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Show Aggie Basketball Special • Fall 2011 • I 7G 17 PRE-SEASON NOTES: 2011-12 Utah State Women's Basketball Schedule Raegan Pebley is entering her ninth season as head coach at Utah State, which is the longest tenure in the program's history. Five games into the 2007-08 season, Pebley overtook the lead for the most games coached in Utah State history (116). She has now coached 234 games for the blue and white and has 89 wins as Aggie head coach, which is first ahead of Fern Gardner (55) on the all-time win list. • Utah State returns 10 players from the 2010-11 roster, including three starters in forward Ashlee Brown (15.2 ppg), center Banna Diop (9.5 ppg) and guard Jenna Johnson (6.6 ppg). USU brings back 75% of its offense, including its top three scorers in Brown, Diop and guard Devyn Christensen. The Aggies also welcome back the block leader in Diop (1.88 bpg), and Brown will also be back in the blue and white as Utah State's leading rebounder, bringing down 251 rebounds in 2010-11 (8.4 rpg). Date Friday, Nov. 4 Opponent Western New Mexico# Location Logan, Utah Time 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 11 at Wyoming Laramie, Wyo. 7 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 13 at South Dakota State Brookings, S.D. 1 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 16 p.m. Weber State Logan, Utah 7 Saturday, Nov. 19 at UC Irvine Irvine, Calif. 3 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 22 Friday, Nov. 25 Boise State UC Riverside Logan, Utah Logan, Utah 7 p.m. 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 30 at Montana Missoula, Mont. Friday, Dec. 2 at Montana State Bozeman, Mont. 7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 10 at Idaho State Pocatello, Idaho 2:05 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 17 Monday, Dec. 19 BYU! Northern Arizona Logan, Utah Logan, Utah 2 p.m. 12 p.m. 7 p.m. • Ashlee Brown was the fourth Aggie to earn all-WAC honors and the second to earn first-team accolades. She was also named Newcomer of the Year which is the first time an Aggie has earned that honor. In 2009, current assistant coach Danyelle Snelgro was the first Aggie to be named to the first team. Amber White was named to the all-WAC second-team in 2010, while Ana Pares was earned second-team honors in 2009. Thursday, Dec. 22 at Boise State Boise, Idaho 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 3 Saturday, Jan. 7 Asbury Utah Valley! Logan, Utah Logan, Utah 7 p.m. 2 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 12 at New Mexico State* Las Cruces, N.M. Saturday, Jan. 14 at Louisiana Tech* Ruston, La. 5 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 19 Saturday, Jan. 21 Fresno State* Nevada* Logan, Utah Logan, Utah 7 p.m. 7 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 28 at Idaho* Moscow, Idaho 2 p.m. • Last season was the first time in head coach Raegan Pebley's career that she has earned the Coach of the Year accolade. Pebley is also the first female to earn the award since 2004-05 when Rice's Cristy McKinney was named Coach of the Year. Thursday, Feb. 2 at San Jose State* San Jose, Calif. 8 p.m. • Guard Devyn Chirstensen ended the year with the USU record for single-season free throw shooting percentage with 86.1 (105-of-122). She tops the list by almost four percent as Mary Danielson is now in second place with 82.7 percent from the 1981 season. Christensen also nabbed sixth on the single-season record list for three-point field goals percentage at 35.4 behind Amber White's fifth place 2009-10 season shooting 37.5 from behind the arc. 12 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 4 at Hawai`i* Honolulu, Hawaii 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 9 Saturday, Feb. 11 Louisiana Tech*! New Mexico State*! Logan, Utah Logan, Utah 5 p.m. 2 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 16 at Nevada* Reno, Nev. Saturday, Feb. 18 at Fresno State* Fresno, Calif. 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 25 Thursday, March 1 Saturday, March 3 Idaho* Hawai`i* San Jose State* Logan, Utah Logan, Utah Logan, Utah 2 p.m. 7 p.m. 7 p.m. Wed.-Sat., March 7-10 WAC Tournament Las Vegas, Nev. 8 p.m. TBA Home game in BOLD All Times Mountain *WAC Game 2011-2012 USU Alphabetical Roster No. 14 22 20 4 42 24 50 15 12 11 34 23 2 25 3 44 Name Brooke Beckstead Ashlee Brown Chelsea Burns Devyn Christensen Banna Diop Pualei Furtado Xava Grooms Kamie !mai Brooke Jackson Jenna Johnson Reyneisha Mays Addison Moore Elise Nelson Maddy Plunkett Jennifer Schlott Franny Vaaulu Pos. G F G/F G C G F G G G F G G F G C Ht. 5-10 6-0 5-10 5-6 6-6 5-5 6-0 5-8 5-8 5-10 6-3 5-9 5-8 6-2 5-6 6-3 Yr. FR SR JR JR JR JR FR SO SR JR SR FR FR SR SO FR Exp. HS 1L 2L 2L 2L 2L HS 1L TR 2L 1L HS HS 1L 1L HS Hometown (High School/Last School) Preston, Idaho (Preston HS) Chandler, Ariz. (Chandler HS/UC Santa Barbara) Carlsbad, Calif. (La Jolla Country Day HS) Caldwell, Idaho (Vallivue HS) Dakar, Senegal (Kurashiki Suisho) Kaneohe, Hawaii (Kamehameha HS) Granada Hill, Calif. (Granada Hills HS) Pahoa, Hawaii (Waiakea HS) Mesa, Ariz. (Mountain View HS/Arizona) Wasilla, Alaska (Wasilla HS) Granada Hills, Calif. (Granada Hills HS/Moorpark College) Layton, Utah (Layton HS) Springfield, Ore. (Thurston HS) Albury, New South Wales, Australia (Xavier/College of So. Idaho) Mesa, Ariz. (Mountain View HS) Los Angeles, Calif. (Warren HS) 4 SPECIAZ Timm ro Dove Itomiow MO A'ARA f/SHER Of pit USW Ammo MEDIA Remrio#s OFFICE FOR THEIR ASSISTANCE IN PREPARING Til/S SPECIAL SUPPIEMENT, |