Jenny Clark's Basketball Blog
 Throughout
the year, guard Jenny Clark will be writing a blog to give Queen Bee
basketball fans an inside look at the Queen Bees.
Sept. 16, 2009
Welcome back Queen Bee fans!
I’d like to start off by saying; I hope all of you had a
great summer. My summer was filled with work, training for basketball, and
filling out physical therapy applications. Although very busy, I did manage to
squeeze in a week trip to Colorado with my parents, to visit my two older
brothers who live in Fort Collins.
Over the summer our team managed to take part in a few
different fundraising events and get together a few times to play some
basketball. A few of us girls volunteered at the golf outing at TPC Deere Run,
which is put on by the athletic programs here at SAU. Some of the girls also
helped with cleaning a house that needed things done like taking down the wall
paper and removing the carpet.
Now that we are in our 4thweek of school and 3rd
week of pre-season workouts, I honestly couldn’t have been more eager to get
started with this season and get back to work with my team and coaches! I would
like to welcome our new-comers and their families to our team; Annie
Smith-sophomore from Davenport, Colleen Krahn-freshman from Chicago, Sarah
Medland-freshman from Peoria, and Stephanie Pogwizd- freshman from Aurora. We
have a great group of girls this year and are really working hard to get ready
for our official practices to start.
I’d also like to recognize a few girls on our team who have
had really good performances over the past few weeks during our pre-season
workouts. Lauren Ryan and Tara Sigona have had great success this past month and
I’m really excited about the strides they have already made.
I thank you again for all of your support and hope you are
looking forward to this year as much as we are!
April 26, 2009
I can't believe this school year is almost done and how fast it has flown by!
We are now down to one week of regular classes then finals week! With finals
week coming up and school ending, our team is hoping to still reach one of our
goals set at the beginning of the year which was to be top 20 in the country
academically. We are so close and I hope we get there!
Our team just finished our 6th week of post-season workouts, where we did a
lot of scrimmaging and weight training. We had a lot of players do a lot of good
things in those six weeks, especially Lauren Ryan and Megan Storjohann. Those
two put together a tremendous post season for themselves and I was extremely
pleased to see how much they gained individually in that short of time.
Over the past week our team has also gotten to experience a few pretty cool
things together. We first all got an opportunity to go see the SAU spring
musical "Sweeney Todd." The theater department did such a good job with
everything and the actors were great. We also attended a leadership academy as a
team last week. At this event, one of our own, Dr. John Byrnes, was our speaker
in which he talked about going after your dreams and setting your goals high. He
really is amazing and his accomplishments are outstanding. He ran 100 miles
through the Rocky Mountains in 30 hours! Wow!
Well thank you again to our fans and supporters. The last few months of
school are always different not being able to see everyone's family and friends
every week at our games!
March 15, 2009
Although this season ended a few weeks earlier than we all would've liked,
Coach reminded us after our tough loss to not forget how great of a second
semester we had. As much as I wish I could of said we were going to Sioux City
for the National Tournament, I can't help but to be extremely proud of the 13-3
finish our team put together. We came together, fought hard, and I can't say
enough good things about the girls I played with this season. Before we left for
spring break, we gathered for a great team meeting which was extremely
motivating when looking toward post season and next year!
I, as well as our team, would like to thank Coach Nate and Coach Goetz for
everything they've done for us this year. We are lucky to have them here at SAU,
and I can't wait to see what comes from all of us working together to get to
Sioux City next year!!
Thank you to all of those who traveled to watch our final game at Iowa
Wesleyan. Your support never goes unappreciated and it means the world to all of
us to have you there in the stands.
A huge congratulations to Ali Dolphin who received MCC Player of the Year.
This award is well deserved Ali, and I am so proud of all that she has
accomplished already. Also, a thank you and congrats to Amy Fulfs on a
tremendous senior year. She has been such an amazing teammate and friend to all
us of. Her hard work over the past two years is very much appreciated and she
will be extremely missed on and off the court next year. We love you!
Thanks again to all who have supported us along our journey this year!
Feb. 13, 2009
To start off, I just want to thank all of the parents and fans again for
cheering us on down this final stretch. We survived a tough spurt of 4 games in
8 days and have been playing great basketball with a record of 11-3 in our last
14 games! Our hard work and great play has earned us a home game in the first
round of the MCC tournament. With only two more regular season games before the
tournament, we will be working hard to end this season with a bang!
Another congratulations to Ali Dolphin in reaching her 1000th career point
vs. Viterbo last Saturday. What an amazing accomplishment as a sophomore, and
she is only getting better. I also ask that we all keep Megan Cash in our
thoughts as she will be working to recover from her recent ACL tear.
Thanks again for all of the support, and Mrs. Dolphin if you're reading this,
the goodie bags and treats have been amazing lately! :)
Jan. 27, 2009
To all Queen Bee fans and recruits, this is Jenny Clark. I am going to start
doing a bi-weekly blog to keep you all updated on the life of the Queen Bees! As
starters, I can't tell you all enough how much I love being a Bee, and being
a part of this program! We have become a very close team/family this year and I
hope all of you have enjoyed any games you may have seen!
We just recently had our first 5 game winning streak of the season, which
included a trip to St. Mary of the Woods! The trip was a great experience for us
as a team, and we also got a great UNO tournament in at the hotel! With prizes
at stake, things got competitive, people were accused of cheating, and my abs
hurt the next morning from laughing so much! :) Needless to say this season has
been a fun ride so far and we are looking forward to the rest of the season!
Also, a huge THANK YOU to all of our parents who helped out with the
great meal after our Grand View game. Especially the Graziano family, it doesn't
get much better than Italian home cooking!!
REMINDER: There is an Alumni game on Saturday, February 7th. Our Women's game
begins at 1:00 and the Alumni game will be going on before then! Hope to see you
all there!!
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