A few minutes with......Marisa Thomas!

Name: Marisa Thomas

Hometown: Lorain, OH

Year at Hiram: Sophomore

Major: Psychology

Career Aspirations: Become a Physical Therapist

Craziest Ambition:
Becoming a professional Dance Dance Revolution Dancer

Favorite color: Blue

Favorite TV Show: The Nanny

Favorite Movie: Bridesmaids

What's playing on your iPod right now?  The Beatles

What is your best basketball moment?  Beating the College of Wooster on Saturday

Best Hiram moment: freshman winter break playing 'Just Dance'

What are you most looking forward to on our upcoming trip to LA?
The 'dress-up' dinner and Seaworld!

1st Annual Golf Outing a huge success!

 A huge thank you to all our golfers and hole sponsors that helped make our first annual golf outing at Chardon Lakes Golf Course a huge success!


Lindsey Buckner, Emily Smerchansky and Marisa Thomas
working hard at Chardon Lakes Golf Course!



Katie Grendel '08 and Coach Preston after recording
their first hole for par!

Cowan and Durichko selected to All-NCAC squad

Senior guard Jess Cowan was selected to the NCAC Honorable Mention for the 2010-2011 season.

Photo courtesy of Tom Commett

Junior point guard Kelsey Durichko was also selected to the Honorable Mention team!

For a complete list visit http://www.northcoast.org/.

Photo courtesy of Rosalie Mormile

Terriers fall to Allegheny despite a career high from Tiffany Shields



Tiffany Shields scored 28 points
for the Terriers on Tuesday.



Despite a career night for Tiffany Shields, the Terriers fell to Allegheny College in the quarterfinals of the North Coast Athletic Conference Tournament.  Shields poured in 28 points for the game including shooting 4-8 from the 3-point line!

The Terriers fought until the end and can be extremely proud of all the accomplishments they achieved this season.



Senior guard Jess Cowan



Last night's game also marked the end of Jess Cowan's outstanding Hiram career.  For her career, Jess scored 782 points including 103 three-point field goals.  She also pulled down 345 rebounds.  Jess contributed more in a category that cannot be measured and that was her leadership!  She helped everyone on the team keep perspective, instilled competitiveness and she also influenced the team with her positive attitude.  Everyone involved with our program with miss her and her contributions! 

Hiram WBB hosts WBCA Pink Zone event!

The Hiram women's basketball team worked together with all the North Coast Athletic Conference Schools to celebrate the WBCA Pink Zone week!

Each NCAC school received team t-shirts donated by Victory Promotions (Watertown, NY) and wore them proudly to raise awareness for breast cancer.




2010-2011 Hiram WBB team sporting their Pink Zone shirts!
Photo courtesy of Rosalie Mormile

 

This event marks the first time in the history of the Pink Zone that an entire league came together to raise awareness and money for the Kay Yow Cancer Fund!

Hiram secures #6 seed for NCAC tournament

Despite losing their final game of the regular season, the Terriers secured the #6 seed for the upcoming NCAC tournament.  The team continues to makes it's mark as the #6 seed is the highest in team history!

Hiram will travel to Allegheny College on Tuesday night for a 7:30p tip-off.  The Gators swept the season series from Hiram, however, the Terriers put up a great fight each time and look forward to the third meeting of the season!

Check out http://www.northcoast.org/ for the latest tournament information!

Go TERRIERS!

This week's forecast: WHITE-OUT!

Hello to all the Terrier supporters out there!

The past few games have definitely been exciting for us and especially the players.  We were able to beat Kenyon College for the first time since 2003!  It was a great game from start to finish; Tiffany Shields erupted for 24 points.  Amy Geisman and Chelsea Kovach also chipped in 14 each to round out the top scorers.


Here's a great picture of our team after a hard fought win!


We kept the momentum as we traveled to Oberlin for our next game and definitely hung on for a two point victory.  We didn't start out the game particularly well, but give credit where credit is due.  Oberlin started the game on fire from the field and held an easy 12-0 advantage.  After that we began to claw our way back into the game and eventually held a double digit lead.  However, Oberlin battled their way back and tied the game in the closing seconds and two free-throws by Jess Cowan sealed the win.

We closed out our non-league schedule last Tuesday night at Ursuline College.  It was a battle from tip-off to the closing horn.  Ursuline was able to tie the game with about :15 seconds left and Kelsey Durichko quickly sent the inbounds pass to Tiffany who noticed the Ursuline players celebrating at half-court.  She was able to drive the length of the court and was fouled going in for the lay-up.  We would again seal the victory with a pair of free-throws, this time from Tiffany Shields.  She was also our leading scorer with 20 points and Calysia Smyers chipped in 10.

Our final game of the week was against the #15 team in the country: Denison University.  We didn't fair too well against the Big Red the first time around so we were all excited for the opportunity to show how much we have improved and were determined to be competitive throughout.  We were definitely competitive throughout and a run in the final three minutes of the first half gave Denison it's largest lead of the game at the time at 32-22.  In the opening minutes of the second half, Denison began to pull away but we fought back and got it to a 10 point deficit with just over five minutes remaining in the game.  Well, Denison is undefeated for a reason.  They were able to execute and force a couple of key turnovers and were able to hold on for a 65-49 win.

This week we will host The College of Wooster on Wednesday night.  We are planning our annual WHITE OUT event...if you are planning on attending the game, wear WHITE!  We are excited to host Wooster and if we take care of business, we hope to get back to our winning ways.

We close out the week with a trip to Ohio Welseyan and hope to avenge our earlier loss to the Battling Bishops.

I hope you can join us for our WHITE OUT!

Costume Contests and Competitive Practices!





Lindsay Buckner and Brenna Host
won the costume contest!

After two weeks of working hard in practice, it was nice to take a little break and enjoy some laughs!  Prior to practice on October 29th, we had a costume contest.  Lindsay Buckner and Brenna Host took advantage of the opportunity to display their creativeness!
Since October 15th the team has been working extremely hard in installing a brand new offense and some new defensive concepts.  It has definitely been a work in progress.  However, we had the opportunity to compete in an intra-squad scrimmage over the weekend and saw a lot of things that we can be excited about.  All of the work our returning players did over the summer and leading up to our first practice has really shown.  Our first year players are also making a great impact on our team and learning things very quickly.
Everyone is looking forward to our first scrimmage on Saturday; it will be a great test to see how much we have improved as well as to see how much work we still have to do in order to reach all of our team goals.
Every indication is that this will be a very exciting year!

It's Homecoming!

This week is Homecoming week and there has been a buzz around campus.  Our team is looking forward to hosting our 'Terrier Tailgate' party where we invite all our player's parents to attend.  It's a great meet and greet for everyone and is definitely a great way to generate excitement for the upcoming season. 
Our tailgate party is set for Saturday at 12p, just ahead of the 1p football game versus Oberlin.  Our volleyball team is hosting the NCAC Power Weekend and every NCAC school will be competing on our campus this weekend!
We are all looking forward to the upcoming events including the bonfire and pep rally on Friday night, the parade and athletic events on Saturday and especially the dance on Saturday night!

Welcome!

Thank you for visiting the Hiram College women's basketball blog!

We are all looking forward to the season ahead as we begin preparation with our fall workouts.  We have a great group of returning players and welcome a group of first year players who will add depth and bring new talents to our team.

We hope you will you will become a regular visitor to the blog to meet our team, follow our success and learn more about what it means to be a NCAA Division III student-athlete.

Go Terriers!