Knight Moves, Apple Valley Hires, Rankings, Tourney and Camps

#1 posting 7.19.2008
your daily dose of girls basketball news & information

KNIGHT MOVES
Former Gopher Leslie Knight has signed with a pro team in Switzerland. Three are no additional details on that yet. The Minnesota Miss Basketball of 2004 played her high school at Hopkins.

COACHING NEWS
Jeremy Gordon has been named the new head coach at Apple Valley. He was an assistant at Rosemount last season. Gordon will be the 4th head coach at AV in five years.

HOOPGULRZ RANKINGS
Here is a link to the Minnesota players in the ESPN HoopGurlz class of 2009 rankings. The ranking shown is the players rank at their position in the nation. There are 7 Minnesota players listed, 3 in the top 100.

Here is a link to the Minnesota players in the ESPN HoopGurlz class of 2010 rankings. They do not have a top 100 for this class or position rankings. There are 6 Minnesota players listed, 4 are listed as potential top 100.

You can check the whole country or sort by state, position, and class.

TOURNAMENT COMING
BATTLE OF THE PLAINS
There are 36 teams in the NCAA exposure event ranging from Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, South Dakota, Minnesota and New Jersey. The elite divisions features twelve teams including IBCA Red (winners of Dakota Showcase), NE Bison CSS (winners of Houston Cy Fair Classic) New Jersey Flames Elite (New Jersey AAU State 17U champions), and many more prominent basketball programs. Over 50 college coaches have committed to attend this event which will take place at the Bison Youth Sports Complex 710 Hill St Lincoln, NE 68502.
Here are the schedules for the Elite Division, High School Select, and High School Open.

GOPHER TEAM CAMP
Here are a list of teams scheduled for the Gopher team camp from July 24-26.
BRACKET A
HOPKINS
WAUKEE, IA
EDEN PRAIRIE VARSITY
FARGO SOUTH, ND
OSSEO
TOTINO-GRACE
RAPID CITY STEVENS, SD VARSITY
BRACKET B
BENILDE ST. MARGARET
BISMARCK CENTURY, ND
WHITE BEAR LAKE
JORDAN
WILLMAR
ROGERS
RIVERVIEW GARDENS, MO VARSITY
BRACKET C
BUFFALO VARSITY
BRECK/IRONDALE
HASTINGS
MOUND WESTONKA
NEW RICHMOND, WI
OSAKIS
BRACKET D
NEW ULM CATHEDRAL
BETHLEHEM ACADEMY
VAN METER, IA
STANDING ROCK COMMUNITY, ND
EDEN PRAIRIE JV
BUFFALO JV
RIVERVIEW GARDENS, MO JV

SW MN STATE TEAM CAMP
The Worthington Trojans won the Gold bracket of the SMSU team camp last weekend.

MORE TOURNEY RESULTS
North Tartan Crosby finished 4-1, Consolation Champions in the Chicago Summer Showcase. After a bad loss to the Central Illinois Pizazz, NTC rattled off 4 convincing wins in a row against Wisconsin Higher Level Camps, Texas Dynasty, Michigan MGBR Elite and Illinois Lady Lightning.

EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS
Hanna Muegge is averaging 3.8 ppg in the European 20u championships with Germany. Muegge is a Hopkins 2008 grad. Germany is in the consolation round with a 2-3 record.
On of her German teammates is Julia Trogele of Penn State.

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Morningside, UWEC Recruits, Kelly Roysland Hired

#1 posting 6.11.2008
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COLLEGE DECISIONS
Morningside has listed their four newcomers for next season.
Lisa Balcom, Granada-Huntley-East Chain, 5-9 G
Nicole Van Heek, Crofton, Nebraska, 5-9 G
Kacie Gould, Laurel-Concord, Nebraska 5-9 G
and one from the 2007 HS graduation class
Traci Bode, Sergeant Bluff-Luton, Iowa 5-6 G
From the Sioux City Journal.

UW Eau Claire has released their seven newcomers for next season
Kaylee Cardinal, Arrowhead G 5-9
Tessa Feyereisen, River Falls G 5-9
Jess Freagon, Chippewa Falls McDonell G/F 5-10
Brittni Hover, Clayton G 5-7
Laura Olson, Osseo-Fairchild PG 5-5
Ellen Plendl, Chippewa Falls McDonell C 6-5
Katie Pospishil, Eau Claire Memorial F 6-1 Fr.
there is video too. From WEAU

Western Michigan has signed Ryann Fletcher, a 5-9 guard from Father Michael Goetz Secondary School in Mississauga, Ontario.

COACHING NEWS
Former Gopher Kelly Roysland has been hired as an assistant at North Dakota State. She replaces Molly Marrin who left for the University of San Francisco.

As reported earlier this week, New Life is looking for a new girls basketball coach as Matt Callahan has left to take over at Crown. This is a report from the Woodbury Bulletin.

NATIONAL TEAM
Recent Hopkins grad and future Bradley Brave Hanna Muegge has made the German 20u national team.

ALL STAR GAME
The Blue Water All-Star Classic basketball game at Richmond, Michigan will take place on Thursday at 6 pm. From the Port Huron Times Herald.

GENERATION NEXT
Crookston won the 5th grade girls Pacesetter state tournament last weekend. They beat Bigfork, Marshall and Princeton to take the title. From the Crookston Times.

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Muegge Verbals

#3 posting 10.23.2007
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MUEGGE VERBALS
Hanna Muegge, Hopkins has verballed Bradley. The 5-8 guard averaged 9.2 ppg for the 18-10 AAAA Royals last year. Muegge was All conference in the Classic Lake. She played her summer ball with Metro Stars Black.
Muegge also won the AA State High Jump in the spring.
Muegge is the 34th player in the Minnesota class of 2008 to verbal, and the 16th player to verbal a D1 school. She is the second Hopkins player to verbal joining Stephanie Sension who is headed to the Air Force. Muegge is the 3rd Metro Stars Black player to verbal (Sension and Laura Weber the other two).

photo: Muegge driving against Osseo in a recent Fall League game at Armstrong. photo by kja

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