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Women's Basketball News
2009-10 Women's Basketball Season Preview
Coming off the first winning season since 2001-02 this year’s Centre College women’s basketball team will look to duplicate that feat. Centre is returning a majority of it’s players from last season, including four starters, after only losing two seniors. The 2008-09 team went 18-9 on the season and 10-4 in the conference. The 18-win season was the third highest win total posted by a Centre women’s basketball team during this decade. Recording 10 conference wins last season was an accomplishment in itself, as that was only the third time that had happened since the 2000 season, with the last time being in 2001-02.
The Colonels have their head coach and 2009 SCAC Coach-of-the-Year, Wendie Austin-Robinson back for her fifth year. Centre will be led by returning senior guard Chelsea Goodman (Harrodsburg, Ky.), who was named to the 2009 All-SCAC Second Team, the 2009 SCAC Newcomer-of-the-Year, sophomore point-guard Maggie Prewitt (Mt. Sterling, Ky.), and 2009 All-SCAC Honorable Mention, sophomore center Lauren Huter (Louisville, Ky.).
Goodman is hoping to move into third place on the Centre career scoring list this upcoming year after coming off last season where she was ninth overall in the conference in scoring with 398 points and an average of 14.7 points per game. Goodman was fifth in the conference in free throw percentage at 82.6% and led the conference in steals during the 2008-2009 season with 61.
Prewitt will have high expectations coming into her sophomore year after she was 12th in the conference in scoring with 342 points and sixth in assists with 106 in her first year. Prewitt also tied for ninth place in the conference in steals recording 54 last season.
Although Huter is only a sophomore she will once again be a great presence in the middle as she led the Colonels in rebounding last season and was 10th in the conference with 188 boards. She was also third in the conference in blocked shots with 57.
The Colonels are also expecting strong contributions from seniors Tara Milburn (Shelbyville, Ky.) and Keonia Masterson (Stanford, Ky.) in the post and juniors Amanda Stovall (Louisville, Ky.), Chelsea Luckey (Columbia, Ky.), and Angela Tronzo (Bardstown, Ky.) as well a host of returning sophomores and four incoming freshmen.
“We lost two great seniors, but our upper classmen and sophomores this year got a lot of experience last year and should be able to carry that into this season. I have high expectations for them and expect them to do well all year long,” Centre head coach Wendie Austin-Robinson said.
“We are very excited about our freshman class and will expect them to contribute. The conference will be tough overall and we will have to bring our best every game,” Austin-Robinson added.
Centre opens the 2009-2010 season with a home opener against Maryville College on November, 18 at 6:00 p.m.
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