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THE REFLECTOR PAGE 5 SPURl% NOVEMBER 17,2004<br />
WINTERSPORTSPREVIEW<br />
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL<br />
Defense, exper ience key to ‘Hounds’ success<br />
Craig Haupert<br />
Entertuinnzent Editor<br />
Coach Teri Moren’s women’s basketball<br />
team wants to regain the title<br />
<strong>of</strong> the best defensive team in the Great<br />
Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC) this<br />
season.<br />
“Our goal is holding our opponents<br />
to 56 points or under,” Moren said.<br />
“That is a lot when you consider that<br />
we are part <strong>of</strong> a conference that is <strong>of</strong>fensive<br />
minded. This makes us a little<br />
different, because we really try to get at<br />
it defensively.”<br />
Team members have been practicing<br />
for about a month and have just started<br />
their preseason games.<br />
The ‘Hounds are coming <strong>of</strong>f two<br />
straight 20-win seasons, and last year<br />
the ‘Hounds were ranked No. I in<br />
the country in three-point field goal<br />
percentage. Senior Erin Moran led all<br />
divisions in three-point field goal percentage<br />
last year, shooting more than<br />
50 percent.<br />
The ‘Hounds are returning four<br />
seniors: guard Erin Moran, guard<br />
Amanda Davidson, guard Sara Riedeman<br />
and guard Amy Wisser. Coach<br />
Moren is counting on their leadership<br />
to carry the team deep <strong>into</strong> the NCAA<br />
tournament at the end <strong>of</strong> the season.<br />
“They have the experience, and they<br />
have won a lot <strong>of</strong> games, so they will<br />
MEN’S BASKETBALL<br />
play a large part in how we do,” Moren<br />
said.<br />
The returning players will get some<br />
help with tlhree new players this season:<br />
two transfer <strong>students</strong>, Leisha Walker<br />
(IPFW) and Mandy Geryak (Xavier),<br />
and one freshman, Deanna Thomson<br />
(Center Grove). “Thomson will bring a<br />
lot inside. !She is a very athletic, mobile<br />
post player,” Moren said.<br />
Two new assistant coaches have<br />
joined the team as well. Former U <strong>of</strong> I<br />
player Saralh Shackle and Amy Cherubini,<br />
former <strong>Indianapolis</strong> Pike High<br />
School head coach and St. Louis and<br />
Michigan assistant coach will be working<br />
on making some changes to the<br />
team’s defense.<br />
“Defensively this year we want to<br />
apply more pressure, extend the defensive,<br />
throw some full court presses<br />
at people, just mix it up a little bit,”<br />
Cherubini said. “This is a little more <strong>of</strong><br />
an aggressive approach this year.. . we<br />
want to get out in the passing lanes and<br />
force more turnovers.”<br />
The team is ranked second in preseason<br />
standings, behind Bellarmine in<br />
the GLVC and ranked 1 1 th nationally.<br />
“We don’t pay as much attention to<br />
the ~011s as, DeoDle think.” Moren said.<br />
1 I<br />
“Th;ee years ago, we were picked fifth<br />
in the conference, and we ended up going<br />
29 and three.”<br />
The ‘Hounds oDen the regular<br />
season at Ciannon ‘in the GLk/GLVC<br />
challenge on Nov. 19.<br />
Photo by Amber Liponoga<br />
Head coach Teri Moren<br />
gives instructions to<br />
freshman Deanna Thomson<br />
while senior Amv Wisser<br />
(left) looks on.<br />
Exhibition wins he1 .p new players fit <strong>into</strong> Sturgeon’s system<br />
Photo bj Zuch Bolingrr<br />
Senior David Logan runs<br />
a drill in a recent practice.<br />
Logan is the top returning<br />
scorer for the ‘Hounds.<br />
H -~ WOMEN’S SWIMMING<br />
Katy Yeiser<br />
Sports Editor<br />
Coach Todd Sturgeon’s men’s bas-<br />
ketball team is heading <strong>into</strong> the 2004-<br />
2005 seascin with two solid exhibition<br />
wins under their belt. The ‘Hounds<br />
easily defeated Niagara College <strong>of</strong><br />
Welland, Ontario and Mohawk College<br />
<strong>of</strong> Hamilton, Ontario 104-52 and 85-55<br />
respectively on Oct. 17 and 18.<br />
Sturgeon said the two Canadien<br />
teams were not as tough opponents<br />
as the teams the ‘Hounds will face<br />
in the Great Lakes Valley Confer-<br />
ence and Region, but he was pleased<br />
with the ‘Hounds defense and level <strong>of</strong><br />
intensity they played with. He noted<br />
that one <strong>of</strong> the reasons the ‘Hounds<br />
played so hard was due to the work<br />
ethic <strong>of</strong> veteran players that spilled<br />
over to the new players. Sturgeon will<br />
look to his veteran players <strong>of</strong> seniors<br />
Mickey McGill, David Logan, Cory<br />
Bennett and Lawrence Barnes not only<br />
to provide a consistent level <strong>of</strong> hard<br />
work but to also lead the team until the<br />
younger players get comfortable with<br />
the ‘Hounds system.<br />
“We have a lot <strong>of</strong> new guys so it<br />
takes a while for them to get the hang<br />
<strong>of</strong> the program. We are just trying to<br />
get better everyday,” Logan said.<br />
Logan returns as the ‘Hounds<br />
leading scorer and could become the<br />
conference’s all-time leading scorer<br />
after the season if he averages around<br />
25 points per game.<br />
“I don’t think that will be very tough<br />
for me,” Logan said. “I worked a lot on<br />
my game in the <strong>of</strong>f-season. I just have<br />
to be a smarter player on the court to<br />
get those extra and easy points.”<br />
The ‘Hounds conference has tra-<br />
ditionally been the best in Division I1<br />
basketball, according to Sturgeon, and<br />
U <strong>of</strong> I was selected to finish fifth in the<br />
pre-season GLVC poll. However, Stur-<br />
geon feels having the top place in the<br />
GLVC is not a team goal, but making<br />
sure the ‘Hounds finish in a spot that<br />
sends them to the NCAA tournament is.<br />
“As far as picking out a spot in the<br />
conference, we haven’t talked about<br />
that,” Sturgeon said. “What we have<br />
talked about is being the first team in U<br />
<strong>of</strong> I history to go to three consecutive<br />
NCAA tournaments. That, I think, is<br />
our primary goal.”<br />
I LING<br />
h Fellure’s wrestling<br />
eeks improvements<br />
e previous season<br />
“Obviously we want to place higher<br />
than we did last year in the National<br />
Championships,” he said. “I think a<br />
realistic goal would be at least top 15<br />
this year with more than one All-Amer.<br />
ican.”<br />
Many freshman wrestlers are ex-<br />
pected to aid in the realization <strong>of</strong> these<br />
as he sets his sights on t<br />
hard, and they are looking forward to<br />
last year as long as everybody stays ii good season. *‘It’s hard to say who’s<br />
I healthy,” junior Zach Goldsberry said. going to be in the starting line-up.’’<br />
only two home meets will<br />
Women’s swimming looks to capture GLIAC crown and qualify for nationals<br />
A ‘Hound swimmer practices her breast stroke in a recent<br />
practice. The women’s team swam to victory against<br />
Ashland in their first meet <strong>of</strong> the season on Oct. 23, and<br />
finished third at the intercollegiate meet at Purdue.<br />
Abby Adragna<br />
Staff Writer<br />
The women’s swimming team is<br />
ready to splash right <strong>into</strong> the new<br />
season with high hopes <strong>of</strong> winning<br />
the 2005 Great Lakes Intercollegiate<br />
Athletic Conference, as well as earning<br />
a top five finish at Nationals.<br />
Sophomore and 2004 “Freshman <strong>of</strong><br />
the Year” Alison Smith thinks that the<br />
team’s current speed shows potential.<br />
“I think we’re swimming pretty fast for<br />
this early in the season,” she said.<br />
According to Coach Gary Kinkead,<br />
those expected to play a key role in the<br />
team’s success include veterans senior<br />
Kristen Kendzierski, senior Kenzi<br />
Miller, junior Kristen Lund, sophomore<br />
Alison Smith and sophomore Holly<br />
Spohr.<br />
Kinkead also expects freshmen Ellie<br />
Miller, Valerie Crosby, Amand Herd,<br />
and Laura Folsom to step up this year.<br />
Kendzierski agrees that the freshmen<br />
will be an important asset to the<br />
team. “I think a lot <strong>of</strong> the freshmen are<br />
going to be a big part <strong>of</strong> it [the team’s<br />
success] because we have a lot <strong>of</strong> them.<br />
So it kind <strong>of</strong> adds to our depth,” she<br />
said.<br />
According to both Kendzierski and<br />
Kinkead, the ‘Hounds’ main goals for<br />
the season include winning the 2005<br />
GLIAC Championship and making it to<br />
Nationals in Orlando, Florida.<br />
Both Kendzierski and Smith hope<br />
to compete at Nationals in 2005. “My<br />
personal goal is to make it back to<br />
Nationals for my senior year,” Kendzierski<br />
said.<br />
“[I want] to make top eight at Na-<br />
tionalr,” Smith said.<br />
Kinkead has some personal goals as<br />
well. He hopes that the members <strong>of</strong> his<br />
team continue to be recognized for their<br />
outstanding performance. “We’ve had a<br />
real good run [over the past few years]<br />
<strong>of</strong> ‘Swimmer <strong>of</strong> the Year’ and also the<br />
‘Freshman <strong>of</strong> the Year,”’ he said. “So<br />
hopefully we can continue that trend <strong>of</strong><br />
having those particular awards given to<br />
one <strong>of</strong> our swimmers.”<br />
The ‘Hounds currently have a win-<br />
ning 7-4 record after defeating Ashland<br />
113-36 in the season opener on Oct.<br />
23. tinishing third <strong>of</strong> seven teams in<br />
the Indiana Intercollegiate Meet at<br />
Purdue on Oct. 30 and placing third <strong>of</strong><br />
tive teams at the Truman State Bulldog<br />
Invitational on Nov. 6.<br />
The team’s season continues when<br />
they compete with Wayne State at<br />
home on Nov. 13.<br />
MEN’S SWIMMING<br />
All- American’s ope to lead ‘Hounds <strong>into</strong> unprecedented waters<br />
Ben Reed<br />
Stuff Writer<br />
“I think that our team can be the best<br />
ever men’s swim team at U <strong>of</strong> I,” said<br />
Freshman Hanno Ahonen.<br />
The team returns three 2004 All-<br />
Americans: junior Cole Tedhams,<br />
junior Drew Hastings and senior Deniz<br />
Monkul.<br />
According to Ahonen, the under-<br />
classmen also have been showing well<br />
in training.<br />
“With the high caliber <strong>of</strong> swimmers<br />
we have, I believe we have a good<br />
chance <strong>of</strong> winning a GLIAC trophy,”<br />
Tedhams said.<br />
The swim team has already begun<br />
the season1 with a 6-5 record after the<br />
first three meets, defeating GLIAC<br />
rivals Ashland and Lewis. They also<br />
defeated Division I opponents Butler<br />
and Valporasio.<br />
Junior co-captain and Division I1<br />
national champion, Cole Tedhams will<br />
lead the ‘Hounds this season. He won<br />
the 50-yard freestyle event in the first<br />
three meets. Tedhams also dominated<br />
the 100 freestyle event, winning twice<br />
and finishing 2nd at the Indiana Inter-<br />
collegiates Meet at Purdue.<br />
Tedharns plans to defend his na-<br />
tional championship in the 50 freestyle<br />
and hopes; to set the Division I1 national<br />
record <strong>of</strong> 19:93.<br />
Junior co-captain Drew Hastings<br />
also triumphed in the first three meets.<br />
Twice he won the 200 backstroke and<br />
400 individual medley.<br />
“I hom to achieve All-American<br />
vidual medley, 400 individual medley<br />
and 200 backstroke,” Hastings said.<br />
The team has had many contributors<br />
this season. Senior Brian Calandra<br />
placed in the 100 backstroke and 200<br />
backstroke. Deniz Monkul placed in<br />
the 200 breast and the 200 individual<br />
medley.<br />
Junior Jeremy Lindauer placed in<br />
the 200 backstroke, in the 100 breaststroke,<br />
200 individual medley and 200<br />
freestyle.<br />
Sophomore James Landis placed<br />
in the 100 butterfly. Freshman Hanno<br />
Ahonen placed 200 freestyle, 500 freestyle<br />
and 200 breaststroke.<br />
Freshman Kieran O’Neill placed<br />
in the 200 freestyle and 200 individual<br />
medley. Freshman Drqw Johnson<br />
placed in the 500 freestyle.<br />
“We all train very hard. Hopefully<br />
it will help - us - get many wins,” Ahonen<br />
‘Hounds swimmers wait at the block during a recent<br />
practice. The men’s swimming team boast three All-<br />
Americans in junior Cole Tedhams, junior Drew Hastings<br />
and senior Deniz Monkul.