A total of 16 home contests at Mizzou Arena and games with 15 opponents that reached postseason play last season highlight the Missouri women's basketball team's 2008-09 schedule, released Thursday by Head Coach Cindy Stein.
The Missouri women's basketball team celebrated the start of the 2008-09 school year with the its annual Picnic Saturday, Aug. 23 at the Clinton Club in Mizzou Arena. All 13 members of the 2008-09 were on hand as Head Coach Cindy Stein welcomed the student-athletes and their families to another exciting year of Mizzou women's basketball.
Seven current and former Missouri women's basketball players took home the championship in the women's competitive 19 and over division at the Show-Me State Games on Sunday, Aug. 3. Named "Unleashed," the team won all seven of its games in the games.
Incoming University of Missouri freshman women's basketball player Bailey Gee (Andover, Kan. / Andover Central) was named the Lynette Woodard Female High School Athlete of the Year by the Greater Wichita Area Sports Commission on Friday, June 27. She is the second consecutive Missouri recruit to earn the award after Bekah Mills won the award in 2007.
Proving they excel in the classroom as well as on the basketball court, University of Missouri women's basketball signees Kendra Frazier (Altamont, Kan.) and Bailey Gee (Andover, Kan.) were named valedictorians of their respective high schools. Frazier, who attended Labette County High School, graduated on May 17 while Andover Central High School product Bailey Gee graduated on May 18.
Mizzou (5-1, 1-1) travels to Austin, Texas, where they'll take on the nation's #1-ranked Texas Longhorns (6-0, 2-0) Saturday night at 7 p.m. The game will be shown nationally on ABC.
Mizzou Basketball hosted its inaugural Douglass Park Basketball Clinic on Saturday Oct. 11 and better than 40 area youths turned out for the two-hour camp.
Missouri opened play in the Price's Give `em Five on Monday in Las Cruces, N.M. and stands in a tie for 10th place. Junior Julia Potter had the best round of the day for the Tigers, carding a one-over-par 73 on Monday to put her in a tie for fifth place.