The Shorewomen Basketball team has begun practice for the 97-98 season.
This is the fifth year the basketball team has been in action. Last year's record was 14-10 overall and 9-6 in the Centennial Conference, giving them a third place finish.
The women want to pick up where they left off last semester when they won five games in a row to end the season.
Allison Wentworth ('97) and Eboni Taylor ('97) were two 1,000-point scorers who are gone from the team with graduation. Taylor scored an average of 14.4 points per game last year and had over 1000 rebounds during her career.
Both Shorewomen were number one and number two, respectively, on the team for W.C.'s career points, rebounds, and steal lists.
Senior co-captains this year are Megan Miller and Kristen Snell. The two hope to help lead the women this year, in stats as well as spirit.
Snell's great ability to shoot the ball is reflected through her hitting over 40% from the field in her career. She averaged 6.5 points and 3.5 rebounds per game.
Miller is a guard who last season ranked in the top 10 for Centennial three-point field goals made. She played injured all year, yet still shot 34% from behind the three-point line, which averaged her about 7.6 points and 5.7 rebounds per game.
Other returning members include Karen Sieger, a senior who finished with 100 rebounds last season (5.4 per game), and scoring 6.1 points per game.
Junior Diane Zeng also returns, having averaged 7.5 points and 3.4 rebounds per game. She currently has 145 assists during her W.C. career and may become a W.C. assists leader.
Powerful sophomores Maggy Kilroy and Kim Pryce return, Kilroy averaging 5.6 points per game. Pryce showed her skill by shooting 41% from the floor and having 8 rebounds in a game against Swarthmore.
Several freshmen are joining this team of amazing women, including Kerry Lomax, a guard, who played on the 1994 Central Jersey State Championship team as a freshman and forward
Katie Bierzonski who was a member of the 1997 Pennsylvania state runners-up and was named the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame Student-Athlete of the Year as a senior.
With a great group of women returning to the squad, the Shorewomen hope to conquer the Centennial Conference East Division and make a return to the conference playoffs this season.
W.C. will open the season by hosting the First Annual Sho'Time Shootout, with teams participating from Dickinson, Grove City, and Baptist Bible.
A strong Division III schedule will follow, including Centennial Conference action against tough opponents such as Muhlenberg and Johns Hopkins.
The Sho'Time Shootout competition begins tonight at 8 p.m. in Cain Gymnasium. This will be the first part of a two part season opener for the women's team.
The second part will be on Saturday, also at home, and will begin at
5 p.m. Come out and support the Shorewomen in their season opener!
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