Feb. 8, 2010

Women's Basketball Weekly Notes in PDF Format

A LOOK BACK
    The Blue Jays only played one game last week because the winter storm caused their weekend game at Swarthmore to be postponed.
    Hopkins fell to Gettysburg, 66-62 on Wednesday night.  A 43-point second half led the Bullets to the come-from-behind win.
    The Blue Jays led, 34-23, at the half but the Bullets turned up the heat in the second half.  Gettysburg cut the Blue Jay lead to three points just 1:48 into the second half.
    Gettysburg eventually took the lead with 8:49 to play.  The lead would change hands 13 times in the second half.   The Bullets took the lead for good at 1:06 when they went up 60-59. 
 
THIS WEEK’S ACTION
    The Blue Jays enter the week with an 11-8 overall record and a 9-6 record in the Centennial Conference.  Hopkins has a slight lead over Dickinson for fourth place in the standings.
    Hopkins will travel to McDaniel on Wednesday.  The Green Terror have won 16 consecutive games and are 16-4 overall and 14-2 in the conference.  McDaniel leads the all-time series 35-29 and defeated Hopkins, 64-55, earlier in the season.
    Haverford will come to town on Saturday for the Blue Jays’ Pink Zone game.  Haverford is 3-11 in the conference and 5-13 overall.  Hopkins leads the all-time series, 21-0.

WBCA PINK ZONE®
    The WBCA Pink Zone® initiative is a global, unified effort for the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association’s (WBCA) nation of coaches to assist in raising breast cancer awareness on the court, across campuses, in communities and beyond. The 2009 campaign raised over $1.3 million, reached over 912,000 fans, unified more than 1,600 participating teams and organizations, and saw 56+ schools break attendance records at their event. The WBCA’s charity of choice is the Kay Yow/WBCA Cancer Fund®, in partnership with The V Foundation. The WBCA strongly encourages all donations from Pink Zone games to be given to this Fund.
    The Blue Jays’ Pink Zone game will be Saturday, February 13.  Game time is 3:00 pm.

“ASSIST HAITI”
    The Blue Jays asked for a pledge of $.25 and up per assist that will go directly to the American Red Cross that applied to the following games: Bryn Mawr 1/23, Franklin & Marshall 1/27 and Muhlenberg 1/30.  Pledge cards can be found next to the game program.  The Blue Jays recorded 48 assists in these three matches.

500 POINTS AND COUNTING
    Senior Anastasia Wynn scored her 500th career point against Washington on January 20.  Wynn had exactly 500 points at the conclusion of the game.  The senior now has 521 career points.

SEEING DOUBLE
    Junior Lyndsay Burton recorded her fifth double-double of the season with 15 points and 12 rebounds against the Bullets on Wednesday.
    Junior Siobhan Callanan recorded her first career double-double at Washington on January 20.  Callanan drained 12 points grabbed a career-high 10 rebounds in the win.
    Senior Monica Mitchell recorded the first double-double of her career earlier this season in the win over Swarthmore on 12/3/09.  Mitchell scored 10 points and grabbed 12 rebounds.  Both totals tie career highs for Mitchell.

I’LL TAKE THAT
    Sophomore Chantel Mattiola leads the Blue Jays in steals this season with 37 (1.9 per game).
    Junior Lyndsay Burton is just behind Mattiola with 35 steals this season.  Burton recorded her 100th career steal against Gettysburg on 12/1/09.  Burton currently has 120 steals, putting her 17th for career steals in the Blue Jays Record Book.

CLIMBING THE RECORD BOOKS
    Junior Lyndsay Burton has climbed her way into multiple career record categories this season.  Burton is currently 15th in career points scored with 885.  The junior hit the 750 point mark on 1/4/10 against McDaniel.  Burton is 13th in field goals made with 379 in her career. 
    Burton is also 12th in rebounding with 502 in her career.  She is averaging 8.0 rebounds per game this season.
       
MIKE DURGALA MEMORIAL TOURNAMENT
    The Blue Jays advanced to the championship game of the Mike Durgala Tournament/Blue Jay Invitational for the 18th time.  Hopkins defeated Wheaton, 71-37, in the opening game but fell to Mary Washington, 49-54, in the championship.
    Lyndsay Burton was named to the All-Tournament Team thanks to a 22 point, 10 rebound perfermance against Wheaton.   

AT THE HELM
    Nancy Funk (Messiah ‘76) is in her 24th season as Head Coach for the Johns Hopkins Blue Jays.  Funk boasts an impressive 410-197 (.675) record with the Blue Jays.  She has led the Blue Jays to four Centennial Conference Championships in 11 championship game appearances.  Funk has not had a losing season with the Blue Jays since her second year with the team in 1987-88.
    The Blue Jays have made eight NCAA Tournament appearances under Funk, compiling an 11-8 record.  She has reached the Sweet 16 three times, with the most recent being in 1998.  The Blue Jays last appeared in the NCAA Tournament in 2004. 
    Funk has coached five All-Americans and 37 All-Conference selections at Johns Hopkins.  Two of her players have won the Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award for National Player of the Year.  Funk has also coached three Centennial Conference Players of the Year.
    Funk is assisted by Wanda Richardson (Morgan State ‘85/17th season), Katie Nelson (UMass ‘06/1st season), and Marti Whitmore (St. Bonaventure/1st season).

OH CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN
    The Blue Jays will be led by senior captains Katie Biggart, Leslie Markun, and Monica Mitchell this season.

CENTENNIAL PRESEASON PICKS
    JHU was picked to finish third in the Centennial Conference preseason vote of the conference’s head coaches. The Blue Jays are searching for their fifth Centennial Conference title in program history. Hopkins is looking to improve upon its 14-13 record in 2008-09, which concluded with a loss in the conference championship to Muhlenberg.