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women's basketball
Women's basketball
adds firepower
By Mike Haubrich
Summer On-line Forty-Niner
The Long Beach
State women's basketball team added some firepower by signing
four players to compete for the 49ers by getting them to sign
a letter of intent, according to a press release issued by
the LBSU Sports Information Department.
Sarah Stout (Orlando,
Fla./Dr. Phillips High School); Glory Johnson (Phoenix, Ariz./Phoenix
College); Christina Mack (Glendale, Ariz./Moon Valley High
School); and Jinga Gosschalk (Amsterdam, Netherlands/College
of Southern Idaho) will all attend LBSU beginning in the fall
of 2001.
The 6-foot-5 Stout
averaged 5.5 blocks per game in her senior season at Dr. Phillips
High School. Ironically, 49er Head Coach Dallas Boychuk-Bolla
coached at the school during the late 1980s.
Gosschalk, a 5-foot-10
guard-forward, led the Golden Eagles this season with 47 three-pointers
and was second on the team in scoring with an average of 12.9
points per game. Gosschalk also averaged 4.8 rebounds a game
and had 72 assists this year.
Mack, a 5-foot-6
shooting guard, was a member of the Arizona Elite AAU, where
one of her teammates was Jayme Connors. Connors, a 6-foot-2
post player, signed with LBSU last fall. Mack originally signed
with Grand Canyon University last winter, but was released
from her scholarship and signed with LBSU.
Johnson, who is
6-foot-1-inch and can play guard or forward, led Phoenix College
with an average of 16.8 points per game this season. Johnson's
postseason honors include being named to the Arizona Community
College Athletic Conference first team and to the National
Junior College Athletic Association Division II All-America
third team.
"We're extremely
excited," said Tuonisia Turner, assistant to 49er coach
Boychuck-Bolla, who is on maternity leave. "The two post
players [Stout and Johnson] are crucial to the program and
can step in right away. Grosschalk can shoot, penetrate and
handle the ball and Mack played with elite club team, which
should help her here."
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