BIG WEST WOMEN'S NOTEBOOK: NORTHRIDGE COACH HAS RECRUITS TO BUILD ON.Byline: Ramona Shelburne Ramona Shelburne is an American sports journalist currently writing for the Los Angeles Daily News. Shelburne was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. She attended El Camino Real High School in Woodland Hills, California where she was a class valedictorian. Staff Writer IRVINE - Last season, Cal State Northridge women's basketball Women's basketball is one of the few games which developed in tandem with men's. It became popular, spreading from the east coast of the United States to the west coast, in large part via women's colleges. coach Tammy Holder joked, one of her freshman players could have walked in front of her before school started and she wouldn't have had a clue who it was. Holder didn't even know where Northridge was when she saw the job opening posted on a Web site. But she was was hired in April 2002 and inherited inherited received by inheritance. inherited achondroplastic dwarfism see achondroplastic dwarfism. inherited combined immunodeficiency see combined immune deficiency syndrome (disease). a team with only one returning starter and 12 players recruited by the previous regime. This season, Holder, a former general manager in the now-defunct ABL, has brought in seven freshmen and another junior-college transfer to go with the nine returners who finished 3-24 overall and 3-13 in Big West Conference play last year. Apparently, the other coaches in the Big West were impressed im·press 1 tr.v. im·pressed, im·press·ing, im·press·es 1. To affect strongly, often favorably: by the Matadors' recruits and the progress they made throughout last season. Despite a last-place finish, the Matadors were picked to finish seventh of 10 in the Big West coaches poll and eighth by the media. The polls were revealed at the conference's media day Wednesday at UC Irvine. That freshman Holder wouldn't have recognized before school started last year - Ofa Tulikihihifo - was picked to the preseason all-conference team after averaging 14.2 points and 7.6 rebounds last season. ``This year we are so much farther along than we were at this point last season,'' Holder said. ``We all know each other, we've recruited each other. It's a much-different feel.'' --UCSB picked first: Defending conference champion UC Santa Barbara Santa Barbara (săn'tə bär`brə, –bərə), city (1990 pop. 85,571), seat of Santa Barbara co., S Calif., on the Pacific Ocean; inc. 1850. was a unanimous pick in the media to defend its Big West title. The reason for the high appraisal? Santa Barbara returns conference Player of the Year Lindsay Taylor Lindsay Corine Taylor (born May 20, 1981 in Poway, California) is a former American collegiate and a professional basketball player who has played in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA), Ligue Féminine de Basketball (LFB), the WKBL and most recently the Polish Womens , a 6-foot-8 center, and junior Kristen Mann Kristen Cherie Mann (born August 10, 1983 in Lakewood, California) is a professional basketball player in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA), currently playing for the Minnesota Lynx. , who averaged 14.2 points as a sophomore. The Gauchos also have added April McDivitt, a three-year starter at Tennessee who redshirted last year after transferring. Despite never having played in a conference game, she was selected to the preseason all-conference team. The Gauchos begin the season ranked 10th by the Women's Basketball News Service and No. 18 in the USA Today/ESPN coaches poll. --Second chance: Former USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. guard Aisha Hollans, an All-Pacific-10 Conference selection as a sophomore in 2001-02, has transferred to Long Beach State but must redshirt red·shirt tr.v. red·shirt·ed, red·shirt·ing, red·shirts To keep (a college or school athlete) out of varsity competition for one year in order to extend the athlete's period of eligibility. this season. ``She's grateful for the second chance,'' first-year 49ers coach Mary Hegarty said. ``I'm very confident that she's going to make the most of it.'' Hollans was dismissed from the team at the end of last season by USC coach Chris Gobrecht for violating team policies. --Summerhays might redshirt: Former Saugus High point guard AnnMarie Summerhays might have to redshirt her freshman season at Idaho. Summerhays played her senior year at Saugus with a torn ACL See access control list. 1. ACL - Access Control List. 2. ACL - Association for Computational Linguistics. 3. ACL - A Coroutine Language. A Pascal-based implementation of coroutines. ["Coroutines", C.D. and had surgery after the season. She wasn't cleared to practice until last week, but Idaho coach Mike Divilbiss remains excited about her future. ``I think some people might have missed her because she's a wonderful young lady, and we're just now getting to see what she can do,'' Divilbiss said. Ramona Shelburne, (818) 713-3617 ramona.shelburne(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): box Box: WOMEN'S BASKETBALL PRESEASON COACHES POLL |
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