2008 Woodie Awards
A season on the brink
2005-06 women's hoops wrap-up
By: Tom Parr
Issue date: 3/2/06 Section: Sports
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The 2005-06 Webster women's basketball season provided a little bit of everything for its players and fans: a five-game losing streak followed by two separate six-game winning streaks. There was a 32-point victory coupled with a 44-point loss. Injuries plagued the team all season but a determined team found a way to win 12 of the last 14 games on its way to a St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference tourney berth.
First-year head coach Amber Daulbaugh not only took over a new team but a tough, previously set, out-of-conference schedule as well. A tough road which led to a 0-3 start, a start that Daulbaugh said may have actually helped the team.
"That mentality of giving these kids that experience, even though we didn't fair as well as we wanted to in non-conference, was everything that we needed to reach our goals in the conference," Daulbaugh said.
One of those goals was to go undefeated at home in Grant Gymnasium. A goal that the team came one loss away, which was to eventual SLIAC champion Maryville, from achieving as the Gorloks won 10 of 11 here.
Daulbaugh mentioned the Dec. 4, 16-point home victory against NCAA DIII tournament bound Simpson College, as a turning point early on in the season.
The Gorloks will lose four seniors to graduation; Kim Sheets, Lauren Lux, Nicole Lamatina and Megan Brady. Yet the team will return four starters to the line-up: freshman center Ashley Patterson, sophomore guards Toni Picerno and Kasey Schultz and junior captain Laura Robertson while role players like junior Jana Elwood and freshman Megan Mayer should also contribute.
If this core remains intact, the 2006-07 Gorloks could once again be a SLIAC force.
First-year head coach Amber Daulbaugh not only took over a new team but a tough, previously set, out-of-conference schedule as well. A tough road which led to a 0-3 start, a start that Daulbaugh said may have actually helped the team.
"That mentality of giving these kids that experience, even though we didn't fair as well as we wanted to in non-conference, was everything that we needed to reach our goals in the conference," Daulbaugh said.
One of those goals was to go undefeated at home in Grant Gymnasium. A goal that the team came one loss away, which was to eventual SLIAC champion Maryville, from achieving as the Gorloks won 10 of 11 here.
Daulbaugh mentioned the Dec. 4, 16-point home victory against NCAA DIII tournament bound Simpson College, as a turning point early on in the season.
The Gorloks will lose four seniors to graduation; Kim Sheets, Lauren Lux, Nicole Lamatina and Megan Brady. Yet the team will return four starters to the line-up: freshman center Ashley Patterson, sophomore guards Toni Picerno and Kasey Schultz and junior captain Laura Robertson while role players like junior Jana Elwood and freshman Megan Mayer should also contribute.
If this core remains intact, the 2006-07 Gorloks could once again be a SLIAC force.