WOMEN's BASKETBALL History and Records
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WOMEN'S BASKETBALL HIstoRY AND RECORDS table OF Contents: HALL OF FAME 2-3 1,000-POINT CLUB 4-7 ALL-TIME DOUBLE-DOUBLE LEADERS 8-11 TEAM, INDIVIDUAL AND COACHING RECORDS 12-18 INDIVIDUAL HONORS AND ACCOLADES 19-20 LETTERWINNNERS/CAPTAINS 21-24 OPPONENT RECORDS 25 ALL-TIME NON-CONFERENCE RESULTS 26-31 ALL-TIME IVY LEAGUE RESULTS 32-38 YEAR-BY-YEAR RESULTS 39-49 2001, 2004, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2019 Ivy League Champions | 2014-15, 2017-18 Big 5 Champions • 1 Hall of Fame The University of Pennsylvania Athletic Department established the Penn Athletics Hall of Fame in 1996 to honor the greatest student-athletes and coaches ever to wear and coach the Red and Blue. After 11 induction ceremonies, the list of honorees now includes over 200 people who helped create Penn’s rich athletic history and tradition. Kirsten M. Brendel, C’91 Jewel Clark, C’04 A four-year letterwinner and three-time team MVP, The 2003-04 Ivy League and Big 5 Player of the Kirsten Brendel was the first player in program Year, Jewel Clark was just the second player in history to earn Ivy League and Philadelphia Big 5 program history to be named three-time first-team Player of the Year honors —she received both as All-Ivy and first-team All-Big 5. A member of Penn’s a senior in 1990-91. That season, Kirsten led the first two Ivy League title teams, she graduated Quakers to a 10-4 Ivy League mark, which was the second on Penn’s all-time scoring list (1,743 points), program’s best at the time. third in career rebounds (933), and fourth in career Brendel was also the first Quaker to earn first- steals (204). At the time of her induction, Clark still team All-Ivy more than once, as she was honored as a junior and held program records for free throws made in a game (16 vs. Drexel again as a senior. She was a two-time scoring leader and four-time in 2002) and in a career (475) while ranking third in career points rebounding leader for the Quakers during her career. Decades after scored and fourth in career steals (204). her career ended, her 351 points scored in Ivy play in 1990-91 (a Clark was third on the team in points per game as a freshman, 25.1 per-game average) remained third all-time in League history, helping guide the Quakers to their first ever Ivy League and her 41-point game against Bucknell on Jan. 3, 1991 remained championship in 2001 while Penn won a school-record 21-straight the third-best scoring performance by an Ivy League player in the games that year. Clark again guided the Quakers to the NCAA conference’s history. Tournament as a senior, as Penn went 11-3 in Ivy play behind Clark's Brendel scored 1,656 points and grabbed 847 rebounds during her 554 points scored that season. career, both of which were Penn records when she graduated. She After college, Clark explored professional basketball, tying out for scored a then-school record of 631 points as a senior, finishing ninth a few WNBA teams before playing overseas, serving as an eighth- nationally in scoring (24.3 ppg). Brendel still holds the record for grade language arts teacher at the time of her induction. free throws made in a season (170 in 1990-91). Following her Penn career, Brendel enjoyed a standout Cynthia Johnson Crowley, CW’52 professional career overseas, playing in Australia, Switzerland and Cynthia Johnson Crowley was virtually unstoppable Germany until 2000. She was inducted into the Philadelphia Big 5 in her three seasons playing basketball for the Hall of Fame in 1997. Quakers. From 1949-52, Penn averaged 45 points per game with Crowley accounting for over 21 of Diana Caramanico, W’01, LPS’11 those points. Her third year, Crowley bucketed Diana Caramanico is quite simply the most more than 26 points per game, even though women dominant women’s basketball player in Penn history. played a 32-minute game, unlike the current Caramanico’s 2,415 career points still stands as 40-minute standard. Crowley single-handedly an Ivy League and Big 5 record. An All-America outscored the opposition eight times in her career, and she was selection, Caramanico is one of just seven players benched after the third quarter of one game so Penn wouldn’t run to earn first-team All-Ivy honors four times. As a up the score. senior, she led the Quakers to their first-ever Ivy Including basketball, Crowley amassed 12 letters over her four- League title and NCAA Tournament game. year career. On the links, Crowley captained the Penn golf team Caramanico became the first player in Penn for three seasons, and earned a victory at the prestigious 18-Hole history to earn Ivy League Rookie of the Year honors and was also Invitational in 1952. the first Quaker selected as Big 5 and ECAC Rookie of the Year. A She was a three-year letterwinner in softball as well, playing year later, Caramanico began a string of three straight Big 5 Player centerfield and first base, and consistently hit in the middle of of the Year, Ivy League Player of the Year, unanimous first-team All- the lineup. Crowley’s final two letters were earned as a member Ivy and first-team All-Big 5 selections. of Penn’s badminton squad, for which she competed in doubles Following her junior season she was named Associated Press competition. honorable mention All-America, District I GTE Academic All-America Crowley was elected to Athlon, Penn’s former women’s athletic and District I Kodak/WBCA All-America. Her 24.8 points per game honor society, and was vice president for her senior class. Since finished second in the NCAA that season. In her senior year, the graduation, Crowley has been an avid supporter of Penn athletics, Quakers became just the second team in league history to finish having subsidized the Harschberger-Johnson-Brendel Award with a perfect 14-0 mark in Ivy play. Penn’s 22 overall wins that and, along with her daughter, donated the Ivy League Softball season remain the program’s high-water mark. At the time of her Championship Team Trophy. In 1997, the Cynthia Johnson Crowley graduation, Caramanico ranked seventh on the NCAA Division I Team Room was dedicated in The Palestra to honor her commitment career scoring list with an average of 22.7 points per game. She also to the University. ranked second on the all-time NCAA Division I rebounding list with a career average of 12.8 per game. From 2001-03, Caramanico played professional basketball in France. She was the leading Division II scorer in France both years. She was inducted into the Big 5 Hall of Fame in 2007. 2 • 2018-19 Penn Women’s Basketball Fact Book Auretha Fleming, EAS’84 Betsy Crothers Hawthorne, Ed’46, Auretha Fleming was a rock-solid player for the GED’48 University of Pennsylvania women’s basketball Betsy Crothers laid an important foundation for team. She was a co-captain and a Father’s Trophy today’s female student-athletes at the University of Award winner in 1984. Also in her senior year, Pennsylvania when she was a varsity letterwinner Fleming was honored as a first-team All-Ivy League at Penn from 1942-46. Crothers was an active and second-team All-Philadelphia Big 5 selection. participant in four intercollegiate sports, as well Her freshman year, Fleming was the runner-up for as an integral part of the college community on Ivy League Rookie of the Year. numerous levels. Fleming was inducted into the Philadelphia Big 5 Hall of Fame in As a senior in 1945, Crothers led the Penn field hockey team to its February, 1991, and at that time, was the Red and Blue’s top career first undefeated season with a 5-0-1 record and Crothers was named rebounder (749) and second-best scorer (1,093 points). Who’s Who in American Colleges. One of the biggest events that During her career, she also established Penn records for career year was the founding of Athlon (the Greek word for Athletics) as an field goal percentage (.446) and career steals (205), leading the athletic honor society for women at Penn. Crothers was elected as Quakers to a 28-12 Ivy League record during her four-year career. a charter member and she and her fellow hockey teammates were Fleming was also named to the Women’s Sports Federation All- awarded gold hockey sticks to commemorate their championship Northeast Region team her senior year. Her most recent accolade season. Crothers also held the high honor as president of the WAA came when she was voted by her peers to represent the University (Women’s Athletic Association) from 1945-46. of Pennsylvania on the Ivy League Silver Anniversary Honor Roll During her years at Penn, Crothers played a key role in helping during the 25th Anniversary of Ivy League Women’s Athletics basketball, softball, badminton, swimming, hockey, tennis, bowling Celebration in 1997-98. and lacrosse become varsity sports at Penn. She was also a member of the first class of women to be inhabitants of Weightman Hall, Robin Fortsch, C’87, GED‘88 formerly an exclusively male facility. For her work as a true pioneer In basketball, Fortsch was a first-team All-Ivy as a of women’s sports, Crothers was awarded the Father’s Trophy Award senior when she led the league in scoring (20.1 ppg).