#4 Stephanie RoSado6-2 | Forward/Center | So.

Pontiac, Mich. UTEP

#10 SaRah haluSka5-10 | Guard/Forward | Jr.

Aliquippa, Pa.Hopewell H.S.

#11 hannah JoneS6-4 | Center | Fr.

Hudson, Ohio Hudson H.S.

#14 CouRtney Reed5-7 | Guard | Sr.Ft. Loramie, Ohio Ft. Loramie H.S.

#20 MaRCeya Mingo5-7 | Guard | So.Fort Wayne, Ind.

Morehead State Univ.

#21 kayla dRake5-4 | Guard | So.

Kokomo, Ind. Eastern Kentucky Univ.

#22 Mandi JohnSon5-10 | Guard/Forward | Fr.

Crawfordsville, Ind. Crawfordsville H.S.

#23 JoRdan Zuppe5-7 | Guard | Jr.Aliquippa, Pa.Hopewell H.S.

#30 kiM kline5-7 | Guard | Fr.Buchtel, Ohio

Nelsonville-York H.S.

#32 ChelSey JaCkSon5-7 | Guard | Jr.

Flint, Mich.Flint Central H.S.

#40 SaRah haMMond6-2 | Forward/Center | Fr.

Millersburg, OhioWest Holmes H.S.

#42 eva ivanova6-3 | Forward/Center | Sr.

Varna, BulgariaCollege of Southern Idaho

#44 anne BoeSe5-10 | Guard | So.Indianapolis, Ind.

Bishop Chatard H.S.

#50 Sydney WeineRt6-2 | Forward/Center | Fr.

Fort Wayne, Ind.South Side H.S.

#54 lauRa geRhaRdt6-3 | Forward/Center | Sr.South Milwaukee, Wisc.

Owens Community College

ChRiS paulHead CoachFifth Season

St. Francis (Ind.) ‘94

alex WeBSteRAssistant Coach

Third SeasonUW-Green Bay ‘07

hilaRy o’ConnellAssistant Coach

Third SeasonIPFW ‘07

ali MannAssistant CoachSecond Season

Bowling Green ‘07

nanyaMka MooReStudent Assistant Coach

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coaching staff 2Chris Paul 3Alex Webster 4Hilary O’Connell 4Ali Mann 5Nanyamka Moore 5

2009-10 iPfW Players 6Season Preview 7-92009-10 Roster 9Laura Gerhardt 10-11Eva Ivanova 12-13Courtney Reed 14-15Sarah Haluska 16-17Chelsey Jackson 18-19Jordan Zuppe 20-21Anne Boese 22Stephanie Rosado 23Hannah Jones 23Marceya Mingo 24Kayla Drake 24Mandi Johnson 25Kim Kline 25Sarah Hammond 26Sydney Weinert 26

2008-09 in revieW 27Illinois Box and Game Story 28Butler Box and Game Story 28Miami (Ohio) Box and Game Story 29Fairfield Box and Game Story 29Toledo Box and Game Story 30St. Bonaventure Box and Game Story 30UMKC Box and Game Story 31Southern Utah Box and Game Story 31Eastern Illinois Box and Game Story 32Duquesne Box and Game Story 32Wright State Box and Game Story 33South Dakota State Box and Game Story 33North Dakota State Box and Game Story 34Iowa State Box and Game Story 34Centenary Box and Game Story 35Oral Roberts Box and Game Story 35Oakland Box and Game Story 36Chicago State Box and Game Story 36IUPUI Box and Game Story 37Western Illinois Box and Game Story 37North Dakota State Box and Game Story 38South Dakota State Box and Game Story 38Oral Roberts Box and Game Story 39Centenary Box and Game Story 39Oakland Box and Game Story 40Western Illinois Box and Game Story 40IUPUI Box and Game Story 41Southern Utah Box and Game Story 41UMKC Box and Game Story 42IUPUI Box and Game Story 422008-09 Season Combined Stats 43

2009-10 oPPonents 44Manchester 45Wright State 45

Butler 45Northwestern 46Eastern Illinois 46Akron 46Oakland 47Notre Dame 47Toledo 47Fairfield 48Indiana Tech 48Louisville 48Western Illinois 49IUPUI 49Oral Roberts 49Centenary 50UMKC 50Southern Utah 50Chicago State 51North Dakota State 51South Dakota State 51

records and history 52Career Records 531,000-Point Scorers 54-55Year-by-Year Individual Leaders 56-57Year-by-Year Team Statistics 57Individual Single Season Records 58Individual Single Game Records 59Team Single Game Records 60All-Time Roster 61All-Time Series Results 62Year-by-Year Results 63-66Results vs. 2009-10 Opponents 67All-Time Player Statistics 68-82

about iPfW 83IPFW 84-85Student Life 86-87Academics 88-89Fort Wayne 90Why Mastodons? 91Chancellor Dr. Michael Wartell 92Director of Athletics Tommy Bell 93IPFW Athletic Department Staff 94IPFW Coaching Staff 95Sports Medicine 96Hilliard Gates Sports Center 97Summit League Information 98-99Summit League Information/Map 1002008-09 Award Winners 1012008-09 Individual Leaders 1022008-09 Team Leaders 103Media Services Information 104Academic Support 105Mastodons in the Community 106Strength and Conditioning 107

creditsThe IPFW women’s basketball media guide has been written and edited by Assistant Director of Athletic Me-dia Services Bill Salyer. Editorial assistance has been provided by Director of Athletic Media Services Rudy Yovich, along with graduate assistants John Felts and Shea McMahon. Photography by Nic Pyle, Rudy Yovich, Elmer Demnan, Jim Whitcraft, and Lucas Carter.

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In Chris Paul’s first three full seasons as the head coach of the IPFW Mastodons, they have set and met mul-tiple goals, each year winning more games than in any of the five prior seasons. Three years ago the team set a new Division I record with their 12 wins, be-fore equaling their ef-

fort a season ago. The ‘Dons finished their first season in the Summit League by clinching the league tournament No. 5 seed, finishing the conference season with a 9-9 record, be-fore falling to eventual tournament champion Oral Rob-erts in the opening round. Two seasons ago, IPFW toppled Miami (Ohio), a team that eventually won the Mid-American Conference, earning a berth into the NCAA Tournament. Last season the Mastodons rallied from a slow start to earn the No. 5 seed in the conference tournament, nearly advancing to the second round for the first time in school history.

Paul took over head coaching du-ties of the team on December 21, 2005 after Bruce Patterson resigned from the position. Paul finished his first season at the helm with a 6-14 record after the Mast-odons started the season go-ing 1-7. On March 22, 2006, Paul was officially named the head coach of the women. Paul has amassed a 39-69 career record since taking over as the head coach. At IPFW, Paul is responsible for all daily activ-ities, which include practice, game preparation, recruiting and coaching defensive schemes. Paul has served in multiple capacities at IPFW. He was previously the Associate Head

Coach for the Mastodons, a position he held for two plus seasons. Paul spent the previous three seasons as first assistant coach for the women. Prior to IPFW, Paul spent six years as an as-sistant coach at the University of St. Francis under Bruce Patterson. While at USF, Paul was responsible for daily activities, including prac-tice, recruiting and game preparation. Paul received his bachelor’s degree in Busi-ness Administration in 1994 from the University of St. Francis. While at USF he was a four-year letterwinner, and holds the school record for as-sists in a game (18) and is sixth all-time with 147 assists in a season. Paul resides in Fort Wayne with his wife Tri-sha, a partner at Barrett & McNagny, and their three children; sons Jalen (11) and Jackson (7) and daughter Jersey (3).

overall conference year W l Pct. W l Pct. notes: 2005-06 6 13 .316 — — — Took over program eight games into year 2006-07 12 17 .414 — — — Most season wins since 2000-01 2007-08 12 18 .400 9 9 .500 #5 Seed in Summit Tournament 2008-09 9 21 .300 8 10 .444 #5 Seed in Summit Tournament totals 39 69 .361 17 19 .472

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Alex webster Assistant Coach

Alex Webster is beginning her third year on the sideline at IPFW. The Crown Point, Indiana native graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics in May of 2007. In her four years as a Phoenix, Webster and her teammates participated in post-season play every season. In her senior year, UWGB made school history with a 29-4 record and went 16-0 in the Horizon League and made it to the second round of the NCAA tournament. Webster was a se-nior captain and a member of the Ho-rizon League All-Academic team for two seasons. Webster played at Crown Point High School and was a four-year letter-

winner and a three-year All-Conference member for the Bulldogs. Web-ster was a member of the Indiana Junior All-Star team and in her senior year she was named First Team All-State by Hoosier Basketball Magazine and ICGSA. Webster was also a McDonald’s All-America nominee. Webster’s coaching duties include assisting in recruiting, game plans and practice. She also scouts the opponents and recruits and oversees the practice squad.

HilAry O’cOnnell Assistant Coach

Former Mastodon standout Hilary O’Connell begins her third season as an assistant coach at IPFW. O’Connell is a Warsaw, Indiana native and graduated from IPFW in May 2007. She is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Organi-zational Leadership and Supervision (OLS). While a Mastodon, O’Connell was a two-year captain and named to the Independent All-Academic Teams in the 05-06 and 06-07 seasons with a 3.24 GPA. O’Connell holds the single game record for three-point field goals percentage after being perfect against UMBC in the 2005-06 season (6-6). O’Connell is #5 All-Time in 3-point field goals made with 142 in her career and on the Division I All-Time list she is No. 3 in the same category. O’Connell is also on the following All-Division I Lists: points, field goals made, steals, assists, rebounds, free throw percentage and blocked shots. O’Connell graduated from Warsaw High and was named to the All-Confer-ence team three years in a row. She was also named to South Bend Tribune’s All-Area team. O’Connell was honored by receiving MVP for three years while she played for the Tigers. She also received 21 Alive Player of the Week honors and participated in the Nancy Rehm All-Star Classic as well as the Junior All Stars.

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Ali MAnn Assistant CoachAli Mann, a Chelsea, Michigan native begins her second sea-son as an assistant coach with the Mastodons. Mann graduated from Bowling Green with a bachelor’s degree in supply chain management in May of 2007. Following her graduation, she played professionally in both Luxembourg and Portugal. A four-year starter and two-year team captain for BGSU, Mann helped the Falcons compile an overall four-year team record of 103-25, including three Mid-American Conference (MAC) regular season titles, three MAC Tournament titles with a subsequent three NCAA Tournament berths. During her senior year, she helped lead the Falcons with NCAA Tournament victo-

ries over Oklahoma State and Vanderbilt, giving MAC women’s basketball its first-ever “Sweet 16” appearance. She finished her career with her name littered across the BGSU record book, including finishing second in career points (1,825) and third in career rebounds (911). She also has the most free throws made (482) and attempted (677), the second most field goals made (619) and games started (126) and the third highest three-point field goal percentage (.399) in Bowling Green’s 35 years of women’s basketball. She is also one of just three players in BGSU history to earn Academic All-MAC honors in three consecutive seasons. She is just the sixth player in MAC history to have been named the league’s Freshman of the Year (2003-04), Tournament Most Valuable Player (2005-06) and League Player of the Year (2006-07) during their career. She was twice named to the All-MAC First Team (2005-06 and 2006-07), once to the second team (2004-05) and once to the honorable mention squad (2003-04). Three times she was named to the MAC All-Tournament Team (2003-04, 2005-06 and 2006-07) and during her freshman year she was named to the MAC All-Freshman Team and to the Texas A&M Corpus Christi Islander Classic All-Tournament Team. Mann attended Chelsea High School and was a three-time all-conference member for the Bulldogs. She also lettered twice in softball, playing first base and helping the squad to a pair of State Championships.

nAnyAMKA MOOre Student Assistant Coach

Former Mastodon student-athlete Nan Moore is in her first season as a student-assistant coach with the IPFW Mastodons after capping her four-year career last season. Moore was a four-year letterwinner, starting in 18 games over her career, including the last four of the 2008-09 season, in which the Mastodons went 3-1 during that span. Per/40 minutes, Moore last season led the team in assists and steals, and was second in rebounds. She is no stranger to the sideline, as she helped coach both during the AAU seasons and during the summer camps seasons. She coached current Michigan High School seniors with the AAU Spiece Gym Rats this summer, while also as-sisting in the IPFW Women’s Basketball Camp, the Glenn Blackwell Camp, and the Randy Henry Camp, the latter two of the pair were in Detroit, Michigan. Moore will be in charge of film exchange, practice preparation and drills, the women’s basketball newsletter, and assist-ing opponents when they arrive in Fort Wayne. She is originally from Detroit, Michigan, and played her high school basketball at Ferndale High School. Also a stellar track & field athlete, Moore was a Michigan High School All-State track & field selection, and currently holds the IPFW school record for 100-meter dash.

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Five returning starters, two players that received significant minutes off the bench, a key transfer, and a handful of newcomers give high expecta-tions to the 2009-10 women’s basketball team, the highest of any other squad since the school joined the ranks of NCAA Division I in 2001-02. “Absolutely this is the best team we’ve had since I’ve been here,” said head coach Chris Paul, now in his fourth year at the helm of the Mast-odon program. “We are expecting to compete for the conference championship, and expecting to have our best season since joining Division I. The expectations are high, but not unrealistic. All we are trying to do is to get better everyday, and to prove to people that we are getting better every year as a program. At the end of the day, I want us to be one of the top-tier teams in the Summit League.” Highlighting the returnees is 2008-09 Sec-ond Team All-Summit League selection Chelsey Jackson, a 5-7 junior guard who averaged 13.3 points per game last season, while the team also returns her two starting backcourt mates Jordan Zuppe (5-7, junior) and Courtney Reed (5-7, se-nior), who averaged 10.3 and 7.2 points, good for second and fourth on the team, respectively. Junior college transfer Eva Ivanova (6-3, se-nior) led the post contingent by averaging 8.5

points per game, with Sarah Haluska (5-10, junior) starting 24 games, averaging 4.8 points and a team-best 4.4 rebounds per game. Anne Boese (5-10, sophomore) and Laura Gerhardt (6-3, senior) return after coming off the bench for the majority of the season, averaging 5.9 and 1.7 points per game each. Stephanie Rosado (6-2, sophomore), a trans-fer from UTEP, and former Michigan All-State selection leads a strong group of newcomers, which also includes Indiana All-Star Sydney Weinert (6-2, freshman, Fort Wayne South Side), a pair of posts from Ohio, Hannah Jones (6-4, freshman) and Sarah Hammond (6-2, freshman), and also a guard out of the Buckeye State, Kim Kline (5-7, freshman). The new-found depth and experience is some-thing that even Paul wasn’t sure he would have last season. A year ago, then-sophomore Zuppe had the team put onto her young shoulders, with unproven skill around her at nearly all of the po-sitions. One year later, the opposite seems to be the case, as there is not one player with a huge bulls-eye on their back. “Coming into the season last year we had a lot of questions that needed answered,” said Paul, now in his fifth season with the Mastodons. “We had Jordan coming back, but she was recovering

from off-season surgery, we had an un-proven frontcourt starter in Ivanova, and Chelsey didn’t get a lot of playing time as a freshman. After a year, Eva has now figured it out, Chelsey was Second Team All-Conference last year, and Jordan is back, healthy, and playing her best bas-ketball that I’ve ever seen.” Adding experience to the squad, which boasts just three seniors of its 15 play-ers on the roster, is point guard Reed, who has started each of the last 44 games, dating back to the midway point of the 2007-08 season. A heady player, Reed turned the ball over just 33 times in the team’s 30 games, while dishing out a team-best 61 assists, for a near 2-to-1 assist-to-turnover ratio. With a sprinkling in of Reed, Haluska, Boese, and transfer Rosado in addition to the previously named players, Paul has many options for this coming year. “What makes us dangerous is that we’re not going to be focused on just one player,” said Paul. “With all of our

players, we have more weapons than we have ever had before. It’s a great thing to know you have this kind of depth, which was something we didn’t have at the beginning of last year. We had a lot of question marks last year, and that is one of the reasons why we struggled in the close games, because we didn’t know who we were. This year we definitely know who we are.” Last season the Mastodons got off to a slow start, and after an 11-game losing skid the team found themselves with a 2-17 record, before re-grouping and rebounded, ending the year by winning seven of the final ten games, catapulting from 10th in the Summit League to the fifth seed in the matter of five weeks. “The fact that we have nearly all of our players back from the turnaround really helps,” said Paul. “That group went through adversity, they figured out how to win, and hopefully now it carries over. It means a lot to have as many of our kids having gone through that. You can tell in practices now that there is a different vibe, a different attitude and feeling with this group.”

GuARdSNo. Name Ht. Cl. Hometown10 Sarah Haluska 5-10 Jr. Aliquippa, Pa.14 Courtney Reed 5-7 Sr. Fort Loramie, Ohio20 Marceya Mingo 5-7 So. Fort Wayne, Ind.21 Kayla Drake 5-4 So. Kokomo, Ind.22 Mandi Johnson 5-10 Fr. Crawfordsville, Ind.23 Jordan Zuppe 5-7 Jr. Aliquippa, Pa.30 Kim Kline 5-7 Fr. Nelsonville, Ohio32 Chelsey Jackson 5-7 Jr. Flint, Mich.44 Anne Boese 5-10 So. Indianapolis, Ind.

Leading the way for the guards on the team are the returning trio of Jackson, Zuppe, and Reed, along with Boese, who started three games, and Haluska, who started 24 games at the forward position, but will move back to her natural posi-tion of guard for this season. Jackson’s 13.3 points per game were best on the squad, while her 59 assists were second best and 26 steals tied for third highest. She made 42.5 percent of her shots (147-of-346), best on the team, while making 81-of-107 free throws (.757). Zuppe scored 308 points (10.3 average), while making a team-best 66 three-point bas-kets, ninth most in a season in school history, and nabbed 29 steals, second highest on the team. Of her three-point attempts, she took 201, fifth most in program history, for a percentage of

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.328. Reed, in addition to her team-leading assist total, grabbed 38 steals, and made 45-of-131 three-point field goals (.344 percent), playing in a team-best 34.8 minutes per game. Boese, off of the bench for the majority of the season, made 41-of-110 three-point baskets for a team-high .373 percentage, averaging 5.9 points per game during the year. Haluska led the team in rebounding, pulling down 128 for an av-erage of 4.4, while scoring 4.8 points per game, grabbing 26 steals, and making 28-of-79 three-point field goals. New to the team will be Kim Kline, who fin-ished her career at Nelsonville-York High School as the school’s all-time leading scorer, regardless of gender, en route to being named First Team All-Ohio as a senior. Adding depth to the position will be Morehead State transfer Marceya Mingo, a Fort Wayne South Side product. On the roster for the year, are Kayla Drake and Mandi Johnson, who are being redshirted. Drake was the Ohio Valley Conference Newcomer of the Year last season, after leading the Colonels by averaging 16.0 points per game. Johnson finished her ca-reer at Crawfordsville High School as the career leader in points and blocked shots, and was an All-State Honorable Mention selection. “At the point, we have somebody who has started the last 44 games in Courtney Reed,” said Paul, who has a 39-69 record with the Mastodons. “Courtney is a very good shooter, but that’s not her biggest strength — which is her ability to defend and make good decisions — she controls everything. We are very pleased to have her out front. Backing her up at the point will likely be Jordan Zuppe or newcomer Kim Kline, from Ohio, who brings a lot of energy, speed, and athleticism. She was an unbelievable scorer in high school, she just will need to control her speed to take the point guard spot.” “For us, the two and three positions are inter-changeable, and we have Jordan Zuppe coming back who has started nearly every game of her college career. She is healthy and she wants it – she has her swagger back. She has become one of the better defenders on the team, and she is very unselfish, because she wants us to win. Then you add in Chelsey Jackson, who is one of the most explosive guards we have ever had here. She is faster and stronger than she was last year, and her outside shooting has become more consistent. Anne Boese, who played a lot as a freshman last year, is our most consistent three-point threat. When she goes onto the floor,

teams have to know where she is at because she has the ability to get hot and knock down three or four in a row. Sarah Haluska played a lot of the four position for us, and we’re going to move her to the three this year. We are going to use her strength and athletic ability to defend and get on the glass.”

FORWARdSNo. Name Ht. Cl. Hometown4 Stephanie Rosado 6-2 So. Pontiac, Mich.11 Hannah Jones 6-4 Fr. Hudson, Ohio40 Sarah Hammond 6-2 Fr. Millersburg, Ohio42 Eva Ivanova 6-3 Sr. Varna, Bulgaria50 Sydney Weinert 6-2 Fr. Fort Wayne, Ind.54 Laura Gerhardt 6-3 Jr. S. Milwaukee, Wisc.

On the two forward positions, the Mastodons have as much depth and height as in any of the previous seasons in Paul’s tenure. The two returnees to the position are the senior duo of Eva Ivanova and Laura Gerhardt, both of whom are 6-3. Last season Ivanova proved to be the primary catalyst to the Mastodon turnaround, as she averaged 5.2 points over the first 19 games of the season, before coming on over the final 11 games, averaging 14.4 points, 6.3 rebounds, and just over two blocks per game, helping the team to a 7-4 record over the nearly dozen games. Gerhardt put up 1.7 points and rebounds per game, while blocking eight shots in a reserve role. New to the position is UTEP transfer Stephanie Rosado, who sat out last sea-son due to the NCAA’s Transfer Residen-cy Requirements, but was able to prac-tice with the team all year and learn the offense. Also new are a trio of first-year Mastodons in Sydney Weinert, Sarah Hammond and Hannah Jones. Weinert, a 6-2 player out of Fort Wayne South Side, was an Indiana All-Star, in addition to qualifying to the state championships in the high jump. Hammond, who is also 6-2, was named to a Third Team All-Ohio selection. Jones, a 6-4 post, was named First Team All-Northeast Ohio Confer-ence during her senior year. “Eva proved last year down the stretch that she has the potential to be one of the best post players in the conference,” noted the head coach. “She was on the All-Newcomer team last year, and she’s

in better shape, and is playing even better bas-ketball. She understands the game better, her shooting is better – she’s going to be very good, and teams are going to have to pay attention to her, which is going to make life four our guards a lot easier. And when you add in Stephanie Ro-sado, who is just as talented, the combination is really good for us. Rosado has the ability to take people off of the dribble, score on the block, and brings a fire and aggression to the position that we haven’t had in a long time. We haven’t had a four-five combination like Stephanie and Eva. Add in the presence of Laura Gerhardt as a senior, who has worked very hard this past summer. She is our enforcer inside, and just wants to do the things necessary to win. The great thing about Laura is that it doesn’t matter if she plays one minute or 25 minutes, as long as we win, she is happy. It takes a special person to be able to do that.” “Our freshman class is very strong, headed by Sydney Weinert. She is super-athletic. She is 6-2, but has an unbelievable wingspan. She has the ability to run, jump, catch, and alter shots. She is going to be a very good player. We are going to have a hard time keeping her off the floor this year. Our depth in the post is nice, because you know she is there, waiting to go in, but also not asking her to come in and play 30 minutes right

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no. name ht. Pos. yr. hometown high school (last school)4 Stephanie Rosado 6-2 F/C So. Pontiac, Mich. Pontiac Central (UTEP) 10 Sarah Haluska 5-10 G/F Jr. Aliquippa, Pa. Hopewell11 Hannah Jones 6-4 F/C Fr. Hudson, Ohio Hudson 14 Courtney Reed 5-7 G Sr. Fort Loramie, Ohio Fort Loramie 20 Marceya Mingo 5-7 G So. Fort Wayne, Ind. South Side21 Kayla Drake 5-4 G So. Kokomo, Ind. Kokomo (Eastern Kentucky) 22 Mandi Johnson 5-10 G/F Fr. Crawfordsville, Ind. Crawfordsville 23 Jordan Zuppe 5-7 G Jr. Aliquippa, Pa. Hopewell 30 Kim Kline 5-7 G Fr. Nelsonville, Ohio Nelsonville-York 32 Chelsey Jackson 5-7 G Jr. Flint, Mich. Flint Central 40 Sarah Hammond 6-2 F Fr. Millersburg, Ohio West Holmes 42 Eva Ivanova 6-3 F Sr. Varna, Bulgaria Georgi Benkovski (Col. of S. Idaho) 44 Anne Boese 5-10 G So. Indianapolis, Ind. Bishop Chatard50 Sydney Weinert 6-2 F Fr. Fort Wayne, Ind. South Side54 Laura Gerhardt 6-3 F/C Sr. South Milwaukee, Wis. South Milwaukee (Owens CC)

away, because she can learn from Eva and Steph, but still get in her repetitions at the same time. When you add in Sarah Hammond and Hannah Jones, who each brings size, strength, and the ability to score around the basket, we have a good core of young post players. What the freshman have to understand is that they have to match the intensity, physicality, and work ethic of Eva and Stephanie. It’s just nice to know that when I look down the bench, we will have all of the options to go to, which is something we didn’t have in the past.”SCHEduLELike in previous years, the IPFW schedule is one of challenging opponents, built to gear the team towards the grueling Summit League season. The team opens at home for the second consecutive year, as Wright State comes into the Gates Center on November 14. The team then takes back-to-back road trips, the first to Butler, and the second to Big Ten opponent Northwestern on November 22, a game that will be nationally telecast on the Big Ten Network. The squad returns home for a day-after-Thanksgiving contest against Eastern Illinois at 7:00 PM, before facing off at Mid-American Conference foe Akron on December 2. Three days later the team hosts their first confer-ence game of the season, as Oakland University, the Summit League runner-up in both the regular season and tournament comes to town for the first game of a women’s/men’s double header starting at 4:30 PM at the Memorial Coliseum. Three straight road games at Notre Dame, To-ledo, and Fairfield set the stage for a pre-Christ-

mas match-up against the Indiana Tech Warriors on December 23, before the team travels to 2008-09 NCAA Runner-Up Louisville on December 29. One non-conference game dots the conference schedule, when the team plays host to the Cougars of Chicago State University on January 20. “We open with a solid Wright State program at home, and then we go on the road to Butler, who had a great year last year, and they have a tremen-dous group coming back. We follow that with a road trip to Northwestern. We follow that up with a home game against Eastern Illinois, who kicked our tails last year. When you add the MAC schools in there, like at Toledo and at Akron, and then at Notre Dame, at Louisville, and at Fairfield, it doesn’t get any easier. We’re going to have to be ready to play every night. I like our schedule because it gives us the op-portunity to be challenged right from the start.” “The clear-cut favorite in our con-ference is South Dakota State. They won 32 games last year, and return four starters — they will be the cream of the crop. I like the fact that there is a team in the conference that good, because that just forces us to either step up or get run over. Oakland is going to be very strong again, and North Dakota State returns four starters and they are going to be very strong as

well. I expect Oral Roberts to bounce back and have a better year this year than they had last year, and with the traditional IUPUI, Western Il-linois, UMKC, and Southern Utah, there are no easy games. I think the conference is strong, but I think we’re in better position this year to compete and finish in the top-tier of the con-ference as opposed to last year.”

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