Women's Basketball Adds Five for 2009-10 Season
Head Coach Kathy Delaney-Smith and the Harvard women's basketball team will welcome five freshmen this fall.
The newcomers include Jasmine Evans (Menlo Park, Calif.), Emma Golen (Novi, Mich.), Elle Hagedorn (Ambler, Pa.), Victoria Lippert (Del Mar, Calif.) and Miriam Rutzen (Blandinsville, Ill.).
Harvard, who has won two of the last three Ivy League titles, returns seven players, including four who have appeared in the starting lineup.
Jasmine Evans/Menlo Park, Calif./Henry M. Gunn/Guard
Earned four letters in basketball and one in track and
field ... Captained basketball squad all four years ... Named MVP
by De Anza League ... Daily News and Mercury News
Basketball Player of the Year ... Named first-team All De
Anza League and first-team All-Mercury News ... Earned
third-team All Nor-Cal Basketball and all-state honors ...
Named MVP of KSA Classic, Burlingame Basketball Tournament and the
Pinewood Basketball Tournament ... Cal-Hi Basketball Scholar
Athlete of the Year ... Senior and Junior School Athlete of
the Year ... Helped team to first league title, first undefeated
league campaign and best overall record (29-2) in school history
... Team finished season ranked 11th in Nor- Cal after making first
championship appearance at Central Coast Sections ...
Nominated to represent California at the National Young Leaders
Conference in Washington, D.C., in 2007 and 2008 ... Received Gunn
High School awards for outstanding performance and contribution in
chemistry and geometry in 2007 ... National Society of High
School Scholars ... Involved in various fundraising for Gunn High
School.
Emma Golen/Novi, Mich./Detroit Country
Day/Guard/Forward
Four-year letterwinner in basketball and two-year
participant in track and field ... A Street & Smith's
Sporting News honorable mention All-American selection in 2008
and 2009 ... McDonald's High School All-American nominee in 2009
... Named to Oakland County top 50 for girls basketball players by
MIPrepZone and the Detroit Free Press top 100 in 2008-09
... Michigan High School State Athletic Association state finalist
in the discus in 2007 ... High school won Class B state
championship in 2008 and 2009 ... Graduated Magna Cum Laude ...
Member of the Community Service Club ... Chaired school blood drive
and co-founded team's annual fundraising for HAVEN, domestic
violence shelter.
Elle Hagedorn/Ambler, Pa./Mount Saint Joseph
Academy/Guard
Played basketball and soccer and competed in track and
field ... Three-time league all-star ... League MVP as a senior ...
Received the Ferguson Award as a senior for excellence in academic
and basketball and was the Player of the Year for the Catholic
Academies League from the Markward Club of Philadelphia ...
Named second-team all-state by the Associated Press ... Second-team
all-area in ESPN Rise Magazine ... Received
second team All-Southeast Pennsylvania ... High School won the PIAA
AAA State Championships in 2008 and went undefeated during the
regular season in 2009 ... Scored 1,162 points ... First Honors all
four years of high school ... Graduated with Distinguished Honor
... National Merit Commended Student ... Member of the National and
French Honor Societies ... Tutor at St. Vincent's and assistant
coach of St. Anthony's-St. Joseph's CYO track team.
Victoria Lippert/San Diego, Calif./Cathedral Catholic
High School/Guard
Was a four-year letterwinner in basketball ... Served as
captain in final two seasons ... Name to the Cal-Hi Sports
All-State freshman team (2006), sophomore team (2007) and junior
team (2008) ... Earned Cal-Hi Sports All-State Division III in 2008
and 2009 ... A four-time All-San Diego Section honoree ... Named
San Diego Union-Tribune Newcomer of the Year in 2006 ...
Three-time Western League Player of the Year and four-time team MVP
... Led Cathedral Catholic High School to San Diego Section
Division III championship in 2008 ... Three-time Western League
champion ... Scored 2,398 points, which is a school record and
ranks ninth in section history ... Averaged 20.8 points, 9.8
rebounds and 3.8 assists per game as a senior ... San Diego
Union-Tribune Student-Athlete of the Year in 2009 and two-time
all-academic recipient ... Cathedral Catholic Female
Student-Athlete of the Year ... Therapeutics Recreations Services
volunteer and camp leader for YMCA.
Miriam Rutzen/Blandinsville, Ill./West
Central/Center/Forward
Earned four varsity letters in basketball and track and
field and two in volleyball ... A two-year captain of the
basketball team and one-year captain for track ... Named first-team
All-State 1A by the Chicago Sun Times in 2008 and 2009 ...
Earned 1A/2A first-team honors from IBCA in 2009 and second-team in
2007 and 2008 ... A three-time first-team all-conference selection
... Named to the Register Mail All-Area team three times
and selected as player of the year twice ... Made the Peoria
Journal Star All-Area team and the Burlington Hawk
Eye All-Area team from 2007-2009 ... Scored 1,000 career
points ... Valedictorian ... Received Academic Excellence Award
four times ... High Honor Roll all four years ... National Honor
Society ... Student Body President and member of Student Council
... Co-chair of student spirit committee and chair of marquee
committee ... Founder of Showcase Night ... Member of the concert,
marching and pep band ... Part of the Lincoln Trail Conference
Honor Band and St. Ambrose Honor Band ... Founding member and
co-chair of VOICES (student government reform group) ... Member of
Youth Group, Youth Coalition, 4-H, Illini Girl State, DAR Good
Citizen and WYSE, Art, Science, Math and Spanish Clubs.
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