June Daugherty returns for her 5th season as the Head Coach. It’s been a struggle as last season’s 6-12 conference record, tying for 7th place, was the Coughers best finish in 10 years. Overall WSU was 8-23 this past season.
Mike Daugherty returns for his 5th year as the Associate Head Coach. Mo Hines returns for his 5th year and is also finishing his undergrad degree at WSU. Brian Holsinger returns for his 5th season. Great continuity for the Cougars.
Losses:
The losses are not major. Katie Madison was a solid rebounder, 5 a game, and also scored 5 points per game.
Lexie Peterson played only 55 minutes on the season.
New Players:
Shalie Dheensaw is a 6-3 Frosh Post from Canada. Shalie played on the Canadian 16U and 17U teams.
Jordan Kelley is a 5-9 Frosh Guard from Wyoming. She was a top 40 Parade All American and the State Player of the Year. She was ranked # 266.
Tia Presley is a 5-9 Frosh Guard from Spokane who was not ranked out of High School.
Returning Players:
Washington State returns its top 7 scorers from last year and 9 of the top 10. So they will have a very veteran team. Sage Romberg is a 6-1 Soph Forward who was the leading scorer last season at almost 10 points per game. Sage was also 3rd in rebounding at 5 per game in a rotation where 10 players played between 8 and 26 minutes per game. Sage was 2nd on the team with 41 threes at 40%. She was named to the Frosh all Pac 10 team. Sage ranked as high as # 72 out of High School.
Jazmine Perkins is a 5-10 Sr Guard who scored 9 points per game and led the team in rebounding with 5 per game. Perkins also led the team in steals and has averaged 2 a game over her 3 years. The Cougars need Perkins to get back to scoring as she did as Frosh averaging 14 per game.
Carly Noyes is a 6-5 Jr Center and started every game last season. Carly averaged 8 points and 4 rebounds and easily lead the team in blocks with 43.
Three players will fight it out for the final 2 Guard spots. Ireti Amojo is a 5-10 Soph Guard who started 21 games last season averaging 9 points per game. She hit a team high 48 threes at 33%.
April Cook is a 5-8 Sr Point Guard who averaged 6 points, but less than 2 assists per game. Cook was the # 84 player out of High School. In her first two seasons at Washington State Cook averaged 14 points per game and hit 89 threes.
Hana Potter is a 6-2 Soph Post who averaged 6 points and 4 rebounds per game. Hana was rated the # 43 Post out of High School.
Rosetta Adzasu is a 5-5 Sr Point Guard who averaged 6 points per game and led the team in assist at 3.3 per game. She had 1: .85 assist to turnover ratio, tops on the team.
Brandi Thomas is a 6-1 Soph Wing who averaged 2 points and 2 rebounds appearing in every game and started several. Brandi was a very good Triple Jumper is High School and was All State of Washington in Basketball.
Rosie Tarnowski is a 6-1 Sr Wing who didn’t play much last year, only 8 minutes per game. As a Frosh Rosie stared most games and averaged 7 points per game.
Katie Grad is a 5-8 JR Guard who also played just 8 minutes per game. Katie was All State of Washington in High School.
The Schedule:
Tough, very tough. At Penn State, at Bobbie Kelsey’s Wisconsin, at Ohio State, home to Gonzaga, San Diego State and Louisville. Then at a Tournament against Marquette and Michigan. Stanford and Cal don’t travel to Pullman and the Cougars don’t travel to Utah or Colorado.
The Season:
The Cougars have to hope for a return of April Cook and Jazmine Perkins to their form during their first 2 years in Pullman. Or it’ll be another long season for June and the Cougars. Having said that, Cook and Perkins can be outstanding in their Sr year.
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