2O17–2O18 SEASON @BUTLERWBB #2 Kaela Hodges #3 Alisha Aube #4 Taylor Buford #10 Naira Caceres #11 Michelle Weaver Sr. / 6-0 / Forward Fr. / 6-0 / Forward Jr. / 5-11 / Guard So. / 6-1 / Forward Jr. / 5-7 / Guard #12 Sydney Buck #14 Sarah Humphrey #15 Whitney Jennings #21 Katherine Strong #22 Iman Lathan Sr. / 5-7 / Guard So. / 6-0 / Guard R-Jr. / 5-5 / Guard Jr. / 5-11 / Guard Gr. / 5-9 / Guard #23 Shae Brey #24 Kristen Spolyar #30 Sydney Shelton #32 Ashanti Thomas #34 Tori Schickel So. / 6-0 / Forward So. / 5-10 / Guard So. / 5-9 / Guard Jr. / 6-4 / Center Jr. / 6-1 / Center Head Coach Assistant Coach Assistant Coach Assistant Coach Director of Operation Kurt Godlevske John Marcum Kierra McCleary Gabe Henry Daress McClung TABLE OF CONTENTSCONTENTS GENERAL TV / Radio Roster .......................................................................2 Table of Contents........................................................................3 Butler at a Glance ....................................................................4-5 Hinkle Fieldhouse ....................................................................6-7 Hinkle Renovations..................................................................8-9 Sports Medicine ........................................................................10 Academic Support ....................................................................10 Strength & Conditioning............................................................ 11 Travel ........................................................................................ 11 City of Indianapolis ..............................................................12-13 Season Preview...................................................................14-15 COACHING STAFF Head Coach Kurt Godlevske ....................................................16 Assistant Coach John Marcum. ................................................17 Assistant Coach Kierra McCleary .............................................18 Assistant Coach Gabe Henry ...................................................19 Director of WBB Operations Daress McClung..........................20 Support Staff .............................................................................21 PLAYER PROFILES Sydney Buck........................................................................22-23 Kaela Hodges ......................................................................24-25 Iman Lathan.........................................................................26-27 Whitney Jennings ................................................................28-29 Taylor Buford .......................................................................30-31 Michelle Weaver ..................................................................32-33 Tori Schickel ........................................................................34-35 Sarah Humphrey .................................................................36-37 Shae Brey ............................................................................38-39 Kristen Spolyar ....................................................................40-41 Sydney Shelton ...................................................................42-43 Ashanti Thomas ...................................................................44-45 Katherine Strong..................................................................46-47 Naira Caceres......................................................................48-49 Alisha Aube..........................................................................50-51 RECORD BOOK 2017-18 Opponents Pages..................................................53-55 2016-17 Stats ......................................................................58-63 Year-by-Year Results ...........................................................64-70 Award Winners .........................................................................71 Butler vs. All-Time Opponents .............................................72-73 Hall of Famers .........................................................................74 All-Time Coaching Records ......................................................75 Year-by-Year Leaders / Team Records .....................................76 Individual Single-Game Records ..............................................77 Individual Single-Season Records.......................................78-79 Individual Career Records / 1,000 Point Scorers ................80-81 2017-18 Schedule ..................................................... Back Cover 3 Butler Academics Academics... Mission... Over 65 Major Academic Fields Our mission is to provide the highest Studying in Six Colleges Lacy School of Business quality of liberal and professional College of Communication College of Education College of Liberal Arts and Sciences education and to integrate the liberal arts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences Jordan College of the Arts with professional education, by creating Information on Classes and fostering a stimulating intellectual Student to faculty ratio: 12-1 Study Abroad community built upon interactive 110+ study abroad programs in 70 countries dialogue and inquiry among students, faculty, and staff. The Butler Way... Demands Commitment, Denies Selfi shness, Accepts Reality, Yet Seeks Improvement Every Day While Putting the Team Above Self. History... Founded By Attorney and Abolitionist Ovid Butler. A University that Emphasizes a liberal arts-based education with the goal of teaching clear and effective communication, appreciation of beauty, and a commitment to lifelong learning, community service, and global awareness. Known As A nationally recognized comprehensive university that blends the liberal arts with fi rst-rate pre- professional programs. Activities & Athletics... Butler University joined the BIG EAST Conference in 2013. As a BIG EAST member, Butler joins Creighton, DePaul, Georgetown, Marquette, Providence, Seton Hall, St. John’s, Villanova, and Xavier. Men’s Sports Women’s Sports Baseball Basketball Basketball Cross Country Cross Country Golf Football (*PFL*) Lacrosse Golf Soccer Soccer Softball Tennis Swimming Track Tennis Track Volleyball HINKLE FIELDHOUSE - A TRUE COLLEGE SPORTS CATHEDRAL Hinkle Fieldhouse has reigned as one of the nation’s great sports arenas for more than nine decades. The “Go to a Saturday afternoon basketball game classic facility was constructed in 1928 and it has at Hinkle Fieldhouse, when the sunlight fi lters stood up to the test of time, maintaining the splendor, through the south windows. For that matter character and atmosphere that made it one of the go to any game, any time, at Hinkle.” nation’s most famous basketball arenas more than - Bill Benner, Indianapolis Star and News, Aug. 4, 1998 half a century ago. The original construction of Butler Fieldhouse was part of a massive project designed to give Butler one of the fi nest athletic plants in the nation. The project was fi nanced by a corporation of 41 prominent and farsighted Indianapolis businessmen. Completion of the Fieldhouse was guaranteed when Butler signed a lease agreement with the Indiana High School Athletic Association allowing the high school state tournament to be played in the massive new facility. Butler’s association with the IHSAA continued from 1928 to 1971, with a brief interruption during the war years, 1943-45. Butler played its first basketball game in the Fieldhouse on March 7, 1928, defeating Notre Dame Constructed in 1928, Hinkle Fieldhouse is on the National Register of Historic 21-13, in overtime. Since the Fieldhouse was not Buildings. It’s been the site of countless memorable basketball games and many basketball legends, including John Wooden, Oscar Robertson, George entirely completed at that time, the building dedication McGinnis and Larry Bird, have played on the Hinkle hardwood. 6 was held off until December 21, 1928. The name of the facility was changed in 1966 from Butler Fieldhouse to Hinkle Fieldhouse in honor of Butler’s legendary coach and athletic director Paul D. “Tony” Hinkle, who built the University’s athletic tradition over nearly half a century. In addition to being the home of Butler basketball, the Fieldhouse has served as host to six U.S. presidents (Herbert Hoover, Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton), the Billy Graham Crusade, the Sonja Henie Ice Show, four professional basketball teams, the U.S. Olympic basketball trials, the fi rst USSR-USA basketball game, all-star basketball games for the NBA and ABA and the East-West When Hinkle Fieldhouse opened in 1928, the basketball College All-Stars, the nationally-prominent Butler Relays in track, fl oor ran east and west, which put more than half the seats at the ends of the court. The court was turned to its tennis matches of both Bill Tilden and Jack Kramer, the 1982 World current confi guration in the early 1930’s. Goal Ball Championships, a three-ring circus, several equestrian events, the Roller Derby, a six-day bicycle race, and the popular movie “Hoosiers.” The building also housed the U. S. military as a barracks during World War II. During the summer of 1987, Hinkle Fieldhouse again received national and international attention as the site for the volleyball competition at the 10th Pan American Games. The largest crowd ever to see a volleyball match in the United States (14,500) gathered in the Fieldhouse to see the USA defeat Cuba in the men’s gold medal match. When the Fieldhouse was originally