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INSIDE SCOOP … Milestones Approaching e-Zine October 2005 by Mel Greenberg INSIDE SCOOP™… Milestones Approaching Another WNBA season has gone MVP trophy a half-year after she into the history books. contemplated going elsewhere because she thought Sacramento Just ahead in a few weeks, another was about to go into a rebuilding women's collegiate basketball mode. season is about to begin. Actually, they did, but found the Midnight Madness will launch the right combination of veterans and formal practice period as a prelude rookies to prevail at the finish. to the NCAA's 25th anniversary celebration of its sponsorship of Yo was the second overall pick to women's competition. the Washington Mystics' Chamique Holdsclaw in the 1999 draft in In the spring when the WNBA which she was one of the many returns, it will have one new team who were refugees from the which recently was given its bankrupt American Basketball official name – the Chicago Sky – League that died the previous and will launch the celebration of winter. its 10th anniversary season. Despite Holdsclaw's reputation coming out of college, many felt at In the interim, the Sacramento the time that Griffith might get a Monarchs, one of the WNBA's team to a championship faster. original charter eight teams in 1997, rule the pro women's world Technically, she did twice, in terms after a thrilling best-of-five of Holdsclaw teams. The Mystics championship series in the new haven't gotten past an Eastern final expanded format that fell just short and Los Angeles, the overwhelming of going the distance when the preseason favorite after she joined Monarchs held off the Connecticut them in March, fell to the Monarchs Sun, 62-59, in the Arco Arena. in the first round of the Western Conference playoffs. Veteran Monarchs center Yolanda Griffith led the way in gaining the e-Zine Page 2 It took Griffith seven years to taste McHugh is now coaching Stony the title and for the second straight Brook. Two other previous season her impact marked a former Sacramento coaches are also ABL personality involved at the around in Mary Murphy, who finish. broadcasts pro and collegiate games and also writes commentary Previously, Seattle Storm coach on teams in the Pac-10 conference. Anne Donovan, who once coached the ABL’s Philadelphia Rage, got Heidi Vanderveer, the sister of the job done in the Emerald City. Stanford's Tara Vanderveer who succeeded Murphy, was an It was also Yo's second attempt at assistant at San Francisco last a pro championship in the U.S. season. When she joined the ABL, one of The other thought concerning the few that slipped through the Griffith was how the USA WNBA's hunt for Americans Basketball selection committee overseas, Griffith was placed on was reluctant to put her on the the Long Beach Stingrays, an Olympic team because she had expansion team that got to the bypassed the building process to finals in 1998 and went 2-0 at home play for pay in Europe. to start the best-of-five series against the Columbus Quest. A certain person known to have won four WNBA titles with Houston But the Quest, featuring Val Still, and also was the coach of the USA Andrea Lloyd, Shannon Johnson, National team was influential in Katie Smith and Nikki McCray, making the committee reverse its came back and won three straight thinking. to defend their previous season's title. During the opening week of the finals in Connecticut, we ran into Long Beach was coached by Maura Ruth Bolton, who had retired from McHugh, who reunited with Griffith Sacramento before the season with the Monarchs before being began. jettisoned during the 2003 season. e-Zine Page 3 "Timing is everything," Bolton Lindsay Whalen suffered quipped. successive knee and ankle injuries right before and in game one of the The championship brought finals. happiness to a slew of Sacramento players who had fallen short of WNBA Balance Sheet titles previously in their careers, most recently Kristin Haynie, Sponsorships were up, TV ratings whose Michigan State team lost to were up, especially in the playoffs, Baylor last spring in the NCAA but attendance was down slightly, championship. a statistic that first-year president Donna Orender was ok with in Long ago, Ticha Penicheiro helped terms of the league knowing where Old Dominion upset NCAA-favorite it's at. Stanford in the national semifinals in 1997, only to lose to Tennessee Washington was down, but Orender in the title game. attributed the decline to a change of ownership with one group Other notable Monarchs winners looking beyond its immediate with previous frustrations were undertaking and another getting up rookie Chelsea Newton (Rutgers), to speed while coming aboard. Kara Lawson (Tennessee), DeMya Walker (Virginia), Rebekkah The offseason will not be quiet, Brunson (Georgetown), and Nicole although this may be the first time Powell (Stanford), who was voted in a while that negative vibes won't the WNBA's most improved player. be transmitted after seasons of the It's also the third straight year a immediate past in which some once-endangered franchise thrived teams closed shop or moved, and to a title after Detroit (2003) and Val Ackerman, the league's Seattle. founding president, resigned a year ago shortly after the finals. In terms of thriving, add the Connecticut Sun, once known as Free agency will include notable the Orlando Miracle, who had the names league's best record by a game over Sacramento but was More veterans such as Griffith and hampered when second-year pro Dawn Staley will be windinge-Zine up Page 4 careers next season, joining The College Scene Natalie Williams, whose last game was with Indiana when the Fever The week leading up to this report fell to Connecticut in the Eastern began with the shocking news of finals. the untimely death of Arizona 22- year-old senior Shantinice Polk, There will also be the expansion who collapsed at the McKale draft for Chicago, which could start Center on Monday and died soon the season with a roster that will thereafter of a pulmonary blood be more talented than the usual clot. expansion variety. I didn't get to see her play during Phoenix needs to hire a coach and career since most of my seasonal one name on the short list is energies are housed back here in former Auburn mentor Joe Ciampi, the East. a Women's Basketball Hall of Famer. However, I attended Pac-10 media day right before Polk's freshman So since we have some time to get year and Arizona coach Joan a handle on the collegiate season Bonvicini introduced us and said I in the next six weeks, here's an would hear from her (on the court) exercise you can perform to the next four years. influence what we cover. That was certainly true and Polk Write us and tell us what you liked will be regarded as one of Arizona's best about the WNBA season, what all-timers. you didn't like, what surprised you pleasantly and what disappointed It's the second time in three your expectations. seasons a Pac-10 school suffered a tragedy after junior forward Alisa Have fun. Lewis died Jan. 19, 2004, from bacterial meningitis. Write to: [email protected] The conference happily avoided a third tragedy when Kayla Burt of Washington suffered a sudden cardiac arrest on New Year's Eve, 2002. e-Zine Page 5 She's since recovered, returned to throughout the affected area and the Huskies and will be a senior throughout the nation have been this winter. involved in activities along with everyone else to help the recovery. The other news not directly related to the basketball court was the We'll mention some of them next impacts of Hurricanes Katrina and time. [RS] Rita. Women's teams at schools Get Your Own Gear at REALSPORTSMAG.COM/MARKETPLACE .
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