Women's basketball players begin team practices

By By Michael Phillips

Tuesday, August 30, 2005

With six weeks remaining until Late Night in the Phog, the women’s basketball team is already practicing together.

NCAA rules allow the coaches to spend eight hours a week with the players before the formal start of the season on Oct. 14.

Kansas women’s basketball coach Bonnie Henrickson used six hours of that time away from the court, where she focused on the strength and conditioning of her players. The other two hours were spent on the court, where players worked on individual skills.

“We’re going to stay with all the individual work we’ve done, and I think with so many new kids, that’s important for us,” Henrickson said.

This year’s Kansas team will have a mix of six newcomers and six veterans.

As the month progresses, the coaches will split their allotted time differently. This week the team will spend three hours on the court.

Most of the veterans stayed in Lawrence during the summer. Senior forward Crystal Kemp said it was hard to find leagues to play in though.

“A lot of the things during the summer have to be certified by the NCAA, so you can’t play in just any league,” Kemp said. “I just worked individually and played in pickup games.”

Senior guard Erica Hallman returned home to Kentucky to play in the Northern Kentucky Women’s Summer Basketball League. The league consisted of mostly collegiate players.

Hallman’s team went undefeated during the season and won the championship.

“I was working from the two instead of the one, because I’ll probably be doing a little more of that this year,” Hallman said.

The “two” referred to the shooting guard position. Hallman said she would play more “two” this year than “one,” which referred to the point guard position.

Shaquina Mosley, a junior-college transfer from Arizona, was invited to try out for the USA women’s national team along with 57 of the nation’s top players.

“That was really exciting, to meet so many new people,” Mosley said.

While at the trials, she played with junior guard/forward Camille Little of North Carolina, senior guard/forward Monique Currie of Duke, and junior guard Nikki Blue of UCLA.

The players went through drills and workouts in the mornings before scrimmaging in the afternoons.

All of the returning Jayhawks participated in at least one session of summer school, and all 12 players are currently in Lawrence.

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