Rock Valley College Athletics

Women's Basketball: Defending champs travel to Sugar Grove to play Waubonsee CC

12/17/2015 9:32:00 AM

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Upcoming Date
Dec. 17 vs. Waubonsee CC, 5:00 PM; Sugar Grove, IL

Probable Starters
Rock Valley College (9-4)
PG- Jaycee Cleaver, 5'8, Fr., Davis, IL; 8.5 ppg, 3.3 rpg
SG- Brianna Davis, 5'8, So., Rockford, IL; 16.6 ppg, 3.3 rpg
G- Paige Wogen, 5'9, Fr., Dekalb, IL; 5.8 ppg, 1.1 apg
F- Hayley Anderson, 6'0, So., Belvidere, IL; 0.5 ppg, 1.4rpg
C- Tierra McGowan, 6'3, Fr., Chicago, IL; 10.1 ppg, 11.4 rpg
6th- Creighton Fed, 5'9, Fr, Carpentersville, IL; 8.3 ppg, 1.8 apg
 
Waubonsee Community College (8-4)
G-Coriesha Bailey, 5'5, So, Rockford, IL; 14.3 ppg, 4.5 apg
G- Julianna Wadsworth, 5'9, So, Oswego,IL; 19.3 ppg, 3.4 apg
G- Jewel Hope-, 5'6, Fr., Plano, IL; 1.8 ppg, 0.5 rpg
F- Janae Rowe, 5'8, So, Joliet, IL; 9.0 ppg, 6.0 rpg
C-Tynia Flores, 5'9, So, Rockford, IL; 3.4 ppg, 3.7 rpg
6^th- Elizatbeth Skaggs, 5'10, So, Aurora, IL; 14.9ppg, 6.5rpg

Waubonsee Community College Notes
Waubonsee Community College is an NJCAA DII member of the Skyway Conference located in Sugar Grove, IL… Head Coach is Jim Sury who took over the Lady Chiefs' program last season from longtime head coach Dana Wagner and guided the team to the program's first ever berth in the NJCAA National Tournament...The unranked and unheralded Lady Chiefs grabbed the Region IV Division II District K title for the first time ever and finished 11th in the nation at the national tournament in Kansas City.

Rock Valley College Notes
The Golden Eagles are an NJCAA D3 member of the N4C Conference... RVC women's basketball is in a "Golden Age" of their program having won 3 of the last 4 NJCAA D3 national championships (2012, 2013, 2015) and earning national runner-up in 2014… Rock Valley is currently 9-4 on the season and ranked #4 in the NJCAA D3 national poll… RVC is coming off a big home win over Kennedy King on Tuesday night 90-86.


(Misty Opat - RVC Athletics)
Misty Opat is in her 7th year as the Head Women's Basketball Coach at Rock Valley College. Opat has established her program as one of the best in the history of the NJCAA. Her program has won three NJCAA DIII National Championships (2012, 2013, 2015) in the past four seasons and finished in National Runner-Up in 2014. Entering this season, Opat has compiled an overall record of 151-47 (.763). She was named Spalding NJCAA DIII National Coach of the Year in 2015, has been named the Illinois Basketball Coaches Association Coach of the Year four times, the Region IV Coach of the Year four times, the District 2 Coach of the Year four times, and the Coach of the NJCAA DIII National Tournament three times. Prior to RVC, Opat accumulated seven years of NCAA Division I coaching experience. From 1999-2002 she served as an assistant coach at the University of Illinois at Chicago where she also served as the Recruiting Coordinator. In 2000 her UIC recruiting class was ranked 19th in the country for NCAA Division I. Opat also held assistant coaching positions at Fresno State University (1998-99) and the University of Kansas (1995-1998) where in both cases she was also heavily involved in recruiting and scouting. Opat earned an Associate of Science degree from Garden City Community College in Garden City, Kansas, where she was a two-year team captain in basketball and was named to the all-conference and all-region teams in both seasons. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Bethany College in Lindsborg, Kansas, where she earned NAIA All-American honors as a player. Opat then went on to obtain a Master of Science in Sports Administration from Fort Hays State University in Hays, Kansas.