Rogers Hires, Reform, Centurians, Perfect Lynx

#1 posting 5.30.2008
your daily dose of girls basketball news & information

ROGERS HIRES
Jeremy Digiovanni has been named the new head girls’ basketball coach at Rogers High School. He served as a varsity assistant the last two years under former head coach Lamar Detert at Rogers and was an assistant coach at St. Michael-Albertville before that.

SIGNINGS
Utah State has signed a pair of Junior College transfers--Gekeela Clemmons of Chipola College and Stacey Howard of Northeastern College. Clemmons is originally from Florida, Howard from Australia.

THE WAIT
Ashley Arlen of Cascade, Iowa can hardly wait to become an Iowa State Cyclone. She does a Q&A with the Ames Tribune.

SUMMER BASKETBALL REFORM
The NCAA, the NBA, the National Federation of High School Associations, USA Basketball, the men's and women's coaches associations, shoe companies and the Amateur Athletic Union are partnering to create a new organization that would reorganize youth basketball. Notice Shoe Companies are involved. The idea is to clean up the gift giving and on going cheating. It is more aimed at the boys/men's side. What happens with the boys will happen with the girls. From the Sioux Falls Argus Leader.
Henry Abbott of True Hoop answers the question what exactly is a runner?

ALL STAR GAMES
The Port Huron Times Herald looks at 6 girls basketball players that will play in the 29th annual Michigan Coaches vs. Cancer All-Star Festival Aug. 2 at Brighton High School.

CENTURIAN, & NEAR CENTURIAN
Mildred Granger of Grand Forks is turning 100. She played basketball before “They decided girls shouldn’t play basketball because it was too hard on them.” She also was a girls basketball coach. From the Grand Forks Herald.
Dorothy (Doane) McKay of Waverly, Nebraska is 97. She too was part of the generation that played high school basketball. "Basketball was thought to be hard on women physically," she said. They stopped the girls playing in 1928 and didn't start again for almost 50 years. From the Waverly News.

AWARDS
Katie LaViollette was named Concordia St. Paul's female athlete of the year.

MINNESOTA LAKERS
Community Hoops looks at Minnesota Lakers draw in the upcoming Battle of the Hardwood this weekend at Woodbury.

MORE BASKETBALL ON TRACK
Future Gopher Katie Loberg of Princeton broke the section record in the high jump with a leap of 5'-8 1/4". She will go to state. The state record is 5-10. From the Elk River Star News.

UNDEFEATED LYNX
The Lynx are the last undefeated team in the WNBA as they beat Chicago 75-69. From the Star Tribune.

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