http://hamptonroads.com/taxonomy/term/126 Category: Women's College Basketball en-us Copyright 2009 PilotOnline.com / HamptonRoads.com. Sun, 05 Jul 2009 12:16:39 -0400 NORFOLK Down the hall, in the practice gym, a basketball camp was in full swing. Over at the soccer stadium, more campers were kicking balls around. Across the parking lot, at the new tennis center, people with rackets slung over their shoulders were heading in to play. http://hamptonroads.com/2009/06/monarch-who-made-odu-athletics-retire-june Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:30:41 -0400 Staff report Tara Owens, who won just six games in her two seasons as Norfolk State's women's basketball coach, is being reassigned, the school said Wednesday. Athletic director Marty Miller also announced that former Florida A&M and Winston-Salem State head coach Debra Clark will serve as the Spartans' interim head coach for next season. http://hamptonroads.com/2009/05/owens-out-nsu-womens-basketball-coach Wed, 13 May 2009 22:14:29 -0400 Indian River's Shanel Williams, who helped the Braves win nearly 100 games during her varsity career, has signed with Miami. Williams, a 5-foot-7 guard, averaged 14.5 points and seven steals per game this past season as a senior. The Braves finished 25-2 and won the Southeastern District title. http://hamptonroads.com/2009/04/indian-river-womens-basketball-star-play-miami Tue, 21 Apr 2009 23:07:15 -0400 LOS ANGELES A couple of seniors teamed up to take California where it's never been before. Ashley Walker scored 20 of her career-high-tying 32 points in the first half, and Cal used its strong inside game to rout Virginia 99-73 Monday night, sending the Golden Bears to the NCAA tournament's final 16 for the first time in school history. http://hamptonroads.com/2009/03/california-clobbers-uva-makes-1st-trip-sweet-16 Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:37:52 -0400 For the first time in 18 years, the Old Dominion Lady Monarchs won't be part of basketball's postseason. ODU (17-13), which lost in the Colonial Athletic Association tournament for the first time since joining the conference in 1991, did not receive a bid to the NCAA tournament or the Women's National Invitational Tournament. http://hamptonroads.com/2009/03/lady-monarchs-shut-out-postseason Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:29:01 -0400 HARRISONBURG The most celebrated streak in Old Dominion Lady Monarchs history is over. For the first time in 17 years, ODU will not be part of the NCAA tournament. There will be no Colonial Athletic Association tournament title for the team that has won this event every year since 1991. http://hamptonroads.com/2009/03/day-17-years-making-odu-loses-caa-tourney-game Sat, 14 Mar 2009 17:37:39 -0400 HARRISONBURG It looked as if it would turn into a runaway and ended up as a squeaker. In the end Friday, the Old Dominion Lady Monarchs survived to play another day. ODU downed UNC Wilmington 61-56 in a Colonial Athletic Association tournament quarterfinal at the JMU Convocation Center. http://hamptonroads.com/2009/03/lady-monarchs-hang-barely Fri, 13 Mar 2009 21:45:42 -0400 NORFOLK The Old Dominion Lady Monarchs have a storied history of streaks: 113 straight Colonial Athletic Association victories between 1995 and 2001. 50 straight wins in the CAA tournament. In the nearly 12 years between Feb. 22, 1992, and Jan. 9, 2004, they didn't lose a single CAA game at home. (They lost a game to Delaware and then won 37 more in a row at home.) http://hamptonroads.com/2009/03/historic-streaks-line-odu Thu, 12 Mar 2009 22:06:51 -0400 Old Dominion's Jen Nuzzo won the Dean Ehlers Leadership Award at the Colonial Athletic Association awards banquet in Harrisonburg on Wednesday. http://hamptonroads.com/2009/03/odus-nuzzo-honored-dean-ehlers-leadership-prize Wed, 11 Mar 2009 23:29:27 -0400 WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. A frigid 23 percent shooting day doomed the Norfolk State women Tuesday, as Hampton ended the Spartans' season 68-49 in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference tournament's first round. Norfolk State's Raychele Payne was the game's top scorer with 13 points, but she was just 5 for 20 from the field. http://hamptonroads.com/2009/03/hampton-ends-spartans-season-meac-first-round Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:50:34 -0400