WBB: NESCAC

[feces monkey]

BE,

Glad to hear all is well. You'll have to let me know of any hot spots in the head waters. The cool weather has been a mixed blessing. If you hit Merrymeeting on the kayak let me know the particulars.

Whoever introduced Northern Pike to Central Maine should be drawn and quartered.

[usmhoops1]

Good morning to all.  Check out the top academic teams in D3.  Very surprised to not see Bowdoin, Bates, Colby in the mix.  Certainly tough standards though.  An interesting mix though.
Article is on the home page for D3hoops.


Only a couple months to go.  Dont want to wish away the sunshine though. What a gorgeous day in Maine today!!

[Pat Coleman]

True, not listed. But then again, all that means is that the team's GPA could be as high as 3.376, which is pretty darn outstanding.

[Wydown Blvd.]

And honestly with a team gpa that high (above 3.37+), then i would be surprised to have Bowdoin, Bates, and Colby in the mix. In fact, I am (happily) surprised Vassar and Emory are that high (especially with the bio and physics majors on the Emory team). Emory pre-med is darn serious.

[Wydown Blvd.]

Three Colby Recruits:

Karlyn Adler - from Blind Brook High School in NY. listed at 5'9", maybe shes 5'8". Averaged 17.5 ppg in her senior year. Plays truly as a guard and not a post player. She can shoot. Range up to about a foot behind the 3pt line. Has to work on defensive quickness and offensive explosiveness. More offensively-minded than defense-minded. Numerous awards, but you can google her name for those.

from maxpreps:
Her Maxpreps page

Julianne Kowalski - Montville, NJ - The single dominating force on her high school team. I think she is 6'1." From what I remember of seeing her play (almost 2yrs ago), range up to 15-16 feet. Will need to work on upper body strength (like most freshman post players). An excellent three sport athlete (lacrosse, field hockey, basketball) and excelled at all 3. Numerous awards in all three sports, but you can google her name for those too.

From an article I found online at NJ.com article:

Hometown hero: Julianne Kowalski could have played at her choice of private schools, but chose to attend Montville, where she never played on a winning team, but will graduate as the school's all-time leading scorer with 1,030 points. She averaged 16.2 points and 10.2 rebounds this year for a 7-17 team. More importantly, she's ranked eighth in her class and will continue her career at Colby in Maine.

"It was tough not to win many games, but my teammates were awesome and it was great getting to play with them," she said.

Meredith Aronson - (Mt. Lakes) - Don't know much about except that she is a forward and played for an excellent AAU program; If I see her play in a summer league when I take my August trip to NYC, Ill post something.

[feces monkey]

"It was tough not to win many games, but my teammates were awesome and it was great getting to play with them," she said.

Appropriately enough, I believe this is a verbatim excerpt from every graduating Colby women's basketball player's yearbook entry...

[tothehole]

Thats cold but hey thats Maine duh

[feces monkey]

Only one senior on the Polar Bear roster for 07-08. I guess this is the year the dregs of Division III finally catch up with the best.

Actually, the Mary Washington loss was already a sign of the apocolypse. Oh, well. Division III will be broken up by academic standards soon enough.

I'm jumping on the Conn. College bandwagon early. Go Camels!

[pureshooter]

 FM,  what about bates? bowdoin will still be there, but not nearly as strong.
ooh ! a low one to the Camels.

[bbald eagle]

Monkey - i'd guess you think the preseason USA TODAY ESPN DIVISION III TOP 25 COACHES' POLL's got Bowdoin way overranked at #5? What about Southern Maine at #10? Bates is in their "also getting votes" category.

http://www.wbca.org/DIIICoachesPoll.asp

[Balder Eagle]

Monkey,

   How are you? I read bbald's post, a good ranking for Bowdoin. I heard Bowdoin added three or four Freshman Women that will have immediate impact. Any input?
     
   My fishing season came to an end. During my last outing I managed to land some big salmon, several 18 to 24 inch fish, on my 4 wieght.

[met_fan]

Well it's a new season for Gromacki to work his magic.  How many schools in how many years is it now?  And I know.....I'm a Hamilton guy so it's sour grapes, but how many schools is it in the last five years?  (Part of my bitterness is that Hamilton should still be NESCAC for BB, but since they still are for about  75% of sports, I continually hold out hope that they rejoin for BB.

[newtonnancy]

Hello all,

Brandeis I see picked up Williams, anything is an upgrade from last years non conference schedule but is Williams as good as past few years or are they down?

[senatorfrost]

 Nancy: it's good to hear from you. It's nice to see that you're still interested in this neck of the woods and the student athletes at Deis. Williams lost four out of five starters and I think their top two reserves. The big losses (no pun intended) were Margaret Miller and Meg(h?)an O'Malley. A couple years ago they lost a lot of people and came up with the O'Malley / Miller crew. Are you still a Maroon? Maroon fan i.e.? Kidding aside, I've sort of missed you.
   

[newtonnancy]

Thanks,

Yep still in Chicago, but still follow the UAA, can't get into any of the other schools out here, its just not the same as back east. I will always be a Judge, its just I have friends still at Brandeis and I hear stuff that makes me nuts, that was my reason for jumping on the Maroon bandwagon. Sometimes people just get so full of themselves and believe their own press and hearing some comments I really was hoping the Maroons would put the smack down on the Judges last year.

Just want to see and read about good bballllllllllllll