Monday Musings

Brenda signed a contract extension meaning she will now be with the team through 2013.

According to TerrapinTimes.com, former Riverdale Baptist head coach Diane Richardson is taking over the post vacated by Mark Pearson.

Looks like the Official Shay Doron website is finally online.

Thursday's Trivia

According to Terrapin Times Maryland will play Ohio State, Temple, Middle Tennessee State and Pittsburgh at home next year. In addition they will play in the preseason WNIT featuring Notre Dame, LSU, Michigan State and TCU. Also, nonconference games include Oklahoma, Rutgers, UCLA and UCSB.

Duke is still searching for a coach. Boyle from Cal turned them down.

We are still on Della Donne's final 6 list. She recently replaced Duke with Texas. Also on the list: UConn, Tennessee, MTSU and Villanova.

Tuesday's Tidbits

I was lucky enough to score a ticket to last night's women's basketball banquet from a friend, so here are my observations:

1)The thing was too long. 3 hours is way too long.
2)Nancy was great as was the rebounder lady. Didn't really know what the rebounder lady was presenting.
3)Four of the girls are injured or will be injured: Newman had her knee scoped, Emery is having her knee fixed again, Sa'de had knee surgery and Christie has a stress fracture in her foot.
4)Coach Walz continued his "It was nice knowing you" tour by appearing at the banquet for possibly five minutes and then leaving. He's doing whatever he can to distance himself from the team.
5)Couldn't help but notice some disdain in Coach Frese's voice when introducing the players. She only talked about the positive first half they all had and nothing in the latter part of the season.
7)The highlight video was nicely done, but had too much rap music for my tastes and not enough of a tribute for Aurelie. It also made me mad as it showed how it was a wasted year.
8)Shay and Aurelie's speeches were both tearjerkers with Shay announcing her new official website. (For those wondering, Kalika and Alli Spence were members of their class too).
9)I felt bad for Sa'de as no one wanted a picture of her.
10)It would have been nice to have one of the girls grab the microphone and say a few words i.e. we too are disappointed in the season and we don't expect this to happen again.
11)Lastly, it seems like the guy in charge of the Rebounders forgot to mention a certain someone's blog yesterday. I was only the first blog about the team. Maybe I need to donate some money for the recognition.

Monday's Musings

Four of the five incoming recruits made the Parade All-America Team. Strickland and Rodgers made the second team, while Barrett made the third team and Mingo the fourth team.

Shay answered some questions after the Draft(Scroll more than half the way down).

Thursday's Tidbits

Sorry for the delay again, it is tax season.

I didn't get to see Drey or Marah play due to the game being on ESPNU, but reports are that Marah played well.

Congrats to Crystal for being a Kodak All-American. A year too late if you ask me.

Congrats to Marah for being named MVP of the WBCA Game.

The coaching search continues. For the Terps' fans hoping to get the LSU assistant, it may be a futile attempt as Van Chancellor wants the job and I think he will retain the old staff.

Bye, bye Gail. I can't wait until we get a crack at Texas in the near future.

Lastly, congrats to Shay, the 16th pick of the WNBA Draft to the New York Liberty. Great pick for the Liberty except they traded away her idol, Becky Hammon.

Articles

Baltimore Sun
Ynetnews
Jerusalem Post