Women s Basketball 2012-13 USTAVUS SCHEDULE DATE OPPONENT TIME/RESULT NOVEMBER 23 24 Simpson (Storm Lake, Iowa) Buena Vista (Storm Lake, Iowa) L 45-67 W 68-51 27 Minnesota State, Mankato L 56-93 28 Augsburg College W 63-52 DECEMBER 1 College of Saint Benedict 3:00 p.m. 3 ST. OLA COLLEE 7:30 p.m. 5 Bethel University 7:30 p.m. 8 Carleton College 1:00 p.m. JANUARY 2 SAINT MARY S UNIVERSITY 7:30 p.m. 5 HAMLINE UNIVERSITY 1:00 p.m. 7 Macalester College 7:30 p.m. 9 UNIVERSITY O ST. THOMAS 7:30 p.m. 12 St. Catherine University 3:00 p.m. 16 AUSBUR COLLEE 7:30 p.m. 19 CONCORDIA COLLEE 1:00 p.m. 21 St. Olaf College 7:30 p.m. 23 BETHEL UNIVERSITY 7:30 p.m. 26 COLLEE O SAINT BENEDICT 1:00 p.m. 30 Saint Mary s University 7:30 p.m. EBRUARY 2 Hamline University 1:00 p.m. 4 MACALESTER COLLEE 7:30 p.m. 6 University of St. Thomas 7:30 p.m. 9 ST. CATHERINE UNIVERSITY 1:00 p.m. 13 CARLETON COLLEE 7:30 p.m. 16 Concordia College 1:00 p.m. HOME AMES in BOLD ACE CAPS Quick acts Location: St. Peter, Minnesota ounded: 1862 Enrollment: 2,572 Nickname: olden usties School Colors: Black and old Home ield: us Young Court NCAA Affiliation: NCAA Division III Conference: Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic NCAA Affiliation: NCAA Division III President: Jack R. Ohle Athletic Director: Tom Brown Assistant Athletic Director: Jared Phillips Athletic Trainer: Troy Banse Equipment Manager: Wayne Norman ame ive USTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEE olden usties 2-2, 1-0 MIAC ame Information DATE: Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012 TIME: 3:00 p.m. SITE: St. Joseph, Minnesota VENUE: Claire Lynch Hall RADIO: None St. Joseph, Minn. COLLEE O SAINT BENEDICT Blazers 3-1, 1-0 MIAC WEB AUDIO: http://www.csbsju.edu/forwards/csbsportslive-real WEB VIDEO: http://www.csbsju.edu/forwards/csbsportslive-real LIVE STATS: http://csbblazers.com/sports/2012/8/15/en_0815125152.aspx To St. Joes we go... The ustavus Adolphus College women s basketball team will take to the road for its second MIAC test of the season on Saturday afternoon when it travels St. Joseph, Minn. to face the College of Saint Benedict at 3:00 p.m. The usties are coming off a 63-52 win over Augsburg on Wednesday in their MIAC-opener, while the Blazers picked up an 87-72 win over Hamline in their opening conference game. With league play still in the infant stages, both squads will be seek a 2-0 start this Saturday at Claire Lynch Hall. ustavus comes into the weekend at 2-2 overall and 1-0 in the MIAC, while Saint Ben s enters at 3-1 overall and 1-0 in the MIAC. @ustieathletics flickr.com/photos/gogusties facebook.com/ustieathletics youtube.com/gustavusathletics client.stretchinternet.com/client/gac.portal Women s Basketball Media Contact Sports Information Director: Ethan Armstrong Email: earmstr2@gac.edu Cell: 320-815-2351 Office: 507-933-7647 ax: 507-933-8412 Twitter: @ustieathletics acebook: ustavus Athletics
2012-13 ustavus Adolphus Women s BASKETBAL ame Notes 2012-13 ustavus Women s Basketball Team 2012-13 ustavus Women s Basketball Roster (Numerical) No. 5 10 11 12 14 20 22 23 24 30 32 33 34 40 42 43 44 50 Name Yr. Julia Dysthe Rachelle Blaschko Stephanie Comer Whitney Novak Emily itzsimmons Britta Rinke Julie Sohre Heather Hohenstein Kelsey lorian Kaytlin Remold Mia Sandstrom Lindsey Johnson Abby Rothenbuehler Anna Lundquist Kaitlin Kwasniewski Jessica Richert Kelle Nett Karina Schroeder Jr. Jr. So. Jr. y. y. Jr. y. y. y. y. y. Pos. P P Ht. 5-7 5-4 5-8 5-7 5-7 5-11 5-10 5-5 5-10 5-10 6-0 6-0 6-2 5-11 5-6 5-9 5-10 6-0 Hometown/High School White Bear Lake, Minn./White Bear Lake Henderson, Minn./Le Sueur-Henderson Minnetonka, Minn./Minnetonka Oak Park Heights, Minn./Stillwater ood Thunder, Minn./Maple River Waconia, Minn./Waconia ood Thunder, Minn./Maple River arden City, Minn./Lake Crystal Wellcome Memorial Roseville, Minn./Roseville Area Byron, Minn./Byron Chanhassen, Minn./Chaska Edina, Minn./Edina North Mankato, Minn./Mankato West Rochester, Minn./Mayo Brookings, S.D./Brookings reeburg, Ill./Osan American Spring Valley, Ill./Hall Lake Crystal, Minn./Lake Crystal Wellcome Memorial Head Coach: Laurie Kelly (1st Season) Assistant Coaches: Dan Wolfe, Nate Otto, Angie Potts
2012-13 ustavus Adolphus Women s Basketball ame Notes STATISTICAL COMPARISON AC vs. CSB 2-2 Overall Record 3-1 1-0 Conference Record 1-0 58.0 Points Per ame 73.5-7.7 Scoring Margin 6.7.441 ield oal Percentage.408.205 3-PT ield oal Percentage.230.712 ree Throw Percentage.722 144 Rebounds 78 36.0 Rebounds Per ame 38.3-0.2 Rebounding Margin -1.0 59 Assists 49 14.8 Assists Per ame 12.3 0.7 Assist/Turnover Ratio 0.7 20.8 Turnovers Per ame 18.8-6.0 Turnover Margin -3.0 USTAVUS RECORD WHEN... At home... 0-0 On the road... 2-1 A neutral site... 0-1 In MIAC games... 1-0 In non-conference games... 1-2 When leading after first half... 1-0 When tied after first half... 0-0 When trailing after first half... 1-2 In overtime... 0-0 AC has more rebounds... 2-1 Opponent has more rebounds... 0-1 AC has more assists... 1-0 Opponent has more assists... 0-2 AC commits more fouls... 0-1 Opponent commits more fouls... 1-1 AC commits more turnovers... 1-2 Opponent commits more turnovers... 1-0 AC scores first... 0-1 Opponent scores first... 1-2 ames decided by three or less... 0-0 ames decided by single figures 0-0 ames decided by double figures... 2-2 In November... 2-2 In December... 0-0 In January... 0-0 In ebruary... 0-0 ollowing a win... 0-1 ollowing a loss... 1-1 SCHOOL MIAC OVERALL Carleton 1-0 1-2 Concordia 1-0 2-2 USTAVUS 1-0 2-2 Saint Benedict 1-0 3-1 Saint Mary s 1-0 3-0 St. Thomas 1-0 3-1 Augsburg 0-1 2-1 Bethel 0-1 0-2 Hamline 0-1 0-3 Macalester 0-1 1-3 St. Catherine 0-1 1-2 St. Olaf 0-1 2-2 Around the League St. Catherine at Saint Mary s 3:00 p.m. Concordia at Augsburg 1:00 p.m. Bethel at Carleton 1:00 p.m. St. Thomas at Hamline 1:00 p.m. St. Olaf at Macalester 1:00 p.m. MIAC Standings/Schedule ame Notes WOMEN S BASKETBALL EMBARKS ON NEW SEASON... On what is the 40th anniversary of Title IX, women s basketball at ustavus has been seen on the campus of ustavus Adolphus College since the turn of the 20th century. On ebruary 14, 1903, it was women who played the first intercollegiate basketball game at ustavus. On that date, the usties took on Mankato Normal at the local Opera House, falling by the score of 16-2. Since that time, the ustavus women s basketball team has compiled a record of 605-413 overall and 431-234 in the MIAC. The usties have won two MIAC Championships, while Laurie Kelly is the 10th head coach in the history of the program. DEMORAPHICS... The 2012-13 ustavus Adolphus women s basketball roster features 18 student-athletes from a total of three states across the upper midwest. Home-grown natives of the Land of the 10, 000 Lakes make up the blunt of the roster with 15 players hailing from Minnesota. Illinois is represented by senior Jessica Richert and first-year Kelle Nett, while Kaitlin Kwasniewski is a product of Minnesota s western neighbor South Dakota. LAST TIME OUT... The ustavus women s basketball team used a strong second half surge on the way to its first MIAC victory of the season on Wednesday night, defeating Augsburg by the score of 63-52. The usties shot 65.2-percent from the field in the second half, while Abby Rothenbuehler led the way in scoring with a career-best 23 points on 8-of- 11 shooting. She also gathered a game-high nine rebounds and had five blocked shots.
2012-13 ustavus Adolphus Women s Basketball ame Notes ame Notes After Augsburg grabbed a 30-25 earn in the second half, ustavus responded with a 13-3 scoring run to go up 38-33 with 13:47 left. A pair of Britta Rinke free throws with 5:18 on the clock gave the usties their largest lead of the game at 59-40. The Auggies couldn t recover and the Black and old held on for its 16th straight win in the conference opener. THE SERIES... Saturday s contest will be the 63rd meeting between ustavus and Saint Benedict in women s basketball. The Blazers hold the advantage in the all-time series with a record of 43-19. The usties swept Saint Ben s in the regular season series last year through an 81-64 win in St. Peter, and an 84-75 victory in St. Joseph. ABOUT THE BLAZERS... The Saint Benedict women s basketball team comes into Saturday s bout the top scoring team in the conference with a 73.5 points per game average. The Blazers are most recently coming off an 87-72 win over Hamline on Wednesday night in Claire Lynch Hall. CSB turned in its best offensive performance of the season against the Pipers, shooting 51-percent from the field and finishing with four players in double figures. Morgan Dale led the team off the bench with 17 points after going 4-for-8 from the floor and 7-for-8 at free throw line. Through their first four games of the season, the Blazers have utilized a balanced scoring attack that now features seven players averaging over seven points per game. Whitney Canton is the only player on the squad averaging double digit points at 11.3 ppg. As a team, the Blazers are shooting 40.4-percent from the field, yet have struggled from three-point range, shooting 22.7-percent from beyond the arc. ROTHENBUEHLER HAS A NIHT... ustavus senior post Abby Rothenbuehler had a career night in Monday s MIACopener, matching her career-best scoring performance with 23 points after knocking down 8-of-11 shots from the floor. Rothenbuehler s first 23-point game came against Saint Mary s on eb. 8, 2012, last season. Her five blocked shots against the Auggies is also a career-best, while the senior came just shy of that elusive first double-double of the season after bringing down nine boards. RINKE O THE PINE... Junior wing Britta Rinke has proven to be a valuable scoring piece off the ustavus bench over the past two games. Rinke led the team in scoring with 13 points on Monday night against Minnesota State and then scored a seasonhigh 16 points against the Auggies. Over the last two contests, Rinke is 12-for-17 (.706) from the field and 4-for-4 at the free throw line. She is currently averaging 9.5 points per game on the year, ranking her fourth on the team. BY THE NUMBERS... 14 - The amount of steals per game Saint Ben s is averaging this season, ranking them first in the MIAC. The Blazers are forcing an average of 21.8 turnovers per game, which places them third in the MIAC. 1 - Where Abby Rothenbuehler s rebounding total ranks in the MIAC. Roth has brought down 38 boards and also leads the league in rebounds per game with a 9.5 average. 126 - The league-leading number of free throw attempts Saint Ben s has put up so far this year. The Blazers have gone to the charity stripe 34 more times than the next highest team in the MIAC. They sit third in the league in free throw shooting at 72.2-percent, while ustavus ranks fourth at 71.2-percent. USTAVUS PROJECTED STARTERS # Player Pos. Yr. Ht. Hometown PP RP % 3PT% T% MIN. 5 Julia Dysthe Jr. 5-7 White Bear Lake, Minn. 11.0 2.0.425.200.875 29.0 11 Stephanie Comer 5-8 Minnetonka, Minn. 1.8 1.8.125.077 1.000 26.3 24 Kelsey lorian 5-10 Roseville, Minn. 10.5 3.3.462.000.667 25.3 34 Abby Rothenbuehler 6-2 North Mankato, Minn. 12.3 9.5.500.500.700 30.5 50 Karina Schroeder y. 6-0 Lake Crystal, Minn. 6.5 5.3.667.000.500 23.5 SAINT BENEDICT PROJECTED STARTERS # Player Pos. Yr. Ht. Hometown PP RP % 3PT% T% MIN. 10 Whitney Canton W 5-8 Pine Island, Minn. 11.3 1.3.458.000.800 16.0 14 Brianna Barrett W Jr. 5-7 Annandale, Minn. 9.0 2.3.382.250.778 23.8 21 Jamie Wollin W 5-9 Litchfield, Minn. 4.3 6.8.353.111.571 22.8 23 Jessica ischer So. 5-3 Redwood alls, Minn. 2.8 1.8.286.286.455 24.5 54 hannah Hylla 6-0 Holdingford, Minn. 7.5 2.5.611.500.700 11.8
2012-13 ustavus Adolphus Women s Basketball ame Notes Head Coach Laurie Kelly irst Season 2-2 at ustavus 223-193 Overall Office: 507-933-6145 Email: lkelly@gustavus.edu Laurie Kelly is currently in her first season as the head coach of the ustavus women s basketball team. Kelly, a 1993 graduate of the University of St. Thomas with a major in speech communications, replaces Mickey Haller, who resigned in March of 2012 after serving as the head coach for 12 years. Kelly comes to ustavus from Northern Arizona University in lagstaff, where she has directed the Division I Lumberjacks for the past nine seasons. A Rochester, Minnesota, native, Kelly made a quick ascent through the Division II and I coaching ranks after a record setting Division III playing career at the University of St. Thomas in the early `90s. In the past nine years at Northern Arizona, she has compiled the most wins in the program s history (117), while also directing the team to its first-ever Big Sky Conference tournament title and NCAA tournament bid in the 2005-06 season. During Kelly s tenure, the Lumberjacks advanced to the Big Sky tournament six times with two appearances in the championship game (2006, 2007), and her teams have registered two of the three 20-win seasons in the program s history. In addition to quality on the floor, her squads have also been strong in the classroom, with four players earning CoSIDA Academic All-District honors including one Academic All-American. The Lumberjacks were recognized in the Women s Basketball Coaches Association Top 25 Academic Honor Roll six times, with two Top Ten national rankings. Prior to her position at Northern Arizona, Kelly coached at Binghamton University in New York and built the Bearcats into one of the top Division II programs in the country before helping the institution transition to a Division I program in 2001-02. In that first year of Division I competition, Kelly directed the team to a 19-9 record and a second-place finish in the America East Conference. During her five years at Binghamton, Kelly compiled a record of 94-22, including a mark of 75-13 in the program s final three years at the Division II level, and her squads won New England Collegiate Conference (NECC) titles in 1999 and 2000 and Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference (ECAC) titles in 2000 and 2001. She was named ECAC Coach of the Year in 2000 and New York State Coach of the Year in 2002. Kelly started her collegiate coaching career as the graduate assistant coach at Minnesota State University, Mankato from 1996 to 1998. While she was at Minnesota State, Mankato she earned a master s degree in physical education with an emphasis in sports administration. Before her success in the coaching ranks, Laurie Trow Kelly was a standout player at the University of St. Thomas from 1989 to 1993 and is recognized by many as one of the greatest players in NCAA Division III history. A gifted athlete, the 6-1 Kelly scored 2,607 points and pulled down 1,204 rebounds in four years, earning Kodak All-America honors three consecutive seasons. In her senior season (1992-93), Kelly was voted National Player of the Year by the Women s Basketball Coaches Association after averaging more than 26 points per game. She set 22 conference and 24 school records, was conference MVP three times and was also named Midwest Sports Channel NCAA Division III Women s Athlete of the Year. In January of 2006, Kelly was one of five players selected to the NCAA Division III 25th Anniversary Team. Laurie Kelly is the ninth head coach in the 44-year history of the ustavus women s basketball program. The usties have compiled an all-time record of 603-411 (.594), winning two Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference championships and making five NCAA tournament appearances. In addition to her coaching duties, Kelly will serve as the coordinator of the ustavus Health Promotion program (HP). The ustavus Health Promotion program offers employees at ustavus a variety of educational opportunities, assessment tools, and physical activity experiences so that they can achieve and maintain a healthy lifestyle. Kelly lives in St. Peter with and her husband, Matt, and their two daughters, Morgan (9) and Madison (7).
2012-13 ustavus Adolphus Women s Basketball ame Notes Combined Season Statistics ustavus Adolphus Basketball ustavus Adolphus College Combined Team Statistics (as of Nov 30, 2012) All games RECORD: OVERALL HOME AWAY NEUTRAL ALL AMES 2-2 0-0 2-1 0-1 CONERENCE 1-0 0-0 1-0 0-0 NON-CONERENCE 1-2 0-0 1-1 0-1 Total 3-Point -Throw Rebounds ## Player gp-gs min avg fg-fga pct 3fg-fga pct ft-fta pct off def tot avg pf dq a to blk stl pts avg 34 Abby Rothenbuehler 4-4 122 30.5 20-40.500 2-4.500 7-10.700 7 31 38 9.5 12 0 5 15 12 4 49 12.3 05 Julia Dysthe 4-4 116 29.0 17-40.425 3-15.200 7-8.875 1 7 8 2.0 9 0 6 13 2 8 44 11.0 24 Kelsey lorian 4-4 101 25.3 12-26.462 0-0.000 18-27.667 4 9 13 3.3 3 0 13 8 1 2 42 10.5 20 Britta Rinke 4-0 78 19.5 16-30.533 1-3.333 5-6.833 3 7 10 2.5 3 0 6 9 0 2 38 9.5 50 Karina Schroeder 4-4 94 23.5 10-15.667 0-0.000 6-12.500 6 15 21 5.3 12 0 3 7 10 4 26 6.5 10 Rachelle Blaschko 4-0 78 19.5 4-17.235 1-4.250 2-2 1.000 3 0 3 0.8 2 0 11 12 0 1 11 2.8 14 Emily itzsimmons 1-0 2 2.0 0-0.000 0-0.000 2-2 1.000 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2.0 11 Stephanie Comer 4-4 105 26.3 2-16.125 1-13.077 2-2 1.000 0 7 7 1.8 4 0 9 10 0 0 7 1.8 32 Mia Sandstrom 4-0 45 11.3 3-3 1.000 0-0.000 1-2.500 2 11 13 3.3 2 0 2 1 1 3 7 1.8 33 Lindsey Johnson 4-0 55 13.8 2-7.286 0-0.000 2-2 1.000 2 11 13 3.3 2 0 4 7 0 1 6 1.5 44 Kelle Nett 1-0 2 2.0 0-0.000 0-0.000 0-0.000 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0.0 12 Whitney Novak 1-0 2 2.0 0-1.000 0-0.000 0-0.000 1 0 1 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 Total... 4 800 86-195.441 8-39.205 52-73.712 33 111 144 36.0 49 0 59 83 26 25 232 58.0 Opponents... 4 800 99-257.385 38-109.349 27-40.675 56 89 145 36.2 63-77 59 11 50 263 65.8 TEAM STATISTICS AC OPP SCORIN 232 263 Points per game 58.0 65.8 Scoring margin -7.7 - IELD OALS-ATT 86-195 99-257 ield goal pct.441.385 3 POINT -ATT 8-39 38-109 3-point pct.205.349 3-pt made per game 2.0 9.5 REE THROWS-ATT 52-73 27-40 ree throw pct.712.675 -Throws made per game 13.0 6.8 REBOUNDS 144 145 Rebounds per game 36.0 36.2 Rebounding margin -0.2 - ASSISTS 59 77 Assists per game 14.8 19.3 TURNOVERS 83 59 Turnovers per game 20.8 14.8 Turnover margin -6.0 - Assist/turnover ratio 0.7 1.3 STEALS 25 50 Steals per game 6.3 12.5 BLOCKS 26 11 Blocks per game 6.5 2.8 ATTENDANCE 0 923 Home games-avg/ame 0-0 3-308 Neutral site-avg/ame - 1-0 Date Opponent Score Att. 11/23/12 vs Simpson College L 45-67 0 11/24/12 at Buena Vista Univ. W 68-51 320 11/26/12 at Minnesota State L 56-93 435 * 11/28/12 at Augsburg College W 63-52 168 * - Conference game Score by Periods 1st 2nd Totals ustavus Adolphus Col 106 126 232 Opponents 115 148 263
2012-13 ustavus Adolphus Women s Basketball ame Notes ame-by-ame Statistical Comparison ustavus Adolphus Basketball ustavus Adolphus College Team ame-by-ame Comparison (as of Nov 30, 2012) All games Opponent 1st 2nd Score Mar Total Pct 3-Pointers 3 Pct ree Throws T Pct Rebounds Assist T/Over Block Steal ouls Simpson College 20/31 25/36 45-67 (22) 16-46/24-67.348/.358 2-12/9-34.167/.265 11-16/10-12.688/.833 41/36 +5 11/20 24/8 4/2 2/13 13/12 Buena Vista Univ. 35/21 33/30 68-51 +17 25-63/19-65.397/.292 2-10/5-27.200/.185 16-21/8-11.762/.727 46/44 +2 15/15 10/14 7/4 7/7 16/16 Minnesota State 28/38 28/55 56-93 (37) 21-42/35-58.500/.603 2-9/17-26.222/.654 12-16/6-9.750/.667 17/31 (14) 13/28 30/25 3/3 10/22 7/18 Augsburg College 23/25 40/27 63-52 +11 24-44/21-67.545/.313 2-8/7-22.250/.318 13-20/3-8.650/.375 40/34 +6 20/14 19/12 12/2 6/8 13/17 Note: ame totals are displayed in the format TEAM/OPPONENT for each category
2012-13 ustavus Adolphus Women s Basketball ame Notes TV/Radio Roster 5 Julia Dysthe uard - Junior White Bear Lake, Minn. Rachelle Blaschko uard - Junior Henderson, Minn. 10 11 12 14 Stephanie Comer uard- Senior Minnetonka, Minn. Whitney Novak uard - Senior Oak Park Heights, Minn. Emily itzsimmons uard - Sophomore ood Thunder, Minn. Britta Rinke orward - Junior Waconia, Minn. 20 22 23 24 30 Julie Sohre orward - irst-year ood Thunder, Minn. Heather Hohenstein uard - irst-year arden City, Minn. Kelsey lorian orward - Senior Roseville, Minn. Kaytlin Remold orward - Junior Byron, Minn. Mia Sandstrom orward - Senior Chanhassen, Minn. 32 33 34 40 42 Lindsey Johnson orward - irst-year Edina, Minn. Abby Rothenbuehler orward - Senior North Mankato, Minn. Anna Lundquist Post - irst-year Rochester, Minn. Kaitlin Kwasniewski uard - irst-year Brookings, S.D. Jessica Richert orward - Senior reeburg, Ill. 43 44 50 Kelle Nett orward - irst-year Spring Valley, Ill. Karina Schroeder Post - irst-year Lake Crystal, Minn. Laurie Kelly Head Coach Dan Wolfe Assistant Coach