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As the two senior players prepare for their last home game, they remember their time as Jayhawks
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Senior center Krysten Boogaard puts up a basket. Boogaard will graduate with a degree in sociology and continue playing with the national team.
Krysten Boogaard
IMPRESSIONS UPON ARRIVAL
BY ANDREW WIEBE Friday, Jan. 18, 2008
For weeks before Big 12 Conference play, senior forward Taylor McIntosh told freshman center Krysten Boogaard how much more intense games would become in January.
McIntosh's sage advice didn't fall on deaf ears.
"She told us it's going to get a
lot harder, and it definitely has," Boogaard said. "We have just got to keep our composure."
At 6-foot-5, Boogaard had begun showing flashes of her offensive potential against the smaller post players Kansas faced before Big 12 Conference games.
keep out composure. She learned quickly that what passed for quality post play in November and December is much different against the likes of Oklahoma State, Nebraska and Baylor.
athletic posts more challenging
Despite impressing during the jayhawks' fast start, Boogaard found life against stronger and more
After benefiting from the anonymity of being a freshman, Boogaard said Big 12 teams were putting together better game plans against the Jayhawks than their nonconference counterparts.
IMPRESSIONS UPON DEPARTURE Fond memories helps center look forward
BY KATHLEEN GIER
kgier@kansan.com
Krysten Boogaard, the 6-foot-5 senior center from Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, is ready to graduate.
graduate.
"I am excited, very excited."
Boogaard said. "It just feels really good especially for all the support we have had throughout the years."
we have had throughout 12 athletes
Boogaard, one of 12 athletes
chosen for the inaugural class at
Canada Basketball's National Elite
Development Academy in 2006,
led the Canadian Junior National
Team to the silver medal last summer
at the FIBA Americas Under-18
Championships.
Her freshman year she was third in scoring and rebounding while playing all 33 games and starting 21. Boogaard had four double-doubles on the season and was named to the Big 12 All-Freshman Team by the Waco Tribune-Herald and the Dallas Morning News. She also earned a spot on the Big 12 All-Rookie Team.
Her sophomore year, Boogaard started 29 of 32 games. Missing four with a stress reaction in her left femur, she averaged 8.8 points and 5.2 rebounds during Kansas' run to the WNIT Finals.
"Although we didn't come out on the best end of it, it was still a great experience," Boogaard said.
Last season, she averaged 8.7
points and 4.2 rebounds per game. She shot 61.2 percent ranking sixth on the Kansas single-season chart for field goal percentage.
After graduating with a degree in sociology, Boogaard plans to continue playing with the national team, trying out for the Pan Am team.
"It feels good to know that your name is going to be put on the wall with all the other women," Boogaard said. "It is good to know that I am leaving that behind."
for held goal percentage. This season, Boogaard etched her name in Kansas women's basketball history, joining the elite group of women who scored more than 1,000 points in their Bareer.
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Marisha Brown IMPRESSIONS UPON ARRIVAL
BEN WARD
Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009
BY CHRISTIAN LUCERO
As a junior college transfer, Marisha Brown never thought adjusting to the Division one level of play would be easy.
"The competition is never as great, so it's going to be hard to get used to." Brown said.
But Brown is well-acustomed
to change, her move to Lawrence marking the third college she has attended in three years. As for work in the classroom goes, Brown said she doesn't foresee any problems, but that the work on the court is a challenge — one that she is more than up to.
"Now that everyone's as athletic as everyone else, all I can do now is work to be as athletic as I can and get better every day," Brown said.
Brown should help bolster the Jayhawk backcourt with what Henrickson described as a combination of speed, athleticism and strength. Add to that list her in-game experience: She started all 32 of her team's games last season and averaged 14 points and seven rebounds per contest.
She also said that her coaches and teammates were making the transition easier.
IMPRESSIONS UPON DEPARTURE As a transfer, Brown appreciates Kansas
BY KATHLEEN GIER kgier@kansan.com
Senior guard Marisha Brown has been in the news lately with a two-game suspension after violating team rules. Earlier in the season, she broke her foot and missed a series of games. Brown is now back and ready to finish the season.
Brown graduated from Center High School in Kansas City, Mo. She started all four years for the basketball team and also competed in track and field and volleyball.
"I am from the Missouri side so I never thought I would be going at
Kansas," Brown said.
Her freshman year Brown played at Missouri State. She played all 30 games and was named to the Missouri Valley Conference All-Freshman Team.
man team.
Brown played her sophomore season with Arkansas-Fort Smith where she started all 32 games in which she played. She received All-Conference honors after posting 14 points and seven rebounds on average for the season.
Her junior year she transferred to Kansas. She played in all 21 games averaging two points and 2.3.
Kansas, Brown salen Despite early reservations, she enjoyed her time at Kansas.
rebounds for the season.
"The tradition here at Kansas has been my favorite, especially being a transfer student from other schools. I have never been to a place like this with the fan support and the comradeie on the team is a great thing to be a part of," Brown said.
Kansas. "It is something you will never forget being able to play in Allen Fieldhouse and at Kansas University where basketball is so big here," Brown said.
Brown said she would not forget the athletes, coaches or the crowd at Kansas.
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Senior guard Marisha Brown puts up an off balance shot in the second half of a game this season. Brown said she would not forget the athletes, coaches or the crowd at Kansas.
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Two finalists announced for Comeback Award
BY KATHLEEN GIER kgier@kansan.com
Kansas sophomores Thomas Robinson and Angel Goodrich were named as finalists for the V Foundation Comeback Award. The award is presented by the V Foundation for Cancer Research in conjunction with ESPN.
The award is presented in memory of Jim Valvano, who was a basketball coach and ESPN commentator. His personal battle with cancer inspired the creation
of The V Foundation. Awards will be presented during ESPN's basketball coverage in early April.
There are nine other finalists. Kansas is the only school with two finalists.
The annual award is open to men and women student athletes who accomplish
Robinson
a personal triumph facing adversity in health, life or moral dilemmas. Athletic
department representatives nominate student athletes.
"This year's finalists for the V
Foundation Comeback Award truly exemplify courage and determination in the face of adversity," said V Foundation CEO Nick Valvano in a press release.
Goodrich
"The nominees are exemplars"
young people who embody The V Foundation's, "Don't Give Up' attitude"
Goodrich tore her ACL in her right knee during her second collegiate practice and spent the rest of the season in rehab. Goodrich recorded 100 assists the next season before tearing the ACL in her right knee 15 games into her redshirt freshman season. After three games her sophomore season, Goodrich was sidelined for seven games after surgery to repair scar tissue in her right knee.
Robinson suffered through the deaths of three immediate family members in a 21-day span. He was sidelined for three games by a slight meniscus tear in his right knee.
Goodrich serves as a role model in the Native American community and speaks to local groups about persevering through hard times.
The Kansas sophomores are each continuing their seasons with success as both teams approach their last regular season games Saturday.
Edited by Sarah Gregory
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