Looking ahead to
the 2015-16 Stanford women’s basketball season, assistant coach Tempie Brown is
upbeat.
Fans can expect “a
younger team, a quicker team,” Tempie said. She spoke briefly at a tailgate
party for men’s and women’s basketball season ticket holders preceding a Stanford
baseball game the afternoon of May 17.
Also speaking was
men’s assistant coach Tim O’Toole.
Reflecting on the
past year, Tempie said, “This season was very exciting. We had a great bunch of
kids.”
Now she’s looking
forward to working with the 10 returning players as well as the four promising
freshmen-to-be.
She noted that
freshman forward Kaylee Johnson, sophomore guard Lili Thompson and sophomore
forward Erica “Bird” McCall spent the weekend in Colorado Springs, Colo., for the 2015 USA Basketball Women’s Pan American Games and World
University Games team trials.
At the end of the
weekend, Bird was named to the 12-member WUG team that will compete in South Korea
Updating the condition of two sophomores, she said that guard
Karlie Samuelson is improving after suffering a broken finger late in the
Pac-12 season, and forward Kailee Johnson is rehabbing from “an ongoing injury. ... We could really use her,” Tempie said.
Returning players are working on skills and conditioning. The
coaches can spend two hours a week with them.
In the meantime, the coaches are staying in contact with the incoming
freshmen, who have been given workouts to follow before they arrive June 20. Summer
school classes begin June 22.
