Rivette Verbals, Stat Misuse, 1920-21

#1 posting 10.3.2008
your daily dose of girls basketball news & information

RIVETTE VERBALS
Christina Rivette of Fenton, Michigan has verballed Florida Gulf Coast. The 5-9 guard averaged 18.6 ppg last season for the 20-4 Tigers. From the Flint Journal.

Rivette is the 22nd player overall from the Michigan 2009 class to verbal and the 17th headed to a D1 program.

BIG 10 NEWS
The Gophers have been busy with dinners and community service.

Iowa's season is previewed.

Penn State participated in a Day of Caring.

New Northwestern women's basketball coach Joe McKeown was interviewed and you can see the video clips on his responses to various topics.

Former Buckeye (and Lynxster) Katie Smith helped the Detroit Shock to a game one win in the WNBA championships over San Antonio.

ECONOMETRIC BASKETBALL STATS MISUSE
David Friedman of 20 Second Time Out argues that Econometric Basketball stats need to be taken with a grain of salt if taken at all. Subjectivity surrounds the entire trade.

COACHING NEWS
Pine Island girls basketball coach Rick Canton is also the head volleyball coach this year. From the Rochester Post Bulletin.

COACHING CLINICS
Denver University hosts a coaching clinic on October 11. Former Boston College coach Cathy Inglese will be one of the speakers.

TELEVISION
Here is the Marquette Women's Basketball TV Schedule.

HISTORY LESSON
Stillwater was 7-1 in 1920-21 with a 30-1 win over Ellsworth, WI. Snippet hidden in the "In the Huddle" portion of the Stillwater Gazette.

ONTARIO RESULTS
Here are the Thursday results in Toronto. From the Toronto Star.

POINT PARADE
Kayla Alexander, Milton 33 vs St. Thomas Aquinas 46-38
Muna Nur, Maple 29 vs St. Elizabeth 63-49
Adrienne Sta Ana, St. Elizabeth 25 vs Maple 49-63
Jessica Cole, Glenforest 22 vs Woodlands 58-41

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The Dawn of Girls Basketball in North Dakota

#2 posting 12.3.2007
your daily dose of girls basketball news & information

NORTH DAKOTA REPORTS
HISTORY LESSON
The Fargo Forum looks at the dawn of girls basketball in the Flicker tail State with Williston the epicenter of action.

LATE RESULTS
Dickinson Trinity beat Hatton-Northwood in the HN Round Robin event 46-35. From the Dickinson Press.

Thanks readers for the help.

Next up: Iowa Report

History Lessons, Coaching Moves, Visualizations, and Clinics

#1 posting 9.21.2007
your daily dose of girls basketball news & information

HISTORY LESSON
KARE 11 has run their Athlete of the Week feature for 25 years. One of the featured players is Jenny Johnson. Johnson is the current Athletic Director at Edina and was a player at Armstrong back in the day.

COACHING NEWS
Former Roseville (2002) and Marquette (2006) player Carolyn Kieger has been named director of basketball operations at Marquette. From the Marquette Tribune.

Bloomington Jefferson girls basketball coach Andy Meinhardt gets married this weekend.

There has been a change in Grand Rapids, MN. Former girls basketball coach Adam Johnson is now a women's basketball assistant at UW Superior. Dave Lacoe is the new GR coach.

Jackson, MI is looking for a new girls basketball coach since Jeremy Patterson has moved on to be the principal of the junior class. From the Jackson Citizen Patriot.

VISUALIZATION
Brian McCormick writes about visualization and performance. 50 to 90% of athletics is mental.

SHOOTING CLINIC
Basketball Shooting Expert to Teach Minnesota Coaches How to Coach Shooting!

BOULDER CREEK, Calif. -- Tom Nordland, creator of the highly-acclaimed “Swish and” “Swish 2” shooting videos, and considered one of Minnesota’s greatest high school shooters, is going to put on five clinics around the Twin Cities Oct. 7-12 to train kids and coaches in his simple and powerful approach to shooting. He’s also going to be speaking and demonstrating at the Minnesota Girls Basketball Association Clinic Oct. 6th, ~2-3PM, at Robbinsdale Cooper High School. Tom is inspiring what he calls a “Renaissance” in shooting, a revival, a rebirth. A great shooter is within each player, just waiting to be liberated.

Tom is getting known around the world for his fresh insights and approaches into what it takes to learn and coach shooting. As the first volley in his campaign to “Teach the World to Shoot a Basketball,” Tom will put on a set of clinics for Minnesota coaches of all levels. Come and bring your friends and fellow coaches. He will also put on one clinic for Players and two combined clinics (both Coaches and Players). The locations, dates and times are:
1) For Coaches AND Players: Sunday, Oct. 7th, Edison High School: 1-5PM
2) For Coaches only: Monday, Oct. 8th, 43Hoops in Hopkins, 6-9PM
3) For Coaches only: Tuesday, Oct. 9th, Edison High School: 6-9PM
4) For Coaches AND Players: Thursday, Oct. 11th, Edison High, 5-9PM
5) For Players (coaches come observe): Friday, Oct. 12th, 43Hoops, 5-9PM

CLINIC LOCATIONS:
Edison High School, 700 22nd Ave. N.E., Minneapolis, 55418
43Hoops Basketball Academy (43hoops.com), 1002 Second Street NE, Hopkins, 55343
(43Hoops is the creation of the wonderful college and NBA player, Chris Carr.)

ENROLL ON-LINE!
For details and On Line Enrollment go to his web page, swish22.com, and click on “Clinics and Camps.” Here’s a direct link: http://www.swish22.com/Clinics_Minnesota_1007.html. Enrollment is limited.

ARTICLE ON TOM IN BOYS STATE TOURNAMENT PROGRAM!
Tom was honored by a very special article in the Boys State Tournament Basketball Program this last March. Here is a link to it:
http://www.swish22.com/Tom_MNArticle.pdf

Coaches come and learn to teach the way of shooting performed by the greatest shooters! Players come learn how to coach yourselves! Great shooting is within your reach! Visit Tom’s website (http://www.swish22.com/) for his background, endorsements, testimonials, video clips, articles and his now "100" archived Shooting Newsletters

RESCHEDULED
Due to an administrative request from the site host, CommunityHoops is rescheduling their first event to October 20th, 2007. There are currently 21 paid admissions out of a possible 80 and community hoops agreed to reschedule based upon the many volleyball conflicts with our first date.

CommunityHoops knows that this reschedule falls on MEA weekend. Most of our speakers are going to attend some of the fall league games in the following weeks and they can provide the players, parents, and coaches with more information about our event.

All e-mail questions can be directed to the event coordinator, Tony Geer at event@communityhoops.com or by calling Tony directly at 612-581-4796 after 12:30 pm any day.

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