2018-19 University of Alberta Golden Bears Basketball MEDIA KIT Golden Bears Basketball 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Table of Contents 2 U of A Athletics 3-4 2018-19 Golden Bears Roster 5 Season in Review 6-12 Team Staff 13-14 Player Profiles 15-22 Quick Facts & Team History 23-25 Golden Bears Basketball 2 The University of Alberta Location Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Enrolment (2017-18) 38,445 President Dr. David Turpin Chancellor Douglas Stollery Dean of Faculty (Kin., Sport & Rec.) Dr. Kerry Mummery Conference Canada West National U SPORTS Mascot & Name Golden Bears & GUBA (Great University Bear of Alberta) Colours Evergreen & Gold Website www.bears.ualberta.ca 2018-19 ATHLETICS ADMINISTRATION Dr. Ian Reade Director of Athletics (780) 492-3365 Vang Ioannides Associate Director of Athletics 492-5603 Tawana McLeod Associate Athletic Director (Development & Alumni Relations) 492-3534 Katie Spriggs Associate Director of Athletics (Financial Aid/Sports Admin.) 492-7995 Connor Hood Sports Information & Communications Coordinator 492-7214 Paul Cartledge Sports Information & Communications Coordinator Assistant 492-7214 Joan Matthews- Athlete Health Head Athletics Therapist 492-3466 White Brad Hamilton Event & Media Production Coordinator 492-2591 Breanne Ferris Event Services Coordinator 492-5311 Jonathan Krywulak Athletic Events Manager 492-6933 Stacey Wickman Administrative Assistant 492-3365 Sharon Kaminecki Travel Coordinator 492-5529 Dale Johns Accounting Assistant 492-1017 Marina Leyderman Supervisor, Finance and Administration 492-3048 John Holowaychuk Account Executive 492-9441 Sales Office Tickets & Merchandise 492-2231 492-2327 Golden Bears Basketball 3 2018-19 U OF A COACHING STAFF Barnaby Craddock Men’s Basketball 7th Yr Scott Edwards Women’s Basketball 13th Sean Baynton Cross Country 2nd Rob Krepps Curling 12th Chris Morris Football 6th Stan Marple (GM) Men’s Ice Hockey 7th Ian Herbers (Coach) Men’s Ice Hockey 4th Howie Draper Women’s Ice Hockey 22nd Matt Parrish Women’s Rugby 15th Len Vickery Men’s Soccer 34th Liz Jepsen Women’s Soccer 14th Dusan Toth-Szabo Swimming 2nd Russ Sluchinski Men’s/Women’s Tennis 23rd Wes Moerman Track and Field 7th Terry Danyluk Men’s Volleyball 26th Laurie Eisler Women’s Volleyball 27th Owen Dawkins Wrestling 10th U OF A SPORTS FACILITIES Capacity Phone Universiade Pavilion (Butterdome) 5,500 (780) 492-3276 Saville Community Sports Centre 2,800 492-1000 Main Gymnasium 2,265 492-3276 Foote Field/Canadian Coaching Association natural grass 1,000 492-6868 (Cheryl Harwardt) artificial turf 2,700 492-2222 (ext. 226) Clare Drake Arena (Montgomery Wood) 2,700 492-3569 U of A Varsity (practice) Field 492-6868 Winslow and Christian Memorial Pool 300 492-3570 Van Vliet Centre Equipment Room 492-3276 Saville Sports Centre (tennis – Russ Sluchinski; ext. 224) 8 courts 492-2222 (curling – Rob Krepps; ext 229) 10 sheets 492-2222 The Dr. Bob Steadward Centre 492-3182 Golden Bears Basketball 4 2018-19 Golden Bears Basketball Roster # Ht. 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Elig.Yr Faculty Hometown 1 Geoffrey James Guard 6-2 186 1 Native Studies Edmonton, AB 2 Tyus Jefferson Guard 6-0 165 3 Arts Riverton, Utah 3 Andre Kelly Guard 6-2 183 3 Arts Mississauga, ON 4 Lars Ishimwe Guard 6-2 145 1 Arts Edmonton, AB 5 Ivan Ikomey Guard 6-1 196 4 Arts Calgary, AB 6 Dwan Williams Guard 6-2 190 4 Arts Toronto, ON 7 Brandon Meiklejohn Guard 6-1 175 1 Engineering Edmonton, AB 8 Hugo Cluysen Forward 6-8 215 1 Faculty Saint-Jean Soissons, France 9 Avery Hutcheson Guard 6-1 167 1 Open Studies Calgary, AB 10 Cole Knudsen Forward 6-8 225 3 Education Barrhead, AB 11 Shol Ayach Guard 6-4 186 1 Native Studies Calgary, AB 13 Adam Paige Guard 6-8 215 1 Arts Surrey, BC 14 Brody Clarke Forward 6-8 235 4 Engineering Toronto, ON Head Coach Assistants Head Varsity Therapist Director of Athletics Barnaby Craddock Kent Johnson Dr. Joan Matthews-White Ian Reade, PhD (7th Year) Jordan Baker Varsity Therapists Slav Kornik Brennan Mahon Sports Information & Communications Nick Maglisceau Student Kinesiologists Connor Hood Graduate Coach Mark Breitkreutz Brandon Brock Taya Wong Team Manager Shelby Shapka Zale Smordin Golden Bears Basketball 5 2018-19 Canada West Standings G W L Pct. PF PA Home Away RPI x-Calgary 20 20 0 1.000 1771 1321 11-0 9-0 .7203 x-UBC 20 17 3 .850 1871 1492 10-1 7-2 .6413 x-Alberta 20 15 5 .750 1696 1450 8-2 7-3 .6239 x-Regina 20 14 6 .700 1734 1606 8-2 6-4 .5643 x-UFV 20 13 7 .650 1588 1517 7-4 6-3 .5666 x-Winnipeg 20 13 7 .650 1835 1697 6-4 7-3 .5541 x-Lethbridge 20 12 8 .600 1896 1605 6-4 6-4 .5206 x-Sask 20 11 9 .550 1726 1735 6-4 5-5 .5430 x-Manitoba 20 10 10 .500 1518 1553 4-5 6-5 .5149 x-Victoria 20 10 10 .500 1577 1540 6-3 4-7 .4828 x-UNBC 20 9 11 .450 1595 1627 5-5 4-6 .4847 x-MRU 20 8 12 .400 1600 1753 3-7 5-5 .4821 UBCO 20 7 13 .350 1401 1746 4-6 3-7 .4352 TRU 20 6 14 .300 1497 1626 3-7 3-7 .3956 Brandon 20 4 16 .200 1670 1848 3-8 1-8 .3861 MacEwan 20 1 19 .050 1459 1855 1-8 0-11 .3325 TWU 20 0 20 .000 1464 1927 0-9 0-11 .2525 Note: x-clinched playoff spot Top 12 teams qualify for the playoffs. The top 12 teams are then ranked 1 to 12 based on each team’s RPI standing in order to account for the various strength of schedules faced by each team. Teams seeded 1-4 by RPI receive first-week bye and host winners of play-in games; quarter- final series winners meet in two semifinal series; semifinal winners play in single final game 2018-19 Golden Bears Basketball Game by Game Date Opponent Score H/A Alberta Scoring Record (Conf.) Non-Conference Tournament at University of Toronto in Toronto, ON Fri, Oct. 05 Toronto W, 81-72 A Clarke 20 1-0 (0-0) Sat, Oct. 06 McMaster W, 80-65 N Clarke 20 2-0 (0-0) Non-Conference Sat, Oct. 13 Mount Royal W, 97-67 H 3-0 (0-0) Non-Conference Golden Bears Invitational at University of Alberta in Edmonton, AB Fri, Oct. 19 Lakehead W, 84-72 H Clarke 21 4-0 (0-0) Sat, Oct. 20 Brock W, 82-70 H Clarke 17 5-0 (0-0) Conference Thu, Oct. 25 MacEwan W, 85-56 H Clarke, Jefferson 16 6-0 (1-0) Sat, Oct. 27 MacEwan W, 97-46 A Clarke 17 7-0 (2-0) Thu, Nov. 01 Calgary L, 88-77 A Ikomey 17 7-1 (2-1) Sat, Nov. 03 Calgary L, 74-68 H Clarke 19 7-2 (2-2) Fri, Nov. 09 Fraser Valley W, 99-69 A Clarke 17 8-2 (3-2) Sat, Nov. 10 Fraser Valley L, 80-73 A Clarke, Ikomey 20 8-3 (3-3) Fri, Nov. 16 Lethbridge W, 85-72 H Kelly 20 9-3 (4-3) Sat, Nov. 17 Lethbridge W, 87-74 H Ikomey 17 10-3 (5-3) Fri, Nov. 30 Thompson Rivers W, 107-81 A Ikomey 24 11-3 (6-3) Sat, Dec. 01 Thompson Rivers W, 86-79 A Clarke 30 12-3 (7-3) Fri, Jan. 04 Manitoba W, 75-70 H Jefferson 21 13-3 (8-3) Sat, Jan. 05 Manitoba W, 98-55 H Paige 17 14-3 (9-3) Fri, Jan. 11 Brandon W, 84-74 A Clarke 23 15-3 (10-3) Sat, Jan. 12 Brandon W, 93-75 A Clarke 21 16-3 (11-3) Fri, Jan. 18 UNBC W, 76-68 H Clarke 28 17-3 (12-3) Sat, Jan. 19 UNBC L, 81-70 H Ikomey14 17-4 (12-4) Fri, Jan. 25 Saskatchewan L, 74-70 A Clarke 26 17-5 (12-5) Sat, Jan. 26 Saskatchewan W, 94-80 A Ikomey 23 18-5 (13-5) Fri, Feb. 01 UBC W, 85-75 H Clarke 18 19-5 (14-5) Sat, Feb. 02 UBC W, 87-79 H Clarke 40 20-5 (15-5) Canada West Playoffs Best-of-three quarter-final at University of Alberta in Edmonton, AB Thu, Feb. 14 Lethbridge L, 76-75 H Kelly 19 20-6 (15-5) Fri, Feb. 15 Lethbridge W, 86-70 H Ikomey 18 21-6 (15-5) Sat, Feb. 16 Lethbridge W, 86-68 H Clarke 24 22-6 (15-5) Golden Bears Basketball 6 Best-of-three semifinal at University of Alberta in Edmonton, AB Fri, Feb. 22 UBC L, 74-62 H Clarke 14 22-7 (15-5) Sat, Feb. 23 UBC W, 92-86 H Clarke 22 23-7 (15-5) Sun, Feb. 24 UBC L, 84-78 H Paige 18 23-8 (15-5) U SPORTS Championship March 8-10, 2019 at Dalhousie University (Halifax, NS) Fri, Mar. 08 Carleton U SPORTS Championship March 8-10, 2019 at Dalhousie University in Halifax, NS SEEDING 1. Carleton Ravens (OUA champions: 22-1 regular season / 3-0 playoffs) 2. Calgary Dinos (Canada West champions: 20-0 regular season / 5-0 playoffs) 3. Ryerson Rams (OUA finalists: 21-2 regular season / 2-1 playoffs) 4. UBC Thunderbirds (Canada West finalists: 17-3 regular season / 4-3 playoffs) 5. Dalhousie Tigers (AUS champions: 14-6 regular season / 3-0 playoffs) 6. Concordia Stingers (RSEQ champions: 11-5 regular season / 2-0 playoffs) 7.