Here are the official rules and regulations! 

1. All L&C students, staff, and faculty are eligible to participate.

2. Participants will receive their raffle ticket upon entrance into the game. You must be there by tip-off to receive a ticket.

3. During 1st half time-outs, 12 tickets will be called for the half-time event.

4. The 12 winning ticket holders will split on both ends of the court (6 per end) and shoot 1 free-throw at a time and rotate. To stay in the competition, you must make your free-throw each round. If no one makes a FT in THAT round, each contestant in that round only will start over. The rounds continue until each basket has 1 winner.

5. The 1 winner at each end will join the other winner (opposite end) and have a 2 person competition for the $50.00 Visa Gift Card.

6. The final winner will receive their gift card from Coach Fulks after the game.

GOOD LUCK TO ALL PARTICIPANTS!!!

Alums + 1 to be

Dub cookin’ it up!

Our Pancake Breakfast celebrates a few things each year..besides how much our players, coaches, and alums like to eat!  The first is that our players have made it through the academic class year and only have finals remaining ahead of them. Good luck to all as finals started this morning! The second celebrates the legacies passed down from our alums and seniors as we finish this season and announce internally our 2010-11 freshman class that will soon be joining our team and our traditions.  The breakfast itself is held the Saturday of reading days every year and Coach Whitesel spends hours cooking up pancakes one by one for our players, coaches, and alums in the PDX area. This year’s pancake selection included: strawberry, banana, chocolate chip, raspberry, a combination of

Waiting patiently

above, or plain.  Additionally, the players whip up some scrambled eggs and sausage while Coach Fulks keeps the coffee flowing. All in all, a great morning and a great way to help finish off the year! Click here for more pictures!

Women’s Basketball Past Winners

2009-10

Margaret Dowling: Mary Hunter Multi-Sport Athlete of the Year

2008-09

Margaret Dowling: Mary Hunter Multi-Sport Athlete of the Year

Margaret Dowling: Rookie of the Year

2007-08

Crystal Castle: Pioneer Athletic Club (PAC)  Career Award

Allison Farr: Judy McMullen Scholar Athlete of the Year

Kim Kittell: Mary Hunter Multi-Sport Athlete of the Year

Special thanks to Jenny Pratt (L&C Bball Alum) for helping set up the 2nd Annual Event!! Click here for more pictures!

On the basketball side, we have found that January is a very good month for us. We are currently 6-0 in conference play, tied for first place, and ranked 26th in the country. We have been on the road, played the late game, and found new games on the bus to keep us entertained. Rumor is that Christina Herring may have been cheating to win at cards on the way to Willamette… and we are working incredibly hard to reach Coach Hristou’s standard for bench dress code If Coach Whitesel would only stick to the pre-determined color!

Vacation team bonding this year included movies, team music videos and culminated with our annual Holiday Secret Santa Party. The gifts were quite entertaining and some highlights were numerous snuggies, a crafty basketball sweatshirt (good work Neva), Twilight posters, and much more. After a filling dinner, we opened our brown bag gifts and shared many laughs together.

Rounding out the break, our staff also put together three personal/professional development sessions in conjunction with 3CE. We started the event by taking personality tests and learning more about ourselves, our strengths and weaknesses, and most importantly- how to make those personality traits work within a group and on the court. We quickly found out our team spans the entire spectrum (Paige to Junior) and the diversity within our group is much appreciated. After learning about ourselves, we were challenged to start thinking about professional life after L&C (resumes, etc) and ended the 3rd day by having lunch with former alumni and starting to develop professional contacts within the L&C family. Thanks to Tal and Clayton for sharing their knowledge!

We certainly enjoyed break… but the start of classes mean the heart of conference play and the intensity on the court will mount each week. I’m proud to say our ladies are looking forward to the challenge!

Day 4: It was fitting that 4 words summed up our day …. MUCH NEEDED DAY OFF! That is exactly what it was … well, to an extent. This morning the Pio’s joyfully loaded up their bags, laundry, and odds-n-ends to move hotels and head into our first adventure of the day: Breakfast at the Herrings.

Let me tell you a little bit about the Herrings: Aside from both Karen and Bruce (Parents of #24 Christina Herring) being two of our top fans and supporters, making the trip to Portland as often as they can, they also know how to cook a mean meal. Just to put it into perspective, you would have thought President Obama was visiting their house today with the amount of spectacular food that was presented to our fingertips this morning at their home in San Dimas, CA. They fed all of the Pioneer’s, plus all three coaches (I went back for thirds, shhhh) and visiting parents of other Pioneer’s. We had quite the spread ranging from fruit and granola, to eggs, bacon, sausage, muffins, toast, juice, and sparkling cider. We ate for an army this morning and were very appreciative to have such great hospitality on the road!! You would think we never feed the team … or the coaches with the amount of food consumed. The ladies enjoyed some down time visiting or dancing (Neva and Jodi) while the rest of us chatted about the weekend so far, the previous games, and our up-coming game tomorrow against Cal Lutheran. The team even had time to fit in a couple Christmas movies to round the morning out right. It was just what we needed to fuel our bellies for the day … THANK YOU TO THE HERRINGS FOR SUCH A GREAT BREAKFAST AND WARM WELCOME!

After our uniforms were washed, our appetite most definitely satisfied, we were back on another highway headed in another direction somewhere in the LA area! This time we had a bit of a hike to Thousand Oaks, CA where we were headed to Cal Lutheran for our practice this afternoon. On our 1.5hr drive today my van decided that Southern California quite possibly ONLY plays The Black Eyed peas, Kanye West, and Jay-Z on the radio, as we channel surfed through the same songs the WHOLE way! The other van scooted along behind us, some of the girls sleeping, while others talked about up-coming finals and randomly what character in the Lion King that they would like to be!

The Pioneer’s laced up their shoes for a quick practice at CLU this afternoon while Coach Tim headed down another freeway to get a jump start on scouting upcoming conference opponents. The ladies were in good form as they warmed up their legs a bit from playing back to back games the past two days. We worked on a few things we are anticipating the Regal’s might bring to the table tomorrow, as well as a few additions to our offense we will be working on over the next few weeks. It was just enough time for all of us to get that fire back in us for tomorrow’s game!

A quick trip to our hotel down the road provided us our next home for just one night in Thousand Oaks. Due to the overwhelming family support for most of the team, we had a free night for them to spend time with their family or stay in and study! A special request from Coach Fulks for dinner at CHIPOTLE (a staff favorite) and we were on our way to the closest one! We can always rely on CHIPOTLE to be a good way to end a great day.

The Pioneer’s are VERY anxious to get on the court tomorrow against the Regal’s as they provide a big challenge for us on our last game of our road trip. Game day awaits us tomorrow at an early tip-off at 3pm before we head back to Portland, back to final test preparations, and for Coach Whitesel and I, a desk full of paperwork not anywhere near as fun as the paperwork for our 2-0 road trip. Until then (Like I always tell both Coaches, we will keep Livin’ the Dream)!

Ps.. the pioneers have added some new significant numbers and words to this trip: Scneva, Stalia, 7, H-Dub, epic, facebook fame … and that is just the start but memories that will keep us laughing.

Day 3: Did some one say coffee? YES …… Coach Whitesel and I started our day like we have on most road trips in our careers – with a walk to Starbucks to feed our need before we rallied the troops together for our shoot-a-round before today’s challenge: The Occidental Tigers.  

Occidental sits on the edge of Los Angeles about 20 miles from where we are staying, and in true Southern California fashion 20 miles equals one hour of driving thanks to the 4 Million people who live within the city limits of LA. So with that, we arrived at our newest place of competition for today while the girls were energized and ready to get loose and get shots up … which is exactly what we did.   Alum, Sarah  Moon stopped by the gym to say hello and catch up with us on her life and what she has been up to since she graduated in 2006.  It was great to see her and have her see our latest and greatest Pioneer’s that have filled her jersey since she left. 

Shoot-a-round not only provided us with some time to get lose, but also some time to work on our dance moves and celebration dances.  Special shout out to TEAM HERRING/SPENCE who “broke it down” for us on made free-throws.  Now we have to figure out how to get them to do that during the games . 

We quickly made progress back to the hotel to re-group,  eat, pile back into our vans to get back to the gym for the ‘Pre-Game Rally Reception’ that was held at Occidental prior to our game to support friends and family of the program to meet and greet with our players and coaches.  It was a great time for all of us to meet some new family members and catch up with those some of the players hadn’t seen since the previous day.  Thanks to Coach Lori Jepsen and AD Clark Yeager for attending and supporting the event.  It was GREAT to see some familiar Portland faces amongst the group!

Game time came and Coach Whitesel came through with a great pre-game plan on a whiteboard the side of a car window, but was able to communicate enough information for the Pioneer’s to pull out a great victory over the Occidental Tigers improving our record to 6-1 overall.  A team win at its best tonight for the Pioneer’s as we had 4 players come in with double digit scoring, Kristina Williams, Talerra Rich, Megan Spence, and Neva Hauser.  Both Neva and Megan went the extra mile and pulled down enough rebounds to have Double-Doubles as well …. way to go POSTS!  A true team win tonight for the Pioneers in front of a very large Black and Orange crowd!  Special thanks to the Oakridge Girls Basketball team for coming out to support former teammate, Kristina Williams, in tonight’s game (Good Luck tomorrow Trojan’s!). 

After some mingling with family and fans we made our way back toward our hotel in no time.  Who knew the best time to drive in LA was Friday night at 10pm.  In-N-Out Burger was our final destination tonight for the Pioneer’s as we celebrated our win with a true California road trip tradition!  Double-Doubles, milkshakes, and fries filled the need for food immediately upon consumption. 

Tomorrow brings a much-needed day off  for all of us as we will be headed to the Herring’s for a large team brunch first thing in the morning with practice to follow.  Tomorrow will be a day off of games, but certainly not preparation as we will have just as much if not more challenges ahead in our Sunday afternoon game against California Lutheran. 

Day 3 proved to be just as successful as the previous as we continue to be: The Few. The Proud, Orange!