22007-08007-08 ButlerButler BasketballBasketball TABLE OF CONTENTS Roster and Pronunciation Guide ....................IFC Letter from Coach Couture .................................1 Welcome to Butler .......................................... 2-3 Hinkle Fieldhouse ...........................................4-5 Being a Bulldog ..................................................6 The City of Indianapolis ......................................7 From The Desk Of The Horizon League ...........................................8 HEAD COACH BETH COUTURE 2007-08 OUTLOOK Season Outlook ...........................................10-11 Pre-Season Information....................................12 Media Information .............................................12 Welcome to Butler Women’s Basketball! THE COACHES Head Coach Beth Couture ......................... 14-15 Associate Head Coach Gene Hill .....................16 Success is a Choice. I have used this saying throughout my coaching career Assistant Coach Amy Cherubini .......................17 – and at no other place has it had more meaning than here at Butler. Assistant Coach Rachel Bullard .......................18 As we embark on the 2007-08 season, I fi nd myself refl ecting upon the past THE PLAYERS seasons - where we were, and where we are today. Our improvement from Seniors season to season has been a steady, upward climb. Last year, we found Candace Bain .............................................20-21 ourselves near the top of the conference standings, playing in the championship Cassie Freeman ......................................... 22-23 game, and one win away from the NCAA tournament. Our staff and players have made a commitment to be successful. Juniors Lade Akande............................................... 24-25 Candyce Brown .......................................... 26-27 While we continue to focus on winning the Horizon League Championship and Candace Jones........................................... 28-29 receiving an NCAA Tournament berth, our greater commitment is to develop Tara Miller ...................................................30-31 and prepare our student-athletes for a successful life after graduation. We anticipate that The Butler Way will follow them throughout their career, both Sophomores on and off the court. Susan Lester .............................................. 32-33 Melanie Thornton ........................................ 34-35 I hope that you enjoy this media guide. May it serve as a tool to familiarize you with Butler University Women’s Basketball. When you review it, I think Newcomers you’ll see why we are excited about this upcoming season. Azjah Bass........................................................36 Brittany Bowen .................................................37 Terra Burns .......................................................38 GO DAWGS!! Chloe Hamilton .................................................39 Amie Kabara .....................................................40 Jenny Ostrom ...................................................41 Support Staff and Services ...............................42 Beth Couture 2006-07 IN REVIEW Head Coach Season in Review .......................................44-45 Butler Women’s Basketball 2006-07 Statistics and Results .........................46 OPPONENTS 2007-08 Opponents ....................................48-52 2007-08 Tournaments .......................................52 Results vs. 2007-08 Opponents .......................53 All-Time Series Records ...................................54 HISTORY & RECORDS All-Time Roster/Notables ..................................56 Honors and Awards ..........................................57 Yearly Leaders ..................................................58 Credits: The 2007-08 Butler women’s basketball media guide was designed, written and updated Single Game Records ......................................59 by Chris Urban, assistant sports information director. Design and editing assistance provided by Jim McGrath, Associate AD for Communications, and Sally Cutler, director of print marketing and Single Season Records ..............................60-61 communications. Additional assistance provided by Joe Gentry and Janell Callahan. Cover design Career Records .......................................... 62-63 by Alisha Luckenbill of the Butler publications offi ce. Head shots and team photo by Bill McAdow. Action photography and campus images by Brent Smith. Special thanks to the Horizon League On The Road With Butler Basketball ..............IBC and Visual Sports Network. Printing by Multi-Ad, Peoria, Ill. 22007-08007-08 ButlerButler BasketballBasketball • 1 BButlerutler UniversityUniversity Welcome To BUTLER! The fi ve faculty and 113 students present when Butler University opened in 1855 laid a solid foundation for over 150 years of creative change and progress. Today’s 4,400 students carry on that legacy, as they continue to look ahead while treasuring the traditions unique to Butler. The young school, originally named North Western Christian University, was unusually innovative. It was the fi rst in Indiana, and only the third in the nation, to admit women on an equal basis with men. With the appointment in 1858 of Catherine Merrill as Demia Butler Professor of English, the institution became the second in the country to appoint a woman faculty member, the fi rst to establish an endowed chair specifi cally for a female professor and the fi rst to establish a professorship in English literature. The school was also the fi rst in Indiana to allow its students, with parental consent, to choose subjects suited to their needs under a new “elective” system. As Indianapolis grew, the city’s commercial district began to penetrate the heavily-wooded campus at what is now the corner of Thirteenth Street and College Avenue. In 1873, the board of directors decided to sell the downtown campus and accept a gift of 25 acres in Irvington, then a suburb east of Indianapolis. In 1877, North Western Christian University became Butler University, taking the name of its founder and benefactor, Indianapolis attorney Ovid Butler. Butler moved again 50 years later, as the “Circle City” continued to grow. In 1928, classes were held for the fi rst time in Jordan Hall, an imposing new Gothic structure erected on the beautiful Fairview Park Site, a wooded tract north of the city on the White River and the Inland Waterway Canal. Today’s students come from nearly every state in the nation and from many foreign countries to enroll in degree programs in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, or in one of four professional colleges -- Business Administration, Education, Fine Arts or Pharmacy and Health Sciences. Butler is one of only 21 private schools in the country offering a pharmacy program. 2 • 2007-082007-08 ButlerButler BasketballBasketball BButlerutler UniversityUniversity True to the vision of its founders, the University continues to offer an array of professional and pre-professional programs within the context of a strong commitment to the traditional arts and sciences and to the values of liberal education. Butler continues to welcome highly motivated, intellectually curious men and women, and to prepare them for lives of professional and community service and creative, ethical action. Butler is one of the top 20 US colleges for producing business executives, is in the top 10% for preparing future Ph.D.s and is located in the Number 2 city for college graduates starting a career. Although the thriving city of Indianapolis has once again grown to surround Butler University, the 290-acre campus remains a serenely beautiful area with 20 buildings, playing fi elds, a formal botanical garden, and a nature preserve surrounded by well- established residential communities. Located only fi ve miles from “The Circle,” the heart of the city, the campus offers easy access to cultural and sporting events in downtown Indianapolis. Butler’s mission is to provide the highest quality of liberal and professional education and to integrate the liberal arts into profession education by creating, and fostering a stimulating intellectual community built upon interactive dialogue and inquiry among faculty and students. Butler University is fully accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. The University is licensed for teacher training by the State Department of Education in Indiana and appears on the approved list of the American Association of University Women. 2007-082007-08 ButlerButler BasketballBasketball • 3 HHinkleinkle FieldhouseFieldhouse College Basketball’s ORIGINAL PALACE Hinkle Fieldhouse has reigned as one of the nation’s great sports arenas for more than seven decades. The classic facility was constructed in 1928 and it has “I still think after all these years that it’s stood up to the test of time, maintaining the splendor, character and atmosphere the best basketball court in America. It’s that made it one of the nation’s most famous basketball arenas more than half a century ago. absolutely the best I’ve ever played on.” The Fieldhouse, which remained virtually unchanged for more than 60 years, --NBA/ABA All-Star George McGinnis, speaking received a major facelift during the summer of 1989. Among the changes to of the basketball court in Hinkle Fieldhouse. the historical building were new chairback seats in the lower arena, new doors and windows on the south side of the exterior, new basketball offi ces, a training room and