BEMIDJI STATE WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Table of Contents BEMIDJI STATE QUICK FACTS TABLE OF CONTENTS Enrollment: ....................................................5,020 Location: .............................. Bemidji, Minn. 56601 General Information Founded: ........................................................1919 2005-06 Quick Facts & Table of Contents ............................................ 1 Conference: ...............Northern Sun Intercollegiate 2005-06 Season Outlook ...................................................................... 2 Commissioner: .......................... Butch Raymond Assistant Commissioner/SWA: ............ Erin Lind 3 BSU Head Coach Mike Curfman .......................................................... 3 Assistant Commissioner/MR: .... Beth Dossantos Assistant Coaches / Support Staff ........................................................ 4 Media Relations Phone: ............. (612) 379-1535 Web site: ...........................www.northernsun.org Meet the 2005-06 Team Affi liation: ....NCAA Division II (NCAA I-Hockey) Team Photo / Numerical Roster / Roster Breakdown ........................... 5 Nickname: ............................................... Beavers 2005-06 Returning Players ................................................................6-8 School Colors: ......... Green (PMS 329) and White Home Court (capacity): .BSU Gymnasium (2,500) 2005-06 Newcomers .......................................................................9-10 President: ......Dr. Jon E. Quistgaard (Arizona ‘79) 2004-05 Season-In-Review Athletic Director: Dr. Rick Goeb (North Dakota St. ‘89) Head Athletic Trainer: ............................Bill Crews Season Recap .................................................................................... 11 Assistant Athletic Trainer: .............. Pam DeLancey Statistics & Results ............................................................................. 12 Athletic Trainer Phone: .............. (218) 755-2769 11 Individual Game-by-Game Statistics .................................................. 13 Equipment Managers:Vance Balstad & Gloria Bannor Equipment Phone: ......................... (218) 755-3292 Individual Points-Rebounds-Assists / Individual Superlatives ............ 13 Compliance Coordinator: ................ Mike Curfman Individual and Team Highs / Milestones ............................................. 14 Athletic Secretary: ..............................Deb Slough Athletic Phone: .......................... (218) 755-2941 Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference Athletic Fax: .............................. (218) 755-3898 General Information ............................................................................ 15 Ticket Manager: .....................................Pam Papp 2004-05 Statistics ............................................................................... 16 Ticket Phone: ............................. (218) 755-2057 2004-05 Standings, Honors & Awards ............................................... 16 All-Time Records ................................................................................ 17 SPORTS INFORMATION Director: ............. Andy Bartlett (Kansas State ‘95) All-Time Standings & Champions ....................................................... 18 Offi ce: ........................................ (218) 755-4603 16 2005-06 NSIC Opponents .............................................................18-19 Home: ........................................ (218) 444-8363 Email: ........................ [email protected] 2005-06 NSIC Coaches’ Poll and Players to Watch ........................... 19 Assistant/Basketball SID: .Brad Folkestad (Bemidji St. ‘01) 2005-06 Composite Schedule ............................................................ 20 Assistant Phone: ........................ (218) 755-2763 NSIC Sports Information Director Directory ....................................... 31 Assistant Home: ......................... (218) 371-1996 Assistant Email: ... [email protected] Bemidji State Men’s Basketball History & Records Graduate Assistant: ....................... Troy Berneking Game, Season, Career Records ........................................................ 21 (UM-Crookston ‘04) Graduate Assistant Email: ... [email protected] All-time Top-10s .................................................................................. 22 Basketball Press Row: .................. (218) 755-4603 Year-by-Year Leaders / Team Statistics .............................................. 23 Web site: ...........http://info.bemidjistate.edu/sports Coaching Records .............................................................................. 24 SID Fax: ........................................ (218) 755-3898 Mailing Address: ...............BSU Sports Information 22 BSU’s All-time Series versus Opponents ......................................25-28 1500 Birchmont Drive, NE, Box 29 Year-by-Year Results .....................................................................29-31 Bemidji, MN 56601 School Information BSU Gymnasium/Memorial Hall ......................................................... 32 PROGRAM HISTORY First year of women’s basketball: ...................1967 Welcome to Bemidji ............................................................................ 33 Overall record: ....... 432-467-1 (.481) - 38 seasons This is Bemidji State University .......................................................... 34 Years in post-season play: ...................................0 BSU Athletic Facilities ........................................................................ 35 Northern Sun (NSC) Championships: .................3 ............................................... (1980, 1986, 1987) Beaver Pride: The Team Behind the Teams ....................................... 36 Northern Sun Intercollegiate (NSIC) Championships: .0 33 Media Information / NCAA Rules Compliance ...............................37-38 Bemidji State Administration & Support Staff ..................................... 39 COACHING STAFF Department of Athletics Staff & Directory ........................................... 40 Head Coach: ..........Mike Curfman (Concordia ‘92) Basketball Offi ce Phone: ............... (218) 755-3783 2005-06 Schedule .......................................................................... OBC e-mail [email protected] Record at School: .........................0-0 (1st season) Career Record: ........................... 55-85 (.393) / 7th Credits: Assistant Coach: ..................................Karen Siira The 2005-06 Bemidji State University Women’s Basketball Media Guide is a production of the Graduate Assistant: .......................... Brenna Rollie Bemidji State University Sports Information Department. All Rights Reserved. The 2005-06 version of this media guide was written, designed and edited by Assistant Sports Information Director Brad Folkestad with help from student asistant Todd Zeidler using the Adobe Creative TEAM INFORMATION Suite on a Macintosh PowerBook G4. Research, editorial and technical assistance provided 2004-05 Record: ..................................5-23 (.178) by Director of University Communications Al Nohner, Sports Information Director Andy Bartlett, NSIC Record/Finish: .....................1-13 (.076) / T-7 Graduate Assistant Troy Berneking, and student assistants Justin Stottlemyre, Shane Claypool Starters Returning/Lost: ....................................4/1 and Lynsey Andrews. Printing: Arrow Printing Bemidji, Minn. Outside cover design: Studio Arts, Letterwinners Returning/Lost ............................6/5 Bemidji, Minn. Inside cover design: Justin Stottlemyre. Photos: John Swartz, BSU Photo Services. Newcommers ........................................................9 For additional copies of this publication, contact the BSU Sports Information Offi ce at (218) 755- 2763 or mail check of money order of $5.00 to BSU Sports Information: MBB Media Guide, 1500 Birchmont Drive NE #29, Bemidji, MN 56601. 2005-06 Beaver Basketball Media Guide 1 BEMIDJI STATE WOMEN’S BASKETBALL A look at the 2005-06 season 2005-06 Season Outlook The beginning of the 2005-06 women’s basketball season is one of contest. She cracked the starting line-up three games before her uncertainties and change. In addition to Mike Curfman taking over the injury showing fl ashes of talent. Her rehabilitation is fi nished and she head coaching duties and bringing in a new staff, just six players from should be ready for action when the Beavers break the seal on the the 2004-05 roster are back with the team for the 2005-06 season. 2005-06 season. A young team featuring just one senior, returns four of its starters from last winter including the team’s top scorer in junior guard Maggie The Newcomers Gernbacher and third team All-NSIC junior forward Nancy McConkey. Over half of the 2005-06 roster is made up of newcomers to the Curfman also inherited one of the largest recruiting classes in recent BSU women’s basketball program. Nine players in all will lace up memory. In all, nine new players will make their debuts in the Green their shoes as a member of the BSU women’s basketball team for and White in 2005-06 including a trio of transfers, the tallest player the fi rst time. In addition to one of the largest recruiting classes at ever to play for BSU, and a talented class of fi ve freshman that are BSU in recent memory, four players transferred to BSU from other