| Show r M Women's Basketball It is t. t Sen Ben has the lowdown lowdown lowdown low- low down on the ladies BY Bl BEN ANDERSON ANDERSONs s i Sports Editor Within the last 10 years women's athletics have come com a long way to gain respect Some examples are the USA women's World Cup soccer team which won the World Cup two years ago as well as the establishment of the Women are showing people they are the best and andare andare andare are considered heroines The 2001 02 Lady Bruin Basketball team is looking forward for the upcoming sea sea- son The Lady Bruins Bruin's have six players returning from last years year's squad and have nine fresh recruits ready to play and show people they are the best Most of the freshman players are either or State All-State athletes including Heather Hansen from Logan High Danielle Groesbeck from High Candace Mattson from Lone one Peak High Anna AnnaM AnnaI I M u f k Nelson v Murray High Annie Martinez from American Fork f 1 i i 1 v High and Haley Berlin from Layton High Crystal Carpenter from Sugar-Salem Sugar High in Idaho and Trisha Williams from Malad High in Idaho Coach Betsy is extremely pleased with the recruiting year she has had Coach is in her sixth year coaching here at She played A n ni i 1 6 kr h i i 4 1 q r zd b LF LF'S S- S a y T fik t r 5 5 S tir y v V 5 e ek tt r k e 1 Y x tsy P w- w y yh h s 4 w h i Bruin ball B-ball Courtesy of Bruin Athletics basketball and softball at Illinois State University and graduated there with a Bachelors degree in 1981 She later received her Masters degree e in Sports Administration at ISU in 1991 She coached high school basketball for ten years in Illinois before taking the head-coaching head job here Last season the Lady Bruins finished 9 23 7 11 and tied for third place in the standings playing in inthe inthe inthe the semi-finals semi in the tournament This season they look to be even better if not the best in the The conference is one of the top Junior College conferences in inthe inthe inthe the country with a lot of great teams including Dixie College and Snow College So far this season the team has been on top of its game They hold a solid 61 61 61 6 1 before heading to the Dixie College Tournament November 30 The players hope to have an awesome season season season sea sea- son and would like to get a lot lotof lotof lotof of fans out to the games and win for the home crowd A |
