an early verbal to South Dakota State. The 5-9 guard averaged 19 ppg last year. The Sioux Falls Argus Leader has more.
WI
Natalie Taylor, DePere has made a verbal to Southern Illinois. Minnesota was one of the schools interested according to the article in the Green Bay Press-Gazette. The 5-10 forward helped DePere win the Wisconsin D1 title (biggest school) two years ago.

VERBALS

SIGNING
MN
Rebekah Fitzgerald, Faribault, and Rochester CC, has signed to play volleyball and basketball at UM Crookston. Here is more from the Crookston Times.

COACHING NEWS
SD
Former Sioux Falls Roosevelt coach Fred Tibbetts is fighting colon cancer. Tibbetts won 11 tournament titles in SD. Here is the story from KELO tv in Sioux Falls
COLLEGE
Barry Schrock will be joining head coach Eileen Kleinfelter again at Central Michigan. They coached together at Findlay. Here is more on the new assistant from the Mount Pleasant Morning Star.

COACHING OPENINGS

TRANSFERS
MN
Hannah Potter, 6-1 2009, will be open enrolling at Edina. She was in neighboring Hopkins.

HS TRANSFERS

ALL STAR GAMES
MI
The Michigan Coaches All Star game took place last weekend, and the Black won 84-61 in the AB division. Melissa Jeltema of Grand Rapids Christian won the MVP award. She will at Oakland in the fall. Here is the Grand Rapids Press with more details.
Another story from the All Star game is the Grandville combination of 6-8 Allysa DeHaan and coach Charlie DeRyke together for one last hurrah. Again the GR Press.

FOREIGN TOURNAMENTS
USA 20U
The 20u USA team had no problems in a 124-38 shredding of host Mexico. Jolene Anderson, Wisconsin had 15 points. There is more stats, quotes and schedules at the USA site. The big game will be with Brazil who is also undefeated. Here is the FIBA Americas tournament site where you can find out more on the other teams.

MI
The Magic, an 18u Upper Peninsula team won the Delfin basketball tournament in Tampere Finland. They defeated the defending champ and European 2006 champion Nokia of Finland 48-36. More in the story from the Marquette Minning Journal.

DREAM TEAMS AND WINNING
Again the Wages of Wins talks about the USA men's team and their struggles against NBA reserves and role players in a 90-86 win over Brazil. What made the original dream team different from current versions? The answers come by reading the article.

Thanks to all the readers that make this site the first and last source of girls basketball news. Keep up the good work. Keep me fed.

Next up: later today an analysis of the Lynx and Sacramento game. On Sunday I hand out summer awards, name all this and all that with players and teams, and tournaments.