Penn State Altoona athletics has announced Casey Shoup as its head coach for 2013-14. Shoup was an assistant coach for the team during the past two years.
Emory head women’s basketball coach Christy Thomaskutty has announced that the following student-athletes will be attending Emory in the fall and be competing for the 2013-14 Eagles’ program.
Victoria Jones has been named head coach of the Eureka College women's basketball team. She comes to Eureka after a five-year stint as an assistant coach at Division I Murray State.
The University of Redlands women's basketball team celebrated a new era by revealing a faster, more diversified style of play, which created success on various levels during the 2012-13 campaign. After firing off six consecutive wins for the program's hottest start to the regular season, the Maroon and Gray put together a 19-7 overall record to go along with a tied-for-second-place effort in Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) competition at 12-4.
After earning All-America and Academic All-America honors this season, Jill Woerner added another achievement to her resume on Wednesday when she was named the Landmark Conference Women’s Basketball Senior Scholar Athlete. Woerner helped to lead CUA to its second straight Landmark title and NCAA Tournament appearance this season.
PITTSFORD, N.Y. – A combined 65 former and current student-athletes from Case Western Reserve University have been named to University Athletic Association 25th Anniversary Teams in their respective sports.
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Jump25.com has released the rosters for the 2013 All-Star Classic, which will be played on Sunday, April 14 inside Alumni Hall Gymnasium on the campus of Ohio Dominican University. Amongst those named to the roster was Case Western Reserve University senior All-American guard Evy Iacono (Cincinnati, Ohio/Mount Notre Dame).
CUA Head Coach Matt Donohue, who on January 23 earned the 200th win of his coaching career, has been named a 2013 Women’s Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) Russell Athletic Victory Club award recipient. The all-time winningest women’s basketball coach in school history, Donohue will be honored during the third annual WBCA Awards Show on April 8 in New Orleans.
CUA is ranked 11th in the final USA Today Division III Top 25 Coaches’ Poll for the 2012-13 season, released on Tuesday. The Cardinals won their second straight Landmark Conference championship and earned a second straight bid to the NCAA Tournament this season, finishing with a school-record 27 wins.
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. – Case Western Reserve University senior guard Evy Iacono (Cincinnati, Ohio/Mount Notre Dame) became just the second player in program history to garner All-America honors this weekend when she was named to the 16th annual D3Hoops.com All-America Team. Iacono was tabbed as an honorable mention selection.
For the second time in the last week, senior Jill Woerner has been named a 2013 All-American. This time, the honor comes from D3Hoops.com, which named Woerner a Fourth Team All-American. Earlier in the week, Woerner received All-America accolades from the WBCA.
The UW-Whitewater women’s basketball team finished the best season in program history, hoisting the national runner-up trophy after a 69-51 loss to unbeaten and number one ranked DePauw University in the NCAA III championship game played in DeVos Fieldhouse on the campus of Hope College in Holland, Michigan. Head coach Keri Carollo summed up her reaction to the game by noting how proud she is of the team. "I'm extremely proud of our program and these young women that came together and really put together just a magical run to get to this point. To be able to play for a national championship is everything that a coach could ever dream of and to do it with 24 of the finest young women that decided to be part of the ride, I'm really proud of this group."
Mary Merg hit a buzzer-beating 3-pointer at the end of regulation and a bucket at the buzzer at the end of overtime to lift UW-Whitewater to the Division III women’s basketball national championship game on Friday night 64-62.
Emory senior Misha Jackson and head women’s basketball coach Christy Thomaskutty have been recognized for the Eagles’ outstanding 2012-13 campaign with the pair seeing postseason honors come their way.
One day after earning All-Region honors from D3Hoops.com, senior Jill Woerner was named an All-American by the WBCA (Women’s Basketball Coaches Association) on Thursday. The honors continue to roll in for Woerner, who was also named the Landmark Conference and ECAC Player of the Year this season.
Sophomore guard Ally Zywicki is accumulating post-season honors in basketball they same way she compiled statistics for the University of Rochester in the 2012-13 season. They are coming in bunches.
BOSTON, Mass.—Freshman Olivia Murphy (Canton, Mass.) capped off her tremendous freshman season with one more award Wednesday morning, as she was crowned the D3Hoops.com Northeast Region Rookie of the Year by D3Hoops.com.
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. – Although her playing career has ended, the accolades continue to roll in for Case Western Reserve University senior guard Evy Iacono (Cincinnati, Ohio/Mount Notre Dame). On Wednesday, the two-year captain was named to the D3Hoops.com All-Great Lakes Region Second Team for the first time in her career.
Jill Woerner and Katarina Owunna have been named to the D3Hoops.com All-Region Team, it was announced on Wednesday. This marks the third year in a row in which Woerner received the honor, while for Owunna, it is her first All-Region selection.
University of Rochester point guards John DiBartolomeo and Ally Zywicki have been named First Team All-East Region by D3hoops.com for the 2012-13 season.
GREENCASTLE, Ind. -- The dream first season for head coach Bill Broderick came to an end on Saturday, as the 17th-ranked Christopher Newport Captains (29-3) fell to top-ranked and undefeated DePauw University (32-0) in the NCAA Elite Eight, 76-55. Four Captains finished in double figures, led by junior Nicole Mitchell with 16.