Table of Contents Table of Contents 1 Team Travel 48 Facilities 2 Hofstra President 49 Quick Facts 3 Athletic Administration 50 This is Hofstra 4 Women’s Basketball Support Staff 51 Head Coach Felisha Legette-Jack 6 Athletic Department Directory 52 Assistant Coach Jose Mori 8 Hofstra Heritage 53 Assistant Coach Elizabeth O’Brien 9 Athletic Academic Support 55 Assistant Coach Viveca Lof 10 Sports Medicine 56 Director of Basketball Operations Beth Shackel 11 Basketball Academic Program 57 Graduate Assistant Kellie McGann 12 Long Island, New York 58 Strength Coach Joe Rodgers 12 Life After Basketball 59 Support Staff 13 Hofstra in the Community 60 2003-2004 Outlook 14 Junior Hoop Club 61 2003-2004 Roster 16 Camps and Clinics 62 Basketball Banquet 63 Meet the Pride 17 Hofstra Arena 64 Staceyann Claxton 18 Tara Dilworth 20 2002-2003 In Review 66 Rume Pela 22 2002-2003 Statistics and Results 66 Urszula Smolarek 24 2002-2003 Game-by-Game Team Statistics 67 Amaka Agugua 26 2002-2003 Individual Statistics 68 Megan Scott 28 The Last Time 68 Charlotte Baldrey 30 2002-2003 Team Highs and Lows 69 Darby Burke 31 2002-2003 Trivia 69 Cigi McCollin 32 2002-2003 Box Scores 70 Vanessa Gidden 34 The Colonial Athletic Association 79 Lana Harshaw 35 2002-2003 Colonial Athletic Association Review 80 Shalamar Oakley 36 Lizanne Murphy 37 2003-2004 CAA Composite Schedule 85 Hofstra Record Book 87 2003-2004 Opponents 38 Hofstra Women’s Basketball Alumnae 92 North Carolina/Quinnipiac 38 Hofstra Women’s Basketball Series Records 95 Binghamton/Canisius 39 Hofstra Year-by-Year Records/Coaching Records 96 North Texas/Columbia 40 Hofstra Basketball Year-by-Year Results 97 Rhode Island/Princeton 41 NCAA Bracket 103 Pepperdine/Florida International 42 Media Information 104 Albany/Virginia Commonwealth 43 Media Outlets 105 UNC Wilmington/William & Mary 44 Campus Map 106 Delaware/Old Dominion 45 Getting to Hofstra 107 Towson/James Madison 46 Radio/TV Chart 108 Drexel/George Mason 47 Come Rise With The Pride 1 Hofstra Facilities Hofstra Soccer Stadium Capacity: 1,600 Hofstra Softball Stadium Capacity: 1,000 James M. Shuart Stadium Home to Hofstra Football, Field Hockey and Men’s and Women’s Lacrosse Capacity: 15,000 Hofstra Arena Home to Hofstra’s Basketball and Wrestling teams Capacity: 5,124 Hofstra Volleyball Venue at the Physical Fitness Center Capacity: 1,200 2 2003-2004 Hofstra Women’s Basketball 2003-2004 Hofstra University Women’s Basketball Quick Facts Location: Hempstead, New York 11549 Assistant Director of Athletic Communications: Stephen Gorchov Founded: 1935 (Women’s Basketball Contact) Enrollment: 13,400 E-mail: [email protected] Nickname: Pride Office Phone: (516) 463-4933 Colors: Gold, White and Blue Office Fax: (516) 463-5033 Affiliation: NCAA Division I Cell Phone: (516) 523-5252 Conference: Colonial Athletic Association Graduate Assistant: Jaclyn Pasquerella Home Court: Hofstra Arena (5,124) Office Phone: (516) 463-2907 Press Row Phone: (516) 463-7725 Photographers: Brian Ballweg, Steve Maikoski (USA Basketball), Ken While President: Stuart Rabinowitz Director of Athletics: Harry Royle Basketball Information Senior Associate Director of Athletics: Cindy Lewis Head Basketball Coach: Felisha Legette-Jack (Syracuse, 1989) Associate Director of Athletics for Communications: Jim Sheehan Record at Hofstra: 8-21/1 year Associate Director of Athletics for External Affairs: Mark Cox Overall College Coaching Record: Same Associate Director of Athletics for Student Enhancement Programs: Assistant Coaches: Jose Mori (Penn State, 2000), Elizabeth O’Brien Harold Starks (Hofstra, 2000), Viveca Lof (Nevada-Las Vegas, 2001) Assistant Director of Athletics for Marketing and Advertising Sales: Director of Basketball Operations: Beth Shackel (Marist, 1999) Gina Paoli Graduate Assistant: Kellie McGann (LeMoyne, 2002) Athletic Department Phone: (516) 463-3800/6750 Women’s Basketball Athletic Trainer: Nicholas Mancini (Stony Brook, 2000) Radio: WRHU-FM (88.7) Television: Fox Sports NY Basketball Office Phone: (516) 463-HOOP Website: www.hofstra.edu/Sports Basketball Secretary: Clarice Smith Best Time to Call: Contact SID Associate Director of Athletics for Communications: Jim Sheehan Office Phone: (516) 463-6764 2002-2003 Record: 8-21 Senior Assistant Director of Athletic Communications: Jeremy Kniffin 2002-2003 Conference Record/ Finish: 4-14/T-Eighth Office Phone: (516) 463-6759 2002-2003 Postseason: Lost in Quarterfinals of Colonial Athletic Association Championship Letterwinners Returning: 5 Letterwinners Lost: 5 Starters Returning: 3 2003-2004 Starters Lost: 2 HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY WOMEN’S 2003-2004 Newcomers: 6 BASKETBALL PERSONNEL Captain: Megan Scott STARTERS RETURNING (3) Name Pos. Cl. Ht. PPG RPG APG Other Amaka Agugua F Jr. 5-11 11.3 7.0 0.9 School-record FG% (.538) Staceyann Claxton G Sr. 5-5 9.2 3.5 3.2 2.5 steals per game (led team) Megan Scott F Jr. 6-1 6.8 4.9 0.9 74 % free throw percentage OTHER RETURNING PLAYERS (4) Name Pos. Cl. Ht. PPG RPG APG Other Tara Dilworth F Sr. 6-3 5.7 5.2 0.3 Red-shirted-2001-2002 Stats Cigi McCollin G Fr. 5-7 14.4 4.8 1.0 Red-shirted-Played in five games in 2002-2003 Rume Pela C Sr. 6-2 5.6 4.4 0.4 43 blocks (led team) Urszula Smolarek G Sr. 5-9 1.9 1.4 1.3 Started final two games of 2002-2003 NEWCOMERS (6) Name Pos. Cl. Ht. Hometown/High School/Last School Charlotte Baldrey G Jr. 5-11 London, England/Tolworth Girls School/Tallahassee CC Darby Burke G So. 5-9 Baltimore, MD/Riverdale Baptist/Canisius Vanessa Gidden C Fr. 6-3 Stamford, CT/Stamford Lana Harshaw F Fr. 6-0 Wildwood, NJ/Wildwood Lizanne Murphy G/F Fr. 6-1 Beaconfield, Quebec, Canada/Dawson College Shalamar Oakley G Fr. 5-7 Camden, NJ/Woodrow Wilson STARTERS LOST (2) Name Pos. Cl. PPG RPG APG Other Jen Brickey G Sr. 17.5 4.8 1.8 1,726 career points (2nd all-time) Lauren Hall-Gregory G Sr. 5.5 3.0 4.2 454 career assists (4th all-time) OTHER PLAYERS LOST (3) Name Pos. Cl. Ht. PPG RPG APG Billi Godsey G Sr. 5-7 0.9 0.8 0.9 Erin Magee F Sr. 5-10 0.0 0.4 0.0 Tifini Rodgers F Fr. 5-10 4.9 2.4 0.4 Come Rise With The Pride 3 THIS IS HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY The Facts Hofstra offers bachelor’s degrees in 130 areas of study. ❖ The University offers approximately 140 graduate programs. ❖ Hofstra was ranked as one of Yahoo Internet Life’s ounded in 1935 in one building on 15 Hofstra’s C.V. Starr Hall offers academic “100 Most Wired Colleges” for 2001-02. acres in Hempstead, New York, Hofstra facilities that are among the most ❖ FFUniversity today has approximately 111 technologically advanced in the nation. Every Hofstra has 507 full-time buildings on 240 acres. Located on Long seat in every classroom allows students direct faculty members and Island, 25 miles east of Manhattan, the Hofstra access to the Internet and Hofstra network – student body of approximately 13,400 comes including the resources of Hofstra’s Axinn 1,291 total faculty members. from 44 states and 64 countries. The Colleges Library. ❖ and Schools of the University are: Hofstra College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Frank G. Hofstra’s growing computer facilities offer The student-faculty ratio is 15:1; Zarb School of Business, New College, School extensive high-tech training opportunities. Average class size is 22 students of Communication, School of Education and There are computer terminals throughout the Allied Human Services, School of Law, School campus for student and faculty use. The ❖ for University Studies, University College for University was ranked as one of Yahoo Hofstra is one of only 262 institutions Continuing Education, Honors College and Internet Life’s “100 Most Wired Colleges” for Saturday College. Bachelor’s degrees are 2001-2002, with more than 750 PC, Macintosh out of more than 3,600 offered in 130 areas of study. There are also and UNIX workstations available in labs and with a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. approximately 130 graduate programs, classrooms. including Ph.D., Ed.D., Psy.D. and J.D. ❖ degrees, advanced certificates and The fully computerized Hofstra Libraries The Hofstra Libraries are fully professional diplomas. contain 1.6 million volumes for student use. computerized and contain Only about 5 percent of American colleges 1.6 million volumes available The George Dempster Hall for have collections as extensive, and 85 percent for student use. Communications is one of the largest, most have fewer than half that number. advanced, non-commercial television facilities ❖ in the East. It houses a highly sophisticated Hofstra sponsors more than 500 cultural television production/post-production facility events annually, bringing thousands of Hofstra’s campus has 37 residence halls, with two broadcast quality studios and control scholars, dignitaries and other participants to housing about 4,100 students, and rooms; two advanced online video edit suites; campus. Hofstra has more than 200 musical 13 dining facilities. two Avid non-linear digital editing systems and and dramatic performances on campus each several cuts-only video work stations. Two year. ❖ satellite dishes are available with one dish Hofstra has more than 155 student clubs providing special news feeds for the broadcast Hofstra has 12 galleries and exhibition areas and organizations of which there are journalism room, which also has access to and an extensive outdoor sculpture collection. Associated Press, Nexis-Lexis and Dow Jones Five of the galleries and exhibition areas, and 36 local and national services. In addition, the facility is capable of the outdoor sculpture collection are directly fraternities and sororities. feeding student-produced programming to the under the auspices of the Hofstra Museum.