Kalin, Madrigal Verbals; Role Players & Chemistry

#1 posting 8.10.2006
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VERBALS
IA
Iowa Select I's Jackie Kalin, Sioux City North and Rachel Madrigal, Decorah have recently made verbals to Northern Iowa. They will be joining ISI teammate Erin Brocka from North Butler. All three players made the Iowa State tournament last year.

VERBALS

COACHING NEWS
COLLEGE
Paul Thomas has been named the new coach at St. Mary's College in California. He recently was the coach at Cal Poly Ponoma. Thomas once coached at Hamline. Here is the St. Mary's College press release.
Kesha Bradford is the new coach at SUNY New Paultz. Bradford graduated from Port Huron in 1998. She first attended Valparaiso, but graduated from Minnesota. She has been an assistant at both St. Paul Central and Minneapolis Henry. Here is the Port Huron Times-Herald story.
Abby Kalland has been named Director of Basketball operations at Minnesota. Kalland, Northfield 2000, Carleton 04 had been an assistant at Carleton. Here is the Gopher press release. Also Carleton has a press release.
MI
Erica Thomas is the new coach at South Lyon. The Dexter HS, and Eastern Michigan '04 grad is looking forward to the fall season. Here is the South Lyon Herald.

COACHING OPENINGS

USA NATIONAL 20u
The 20U National team trounced Puerto Rico 97-57 in the FIBA Americas opener in Mexico City. Jolene Anderson, Wisconsin, South Shore HS, had 16 in the victory. They then had no mercy on the neighbors to the north in a 90-39 win over Canada. Anderson had 10 in this debacle. More from the USA site. Here is the FIBA Americas tournament site where you can find out more on the other teams.

ROLE PLAYERS AND WINNING
Here is more from the Wages of Wins blog on Role players and there importance in winning. The game they focus on is the USA/Brazil men's game with a reserve from Cleveland, Anderson Varajeo coming up with 16 rebounds for Brazil. Do you want to pick only scorers on your team like Team USA? Check out the links in this article. True Hoop chimes in on this issue.

TEAM CHEMISTRY
Here is another blog entry from the Wages of Wins. This deals with the NY Knicks and chemistry. The problem was NY had too many scorers and not enough players to do the dirty, less glamourous work. Speaking from experience on this one Osseo '97 had too many scorers on the team and had a less than successful conclusion. However the Osseo 2000 squad had solid role players and a couple of good scorers. This team was state champion and had great chemistry. Remember folks you only get one ball when you play.

HS TRANSFERS

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Next up: later today the MN Sweet 16 finals between Champlin Park and Cedar Mountain-Comfrey. On Sunday I hand out summer awards, name all this and all that with players and teams, and tournaments