HOUGHTON, Mich. — The No. 5-ranked Michigan Tech women’s basketball team advanced to its fourth straight GLIAC Tournament Championship game with a 69-58 victory over Hillsdale today at the SDC Gym. Seniors Lucy Dernovsek and Lisa Staehlin both recorded double-doubles to lift the Huskies to 25-2 overall.
BAY CITY, Mich. Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) Commissioner Dell Robinson announced a scheduling change for 2010-11 basketball season, as mens games will lead all Conference doubleheaders with womens games to follow. Traditionally, the order has been reversed.
ATLANTA - The Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) announced its winners for the 2009-10 Academic Top 25 Team Honor Roll. This award, given in NCAA Division I, NCAA Division II, NCAA Division III, NAIA and Junior College/Community College, awards teams throughout the nation that carry the highest grade point averages (GPA) for the entire season based on the nomination submitted by WBCA-member head coaches.
BAY CITY, Mich. Dell Robinson, Commissioner of the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC), announced the hiring of Rob Doss for the position of Supervisor of Womens Basketball Officials, and Bill Ek for the position of Supervisor of Mens Basketball Officials. Both Doss and Ek will begin their duties with the GLIAC immediately.
BAY CITY, Mich. Former Grand Valley State University football player Alex Gilde (McBain, Mich.), and former Michigan Technological University womens basketball player Katie Wysocky (Whitefish Bay, Wis.) were named the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conferences (GLIAC) 2009-10 male and female Scholar-Athletes of the Year, respectively, as voted by the leagues faculty athletics representatives.
HOUGHTON, Mich. Kim Cameron has been promoted to Michigan Techs head womens basketball coach position it was announced today by athletic director Suzanne Sanregret. Cameron, who spent the last five years as assistant coach helping the Huskies to 119 wins and two NCAA Elite Eight appearances, becomes the eighth head coach in the programs 35-year history.
BAY CITY, Mich. -- The Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) announced the recipients of the Winter 2010 GLIAC Commissioners Awards. The awards, sponsored by Meijer, Incorporated, are presented after the Fall,Winter, and Spring athletic seasons to six male and six female student-athletes that excel both in the classroom and on the fields of play.
Bay City, Mich.--The Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference announced today the Winter2010 All-Academic Teams. 495 student-athletes from 14 institutions were honored in the following sports; men and women's basketball, men and women's swimming and diving and men and women's indoor track and field. To be eligible for all-academic status, the student-athlete must have a cumulative grade point average of 3.0, on a 4.0 scale, and must not be a freshman or first year transfer.
ST. JOSEPH, Mo. The magical run is over. The No. 3-ranked Michigan Tech womens basketball team ran into a hot Emporia State team in the national quarterfinal round of the NCAA Elite Eight and lost 91-85 tonight in front of 1,936 fans at Civic Arena. The No. 15-ranked Lady Hornets blistered the nets for 57 percent and will move on to the national semifinal. The Huskies finish with a 31-3 record, and the careers of six remarkable seniors end after two straight trips to the NCAA Elite Eight.
ST. JOSEPH, Mo. Michigan Tech seniors Katie Wysocky (Whitefish Bay, Wis.) and Sarah Stream (Ishpeming, Mich./Westwood) took home major awards at tonights NCAA Division II Womens Basketball Banquet of Champions on the campus of Missouri Western State. Wysocky was named to the State Farm Womens Basketball Coaches Association All-America Team. Stream gained the inaugural NCAA Elite 88 Award for having the highest grade point average of the participants at the championship.
HOUGHTON, Mich. - Michigan Tech is headed to the NCAA Elite 8 for the second straight year after defeating Drury 84-68 in the Midwest Regional Championship game in front of a record 3,131 fans. The Huskies received a career-high 30 points and 12 rebounds from Danae Danen, who was named the Midwest Regional's "Most Outstanding Player."
HOUGHTON, Mich. - Top-seeded Michigan Technological University will face Drury University (Mo.), the No. 3 seed, in the championship game of the NCAA Division II Women's Basketball Midwest Region Tournament. The winner will advance to the Division II Elite Eight Tournament in St. Joseph's, Missouri next week.
HOUGHTON, Mich. - Three Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) teams picked up victories in the first round of the NCAA Division II Midwest Region Women's Basketball Tournament.
UNIVERSITY CENTER, Mich. - The Saginaw Valley State University Athletics Department hosted a Breast Cancer Survivor Recognition and Reception event on Saturday, Feb. 20. The event was held in conjuction with SVSU's women's basketball game versus Grand Valley State University and the GLIAC's Pinkwave initiative to raise funds for breast cancer research. Feb. 20.
EVANSVILLE, Ind.Michigan Technological University senior forward Katie Wysocky (Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin) was named the Daktronics, Inc. Midwest Region Player of the Year in a vote of the regions sports information directors.
LILBURN, Ga. The Michigan Tech womens basketball team will enter the NCAA Tournament as the No. 3-ranked squad in the USA TODAY/ESPN Division II Coaches Poll. The Huskies, fresh off their second GLIAC Tournament Championship in the last three years, own a 28-2 overall record.
ATLANTA - The Womens Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA), in cooperation with State Farm, announced the finalists for the 2010 State Farm Coaches All-America Team for National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division II. The 40 finalists, who are voted upon by WBCA member coaches in each of the eight WBCA geographical regions, are now in the running for selection to the 10-member State Farm Coaches All-America Team.
BAY CITY, Mich. - Three Teams from the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) received bids to the NCAA D-II Women's Basketball Midwest Region Tournament. Michigan Technological University earned the Region's top seed and will host this weekend's tournament.
INDIANAPOLIS Michigan Tech will host the 2010 NCAA Midwest Womens Basketball Region it was announced tonight on NCAA.com. The Huskies are the top seed and will face eighth-seeded Northern Kentucky Friday (Mar. 12) at 6 p.m. in a quarterfinal game.
HOUGHTON, Mich. - Michigan Technological University downed Northern Michigan University, 73-69, places in the 2010 Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) Women's Basketball Tournament Championship game on Saturday (Mar. 6) at the SDC Gymnasium on the MTU campus.
HOUGHTON, Mich. - Michigan Technological University and Northern Michigan University each claimed places in the 2010 Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) Women's Basketball Tournament Championship game on Saturday (Mar. 6) at 7:00 p.m. at the SDC Gymnasium on the MTU campus.
BAY CITY, Mich. - Michigan Technological University senior forward Katie Wysocky (Whitefish Bay, Wis.) was named the 2010 Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) women's basketball Player of the Year in voting conducted by the leagues head coaches. Grand Valley State Universitys Alex Stelfox (Bowie, Md./Elizabeth Seton) was tabbed Freshman of the Year, while MTU's John Barnes was named Coach of the Year by his peers.
BAY CITY, Mich. - Michigan Technological University will host the 2010 GLIAC Women's Basketball Final Four after the Huskies defeated Northwood University, 78-52 in tournament quarterfinal action on Tuesday.
BAY CITY, Mich. - Michigan Technological University senior forward Katie Wysocky (Whitefish Bay, Wis.) and Northwood University senior forward Jodi Ostergren (Midland, Mich./Dow) have been chosen as the GLIAC Women's Basketball North and South Division "Players of the Week", respectively it was announced by the league office.
LILBURN, Ga. The Michigan Tech womens basketball team remained at No. 5 in this weeks USA TODAY/ESPN Division II Coaches Poll. The Huskies won their final two regular season games last week to run their record to 25-2 overall and 20-2 in the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.
BAY CITY, Mich. - The Huskies of Michigan Technological University claimed the 2010 Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) women's basketball championship by recording the league's best record in conference play, which concludes today.
HILLSDALE, Mich. - Through the efforts of Hillsdale College's women's basketball team and Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, $2000 was raised for the WBCA Kay Yow Cancer Fund.
INDIANAPOLIS---The NCAA Division II Womens Basketball Committee has released this weeks Division II womens basketball regional rankings. The top 10 teams in the Midwest Region are listed. The regional rankings will be released every Wednesday through March 3. Selections will be Sunday, March 7.
HOUGHTON, Mich. Michigan Tech womens basketball players Katie Wysocky (Whitefish Bay, Wis.) and Sarah Stream (Ishpeming, Mich./Westwood) were today named 2010 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-Americans as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). Wysocky garnered first team honors while Stream was selected to the third team in the College Division, which encompasses all NCAA Division II, III and NAIA institutions in the country.
SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. - The second annual Cabin Fever GLIAC Pink Wave event at Lake Superior State raised more than $1,400 for the fight against cancer.