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SPORTS INSERT 1988-89 Women's Basketball SPORTS INSERT November 23,1988 Page 1 Women hopeful for another Cinderella season by Ray Marcham Contributing Writer The Cougar women’s basket ball team has a tough act to fol low. After a incredible season last year, during which the Cougars did not lose a divisional game, Coach Phil Garver must tiy to keep the momentum going. With just three sophomores coming back, Garver will have a young, but impressive team. But he knows there will be pressure to repeat the 26-4 season that took place less than one year ago. Garver, however, is used to the pressure. will be a factor on the team, ei ther. “We brought in a lot of talented new freshmen this year, with five all-starters. We will be a lot stronger in the post this year than in past years. Our guards are just as quick, but if the fresh men can make a really strong, immediate impact and get ori ented with the system quickly, we will have a very good year.” The Cougars do have some height in the middle with 5’11" Sophomore Leslie Hughes and two freshman at 6’2". Pamela Pember and Alicia Stephenson. Dianne Gale, another freshman, is 5*10" so the center and forward 'We brought in a lot of talented new freshmen this year... we will be a lot stronger in the post than in past years." “We anticipate getting pres sure,” Coach Garver said. “Every year since I’ve been here, it seems like every team we face has one of its best games of the year against us. Teams that shouldn’t be in the gamewith us make shots that they wouldn’t usually make.” Garver expects his team to be one of the top two teams in the NWAACC Southern Division, along with Umpqua. “Umpqua has plenty of sophomores com ing backh and they will be the team to beat,” says Garver. But we play 13 games before we play them, so the girls will know what to expect when we play them.” Garver also expects Mt.Hood to be a factor in the divisional race. He doesn’t think that experience position for the Cougars should be filled with some tall ladies. Tracy Jones and Carol Brison, the other two returning Sopho mores, are both 5’8" as are fresh man Stacy Wallace and Casie harker, who is proving herself to be quite an all-around athlete at Clackamas. Garver has not quite settled on a starting line up and he proba bly will not. “I usually run 9-10 girls in a game anyway. Some girls switch from game to game. The game is a lot faster than the high school game and some just can’t run for 40 minutes,” he said. The first game for theCou- gars as they try to win their sec ond'straight divisional title will Photo by Julie Church The 1988-89 Womens basketball team is coming off a sensational season that saw them go undefeated in league play, but fall short in the playoffs. Coach Garver anticipates this year's squad being just as tough as last years, with some, key people returning and some very talented freshman players. Top row, l-r: Tracy Jones, Dianne Gale, Carol Brison, Alicia Stephenson, Pamela Pember, Leslie Hughes, Jennifer Drennen. Front row, l-r: Stacey Wallace, Casey Harker, Shannon Glascow, Kelli Brown. be on Nov. 25 a's fhey take oh the junior varsity team from West ern Oregon State College. That will be the Cougars last home game until they face Lower Columbia on Dec. 20. The girls will have a tough time of it come Dec. 11-18 when they throw on the grass skirts and head to Ha waii for a series of games. Their first league game will be against Linn-'Benton in Albany on Jan. 7. . "We anticipate getting pressure. It seems like every team we face has one of its best game against us." Intense Garver enjoys continued success V"® Photo by JuHe Church Clackamas Women's Basketball Coach Phil Garver Is ready to guide his team to another dream season. I 16 (M) . 49.25 -0.16 0.01 17 38.62 -0.18 -0.04 0.75 0.98 18(B) 28.86 0.54 0.60 |p.24 19 16.19 -0.05 0.73 20 8.29 -0.81 0.19 21 3.44 -0.23 0.49 1.67 2.04 2.42 by Ray Marcham Contributing Writer Phil Garver has achieved, in five years at a young age, what most coaches take a career to accomplish. Garver, who took over the team in 1983 when Nancy Mick- leson quit to become the tennis coach, has had great success with the women’s basketball program here at Clackamas. It culminated in last year’s 26-4 season and co:.citing the first team ever to go undefeated in the NWAACC Southern Division. The coach comes from Indi ana where basketball is a reli gion. He graduated from Ben Davis High School :n Indianapo lis afterwhich he went to Warner Pacific College in Portland on a basketball scholarship. The last two years there the Knights went to the NAIA playoffs. Garver graduated with degrees in health and physical education, with minors in history and psychol ogy. He then came to Clackamas during which time he got his me. I got used to the intensity master’s degree in physical edu level here which is nothing like cation teaching from Portland back East. If they were as intense State University. Out here as they are back East, Garver really does not have a they would have passed that sports coaching philosophy. “With the tax measure (Measure 5). That turnover of players from year to showed the problem with athlet year it is really challenging to ics here in Oregon.” keep a competitive team out every He also says that he enjoys year,” he said. “The people are coaching at this level. different: you have people with “I enjoy it! I like the com social problems, people with petition here at the community academic problems, and people college level. It is really good with attitude problems. I get so basketball that is played.” much experience dealing with Garver also likes to give credit these problems that I almost feel to his assistant Jim Hill. “I ex like a psychologist.” pect as much out of my assistant He feels that his upbringing coaches as I do opt of myself. Jim in Indiana has had an effect on has a job outside of being my his coaching. assistant and it’s tough to keep “Since I am from Indiana, I two jobs like that. Coaching is a will always have an intensity for joint effort and he knows how I ; the game. Even though I some react. He even coached a few times wonder whether I should games when I was getting my have coached men’s basketball. master’s degree. It’s good that Coaching the women has really • we work together so well.' helped me in the fact that I am And Clackamas is also glad getting mellower on events that that they work together, happen on the court that bugged ■ 27 43.96 52.00 30.01 centimeters 28 82.74 3.45 81.29 29 52.79 50.88 -12.72 Colors by Munsell Color Services Lab 30 50.87 -27.17 -29.46
