USD Women's Basketball 2006-2007

for us at the point guard position ." Last season, Rego set a new school record for most single-season steals with 75. Despite the fact that she missed seven games with an illness last season , she still finished with the fourth highest points per game aver– age at 7.1 and also recorded 80 as– sists and 76 rebounds. The return of Sprague has a lot of people around San Diego excited as she missed all of last season with an injury. Sprague is a 6-5 center out of Mission Bay High School in San Diego . As a freshman , she had op– ponents impressed as she averaged 14.5 points per game and 5.0 boards a game en route to earning an AII– WCC honorable mention, despite only playing in six conference games due to injury. Her 14.5 points per game average set a new freshman school record for most points per game . Sprague has fully recovered from her injury and will be ready for battle come the start of the season. "It will be key to keep her healthy and to allow her to play some minutes early on and gain some confidence back, and to try and not put too many expectations on her too early," said Fisher. "We are excited as a coach– ing staff to have her back and we will enjoy watching her make a contribu– tion to this program. " Winther, USD's AII-WCC Freshman team member from a year ago, also makes her return for the Toreros. Last season, Winther proved to everyone that she is a scoring threat as she av– eraged 9.1 points per game to place second on the team in this category. Winther came on strong at the end of last season as she finished the sea– son scoring in double digits in six of the final nine games, averaging 11.9 points per game during that stretch. Winther finished the season with 64 rebounds and 34 steals. "Kelly is capable of putting up big numbers for us every night. She is a good defender and is someone that we are going to really count on this year," explained Fisher. "She is very conscientious, loves the game and loves to score. I think she is going to be a fun one to watch develop this year."

With one season under her belt, ead coach Cindy Fisher has the 006-07 University of San Diego omen 's basketball team focused on proving overall as a team and to ake a run at the West Coast Confer– ence title .

Fisher and her coaching staff feel like the time is now for this team and can look to several returners to help cWW,.,a, get the team to achieve their goals . Returning for USO are seniors Ashley ~ Voisinet and Sabine Loewe, junior 1 guard Amanda Rego, and sopho– mores Amber Sprague , Kelly Win– =•,-~-- ther, Kiva Herman and Kaila Man– grum. With these returners, mixed in with an abundance of new talent, Fisher feels good about her team's chances ' ii this season, but knows that the key j to any successful team will be to stay 1 1 healthy. • Loewe, a 6-4 center from Lauch- •1 ~ hammer, Germany, makes her return for the Toreros after having career ,~ highs in total rebounds at 159 (5. 7 per r-i game) , blocks with 17, steals with 20 ~ and minutes played with 869. Loewe . ,I was third on the team with her 7.4 points per game average. Voisinet also posted career-best numbers in 05-06. She set her per– sonal season-best in points scored with 156 (5.8 points per game) , in , rebounds with 133 (4.9 per game), in steals with 29 and in minutes played with 690. "Our senior class of Ashley and Sabine have a lot of minutes on the ••1.•..:T..:i floor for USO and I think that is go– ing to help us down the stretch ," said Fisher. "I think that they have great leadership skills and I think they have I a great urgency to put a stamp on the program." ,_.. .....____ Rego is the lone returning junior on the roster and the coaching staff is --•- - excited about the work she has done

Herman makes her return for the Toreros after a solid freshman cam– paign that saw her gain more and more minutes down the stretch . Her– man played a key role for the Toreros in the final month of the season as she was thrust into more minutes due to injuries. Herman responded and put up good numbers. For the season she averaged 2.1 points per game and 1.2 rebounds per game . Mangrum is the final returner for ... ~~; the Toreros in 2006-07. Mangrum, like Herman, was also forced to play a lot of minutes late in the season due to injuries. Mangrum responded by ~t;=:;, putting up solid numbers and starting in nine of the last 10 games. During that stretch, she posted her first col– legiate double-double in a win against Saint Mary's College as she poured in 12 points coupled with 11 rebounds to help lead USO to victory. On the sea– son , Mangrum averaged 3.3 points per game and 3.4 rebounds per game. ~=~!! USO will also be looking to the newcomers to help the team achieve their goals, and Fisher and her staff have done a great job of recruiting some very talented young ladies.

over the summer. "Amanda has done a phenomenal job this summer," said Fisher. "She has an unbelievable work ethic and has put in the time to make herself a better player. She also has shown some really good leadership for us right now. I think with her size and strength , she is going to be really key

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