Women's Basketball

October 31, 2007

WATERBURY, Conn.-The Post University women's basketball team opens the 2007-08 season on November 15 at Merrimack College, before returning to the Drubner Center on November 20 for the home opener against New York Tech. The team, along with new Head Coach Tracey Garofalo has been practicing since October 15 in preparation for the season opener. Below are a few notes to preview the upcoming season.

**The Post University women's basketball program, begins a new era this season, as Tracey Garofalo takes over the reigns of the program after coaching in the high school ranks ... She graduated from Post in 2002, when twas known as Teikyo Post, as the school's all-time leading scorer with 1,510 points ... She is also the head coach of the softball program at Post.

**Last season, the Eagles won five of its last eight games of the regular season to reach the CACC Championship for the second time in as many years ... Post would fall to the eventual Champion, Holy Family in the first round.

**Senior LaToya Coley was the third leading scorer for the Eagles last year, she averaged 11.0 points per game, recording double-digits in 15 games for the Green and White ... Her season-best came against Nyack with a 29-point effort on November 28.

**Post led the CACC in three-point field goals made last season ... The Eagles return two of there top-three three-points shooters in Coley and senior Jen Rose ... Post sank 185 treys last season, for an average of 6.61 per game ... Coley was second in the conference with 74 three-pointers, and recorded a gaudy 41.3 percent (74-179) three-point field goal percentage ... Rose nailed 37 treys and had a 30.3 (37-122) field goal percentage from downtown.

**Post was the third best team in the CACC a year ago in steals with 292 thefts ... As a team, Post averaged 10.43 steals per game ... Former Eagle Marjorie Prado was second in the conference with 81 (3.0 per game).

**Post will play nine of its first 13 games on the road, but finish up with five of its last seven in the friendly confines of the Drubner Center.

**With the addition of Chestnut Hill to the CACC, the conference has been divided into two divisions, North and South ... Each team will play other conference members at least once this season, while facing schools from their own division in home-and-home series ... Here is a breakdown of the North and the South ... North: Bloomfield, Caldwell, Dominician, Felician, Nyack and Post ... South: Holy Family, USP, Philadelphia, Goldey-Beacom, Chestnut Hill, and Wilmington ... In the playoffs, the top four teams in each division will play each other in the first-round, at the higher seed on March 1, and in the semifinals, the divisions will cross over, with the winners meeting in the finals.