RECORD BOOK QUICK FACTS TABLE OF CONTENTS GENERAL INFORMATION Quick Facts ................................................................................................................... 2 Founded: .............................................................................. 1926 Head Coach .................................................................................................................. 3 Enrollment: ....................................................................... 11,000 Season Results ............................................................................................................ 4 Nickname: .....................................................................Blackbirds Overall Statistics ........................................................................................................... 5 Colors: ............................................................... Black and Silver All-Time Roster ............................................................................................................. 6 Conference: ...................................................................Northeast Team/Individual Records .............................................................................................. 7 Home Court: ...................................... Steinberg Wellness Center Single-Season Records ................................................................................................ 8 Capacity: .............................................................................. 2,000 Season-by-Season Leaders ......................................................................................... 9 Career Records ......................................................................................................10-11 Athletics Web Site: ......................................www.liuathletics.com Top-Five Scorers ........................................................................................................ 12 President: ....................................................... Dr. Kimberly Cline Northeast Conference Award Winners ....................................................................... 13 Provost: .................................................... Gale Stevens Haynes LIU Brooklyn Athletics Hall of Fame ........................................................................... 13 Interim Director of Athletics: .....................................Brad Cohen All-Time Coaches ....................................................................................................... 14 Senior Associate AD/SWA: ...............................Margaret Alaimo All-Time Series History .......................................................................................... 15-17 Head Athletic Trainer: ....................................... Danny O’Connor All-Time Results .................................................................................................... 18-27 Athletic Department Phone: .................................(718) 488-1030 Athletic Department Fax: .....................................(718) 488-1669 COACHING STAFF Head Coach ............................................................. Gail Striegler Alma Mater, Year .....................................Central Arkansas, 1990 Overall Record .......................................... 200-244 (14 seasons) Record at LIU ................................................87-94 (six seasons) E-mail ..........................................................gail.striegler@liu.edu Associate Head Coach ............................Lisa Pace (fifth season) Assistant Coach ............................ Terrell Coburn (fourth season) Assistant Coach ....................................Paul Nixon (first season) Director of Basketball Ops. ...............Hillary Spears (first season) Women’s Basketball Office Phone .......................(718) 488-1531 TEAM INFORMATION DIRECTIONS TO LIU 2013-14 Overall Record: .......................................................9-21 VIA SUBWAY: Take the R (local) or B, Q (express) to DeKalb Avenue or take the 2, 2013-14 Conference Record/Finish: ................................ 7-11/8th 3, 4 or 5 to Nevins Street. Also, A, C can be taken to Jay St./Borough Hall. Starters Returning/Lost: ........................................................... 1/4 FROM MANHATTAN VIA THE MANHATTAN BRIDGE: Proceed along Flatbush Letterwinners Returning/Lost: .................................................. 8/6 Avenue Extension to Myrtle Avenue and turn left at light. Take Myrtle Avenue to Ashland Newcomers: ................................................................................ 7 Place. Turn right onto Ashland Place and proceed to DeKalb Avenue, turning right. HISTORY Parking garage is first brick building on the right. First Season: ...................................................................1965-66 FROM MANHATTAN VIA THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE: Proceed along Adams Street, All-Time Record: ....................................... 474-675 (48 seasons) making a left onto Tillary St. Turn right onto Flatbush Avenue Extension and make first NCAA Appearances: ................................................. 1 (2000-01) left at Myrtle Avenue. Turn right onto Ashland Place and proceed to DeKalb Avenue WNIT Appearances: .................................................. 1 (2006-07) and make a right. Parking garage is first brick building on the right. ATHLETICS MEDIA RELATIONS FROM BROOKLYN: Belt Parkway to BQE. Take BQE to Cadman Plaza West and Assistant Director of Media Relations: ...............Casey Snedecor proceed to Tillary Street. Turn left on Tillary Street and turn right onto Flatbush Avenue ........................................................ Women’s Basketball Contact Extension. Make immediate left at light onto Myrtle Avenue. Turn right onto Ashland Phone: .................................................................(718) 488-1307 Place and proceed to DeKalb Ave. and make a right. Parking garage is first brick E-mail: ............................................ [email protected] building on the right. Assistant AD/Media Relations Director: .....................Dan Lobacz FROM QUEENS/LONG ISLAND: Long Island Expressway (495 West) to BQE (278 Phone: ..................................................................(718) 488-1420 West) to Tillary Street exit. Turn right onto Flatbush Avenue Extension and make first E-mail: ......................................................daniel.lobacz@liu.edu left at Myrtle Avenue. Turn right onto Ashland Place and proceed to DeKalb Avenue, Media Relations Graduate Assistant: ....................... Emily Nassi Phone: ..................................................(718) 488-1000 ext. 3026 turning right. E-mail: .....................................................emily.nassi@my.liu.edu FROM STATEN ISLAND: Take Verrazano Bridge to BQE. See above. Media Relations Fax: ............................................(718) 488-3302 FROM NORTHERN NEW JERSEY: Take New Jersey Turnpike south to Holland Tunnel Mailing Address: ..........................................One University Plaza to Canal Street East and follow to Manhattan Bridge. See above. ...................................................Wellness Center/Room 214-216 FROM SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY: New Jersey Turnpike north to Exit 10 (Outerbridge .................................................................... Brooklyn, N.Y. 11201 Crossing) to 278 East Verrazano Bridge to BQE. Follow directions from Brooklyn. FROM NEW ENGLAND/WESTCHESTER COUNTY: Merritt Parkway South or 95 South to the Hutchinson Parkway South and over the Whitestone Bridge. Take 678 South CREDITS (Van Wyck Expressway) to 495 West (Long Island Expressway). Follow directions The 2014-15 LIU Brooklyn Women’s Basketball Record Book was designed, from Queens. written and edited by Casey Snedecor. Editorial assistance by Dan Lobacz and Emily Nassi. Photography by Gene Boyars and Mike McLaughlin. 2014-15 LIU BROOKLYN WOMEN’S BASKETBALL 2 LIU BROOKLYN BLACKBIRDS • 2014-15 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL • www.liuathletics.com RECORD BOOK RECORD BOOK HEAD COACH GAIL STRIEGLER Seventh Season • Central Arkansas, 1990 Gail Striegler enters her seventh season at the helm of the LIU Brooklyn women’s basketball team in 2014-15, having put together an impressive stretch of three seasons from 2009-12. Striegler’s unit in 2011-12 won 21 games, and over the three seasons, won 62 games, the most over a three-year span in program history. Using a high-tempo brand of basketball, LIU went 11-1 in its non-conference schedule in 2011-12, defeating two teams from the Colonial Athletic Association (Drexel and William & Mary) and a pair from the Atlantic 10 (Charlotte and La Salle). Perhaps the biggest win, however, came at the Peppermill Holiday Classic in late December. After defeating host Nevada handily in the opening round, Striegler led the Blackbirds to a thrilling 64-63 win over previously unbeaten Oklahoma State in the title game. The Cowgirls, a member of the Big XII conference, would go on to win 22 games and take home the Postseason WNIT crown at the end of March. Striegler guided 2012 graduate Ashley Palmer to a record-setting career, putting her in a position to score a school- record 2,044 points. Palmer closed her four years in downtown Brooklyn as one of only two players in Northeast Conference history to score 2,000 points and record 1,000 rebounds in a career. The first recruit that Striegler nabbed