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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL 2012 - 2013 2012-13 Ball State Women’s Basketball Roster No. Name Pos. Ht. Cl. Hometown (School) 02 Alexandra Southworth F 6-1 Fr. Piketon, Ohio (Piketon) 03 Shelbie Justice G 5-10 So. Rushville, Ind. (Rushville Consolidated) 04 Nathalie Fontaine G 6-2 Fr. Stockholm, Sweden 05 Jordan Huber G 5-8 Jr. Indianapolis, Ind. (Ben Davis) 10 Shanee’ Jackson G 5-8 Sr. Hilliard, Ohio (Hilliard Darby) 11 Brandy Woody G 5-4 Jr. Thorntown, Ind. (Western Boone) 21 Lyzz Smith F 6-0 Jr. Mishawaka, Ind. (Indiana Wesleyan) (Plymouth) 23 Brittany Carter G 5-10 So. St. Louis, Mo. (Incarnate Word Academy) 24 Lindsey Wellman G 5-10 Jr. Portland, Ind. (Jay County) 25 Taylor Miller G 5-5 Fr. Hope, Ind. (Hauser) 30 Jonessa Moore F 6-2 So. Cincinnati, Ohio (Mt. Healthy) 32 Jazmin Hitchens F 6-1 Jr. St. Louis, Mo. (Incarnate Word Academy) 33 Katie Murphy F 6-0 Jr. Peoria, Ill. (Richwoods) Head Coach: Brady Sallee (Thomas More 93’) First Season Assistant Coaches: Ashleen Bracey (Illinois State 10’) First Season , Rachel Galligan (Eastern Illinois 09’) First Season, Ryan Patterson (Malone 99’) First Season Director of Basketball Operations: Audrey Spencer (Ball State 10’) Third Season BALL STATE CARDINALS Academic Success Ball State Tops List In The Latest NCAA APR With a perfect score of 1,000 the Ball State womens’ basketball program topped the list in the latest NCAA Division I Academic Progress Rate Report. The Cardinals perfect score of 1,000 was well above the national avearage. Ball State has also posted above 90 percent rates of success in each of the last five NCAA Division I Graduation Success Rates reports, including a perfect mark for the 2010-11 report. Former Cardinal Kate Endress is In 2006-07 former Ball State player In 2008-09 Danielle Gratton was one of only two student-athletes at Ball (2003-07) and former assistant coach named to the ESPN The Magazine State to earn Academic All-America of Kelsey Corbin (2010-12)was named Academic All-District V Team with the Year accolades. She is also one to the ESPN The Magazine Academic a 3.91 grade-point average on of just eight student-athletes in all All-District Second Team and to the Ball State’s 4.0 scale. She also sports at Ball State to earn First Team All-MAC squad. garnered Academic All-Mid-American Academic-All-America honors twice in Conference honors. a career. BALL STATE CARDINALS WOMEN’S BASKETBALL 2012 - 2013 Head Coach Brady Sallee Brady Sallee, who had served as the head women’s bas- His teams have ranked nationally among women’s bas- ketball coach at Eastern Illinois for the past eight seasons, ketball programs with high grade-point averages earning was named the 11th head women’s basketball coach in Ball the seventh-best team GPA in 2007-08 with a 3.475. The State history, May 10, 2012. Panthers also ranked ninth in 2008-09 and tenth in 2006-07. Sallee posted a 136-109 career record at EIU. He led the Before his tenure at Eastern Illinois, he was the top assistant Panthers to the institution’s first ever Ohio Valley Confer- at East Carolina in 2002-03. From 1996-2002 he helped ence title during the 2009-10 campaign. In 2011-12, Eastern Kent State, a fellow member of the Mid-American Confer- Illinois was 22-9 overall, posted a 13-3 OVC mark and com- ence, to five regular-season MAC Championships and three peted in the Women’s National Invitation Tournament. tournament titles. The Golden Flashes participated in the NCAA Tournament four of his seven years while posting a Throughout his eight seasons at Eastern Illinois, Sallee combined record of 155-56. He also was an assistant coach coached 17 all-conference selections which included three at Idaho State in 1994-95. OVC Freshman of the Year honorees, along with the two- time OVC Defensive Player of the Year in 2010 and 2012. A native of Lexington, Ky., Sallee played collegiate baseball at Thomas More College from 1990-93. While at Thomas His work on the court has not gone unnoticed in the record More, he served as a student assistant with the women’s books for the Panthers. Under his tutelage the women’s basketball team. Sallee earned his bachelor’s degree in basketball program set a school record for free throws made business administration in 1993. in a season (595, 2009-10) and made three pointers (180, 2008-09) while also scoring 2,736 points as a team in 2009- Sallee and his wife Mandy have three children -- Avery, 10 which was the third most in school history. Taryn and Drew. Academically his student-athletes excel in the classroom, as they have earned four consecutive OVC Academic Achievement Awards along with posting the highest per- centage of players on the Commissioner’s Honor Roll from 2007-10. BALL STATE CARDINALS Alma Mater: Thomas More ‘93 Career Coaching Record: 136-109 • First Year at Ball State • Named Ball State Head Coach May, 10, 2012 • Ninth Year as a Women’s Basketball Head Coach • Left is pictured Sallee’s family, wife Mandy and their three children, Avery, Taryn and Drew. Coaching Experience Eastern Illinois, Head Coach, 2004-12 Eastern Carolina, Top Assistant, 2002-03 Kent State, Assistant Coach, 1996-2002 Idaho State, Assitant Coach 1994-95 Thomas More, Student Assistant Head Coaching Accomplishments • Third Winningest Division I coach in the state of Illinois out of 10 total schools. • From 2007-12 Sallee had a combined record of 106-55. • 15 All-Conference Selection • Three OVC Freshman of the Year • One OVC Defender of the Year • 24 wins in 2008-09 is the most in the school history during the Division I era. • Back-to-back 20 win season from 2008-10 for the first time since 1981-83. • 136 wins the most of any women’s basketball coach during his tenure in the OVC. BALL STATE CARDINALS WOMEN’S BASKETBALL 2012 - 2013 Assistant Coaches Ashleen Bracey Rachel Galligan First Year at Ball State First Year at Ball State Alma Mater: Illinois State ‘10 Alma Mater: Eastern Illinois ‘09 Four-Year Letterwinner Four-Year Letterwinner Women’s Basketball (2006-10) Women’s Basketball (2005-09) PRIOR TO BSU: Bracey comes to Ball PRIOR TO BSU: Galligan has spent the State after spending the 2011-12 season as the last two seasons as the assistant coach at her graduate assistant at the University of Missouri, alma mater Eastern Illinois University, where she and was also an assistant coach for Eureka Col- was a student-athlete from 2005-09 under the tutelage of Sallee. She was a highly decorated lege in 2011. A four-year letterwinner at Illinois player for the Panthers, finishing her career as State (2007-10) she helped the Redbirds to the all-time leading scorer (1,891 points), all- three 20-win seasons and three Missouri Valley time single season scoring leader (582 points) Conference championships which included an and all-time leading shot blocker (185). She NCAA berth in 2008 and two final four appear- was a top 10 finalist for the Lowe’s Senior Class ances in the post season WNIT in 2009 and Award (2008-09), Women’s Basketball Coaches 2010. After her playing time at Illinois State, Association Region Four All-American, Three- Bracey played professional basketball in Athens, Time Ohio Valley All-Conference recipient, Ohio Greece, in the fall of 2010. Valley Conference Freshman of the Year and a two-time OVC All-Tournament Team honoree. Galligan also participated on the EIU’s track and field team, winning the 2007 OVC championship in the javelin. After graduation, Galligan spent a season player professional basketball in Huelva, Spain in the fall of 2009. BALL STATE CARDINALS Ryan Patterson Audrey McDonald- First Year at Ball State Alma Mater: Malone College ‘99 Spencer Master’s: Kent State ‘02 Director of Basketball Operations Third Year at Ball State PRIOR TO BSU: Patterson, a familiar face to the Mid-American Conference, comes to Ball Alma Mater: Ball State ‘10 State after spending the 2011-12 season at Kent Four-Year Letterwinner State University as an assistant coach. Before Women’s Basketball (2006-10) joining the Golden Flashes staff, he was the associate head coach at the University of Find- 2010-PRESENT: For the past two seasons, Spen- lay from 2004-11. Patterson also had coaching cer has played the role of director of basketball opera- tions. stints at West Liberty State College (2002-04) where he served as an assistant coach for both PLAYING CAREER: McDonald was a guard for the men’s and women’s basketball programs. the Ball State women’s basketball team from 2006- He began his coaching career at Kent State in 10. She helped the Cardinals to the most successful 2000 where he helped the Golden Flashes to season in school history in 2008-09 when the Cardinals back-to-back NCAA Tournament appearances won the Mid-American Conference Championship, the MAC Tournament title and earned the school’s first ever (2001 & 2002) which included advancing to the berth in the NCAA Tournament. In 2008-09, Ball State NCAA Tournament Elite Eight in 2002 along with tallied a 26-9 overall record, won the MAC with a 14-2 a No. 12 national ranking. Patterson earned mark and defeated Tennessee 71-55 in the first round his bachelors at Malone College in 1999 and a of the NCAA Tournament. McDonald ended her career master degree from Kent State in 2002.