WBB: American Rivers Conference

[LA RAMS]

I never said great players NEVER make great coaches, I said rarely.  And if you can come up with 5 coaches in women's D1 basketball out of the 300 or more coaches that have coached D1 in that time frame, that sort of validates my point.  Also, Pokey Chatman is not a good coach.  She's been fired for inappropriate relationships with her players.  Also, if I walked in to her situation at LSU, with Semione Augustus and company, I'd be a COY too.  She hasn't done enough to warrent being considered a good coach.

Anyone who can tell me hiring someone with 4 years or less experience in coaching, is a good hire, is a bold face liar.  There's way too many politics in hiring now with schools today.  Rarely is it about finding the BEST coach regardless of sex, race or whatever.  As to the point about high school coaches applying for D3 jobs, many do.  They aren't qualified.  That's why they don't get the job.  Luther wrapped up the entire job search in like 3 weeks.  Every other D3 that opened with jobs in the area around the same time as Luther, has not hired yet.  Luther knew they were going to hire her before the search even started.  What has she done as a coach to warrent that though?  That's my only question.

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[Bird Dog]

Congratulations to Coe and U. of Dubuque led the pack with seven and five all academic team members.  BV, Luther, Central, and Wart had four players each.
Simpson and Loras three.  Cornell two.  Coe had three starters and second leading scorer on the list.

[Bird Dog]

Refusing to do semiimportant and necessary work I spent the last hour making this shallow and frivilous evaluation of the IIAC Women's teams

BUENA VISTA 12-14 (8-8) lost seniors Jahde Hammer (3rd team all region 2nd team all IIAC) 12.6 pts ppg. and Jocelyn Kock 9.0 ppg. Returns Jess Christianson (2nd team all IIAC) 13.0

CENTRAL 5-20 (2-14) lost Seniors Jordan Wadell and Stephanie Ruzica.  Returns seven players that averaged 6.2 to 9.4 ppg. led by Haley Brillhart 9.4 and Sarah Paulson (IIAC Honorable Mention)8.6 ppg. Four of those seven players are seniors that will provide needed leadership to help new Coach Mike Jacobsma rebuild and make Klompen happy (happier).

COE 26-4 (14-2) loses seniors Kayla Lincoln (1st team all region and two time 1st team all IIAC)12.6, Sarah Anciaux (1st team IIAC 2X 2nd team) 11.6, Devin Rolston 7.3, and Kaitlyn Brietbach (defensive player of year and honorable mention IIAC) 3.8 ppg.  Cupboard is not bare with junior scorers Kayla Waskow (two time 1st team all IIAC) 12.2  and Leslie Ware 8.0.  Freshman Mary Halverson, Hannah Brietbach, and Cassie Gehling gained valuable experience.  Four injured players coming back will help.

CORNELL  7-16 (2-14)  Loses Alicia West.  Camille Marie Lidd (2nd team IIAC) 15.7 ppg., Caitlyn Bisinger Fr. 12.2, K. Schilling So. 7.7 and Rene Tzeo So. 7.3 ppg. return. Rebuilding continues with a stronger foundation. Will recruiting be hurt by those long road trips when the Rams move to the Midwest Conference.  They will have 3 or 4 trips that are a longer distance or time than Buena Vista.

DUBUQUE 11-16 (7-9)  Loses Tena Stark and Tifany Brown.  Return Aimee Reyser Jr. (1st team IIAC) 12.3, Mollie Whiting So. (2nd team IIAC) 16.1 and Alia Cook (Honorable Mention) 9.8 ppg.
Dolittledog should be excited, late season upset of Wartburg, a two point game on Simpsons home floor, and returning quality players should have the dog drooling.  A women's basketball championship would be icing on the cake to go along with next years UD footall championship.

LORAS  15-12 (10-6) No Seniors.  Lindsey LaBadie Jr. (1st team IIAC) 11.3, Brittany Kent So. (2nd team IIAC) 9.0, Alex Hudson Jr. 8.3, and Melissa Herman So. 7.9 ppg. provide a good foundation for the 2011-12 team.  Upset of Wartburg and 3pt tournament loss to Coe on Coe's home floor should have fans excited about next year.

Look for two good teams in battling it out in Dubuque.  They split last year each winning at home.
[
]LUTHER  7-18 (3-13)  Loses Sam Jewell (1st team IIAC) 14.8, Bethany Van Sloten (Honorable Mention) 8.5, and Sam McCamy 3.0 ppg..  Taylor Johnson Fr. 9.9 and Katie Etter Jr. 7.2 return to help new coach Amanda Nechuta rebuild.  Without immediate help from the recruits Luther would be a good choice for last place.  They lost too many crucial seniors.  

SIMPSON  22-7 (14-2) Loses sharpshooter Amy Hamilton (3X 2nd team IIAC) 9.7, Jeni Hegstrom 5.4, Mindy Hutchcroft 8.7, and Darrina Bledsoe 2.8 ppg.  Returns Stacey Schutjer Jr. (All American Honorable Mention, 2nd team All Region, and 1st Team IIAC) 13.3, Ali Sokol 8.0, and Kate Nielsen 7.9 ppg..  Simpson reloads all the returning players except Schutjer (Stacey only plays 22min.) played less than 20 minutes.  They would probably be scoring double figures with 22 to 25 min per game.

WARTBURG  21-5 (12-4) Loses Sam Harrington (IIAC Player of the Year, 1st team all Region) 12.3, Katie Ziterguen (2nd team IIAC) 9.0, and Abbey Hempen (injured scored 11 ppg 2009-2010. The other players also scored more points last year than they did this year when Abbey wasn't playing) 1.2 ppg.  Returning players Madie Sadecky So. (Honorable Mention IIAC) 8.0, Stephanie Reiter Fr. 7.7, and Abi Weideman So. 5.8 ppg..  Emily Timmerman averaged 4.9 ppg. in only 15 min per game but was the teams leading rebounder should ease the loss of Ziterguen
A couple of late season stumbles saved the NCCA from having to pick from three really strong IIAC teams for the tournament.  Coach Amsberry made an excellent hire with Coach Nate Oakland.  Nate will help get Wartburg reloaded or rebuilt in no time.

Disclaimer some seniors mentioned may have red shirt years I don't know about, and all mispellings and syntax errors are typos.

[doolittledog]

Thank you Bird Dog, now that is a review/preview I really like!!!

You and I have the "refusing to do semiimportant/necessary work" thing down pretty well

[Bird Dog]

Not only did I suck up to the U.D. fans in the U.D. section.  I also put a jab at Loras in their section for the U.D. fans.  If anyone can figure it out you will get one attaboy/girl.  

[doolittledog]

Not only did I suck up to the U.D. fans in the U.D. section.  I also put a jab at Loras in their section for the U.D. fans.  If anyone can figure it out you will get one attaboy/girl.  

I'm stumped...then again, if a test wasn't multiple choice, I was always in big big trouble

[Ghost of MIAC Past]

UD and Clarke per se being the good teams?  Loras not so much?

[Kohawk Krazy]

UD and Clarke per se being the good teams?  Loras not so much?

Clarke is an NAIA school.  Simpson and Coe will once again be the teams to beat.

[Bird Dog]

UD and Clarke per se being the good teams?  Loras not so much?

I think we were talking about Women's College basketball. What is the MIAC?

[Bird Dog]

UD and Clarke per se being the good teams?  Loras not so much?

Clarke is an NAIA school.  Simpson and Coe will once again be the teams to beat.

Coe has come a long way in four years.  2007-8 they had five seniors and fifteen freshman.  Senior leadership and talented freshman led to a 20-8 record.  2008-9 was a JV team with one senior and one junior transfers and the rest freshman and sophomores (14-12).  From 2009-10 and 2010-2011 Coe began to look like an ideal basketball team with a mix of players in all classes so you can maybe reload instead of rebuild.  Coe may now have that mix.  Maybe they can reload.    Coe's graduating seniors accounted for 50%+ of scoring, rebounding, and assists.  I think Simpson will be the favorite.

I think a lot of Coe's success next year will depend on the rehabilitation of injured players Reed (soph), Buckles (Jr), Cray (Jr.) and Jipp (sr).  Of course some top notch recruits would help.  

Oops just checked the 2011-2012 roster and Cassie Gehling is missing do you know why?  If she is gone that will hurt.    

[Bird Dog]

Hate to answer my own question but Gehling has transfered to another school closer to home.

[doolittledog]

Hate to answer my own question but Gehling has transfered to another school closer to home.

BVU???

One of those western IA NAIA schools?

Big state school and giving up playing hoops?

[Ghost of MIAC Past]

UD and Clarke per se being the good teams?  Loras not so much?

I think we were talking about Women's College basketball. What is the MIAC?

I think I was talking about Women's College basketball as well.  I was trying to guess your dig at Loras.  If you know what the IIAC is, I would think you know what the MIAC is.  Disregard the name, as I don't live on the east coast anymore.

[Ghost of MIAC Past]

Changed the name so no one thinks I am still from the east coast.  MIAC might be the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.

[Bird Dog]

Hate to answer my own question but Gehling has transfered to another school closer to home.

BVU???

One of those western IA NAIA schools?

Big state school and giving up playing hoops?

I think it must be a Junior College, that I had never heard of, can't recall the name but its located in Ames, Iowa.