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Mission Statement
ILLINOIS LADY WOLVERINES
“WE PLAY HARD ALL THE TIME…EVERYTIME!”
Welcome to the Illinois Lady Wolverines Basketball Club. Our goal is to provide skill training at the most fundamental and competitive level while thriving in a positive atmosphere beneficial to your daughter. Now in our 7th year of girl’s competitive basketball, we aim to teach the fundamentals of the game to the inexperienced as well as continuing to improve our current players as they further their basketball careers. We are a full service, year around basketball club providing skill clinics as well as travel teams. We provide our teams with the best competition available. Our teams also benefit by receiving exposure to college recruiters and scouts through the summer exposure tournament circuit. Our coaching staff is very experienced while coaching the kids in a motivating but positive manner. Every girl will receive the attention and teaching they need to be the most competitive player possible. You will find any information you need on this website from schedules to photos to contact information and much more. Please feel free to contact me at any time with questions or comments concerning our club. Thank you for your interest in the Illinois Lady Wolverines Basketball Club. Have a great day and may God Bless you!
Ron Newquist
Coach and Founder
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| FINAL RESULTS AAU NATIONALS |
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 16-UNDER AAU NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS 2008
DISNEY WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS COMPLEX
ORLANDO, FLORIDA
WOLVERINES ELITE 16-U TEAM PLACES 9TH
THE WOLVERINES ELITE TEAM FINISHED WITH A 5-2 RECORD ON ITS WAY TO A 9TH PLACE FINISH OUT OF A FIELD OF 74 TEAMS. COMPETING AGAINST THE COUNTRIES BEST COMPETITION, THE WOLVERINES ELITE TEAM STARTED BY FINISHING 4-1 IN POOL PLAY. THIER ONLY LOSS COMING TO THE CONNECTICUT BREEZE, 4TH PLACE FINISHERS LAST YEAR. THE TEAM DEFEATED THE THE GEORGIA PEARLS ELITE 73-61 ( KERSTEN MAGRUM 16 PTS 9 RB-KAILA TURNER 15 PTS 7 ASST.-CICI SHANNON 13 RB 5 BLOCKED SHOTS-VAL FINNIN 9 PTS-MARISSA DRAPER 9 PTS 3 ASST.-MALLORY EGGERT 8 PTS 8 RB-KAITLYN RAY 5 PTS 4 RB-ALYSSA CARLSON 8 PTS 4 ASST-KATY HANNEMANN 4 PTS 9 RB) THE ORLANDO COMETS 76-46 (MAGRUM 23 PTS 8 RB-TURNER 15 PTS 11 ASST-SHANNON 10 PTS 12 RB-CARLSON 9 PTS 5 ASST-DRAPER 7 PTS 7 RB-FINNIN 7 PTS 4 ASST-RAY 5 PTS 4 ASST-HANNEMANN 9 RB-EGGERT 11 RB), THE LOUISIANA ROCKETS 82-63 AND THE OHIO CBC NEXT LEVEL 80-69. THE WOLVERINES THEN ADVANCED TO THE CHAMPIONSHIP BRACKET AND THE FINAL 32 TO FACE THE JAMES RIVER BLAZE OF VIRGINIA. THE GAME WAS A SEE-SAW BATTLE FEATURING MANY LEAD CHANGES, THE WOLVERINES HAD TO BATTLE BACK TWICE FROM SIZEABLE DEFICITS AND ENDED UP PULLING OUT THE VICTORY BY A SCORE OF 78-70. THE TEAM THEN ADVANCED TO THE SWEET SIXTEEN FOR THE THIRD STRAIGHT YEAR (TURNER 20 PTS 7 ASST-MAGRUM 21 PTS 12 RB-FINNIN 24 PTS SEVEN THREE'S-EGGERT 10 PTS-RAY 8 PTS 4 ASST-DRAPER 7 RB-HANNEMANN 8 RB-SHANNON 7 RB 6 BLOCKED SHOTS, FACING A TOUGH TASK GOING AGAINST LAST YEARS DEFENDING NATIONAL CHAMPS THE NEW YORK SILVER BULLETS. BOASTING TWO 6'5 POST PLAYERS AND THE NUMBER ONE SEED THE WOLVERINES KNEW THEY WERE IN FOR A BATTLE. AFTER SEVERAL LEAD CHANGES THE TEAM FOUND THEMSELVES DOWN BY TWO POINTS WITH THE NEW YORK TEAM SHOOTING THE FRONT END OF A ONE ON ONE. THE FREE THROW WAS MISSED AND KERSTEN MAGRUM REBOUNDED THE BALL WITH 9.4 SECONDS ON THE CLOCK, SHE DROVE THE LENGTH OF THE COURT AND WITH PRESSURE FROM BOTH SIDES PULLED UP AND HIT WHAT APPEARED T O BE THE GAME TYING SHOT, ALL GIRLS WENT CRASHING TO THE GROUND. THE TOP OFFICIAL CALLED THE BASKET GOOD AND SIGNIFIED A DEFENSIVE FOUL, THE BOTTOM OFFICIAL BLEW HIS WHISTLE AND AFTER A BRIEF EXCHANGE OF SIGNALS THE BOTTOM OFFICIAL CALLED AN OFFENSIVE FOUL ON MAGRUM. NEEDLESS TO SAY THE BASKET WAS WAIVED OFF AND THE TEAM HAD LOST THE GAME 56-54 (TURNER 22 PTS 6 ASST-MAGRUM 20 PTS 13 RB. "IT WAS THE MOST HEARTBREAKING LOSS I HAVE EVER BEEN INVOLVED IN ALL OF THESE YEARS COACHING, KERSTEN MADE THE HARD SHOT AND THE CALL JUST DIDNT GO OUR WAY. I TOLD THE GIRLS THEY HAVE NOTHING THE BE ASHAMED OF, THEY PLAYED THIER HEARTS OUT AND MADE THE ILLINOIS WOLVERINES, MYSELF AND THIER PARENTS VERY PROUD! NOT TO MENTION THE UNBELIEVABLE AMOUNT OF COLLEGE COACHES IN ATTENDANCE AT EACH AND EVERY GAME, THE GIRLS HELPED THIER STOCK RISE EVEN MORE! WORDS CANNOT DESCRIBE THE RESPECT AND ADMIRATION I HAVE FOR THESE GIRLS, THEY WERE SIMPLY AWESOME. THE WOLVERINES ELITE TEAM FINISHES WITH THE 9TH PLACE FINISH OVERALL FOR THE SECOND STRAIGHT YEAR. THE TEAM NOW MOVES ON TO PLAY IN THE BEST OF THE MIDWEST NCAA OBSERVATION TOURNAMENT AND THE US JUNIOR NATIONAL TOURNAMENT NEXT WEEK TO FINISH OFF THE SUMMER.
WOLVERINES 16-U ELITE ROSTER
ALYSSA CARLSON
MARISSA DRAPER
MALLORY EGGERT
VALERIE FINNIN
KATY HANNEMANN
KERSTEN MAGRUM
KAITLYN RAY
CICI SHANNON
KAILA TURNER
CONGRATULATIONS WOLVERINES ELITE!
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| COACH RON NEWQUIST FUTURE STARS BASKETBALL CAMP |
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 JULY SUMMER SKILLS EXTRAVAGANZA!
Coach Ron Newquist will be conducting an individual skills basketball camp for boys and girls ages 7-16 from 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. Monday thru Thursday, July 28-29-30-31. The camp will be held at the St. James Health & Wellness Center in Chicago Heights. (The gym is located just west of Halsted St. off of Vollmer Road, turn into parking lot E the gym is the building at the end of the parking lot, north of Prairie State College) The clinic will have kids working on improving their all around skills, ball handling, passing, shooting, defense, rebounding, individual moves and playing within the team concept while facing game situations. Ron Newquist, who has been coaching basketball at the grade school, high school and college level for 24 years, will run the camp. Local high school coaches as well as current college and high school players will also be working the camp. For more information and registration, please call coach Ron Newquist at 708-259-8067 or you may go to www.illinoisladywolverines.com and you will find information and a registration form for FUTURE STARS BASKETBALL CAMP. You may also sign up the day of the camp at the site. The cost for the clinic will be $70.00 for the 4-day event. The cost includes a camp T-shirt.
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| News: WOLVERINES COLLEGE COMMITMENTS |
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 WOLVERINES COLLEGE COMMITMENTS
PATRICE KING WILL CONTINUE HER EDUCATION AND BASKETBALL CAREER AT BALL STATE UNIVERSITY AS SHE HAS ACCEPTED A FULL RIDE SCHOLARSHIP AND WILL ATTEND SCHOOL THERE IN THE FALL.
CANDACE SYKES WILL CONTINUE HER EDUCATION AND BASKETBALL CAREER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AS SHE HAS ACCEPTED A FULL RIDE SCHOLARSHIP AND WILL ATTEND SCHOOL THERE IN THE FALL
ALYSHA FERRY WILL CONTINUE HER EDUCATION AND BASKETBALL CAREER AT ST. XAVIER UNIVERSITY AS SHE HAS ACCEPTED A SCHOLARSHIP AND WILL ATTEND SCHOOL THERE IN THE FALL
MALLORY EGGERT HAS VERBALLY COMMITTED TO ST. LOUIS UNIVERSITY FOR A FULL RIDE SCHOLARSHIP AND PLANS TO CONTINUE HER EDUCATION AND BASKETBALL CAREER IN THE FALL
KAILA TURNER HAS VERBALLY COMMITTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME FOR A FULL RIDE SCOLARSHIP AND PLANS TO CONTINUE HER EDUCATION AND BASKETBALL CAREER IN THE FALL
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| News: 16-U BLACK CAPTURES 16-U TITLE AT US JUNIOR NATIONALS |
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Wolverines 16-u Black team captured the championship of the US Junior Nationals this past weekend by defeating the KC Select Team out of Missouri. This concludes the summer for the 16-u Black Team. The girls beat Indiana Red in the quarter-finals then defeated Iowa Elite in the semi-finals before taking down KC Select in the title contest. This caps off a incredible summer that had the team placing 9th at AAU Nationals Championships in Orlando Florida, capturing the Nike Showcase 16-u title, placing 2nd at the US Junior Nationals Spring Championships as well as numerous other tournament titles.
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WOLVERINES 16-U BLACK TEAM PLACE 9TH AT AAU NATIONALS CHAMPS AT NIKE SHOWCASE
THE 16-U BLACK TEAM PLACED 9TH AT 17-U AAU NATIONALS LAST WEEK. AFTER STARTING OUT WITH A TOUGH LOSS 84-80 TO THE NUMBER ONE SEED DAYTON LADY HOOP STARS THE TEAM TOOK A EARLY LEAD ON THEIR NEXT POOL PLAY OPPONENT ONLY TO HAVE IT SLIP AWAY AND LOSE 74-66. SITTING 0-2 IN POOL PLAY THE TEAM BEGAN IT'S SLOW BUT SURE COMEBACK BY WINNING THEIR NEXT 5 GAMES TO REACH THE SWEET 16. THEY WOULD FACE OFF AGAINST TENNESSEE TEAM PRIDE WHO PLACED 3RD LAST YEAR AT NATIONALS TO THE WOLVERINES 5TH PLACE FINISH. IT WAS A EPIC BATTLE WITH SEVERAL LEAD CHANGES WHEN FATE WOULD DEAL THE WOLVERINES A BAD HAND. IN THE FINAL 8 MINUTES 3 WOLVERINE STARTERS WOULD FOUL OUT LEAVING THE TEAM TO FINISH THE GAME WITH NO SUBSTITUTES FOR THE STRETCH RUN. EVENTUALLY THEY RAN OUT OF GAS DROPPING A 90-84 DECISION. THE TEAM FINISHED WITH THE 9TH PLACE RANKING. " WORDS CANNOT DESCRIBE HOW PROUD I AM OF MY GIRLS, WE KNEW IT WOULD BE TOUGHER THIS YEAR BECAUSE THEY COMBINED THE 16'S AND 17'S TOGETHER AND WE WERE ESSENTIALLY PLAYING UP AS A TRUE 16-U TEAM ALSO SEVERAL COLLEGES COACHES WERE ABLE TO SEE THE GIRLS AT THEIR BEST, IT WAS EXCITING.
THE EFFORT MY TEAM GAVE WAS SECOND TO NONE AND AS AN ORGANIZATION WE COULD NOT BE PROUDER " STATED COACH RON NEWQUIST. THE TEAM THE WOLVERINES LOST TO MADE IT TO THE CHAMPIONSHIP OUT OF THE 102 TEAM FIELD LOSING THE GAME TO EVENTUAL CHAMPION BOO WILLIAMS.
WOLVERINES 16-U BLACK CHAMPIONS AT NIKE SHOWCASE
THE WOLVERINES CAME OFF OF GREAT FINISH AT AAU NATIONALS ONLY TO REGROUP FOR ONE DAY AND ROLL TO THE 16-U CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE NIKE SUMMER SHOWCASE. THE TEAM WENT A PERFECT 8-0 BY DEFEATING IN POOL PLAY, MERCADEL HOOPS OF CALIFORNIA, MISSISSIPPI FIRE, ST. LOUIS SPIRIT, MINNESOTA LYNX AND THE FAMILY-INDIANA. IN CHAMPIONSHIP BRACKET PLAY THEY DISPATCHED THE TEAM INDIANA ELITE AND WENT ON THE BEAT LAKE ORION PISTONS OF MICHIGAN IN THE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME. THE TEAM PLAYED THE QUARTER FINALS AT 1:20, THE SEMI-FINALS AT 4:00 AND THE CHAMPIONSHIP AT 6:00 WITH ONLY 6 GIRLS DUE TO INJURIES. "I WAS AMAZED AND IMPRESSED WITH THE EFFORT THESE GIRLS GAVE KNOWING FULL WELL THEY WERE EXHAUSTED, THEY NEVER QUIT AND IT SHOWED, I AM VERY PROUD OF THEM STATED COACH RON NEWQUIST.
THE CHAMPIONSHIP ROSTER
MALLORY EGGERT
ALYSHA FERRY
KATIE HANNAMEN
PATRICE KING
KERSTEN MAGRUM
CANDACE SYKES
KAILA TURNER
BRITTANY JONES
COACH RON NEWQUIST
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· Date: 19 Jul 2008
· Time: 12:30:21
· GMT: -0700
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