2007-2008 NAIA Division II Women's Basketball National Championship Press Book

~ = I (9) KANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY 6oyot11s • 2008;.og RECORD • 26-5 Overall • 16-2 Conference • ~,._1E ATHtt/i. i~t~· ~ ~~ \ z t "-- z ~ '- ~ ~ 1/ --- ROSTER NO PLAYER POS HT YR 3 Khristy Santee G/F 5-9 Sr. 5 Shelby Babcock G 5-6 Fr. 10 Georgina Boros G 5-8 Jr. 12 Katelyn Matlock G/F 5-10 Fr. 13 Tina Dick G 5-3 Fr. 14 Emily Luckeroth G 5-9 Sr. 21 Kaylaen Dittmer G 5-8 Sr. 22 LaCole Wilkinson G 5-3 So. 23 Brittany Stalnaker F 5-10 Jr. 25 Jessica Potthoff G 5-7 Fr. 32 Tiffany Goetz G/F 5-7 So. 33 Brandi Jensen F 5-8 So. 34 Jennie Vopat C 6-0 Sr. _, _______ ·- SEASON HIGHLIGHTS Location: Salina, Kan. Enrollment: 879 Colors: Purple and Gold Conference: Kansas Collegiate Athletic President: Dr. Philip P. Kerstetter Athletic Director: Dr. Matthew J Williams SID: David Toelle Qualification: Conference Tour. Champion HOMETOWN/PREVIOUS SCHOOL Little Elm, Texas/ The Colony HS Ventura, Calif. / St. Bonaventure HS Debrecen, Hungary/ Eastern Arizona College Early, Texas/ Early HS Quitman, Ark. Palm Desert, Calif. / Irvine Valley College Tribune, Kan./ Greeley County HS Stewartsville, Mo. / East Buchanan HS Yuma, Ariz. / Eastern Arizona College Highlands Ranch, Colo. / Thunder Ridge HS Hoxie, Kan. / Hoxie HS Mankato, Kan. / Rock Hills HS Great Bend, Kan. / Hutchinson CC (Kan.) -· Kaylaen Dittmer named 2009 KCAC Player of the Year. Dittmer, LaCole Wilkinson, and Emily Luckeroth named First Team AII-KCAC... Jennie Vopat named Honorable Mention All-KCAC. KWU on verge of best season in school history - three wins in Post-Season Co.nfer- ence Tournament will give KWU 26 wins, anew school record. .2008-09 and 1987-88 are only two KCAC Championship seasons for lffllJ women, and only two 20-plus win seasons...Team has broken single game three-point attempts record (38 vs Saint Mary (Kan.) on Janu- ary 15; Single Game Free Throw Pet Record (.923) vs Ottawa on December 13; Single Season Three.Point Makes (225 as of February 25); Single Season Three-Point Attempts (705 as of Feb. 25)..•.Jennie Vopat has set new Single Season Rebounding Record (270 as of Feb. 25)...Kaylaen Dittmer has set new Single Season Free Throws record (109 as of 2/25)...Emily Luckeroth has set new Single Season Three-Point Attempts Record (239 as of 2/25)...Dittmer has broke career assists record (363 as of 2/25)...Dittrner has broke career games played and games started records (114 as of 2/25)...Luckeroth needs 3more three pointer makes to set new single season record- cur- rent record is 17 yrs old (has 88, record is 90 as of 2/25)...Dittmer needs 19 more fre.ethrows (as of 2/25) to break career free throws made record (333 in 2007)...Dittmer recorded 1000th point and 500th career rebound in same game on December 11 vs Tabor (Kan)... Coach Gordon Reimer 2009 KCAC Coach of the Year. NAIA TOURNAMENT HISTORY Years: 0 I Record: 0-0 /. 000/ I Finished 1st: O; 2n.d: O: 3rd: 0 First Appearance HEAD COACH GORDON REIMER (Baker) Career Record: 68-80 (5th season) Ryan Showman, Alexa Rogers and Liz Browne SCHEDULE AND RESULTS Date Opponent Site Score W/L 11/4/2008 -Peru State College---A- 66-53 - W 1117/2008-Doane College ----A-71-81 -L 11/8/2008-Hastings College----N- 58-82 - L 11/15/2008-Haskell Indian Nations Univ-A-66-59 -W 11/18/2008-Baker University ----A-67-73 -L 11/22/2008-Benedicline College----H-82-68 -W 11/28/2008-Concordia University NE--N- 79-68 - W 11129/2008-Dakota Wesleyan Univ--N- 63-57 - W 12/4/2008-Southwestem College• --H- 70-66 -W 12/6/2008-Sterling College• ___..,._ 70-n -L 12/11/2008-Tabor College' ----H- 70-54 - W 12/13/2008-0ttawa University• ---H-92-57 -W 1/2/2009-Central Methodist Univ--H-69-57 -W 1/5fl009-Peru State College--- H- 75-49 -W 1/8/2009-FriendsUniversity' ---A-69-51 -W 1/10/2009-Bethany College KS'--H- 79-42 - W 1/15/2009-UnivofSt Mary' ---,A-50-60 -L 1/17/2009-McPherson College' ---A-62-53 -W 1/22/2009-Bethel College KS' ---H-62-39 -W 1/24/2009-Southwestem College• --A-45-42 -W 1/29/2009-SterlingCollege' ---H-67-58 -W 1/31/2009-Tabor College *-----69-59 - W 2/5/2009-0ttawa University• ----1-1- 79-68 - W 2f7/2009-Friends University' ---H- 76-50 - W 2/12/2009-Bethany College KS' ---A- 72-59 -W 2/14/2009-UnivofSt. Mary' ---H-81-59 -W 2/19/2009-McPherson College• ---H- 77-62 -W 2/21/2009-Bethel College KS' ---,A- 75-72 -W 2/26/2009-Bethany CollegeKS--- H-61-45 -W 2/28/2009-TaborCollege-----H- 74-54 - W 3/3/2009-Sterling College----A,- 70-61 - W SI STATISTICS /-3-PT-\ /-REBOUNDS-I ,4', Kaylaen Dittmer ~ Senior, Guard - r,:,. Name-----P-GS-MIN-AVG-FG-FGA-PCT-FG-FGA-PCT -FT -FTA-PCT -OFF-DEF-TOT -RJG-PF-A- TO-BLK-ST -PTS-P/G r,:,. 14 Luckeroth---29-29-897-30.9-167 -414-0.403-90-250-0.360-62-92-0.674-31-67-98-3.4- 76- 73- 73-4-56-486-16.8 ~ 21 Dittmer, ----30-30-952-31.7-152-358 -0.425-34-109-0.312-121-154-0.786-64-148-212-7.1-80-124-106-17-99-459-15.3 =: 22 Wilkinson----30-30--1001 -33.4-124-306-0.405-56-161 -0.348-82-119-0.689-42- 79-121-4.0-48- 78- 90-12-63-386-12.9 :;,. 34 Vopat, Je----J0-30-923-30.8 -121 -220-0.550-10-23-0.435-32-55-0.582-116-171-287-9.6-65-10-26-57-35-284-9.5 3 Santee. K----29-29-767-26.4-78-196-0.398-8-31-0.258-42-67-0.627-33-76-109-3.8 -53-62- 83-24-37-206- 7.1 ~ 5 Babcock, ----J0-1-526-17.5-28-111-0.252-22-89-0.247-40-54-0.741--10-36-46-1.5-28-18-17-3--25-118-3.9 ~ 23Stalnaker----2-0-19-9.5-3-7-0.429-0-1-0.000-0-2-0.000-2-1-3-1.5-4--0-0-1-0-6-3.0 ~ 25Potthoff,----30-1-436-14.5-28--92-0.304-16-53-0.302-9-22-0.409-25-42-67--2.2-35-21-33-3--29-B1--2.7 = 23 Stalnaker----19-0-143- 7.5-10-31-0.323-1-7-0.143-2-4-0.500- 7-33-40-2.1-29-1-9-12-6--23-1.2 - 13Dick,Tin----13-0-52-4.0-3-8-0.375-0-3-0.000-4-5-0.B00- 3-6-9-0.7-8-4-7-1-1-10-0.B i 33 Jensen,B---23-0-123-5.3---6-16-0.375-0-1-0.000- 7-12-0.583-9-13-22-1.0-13-5-4-3--S--19-0.B ,;;;_ 32 Goetz,li----14-0 -52-3.7-3-7-0.429 -0-0-0.000-4 -5-0.800-2-2 -4-0.3-0 -1 - 11-0-1-10-- 0.7 - 10Boros,Ge---11-0-46-4.2--2-15-0.133--1-13-0.077-0-1-0.000-1-9-10-0.9-3-1-3-0-2-5-0.5 • 20 McKinney,---.. O-10-2.5-1-2- 0.500 -0-0-0.000-0 -0-0.000-1-0 -1 -0.3-3 -0 - 3-0-2-2-0.5 = 12Mattock, ----5-0-17-3.4-0-1-0.000-0-1-0.000-0-2-0.000-1-2-3-0.6-3-1-0-2-0-0---0.0 ~ TEAM----- - - ------ ----· -- ------63-54-117--- - -5- - - - To1als------J1- -6199- --750-1843-0.407 -246 -766 -0.321-420-613-0.685-419-765-1184-38.2-467-410-482-140-372-2166-69.9 Opponents----J1 - -6187 - ----665 -1775-0.375-177-621 -0.285-329-501-0.657-431-757-1188-38.3-524-389-602-103-209-1836-59.2 NAIA NA'l'IONAI, CHAHl,IONSIIII, n. .;;> I I Team Leader in assists (4. 1 apg) and steals (3.3 spg) and second in points (15.3 ppg).