State of the website

The FBC website has begun its sixth season and continues to grow steadily. It currently enhances the pleasure of about 450 Stanford women's basketball fans each day. This graph shows the number of visits per day, month by month, season by season.

These are the people who contribute to the website:

John & Sue Soo

tell us about Stanford recruits in their senior year of high school, so that we know them when they appear at Maples. With six recruits signed up, John & Sue really have their work cut out for them this season.

Bob Kinder

keeps us up to date all season on what's going on in the Pac-10. Bob is also reporting on our future Pac-12 additions and on USF this season.

Dana Stewart

reports on the FBC's fund-raising activities — the auction and shoot-around. She also entertains us with a wide variety of thoughts about SWBB. You never know what to expect from Dana.

Judy Richter

has brought professional journalism to the website. She attends and reports on all SWBB events. Judy also conducts interviews with many people associated with SWBB.

Christine Forter and Don Fidler

have conducted intensive video interviews of SWBB alumnae in past seasons. We hope to have more of these in the future.

Amy Tucker

manages the Team Blog. She sees to it that each team member and some staff members contribute to the blog each week of the season.

Deb Gumbley, from the floor
Baranduin Briggs and Steve Mitchel, from the stands

are contributing wonderful photos of Cardinal games. It's great to have game photos in the website again!

Dave Cortesi

supplies FBC members with all they need to know about traveling to away games. Dave also provides technical support for the website, solving tricky html problems and correcting photo deficiencies.

Wally Mersereau

provided entertaining reports of his travels to the Utah and Gonzaga games this season. We would welcome reports of future away games from Wally or any other FBC traveler.

Marian Cortesi

writes the "Stories of the Season" and "Alumnae News" blogs and maintains the website.

Cyd Crampton

writes the acerbic opponent previews and basketball rules clarifications that appear in the FBC weekly newsletter,

Bob Stevens

created the website in 2005. He provides the hosting of the website and is involved in its management.

It may surprise you to learn that the website had about 2400 visits from 82 countries besides the United States last year. Some were no doubt due to random Google hits, but I like to think that most were from Cardinal fans all over the world.