Stanford Basketball Roster 2008-09 Basketball Team: Front Row (L-R) - Rosalyn Gold-Onwude, Grace Mashore, Jillian Harmon, Jeanette Pohlen, JJ Hones, Lindy La Rocque, Melanie Murphy, Hannah Donaghe. Back Row (l-r): Team manager Kerry Blake, assistant coach Kate Paye, associate head coach Amy Tucker, Nnemkadi Ogwumike, Morgan Clyburn, Kayla Pedersen, Sarah Boothe, Jayne Appel, Ashley Cimino, Michelle Harrison, assistant coach Bobbie Kelsey, head coach Tara VanDerveer, athletic trainer Marcella Shorty, team manager Dorothy Boakye-Donkor. 2008-09 Stanford Women’s Basketball Roster Pronunciation Guide No Name Pos Ht Yr Hometown (High School) Jayne Appel Uh-pell 0 Melanie Murphy G 5-9 R-So. Brooklyn, NY (Midwood HS) Ashley Cimino sih-mih-no 1 Grace Mashore G 5-10 Fr. Washington, D.C. (National Cathedral) Hannah Donaghe DON-ah-gee 2 Jayne Appel F/C 6-4 Jr. Pleasant Hill, Calif. (Carondelet HS) Rosalyn Gold-Onwude on-woo-DAY 5 Michelle Harrison F 6-3 R-So. Orem, Utah (Mountain View HS) JJ Hones Hones (rhymes with cones) 10 JJ Hones G 5-10 Jr. Beaverton, Ore. (Southridge HS) Lindy La Rocque Luh-ROCK 14 Kayla Pedersen F 6-4 So. Fountain Hills, Ariz. (Red Mountain HS) Grace Mashore MAY-shore 15 Lindy La Rocque G 5-8 Fr. Las Vegas, Nev. (Durango HS) Nnemkadi Ogwumike nem-KA-dee oh-GWOOM-i-kay 20 Hannah Donaghe G 5-11 So. Atascadero, Calif. (Atascadero HS) Jeanette Pohlen PO-lin 21 Rosalyn Gold-Onwude G 5-10 R-Jr. Queens, NY (Archbishop Molloy HS) Tara VanDerveer TAR-uh van-DER-veer 23 Jeanette Pohlen G 6-0 So. Brea, Calif. (Brea Olinda HS) 24 Ashley Cimino F 6-3 So. Yarmouth, Maine (Catherine McAuley HS) 30 Nnemkadi Ogwumike F 6-2 Fr. Cypress, Texas (Cy-Fair HS) 31 Morgan Clyburn F/C 6-4 Sr. The Woodlands, Texas (Oak Ridge HS) 33 Jillian Harmon F 6-1 Sr. Lake Oswego, Ore. (Lakeridge HS) 42 Sarah Boothe F/C 6-5 Fr. Gurnee, Ill. (Warren Township HS) Coaching Staff Head Coach: Tara VanDerveer (Indiana, 1975) 30th year overall, 23rd at Stanford Associate Head Coach: Amy Tucker (Ohio State, 1982)- 24th year Assistant Coaches: Bobbie Kelsey (Stanford, 1996)- 2nd year Kate Paye (Stanford, 1995)- 2nd year Roster Breakdown by State Arizona (1) Illinois (1) New York (2) Texas (2) Kayla Pedersen, Fountain Hills Sarah Boothe, Gurnee Rosalyn Gold-Onwude, Queens Morgan Clyburn, The Woodlands California (3) Maine (1) Melanie Murphy, Brooklyn Nnemkadi Ogwumike, Cypress Jayne Appel, Pleasant Hill Ashley Cimino, Yarmouth Oregon (2) Washington D.C. (1) Hannah Donaghe, Atascadero Nevada (1) Jillian Harmon, Lake Oswego Grace Mashore Jeanette Pohlen, Brea Lindy La Rocque, Las Vegas JJ Hones, Beaverton Utah (1) Michelle Harrison, Orem 40 2008-09 STANFORD BASKETBALL WWW.GOSTANFORD.COM Radio/TV Roster #0 Melanie Murphy #1 Grace Mashore #2 Jayne Appel #5 Michelle Harrison #10 JJ Hones Guard • 5-9 Guard • 5-10 Forward • 6-4 Forward • 6-3 Guard • 5-10 RS Sophomore Freshman Junior RS Sophomore Junior Brooklyn, N.Y. Washington, D.C. Pleasant Hill, Calif. Orem, Utah Beaverton, Ore. (Carondelet) (Mountain View) (Midwood) (National Cathedral) (Southridge) #14 Kayla Pedersen #15 Lindy La Rocque #20 Hannah Donaghe #21 Rosalyn #23 Jeanette Pohlen Forward • 6-4 Guard • 5-8 Guard • 5-11 Gold-Onwude Guard • 6-0 Sophomore Freshman Sophomore Guard • 5-10 • RS Junior Sophomore Fountain Hills, Ariz. Las Vegas, Nev. Atascadero, Calif. Queens, N.Y. Brea, Calif. (Red Mountain) (Durango) (Atascadero) (Archbishop Molloy) (Brea Olinda) #24 Ashley Cimino #30 Nnemkadi #31 Morgan Clyburn #33 Jillian Harmon #42 Sarah Boothe Forward • 6-3 Ogwumike Forward/Center • 6-4 Forward • 6-1 Forward/Center • 6-5 Sophomore Forward • 6-2 • Freshman Senior Senior Freshman Yarmouth, Maine Cypress, Texas The Woodlands, Texas Lake Oswego, Ore. Gurnee, Ill. (Catherine McAuley) (Cy-Fair) (Oak Ridge) (Lakeridge) (Warren Township) Tara VanDerveer Amy Tucker Bobbie Kelsey Kate Paye Head Coach Associate Head Coach Assistant Coach Assistant Coach 30th Season (23rd at Stanford) 24th Season Second Season Second Season Indiana, 1975 Ohio State, 1982 Stanford, 1996 Stanford, 1995 WWW.GOSTANFORD.COM 2008-09 STANFORD BASKETBALL 41 2008-09 Season Preview often Gold-Onwude who draws the assignment of shadowing the opposing squad’s Run It Back… playmaker, and last year her 29 steals and relentless pursuit led her to be named The three words can instantly bring to mind a basketball coach surveying the Pac-10 All-Defensive Team honorable mention. scene at practice, a pick-up game at the local park or a high-octane offense that On the offensive end, Gold-Onwude hit 34 three-pointers and showed a knack lights up the scoreboard. for catching fire at just the right time in a contest. Against Tennessee in December, For the 2008-09 Stanford women’s basketball team, it is a challenge not only to 2007, Gold-Onwude scored nine of Stanford’s 10 overtime points in the 73-69 vic- repeat last season’s thrilling run to the Final Four and the national championship tory, and at the regional semifinals against Pittsburgh, she drained six of her eight game but also exceed that accomplishment and bring the program’s third national attempts for 15 points in Stanford’s 72-53 win. title to The Farm. Hones, returning last season from a torn ACL that cut short her solid debut “We were really so excited with how our team finished this year, that we really season a year earlier, also has the sure hand from long range, but stands out for her want to keep it going,” said head coach Tara VanDerveer, who enters her 23rd on-court vision and deft passing. Her 2.55 assist-to-turnover ratio last year ranked season at the helm of the Stanford program, and 30th overall. “Every year is a new fifth in the nation, as the versatile Hones passed out 120 assists against only 47 puzzle, and we have to figure out how to put it together. What our team learned turnovers over the 38 games in which she played. Yet Hones could hurt teams with in making that great run last year was how much fun it is and what it takes. Our her scoring just as well, knocking down 54 three-pointers on the year, and most team understands what it takes with the defense, the concentration, the focus and memorably going 9-of-16 from the floor and scoring 23 points in Stanford’s 98-87 the camaraderie.” shootout win over Maryland that punched the Cardinal’s ticket to the Final Four. Last year, the Cardinal charged out of the gates with a burning desire to Melanie Murphy, Stanford’s own “Agent Zero,” in reference to her jersey num- establish itself as an early front-runner, and it accomplished just that right away. ber, will make her long-awaited return this season after missing all but the first Non-conference victories over No. 3/3 Rutgers, No. 10/10 Baylor, then No. 1/1 five games of 2007-08 after tearing her ACL at the Paradise Jam on Nov. 24, 2007. Tennessee instilled confidence as the Cardinal would put together a 23-game win- Murphy’s potential was just rounding into form before her injury, as the sopho- ning streak that encompassed its eighth Pac-10 regular-season title, fifth Pac-10 more helped the Cardinal prevent a Utah upset on Nov. 18, scoring the final five Tournament title and the program’s seventh trip to the Final Four. points of regulation, including the game-tying three-pointer in the closing seconds Heading into the new season, Stanford boasts arguably the best and deepest to send the game into overtime, where Stanford eventually prevailed. front court in the nation, two hot-handed guards that can be equally devastating Also returning in 2008-09 is sophomore Hannah Donaghe. The second-year running the Cardinal attack or firing from long range and a freshman class that is player from Atscadero saw action in 24 games in 2007-08 and averaged 2.0 points among the most decorated in the country. in a reserve role. Confidently facing a non-conference schedule packed with many of the nation’s Joining this backcourt group are a pair of first-years in Lindy La Rocque (Las elite teams as well as the always-competitive Pac-10 schedule, the Stanford Cardinal Vegas, Nev.) and Grace Mashore (Washington, D.C.). La Rocque, a gunner from sets its sights squarely on national championship number three. the outside who holds a slew of Nevada state scoring and three-point shooting Guards records, provides another hot hand in the Stanford backcourt, while Mashore, Stanford’s back court will face the most scrutiny in 2008-09 if only because an All-Washington Post selection who scored 1,851 points in her prep career at of the departure of Candice Wiggins, whose record-smashing 2007-08 campaign National Cathedral School, brings her scoring touch and all-around play to the made her the all-time leading scorer in both Pac-10 and Stanford history. Although guards’ table in 2008-09. Wiggins’ legacy looms large and fresh in the Cardinal back court just one year later, VanDerveer’s Take: “JJ has come back in great shape, and has taken to heart an Stanford’s guards are eager and more than capable of stepping up to carve out their offseason and has really made it work … We’ve got JJ, we’ve got Ros, we’re excited own niche on the hardwood. that Mel is coming back, maybe Hannah’s ready to step up and play some, too … I The first two guards to look to in holding down the back court are naturally think Mel is a big x-factor for us, she really has a great handle, she can get through the pair that shared point-guard duties last season: redshirt junior Rosalyn Gold- a press, passes the ball well inside, and she’s worked really hard on her perimeter Onwude and junior JJ Hones.