Congratulations Chiney on being named to the AP Pre-season All-American team!
The Cardinal is ranked in AP's preseason top five for the fifth straight year. Read more...
Kevin Danna comments on how Chiney has diversified her game in this Pac-12 News article.
And Ashley Westhem (Stanford Daily) writes VanDerveer and Cardinal reload as season approaches.
Cal was picked to finish second and UCLA third. For a complete list and a bit about each of the contenders, see the Pac-12 announcement.
Pac-12 Networks officially announced its women's basketball TV schedule last week here. The game dates/times/participants had been announced previously, so the interesting part of the article was this sub-heading:
Rosalyn Gold-Onwude & Anne Myers Drysdale Headline Analyst Team Covering 61 Live Network Game Telecasts
What a great team they'll be! We can look forward to hearing a lot about basketball during their broadcasts instead of the irrelevant nattering that passes as game coverage on other networks.
Here's Ros at the Friday Frenzy:
Jake Curtis speculates:
As basketball practices got underway this Friday, Stanford Women's Basketball continued its preparation for the 2012-13 season and its quest for a third national title.
Read all about it in this article by Stanford Athletics.
Note: The article says that the women will be holding an open workout beginning at 6 pm, but the workout actually runs from 5:30-6:00, so be sure to get to Maples in time for that.
Stanford Athletics presents the first-ever preseason men's and women's basketball event: Friday Frenzy on October 19.
There'll be women's open practice from 5:30 to 6:00, men's scrimmage from 7:00 - 8:00 and more in between.
You can find all the details here.
Just 44 days until the first game!
These are the new faces we'll be seeing at Maples:
Alyson Beebe is a 6'3" forward from Santa Maria, California. Aly missed her high school senior year of basketball as she recovered from a torn ACL. She averaged 20.1 points and 12.5 rebounds as a junior and was named a prep All-America honorable mention after leading Saint Joseph High to a 29-6 overall record and the CIF Division III title. In the title-clinching contest, Aly scored a game-high 21 points.
We won't be seeing Aly on the court this season. She's rehabbing from surgery for a second ACL tear. I expect that she'll be kept busy on the sideline leading the high-fives for three-pointers.
Kiran Lakhian is a 5'10" shooting guard from Plano, Texas, just north of Dallas. Kiran was the tallest player on her West Plano High team and was listed as a forward. But she did a little bit of everything and was used at all five positions.
Tess Picknell is a 6'5" center from just north of the border — Medford, Oregon. Tess helped lead South Medford High to the quarterfinals of the Oregon 6A tournament last season and was named All-Oregon second team after averaging 13 points, nine rebounds and about five blocks per game. She blocked 13 shots in one game.
Stanford Athletics chatted with Kiran and Tess today, just before their first official day of classes. Read here ...
Stanford Photo has published photos of all the 2012-13 team and staff members. See here ...
