La Salle University La Salle University Digital Commons La Salle Basketball Media Guides University Publications 1994 La Salle Women's Basketball Media Guide 1994-95 La Salle University Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.lasalle.edu/basketball_media_guides Recommended Citation La Salle University, "La Salle Women's Basketball Media Guide 1994-95" (1994). La Salle Basketball Media Guides. 49. http://digitalcommons.lasalle.edu/basketball_media_guides/49 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the University Publications at La Salle University Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in La Salle Basketball Media Guides by an authorized administrator of La Salle University Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. 1994-95U Saffle omen «f Media ifaide •» - * / ^ , .jl <jBWbt „ bjHSp^ Lbbb^^bbI Lbb wIbLbb^ I By* J ^_B _ BJFm ^MV 1 BW I h» *=>' 1 ^HfMflr^ VwJbV B^Bf /- i k^v 2 - w ' * t WMM,FY 'J^ H V ^^^B B) r Bl ^B HtSu^\''-"'' ' K. Bifl hiB^B^B^B^B^B^^X' * ^^B4ll Ybm 1 ^^ J J^B^H ^H^H^HHHH THE UNIVERSITY COACHING STAFF Location Philadelphia, PA 19141 Hc.id Coach John Miller Founded 1 863 Alma Mater/Year St. Charles Seminary/ 1969 Enrollment 5,800 Record at La Salle/Years 165-69/eight President Joseph F. Burke, F.S.C., Ph.D. Overall Record/Years same VP for Student Affairs Dr. Raymond P. Heath Office Phone Number 215-951-1525 Nickname Explorers Assistant Coach Tom Lochner Colors Blue & Gold Graduate Assistants Mary Heller, Jenny McGowan Conference Midwestern Collegiate Home Court/Capacity Hayman Hall/ 1,000 MEET THE EXPLORERS Letterwinners Returning/Lost 10/2 ATHLETIC ADMINISTRATION Starters Returning/Lost 4/1 Director of Athletics Robert Mullen Newcomers (3) Haynes, Weiss and Wolfe Athletics Phone Number 215-951-1516 1993-94 Overall Record 19-9 Associate Athletic Director Thomas Meier 1993-94 MCC Record/Finish 7-5/4th Assistant Athletic Director/ 1993-94 Big 5 Record/Finish 3-1 /2nd Women's Senior Administrator Kathleen McNally Explorers by Class Juniors (4), Sophomores (6), Assistant Athletic Director/ Sports Information Director Howard Pachasa Pachasa's Home Number 609-582-8931 Assistant Sports Information/ Women's Basketball Contact Colleen Corace Corace's Home Number 215-641-1565 Assistant Sports Information Bob Vetrone, Sr. SID Phone Number 215-951-1605 SID Fax Number 215-951-1694 SID Mailing Address 1900 West Olney Avenue Box 805 Philadelphia, PA 19141-1199 Credits: The 1994-95 La Salle University women's basketball media guide was written, designed and edited by Colleen Corace, Assistant Sports Information Director. Editorial assistance from Elizabeth Kane and Melanie Parker. The records section was researched and compiled by Cristine Paull, Heather Sudul and Susan Senner, updated by Colleen Corace. Printing: Nittany Valley Offset, State College, PA. Photography: Daniel Burke, Dave Yoblick, Charlene Miraglia and the La Salle University News Bureau. On the Cover: The 1994-95 Women's Basketball Team MEDIA INFORMATION DIRECTIONS TO LA SALLE The 1994-95 La Salle University Women's Basketball Guide was prepared From Northern New Jersey by the La Salle University Sports Information Office to assist the news NJ Turnpike South to Exit 6, media in their coverage of the Explorers. Requests for additional informa- follow to PA Turnpike and take tion, feature materials and photographs should be made to Assistant Sports Exit 26 (309 South).* Information Director Colleen Corace at (215) 951-1605. From Southern New Jersey WORKING CREDENTIALS: Working press and photography creden- Route 42 West to Walt Whitman Bridge tials will be evaluated on a first-come, first-serve basis and can be requested From Bridge, follow Route 76 West by phoning the Sports Information Office prior to the start of the game. Route 76 West to Route 1 North Press seating is made available upon request only. (Roosevelt Expressway).** PRESS ENTRANCE: Entrance to Hayman Hall is available through the From Northern Pennsylvania main doors, on the parking lot side of the building. The court is located PA Turnpike Extension to Exit 25, on the third floor, which can be accessed by the back staircase in the lobby. to East-West Turnpike. Follow East to PA Turnpike Exit 26.* MEDIA SERVICES: Programs, including lineups, and game notes will be made available in the sports information office on the second floor From Delaware and Maryland prior to each game. A box score and running play-by-play will be provid- 1-95 North to Route 76 West (Central Philadelphia Exit) ed at the conclusion of each half. Stats are produced by the STATMAN II System. to Route 1 North (Roosevelt Expressway).** RADIO LINES: Radio lines can be made available at the visitors request *Local Directions (From the North and West) by contacting the La Salle University Sports Information Office, and then Exit 26 to Route 309 South. 309 Expressway ends. by directly contacting Pennsylvania Bell at (215) 241-8500. Go straight on Ogontz, take right onto Olney Avenue Hayman Hall Entrance on left at second light. PARKING: Parking is offered on an equal access basis. No parking passes will be issued. Available lots include the Hayman Hall parking lot and the **Local Directions (From the South) Good Shepherd lot on Chew Street and Church Lane. Route 1 North to La Salle/Broad Street Exit. Go left on Broad Street, then take left onto Belfield Avenue 1 hank you for your continued interest in La Salle University women's Follow Belfield, take right onto 20th Street basketball. Take left onto Olney Avenue Hayman Hall entrance is on left at first light. ^a Salle University La Salle University is a liberal arts while receiving full academic credit La Salle students come from 700 institution which combines the best at La Salle. Programs are also avail- public and private schools in 30 of all educational worlds. With over able for a semester or a year of study states and 20 countries. The dormi- 5,800 men and women attending in Spain. tories house more than 1,700 resi- classes, the University offers a pleas- Among the major buildings on dent students in 1 1 residence halls ant environment within close prox- campus are: the Connelly Library; and three apartment complexes. imity to Philadelphia's cultural, the Roland Holroyd Science Center More than 75% of the student body social and historic centers. Founded with facilities for study and research plan to go onto graduate or profes- by the Brothers of Christian Schools, in Biology, Geology, Physics, and sional work in their fields, with more La Salle is named for St. John Psychology; the Olney Hall class- than 1,200 degrees conferred annu- Baptiste de la Salle, founder of the room building, and the College ally. Christian Brothers. The institution, Union which houses offices for most La Salle undergraduates have been which began as a one-building acad- student activities and clubs. The awarded 47 Fulbright grants since emy in center city Philadelphia, is on Union building is also the main 1970, one of the highest number an 82.2-acre, 43-building campus in meeting place on campus. presented to an institution in the Philadelphia's Germantown section. The athletic department is located Mid-Atlantic Region. According to Students can be assured of as in Hayman Hall. The facility in- a recent survey, La Salle ranked in much personal guidance as needed cludes the 1,700-seat Joseph Kirk the top 4% nationally among private from faculty members, with a stu- Nataorium, three regulation-sized undergraduate institutions originat- dent faculty ratio of 15-1 and an basketball courts, a 12 laps/mile ing Ph.D.s (33rd out of 877 colleges average class size of 21 students. This suspended running track, weight and universities). commitment to the individual has training and exercise areas, a sauna, always been a major tenet of the squash courts and a medical/train- Christian Brothers' goal. ing area. A limited number of requirements in English compositon, literature, philosophy and religion provide greater opportunity for depth out- side the student's major field. The number of courses required by a department of its major never ex- ceeds 17, leaving 8-10 courses as free electives that may be used to build a strong minor or to diversify one's background. Various independent study pro- grams provide the students with even greater options. A thriving nation- ally-recognized Honors Program is available for gifted students. "La Salle in Europe" offers students the opportunity to spend their sopho- more or junior year at the Univer- sity of Fribourg, in Switzerland, OSEPH F. BURKE, F.S.C., Ph.D m President, La Salle University Joseph F. Burke, F.S.C., Ph.D., became La Salle University's 27th president on July 1, 1992. He had served as provost of the university since 1990. Born in Philadelphia in 1945, Brother Burke is the first La Salle alumnus to head the 131-year-old university. He has been a member of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, the lay teaching order that conducts the university, since 1 963. Brother Burke, who holds the academic rank of professor of psychology, originally served at La Salle from 1973 to 1986 as a faculty member, chairman of the Psychology Department, and president of the Faculty Senate for two terms. During that time, he also initiated the university's graduate program in Human Services Psychology and was named a recipient of the Christian and Mary Lindback Foundation Award for Distinguished Teaching. After serving as an American Council of Education Fellow at the University of Hartford for the 1986-87 academic year, Brother Burke was appointed dean of the College of Basic Studies and special assistant to the president of the University of Hartford.