Women finish season by destroying Hawaii Pacific
Develon Isom
Issue date: 3/16/10 Section: Sports
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Wins against Hawaii Hilo University 99-56 and Hawaii Pacific 99-80 capped the best season ever by the short-lived Red Storm program. The Storm finished the season with a PacWest conference record of 13-3 and 17-8 overall record. The conference record earned them a second place finish in the final standings of the PacWest. Unfortunately, they did not receive an invitation from the NCAA to play in the postseason tournament.
Dixie State College seniors Jesse Ingraham, Tanya Clark and Megan Tidwell were honored a couple of hours before the game at a team banquet for the players and their families. Head coach Angela Kristensen presented the three players with some memento jerseys and spoke of each player's contributions during their careers at DSC. The three seniors were ribbed a bit by their teammates in the form of humorous gifts and stories.
"Those three players are irreplaceable," Kristensen said. "They led by example on and off the court. They just went to work and did what was asked."
Kristensen described a unique characteristic of each senior player and thanked them for playing at DSC. Kristensen said Tidwell's choice to stay during the program's transition from junior college to Division II and to play for a coach that did not even recruit her was commendable. Tidwell, an elementary education major from Poway, Calif., said her four years at Dixie are not over yet. Tidwell is entertaining the idea of continued competitive activity at DSC.
"I might run cross-country next semester; We'll see," Tidwell said.
Her post college plan is to become a teacher and utilize her elementary education degree. Tidwell is on schedule to earn her degree in December.
"I want to teach in the sixth and seventh grades. I also want to travel a little," Tidwell said.
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