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Women's Basketball Opens Home Slate Friday
Nov. 19, 2009
ON TAP: San Francisco will open the home slate of the 2009-10 season this weekend as it welcomes Cal State Fullerton and Utah State to the Hilltop. Friday, USF will host the Titans at 7 p.m. in the home season opener. Prior to the game, head coach Tanya Haave will host a chalk talk in the Bill Russell room at War Memorial Gym. Sunday the Dons will return to the floor, hosting Utah State at 2 p.m.
LAST TIME ON THE FLOOR: The Dons struggled in the season opener, falling 69-47 at UC Davis Tuesday evening. Katy Keating paced the San Francisco scoring efforts with nine points, while Donnisha Taylor, Rheina Ale and Mel Khlok each added eight a piece. Taylor led the San Francisco rebounding efforts with nine boards while adding a pair of steals.
NEXT ON THE SCHEDULE: USF will take to the road next week, playing four games within a six day span. San Francisco will take the short trip to San Jose State Tuesday evening at 7 p.m. before getting on a plane for the first time this season to travel to the Basketball Travelers Tip-off Tournament in Lubbock, Texas. While at the event, the Dons will face host Texas Tech, Prairie View A&M and Texas-Arlington.
HILLTOP HOOP SCOOP: This season follow all the off the court USF Women's Basketball action by reading the season blog, Hilltop Hoop Scoop on www.usfdons.com. The blog an be accessed by clicking the button on either the front page of the website or the women's basketball specific page. The blog will be updated at least once a week with news from around the USF program and the world of women's basketball.
2008-09 REVIEW: Last season, the Dons finished the 2008-09 campaign with a 7-22 record, 3-11 in West Coast Conference play. The season included some notable accomplishments, including hitting 13 3-pointers in a single game (@ Cal Poly, 12/7/08), setting a program record. San Francisco also earned a season-series sweep of Loyola Marymount for the first time since the 2002-03 season. The Dons defeated the Lions in Los Angeles 58-56 (1/31/09) and at home 65-62 (2/26/09).
DONS' VIKING VOYAGE: San Francisco took its game overseas in May, embarking on an 11-day, five game tour of Scandinavia. During the trip, the Dons visited Stockholm, Sweden, Oslo, Norway and Copenhagen, Denmark, facing off against some of the top's women's basketball programs in the region. USF finished the trip with a 3-2 record, including a victory against the top team in Norway and two victories against the Danish National Team.
2009 O'BRIEN SCRIMMAGE: The USF women's basketball kicked off festivities for the up-coming season three weeks ago, hosting the annual O'Brien Scrimmage. In the women's scrimmage, the Green up-ended the Gold squad 34-20 in the 20 minute scrimmage. The two teams played to an 11-11 tie in the first half, before the Green exploded in the second frame, outscoring the Gold 23-9. Vania Singleterry led the Green team with 11 points and five rebounds. Freshman Ashey Boggs led the Gold team with nine points, while freshman Bailey Barbour pulled down five rebounds. This season the USF roster features six newcomers to the program - two junior college transfers and four freshmen. Bolstered by Boggs' nine points, the newcomers on the USF team combined for 22 points and 13 rebounds.
TRIO OF STARTERS SET TO PACE THE DONS: Junior Donnisha Taylor and sophomores Rheina Ale and Vania Singleterry return to the Hilltop this season to pace USF into the Don of a New Era. Ale returns as the Dons' top scoring threat from a year ago, when she averaged 10.1 points per game. As a freshman, Ale scored in double-digits in 16 contests. Singleterry returns for her second season in the Green and Gold, after posting three double-doubles a year ago. Taylor enters her junior campaign as a rebounding threat for the Dons, ranking in the WCC top-10 in the category last season.
NEWCOMERS LOOK TO MAKE IMMEDIATE IMPACT: This season USF welcomes six newcomers - a pair of junior college transfers and four freshmen - to the 2009-10 roster. Juniors Brittany Brumfield and Tawny Drexler come to the Hilltop from Trinity Valley CC and Western Nebraska CC, respectively. Brumfield signed with USF as a top-5 ranked point guard, while Drexler averaged 10 points, 7.0 rpg during her junior college career. Ashley Boggs, Whitney Daniels, Bailey Barbour and Mel Khlok make up the 2009-10 freshman class. Boggs led Sacred Heart Cathedral to three Division III State Championships during her prep career. Daniels was a two-time defensive player of the year at Mira Costa High as a forward. Barbour was a highly recruited post player, who garnered interest from BCS schools such as Pittsburgh and Oregon State. Khlok joins the Dons from Sacramento, where she was a two-time First Team All-Metro and Delta Valley selection.
USF BASKETBALL RETURNS TO KUSF: USF women's basketball returns to the airwaves and cyberspace for the 2008-09 season with a bulk of the games available on KUSF 90.3 in San Francisco and all games available on USFDons.com. Join George Devine for the play-by-play in his 13th year behind the mic for the Dons. Other features on USFDons.com include GameTracker, courtesy of CSTV.com with live play-by-play and streaming video of all home games courtesy of Yahoo Broadcast.
