Women’s Basketball prep for season opener

October 23, 2015

Dayton, Ohio – First year head coach Victoria Jones (took over halfway through last season) is prepping for Sinclair Women’s Basketball season opener on Monday November 2nd against UC Clermont College and home opener on Monday November 9th against Cedarville University.  The Pride were 19-12 (8-6) last season which was good enough for a third place tie with Cincinnati State in the OCCAC, but first place is what every team strives for.

Sinclair is projected to place fourth this season in the OCCAC Women’s Basketball preseason coach’s poll with Owens projected to repeat as champions.

Top returner, Alona Skipper, finished fourth on the team last season with 9.4 points per game.  Also, Jones was able to recruit Madison Schroeder (6’1”) who averaged 7.3 points and 7.1 rebounds per game for NCAA Division II Ursuline College last season.

This season is looking to be an exciting one for our Women Tartans.  The schedule includes a “Pink Game” for breast cancer awareness on February 17th against The Ohio State University-Lima at 5:30 P.M.  Sophomore night for the Women’s Basketball Team will be held on February 27th against Edison Community College at 1:00 P.M.

ASHLEY CAMPBELL BREAKS UD’S CAREER SCORING RECORD IN 2-0 WIN OVER RHODE ISLAND

KINGSTON, R.I. –  Senior Ashley Campbell became the University of Dayton’€™s all-time leader in career goals when she scored two in the first seven minutes of the match at Rhode Island Thursday night at the URI Soccer Complex. She led the Dayton women’s soccer team (7-9-0, 5-2-0 A-10) to a 2-0 shutout road victory over Rhode Island (3-12-1, 0-7-0 A-10), the Flyers€™ second consecutive Atlantic 10 Conference win.

Dayton, Ohio – Today after practice the Men’s Basketball team put in a little prep work for their trip to Washington, not on their first opponent the Naval Academy but for a visit to the Tomb of the Unknown.  Officer Tommy Schloss of the Dayton Police Department served as a Relief Commander at the Tomb for 18 months and spoke with the team about being a member of U.S. Army “The Old Guard” and the honor of walking the post.

Sinclair will play the U.S. Naval Academy Developmental team on Sunday November 1st in the first game of the 2015-16 season.  While in DC, the team plans to visit Arlington National Cemetery and watch the Changing of the Guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Solider.  Other activities planned while in Washington include; a tour of the White House, Capitol, Supreme Court, Lincoln Memorial, Martin L. King Memorial, Vietnam & Korean War Memorials, WWII Memorial and a special visit to Walter Reed Hospital to visit some of our Wounded Warriors coming back from overseas.

 

In little over a week, the team will be standing in front of the Tomb.  Thanks to Officer Schloss, they will have a better understanding of the 21 steps and 21 seconds as well as the attention to every detail surrounding the Tomb and ceremony.