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2004-05 Women’s Basketball 1250 Bayhill Drive, Suite 101 u San Bruno, CA 94066 www.wccsports.com 650-873-8622 (Tel) u 650-873-7846 (Fax) For Immediate Release Contact: Jim Bucci April 15, 2005 [email protected] 2004-05 FINAL STANDINGS WCC GAMES OVERALL W L PCT GB Home Away W L Home Away Neut Strk Gonzaga* 14 0 1.000 -- 7-0 7-0 28 4 14-0 10-3 4-0 W 1 Loyola Marymount 9 5 .643 5.0 4-3 5-2 16 13 7-5 6-7 3-1 L 1 Santa Clara# 8 6 .571 6.0 4-3 4-3 17 14 11-6 6-5 0-3 L 1 Saint Mary’s 7 7 .500 7.0 4-3 3-4 15 13 9-5 6-7 0-1 L 1 Pepperdine 7 7 .500 7.0 3-4 4-3 12 17 5-7 4-8 3-2 L 1 San Francisco 6 8 .429 8.0 5-2 1-6 12 16 9-6 3-10 0-0 L 3 San Diego 4 10 .286 10.0 2-5 2-5 9 19 4-8 4-10 1-1 L 1 Portland 1 13 .071 13.0 1-6 0-7 6 22 3-10 3-11 0-1 L 9 *WCC Regular Season Champion; #WCC Tournament Champion Santa Clara, Gonzaga Reach 2005 ALL-CONFERENCE TEAM Name Ht. Pos. Yr. Hometown Postseason Play Ashley Burke, GON 6-1 F Sr. N. Vancouver, Wash. Dominique Carter, USF 5-11 G Fr. Tracy, Calif. Santa Clara and Gonzaga gained postseason berths as the WCC had Triola Jackson, SMC 6-2 F Sr. San Diego, Calif. another year in which multiple teams advanced past regular season play. Mary Jane Krueger, USF 6-2 C Sr. Quincy, Calif. Santa Clara defeated Gonzaga in the WCC Tournament to receive the Jennifer Lacy, PEP 6-3 F Sr. Simi Valley, Calif. conference’s automatic berth into the NCAA Tournament, while Gonzaga Shannon Mathews, GON 5-6 G Sr. Riverside, Calif. received a WNIT invitation. Jamie Medley, POR 5-11 F Sr. Gaston, Ore. The Broncos run ended with a 94-57 loss to Stanford in the first round Toni Russell, USF 5-3 G Sr. San Francisco, Calif. of the NCAA Tournament. Santa Clara had won six of eight games, Quinn Thomas,SCU 5-9 G Sr. Kent, Wash. including three straight to win the WCC Tournament before falling to the Rachael Ziemann, LMU 5-8 G Jr. Huntington Beach, Calif. Cardinal. The Bulldogs received a first round WNIT home game and dispatched HONORABLE MENTION BYU, 71-57, to advance into the second round. Gonzaga next played at Gonzaga: Anne Bailey, Jr.; Raeanne Jewell, Sr., Loyola Marymount: Mary Turner, Sr.; Southwest Missouri State and came away with an 85-66 loss. Jacquelyn Woods, Sr. Pepperdine: Kelsey Ball, Jr.; Daphanie Kennedy, Fr. San Diego: The defeat ended a historic season for Gonzaga, which saw the Tiara Harris, Jr.; Amber Sprague, Fr. Santa Clara: Michelle Cozad, Jr.; Kayla Huss, Jr. Bulldogs go 14-0 in WCC games and win 23 straight contests before losing to SCU in the WCC Tournament Championship Game. The Bulldogs received 2005 ALL-FRESHMAN TEAM their first ever national ranking during the season and received votes in both Meagan Bermingham, POR, 6-1, G, Fr., Melbourne, Australia final polls. Dominique Carter, USF, 5-11, G, Fr., Tracy, Calif. Santa Clara reached the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2002 Chandice Cronk, SCU, 5-8, G, Fr., Wasilla, Alaska and will return the majority of its keys players from a team that nailed a WCC Daphanie Kennedy, PEP, 5-7, G, Fr., San Diego, Calif. record 272 3-pointers. Valerie Ogoke, LMU, 6-2, F, Fr., Inglewood, Calif. Postseason Results Amber Sprague, USD, 6-5, C, Fr., San Diego, Calif. Coach of the Year: March 16 Kelly Graves, Gonzaga *Gonzaga defeated BYU 71-57 Player of the Year: *WNIT First Round Game Shannon Mathews, Gonzaga 5'6" • Senior • Guard Defensive Player of the Year: March 19 Toni Russell, San Francisco 5'3"•Senior • Guard Newcomer of the Year: *Stanford defeated Santa Clara 94-57 Dominique Carter, San Francisco 5'11"•Freshman • Guard *NCAA Tournament First Round Game March 21 *Southwest Missouri State defeated Gonzaga 85-66 *Second Round WNIT game at the Hammons Student Center in Springfield, Mo. Gonzaga * Loyola Marymount * Pepperdine * Portland * Saint Mary’s * San Diego * San Francisco * Santa Clara Sports Info Contacts WCC Team Notes (WB=Women’s Basketball) Gonzaga Bulldogs (28-4 / 14-0 WCC) - Head Coach: Kelly Graves Gonzaga The Bulldogs gained their second straight postseason appearance with a berth in the WNIT... Oliver Pierce 509-323-6373 This marks a return to the WNIT as GU made the field last season ... Gonzaga opened [email protected] WNIT play with a 71-57 win at the McCarthey Athletic Center ... WCC Player of the Year WB Rich Moser 509-323-5484 Shannon Mathews scored 24 points, while Ashley Burke added 15 points ... GU ended its season undefeated [email protected] at home ... Though the Bulldogs lose key veteran players to graduation, experienced performers return in Anne Loyola Marymount Bailey, Stephanie Hawk and Juliann Laney ... Ashley Anderson will also return after tearing her ACL during John Shaffer 310-338-7643 non-conference action ... These individuals will look to replace All-WCC selections Burke and Mathews ... Gonzaga [email protected] received three votes in the final coaches poll and Ap poll of the season ... Graves was named Region 8 Coach of WB Carolyn French 310-338-5798 the Year, while Mathews became Gonzaga’s first Associated Press All-American. [email protected] Alissa Zito 310-338-7638 Loyola Marymount Lions (16-13 / 9-5 WCC) - Head Coach: Julie Wilhoit [email protected] The Lions will return a trio of experienced players for next season in Rachael Ziemann, Jevay Grooms and Valerie Ogoke ... Ziemann received all-conference honors, while Ogoke Pepperdine Al Barba 310-506-4455 was an all-freshman member ... LMU advanced to the second round of the WCC Tournament [email protected] after a victory over San Diego in the first round ... The Lions lose seniors Jacquelyn Woods and Mary Turner to WB Michael Hawley 310-506-4333 graduation. [email protected] Pepperdine Waves (12-17 / 7-7 WCC) - Head Coach: Julie Rousseau Portland The Waves will return a duo of talented freshman contributors in guard Daphanie Kennedy Julie Natale 503-943-7731 and forward Teiosha George ... Kennedy was an all-conference honorable mention selection [email protected] as well an all-freshman pick ... Pepperdine will also return all-conference honorable mention WB Jason Brough 503-943-7439 selection Kelsey Ball at forward ... All-conference selection as well as top scorer and rebounder, Jennifer Lacy [email protected] departs due to graduation ... The Waves defeated Saint Mary’s in their first round WCC Tournament game, then Saint Mary’s fell to tournament runner-up Gonzaga in the second round ... Head coach Julie Rousseau completed her first Rich Davi 925-631-4402 season at the helm of the Waves. [email protected] WB Ryan Reggiani 925-631-4950 Portland Pilots (6-22 / 1-13 WCC) - Head Coach: Jim Sollars [email protected] The Pilots ended their season with a loss to Gonzaga in the WCC Tournament ... Portland suffered through an injury plagued season in which guards Hanna Seltzer and Amanda Afa’ese San Diego were lost for the year ... Starting center Ashlee Orndorff missed several games towards the Ted Gosen 619-260-4745 end of the season due to inury as well ... The Pilots will return a pair of talented guards in Whitney Grant and [email protected] WB Nick Mirkovich 619-260-4745 Meagan Bermingham ... Grant averaged 10.7 points per game, while Bermingham received all-freshman honors [email protected] ... Portland will also return Brooke Fernandez who played in 28 games as a freshman. San Francisco Saint Mary’s Gaels (15-13 / 7-7 WCC) - Head Coach: Michelle Jacoby Peter Simon 415-422-6161 The Gaels will welcome back a strong core of players for next season ... Those returning [email protected] WB Ryan McCrary 415-422-6162 include guards Brianna Winn (9.5 ppg) and Evynn Van Burger as well as forward Maija [email protected] Lahde ... Starters a year ago, Serena Benavente and Monica Mertle are back after missing the 2004-05 season with injuries ... Head coach Michelle Jacoby signed a new four-year contract after the season concluded ... The Santa Clara Gaels lose all-conference performer Triola Jackson to graduation ... Jackson averaged a team-leading 16.2 Richard Kilwien 408-554-2114 points per game and paced the Gaels in rebounding with 8.9 per game ... SMC lost to Pepperdine in the first [email protected] round of the WCC Tournament. WB Lisa Eskey 408-554-4659 [email protected] Neila Matheny 408-554-4670 San Diego Toreros (9-19 / 4-10 WCC) - Head Coach: TBA [email protected] The Toreros return a talented group of players for the 2005-06 season ... All-freshman selection Amber Sprague returns along with fellow center Sabine Loewe ... Three experienced seniors are back in Tiara Harris, Polly Dong and Lindsay Helvey ... Kathy Marpe stepped down as WCC Games head coach after the season ... Marpe directed women’s basketball at San Diego for 25 years ... A replacement W L PCT for Marpe has yet to be announced ... Harris and Sprague were all-conference honorable mention selections, SCU 171 105 .620 while Sprague also garnered all-freshman honors.