WOMEN S BASKETBALL MEDIA GUIDE

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1 WOMEN S BASKETBALL MEDIA GUIDE

2 PHOENIX ROSTER ALEXIS ANKRO #0 Major: Fine Arts Saying: Anything is possible if you try hard enough and believe in yourself. You gotta risk it to get the biscuit. Activities: Field Hockey KALLIE BUTTS #21 Major: Business Management; Studio Art minor Pregame: Listen to pump up music Saying: Winning isn t everything, but wanting to win is. Activities: Allies Club, Field Hockey and Softball MADELEINE CHAUSSE #32 Pregame: Dancing Saying: It s Gucci. Activities: Women s Soccer PRECIOUS CUTLER #23 Major: Business Management Pregame: I like to clear my mind by listening to music Saying: All is fair in love and basketball Activities: Cross Country ASHLEY HENDERSON #3 Major: Communications Pregame: Listening to music that gets me hype while I m on the bus and during warmups I step aside and pray Saying: Money Team Baby Activities: None ASHLEY HORN #31 Major: Secondary Education; Business Management minor Pregame Ritual: Listening to trap music Saying: Good better best, never let it rest, until your good is better and your better is your best Activities: Softball team, freshman class representative and ResLife Council AMBER JONES #20 Major: Biology Pregame: Pray and listen to music until game time Saying: Tough times never last, but tough people do. Activities: None MIRANDA LONG #33 Saying: Never a failure; always a lesson. Activities: Field Hockey ALEJANDRA MADRIGAL #1 Pregame: I don t have one Saying: Don t be pushed by your problems, be led by your dreams. Activities: Women s Soccer NANA OHENE-MANU #13 Major: Exercise and Sport Science; Biology minor Saying: I m Nana from Ghana Get off my jersey...ah! Activities: Women s Soccer, SAAC and RA OLIVIA NOONE #55 Major: Exercise and Sport Science and Equine-Facilitated Therapeutics Pregame: I always eat a banana before a game Saying: Life isn t measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. Maya Angelou Activities: Hunt Seat Team, Western Team and EFT Club TENIERA PRIOLEAU #5 Major: Exercise and Sport Science and Spanish; Athletic Coaching minor Saying: There is always room at the top. Daniel Webster Activities: SAAC and Women s Soccer KATELYN WINGERD #14 Major: Early Childhood Education and Spanish Pregame: I always say a little prayer before games Saying: I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength. Philippians 4:13 Activities: Cross Country, Softball, Class Office, Habitat for Humanity, Agape, Spanish Club, SAAC, Apple Team and Curran Scholars Program MORGAN WONDERS #30 Major: Exercise and Sport Science Pregame: Listening to a playlist of motivational music Saying: You will always miss 100% of the shots you don t take. Activities: SAAC and Field Hockey Team Manager

3 WOMEN S BASKETBALL COACHES JARED TRULEAR HEAD COACH Phone: [email protected] Jared Trulear is entering his fourth season with the Phoenix. Trulear accepted the head coach position in December 2013 after spending the previous two seasons as the assistant coach for the Phoenix. He is a 2009 graduate of York College of Pennsylvania, where he majored in sport management, minored in business administration and had a concentration in athletic administration. Trulear played high school basketball at The Christian Academy in Brookhaven, Pa. where he earned several awards, including Honorable Mention All-County, several First Team All-Tournament honors, and was recognized as one of Delaware County, Pa. s best Sixth Men during his junior year and as one of the county s best rebounders while a senior. A former competitive high school player, Trulear has valuable playing experience. In addition to coaching basketball at the middle school and high school levels, he has also coached various age groups of AAU basketball for Advanced Hoops in Harrisburg, Pa since Trulear currently resides in Harrisburg, Pa. with his wife, Courtney, and their daughter, Morgan. BRANDI MIXELL ASSISTANT COACH Brandi Mixell enters her first season as assistant coach of the Wilson College women s basketball team. She is a graduate of Ball State University with a bachelor s degree in exercise science. Prior to attending Ball State, Mixell attended Frostburg State University, where she played field hockey and basketball. She then continued her collegiate athletic career at Ball State, playing field hockey for an additional two seasons. BOBBY CHRISTIAN VOLUNTEER ASSISTANT COACH Bobby Christian enters his first season as a volunteer assistant coach for the Phoenix. He is a native of Columbus, Ohio. He played basketball in high school and went on to graduate from Central State University in Wilberforce, Ohio. Christian earned a bachelor s degree in computer information systems from Central State and a master s degree in information systems from the University Of Phoenix. He has over 10 years of coaching experience on various school levels and coached competitive teams on the AAU level. Bobby currently resides in Mechanicsburg with his wife Tamra and youngest son DeSean. They have three other children (Jay, NaTanya, Tezzaeria). PHILOSOPHY AND MISSION STATEMENT Toughness and togetherness: these two ideals will shape the Wilson Phoenix women s basketball program now and in the future. As the head coach, it is my primary responsibility to provide student-athletes the best opportunity to succeed on and off the court. I firmly believe that toughness and togetherness will prepare student-athletes on the court, in the classroom and for life after college. The toughness that drives this basketball program is a mental toughness that motivates everyone in the program to give maximum effort in any and all circumstances. The mental toughness we embrace in our program is the key to success on the court, in the classroom, and in life. As a great coach whom I admire, Tom Izzo says, Toughness is doing what it takes to make a difference. Toughness is not thinking or accepting that you have a ceiling, but that you have another step to take, another level to reach, another gear. As toughness drives our program, togetherness will carry it. Every day we will work toward our common goal: to pursue excellence in the classroom, on the court, and in life. I am a firm believer that every day is spent building habits, good or bad. In our pursuit of excellence, we will continue to accentuate good habits and eliminate the bad. Relentless pursuits of our goals on the court, in the classroom, and in life are only possible with an unbreakable support system and the unmatched family atmosphere that Wilson College Phoenix athletics provide. Being a coach is being an educator. The education I will provide my studentathletes will give them the means necessary to be successful on and off the court. Our program is built to win: to win in life, to win in the classroom, and to win on the court, in that order. Toughness and togetherness will take us there. Coach Trulear

4 PHOENIX WOMEN S BASKETBALL ROSTER No. Name Yr. Pos. Ht. Hometown/High School 0 Alexis Ankro Jr. G/F 5-6 Tappan, N.Y. / Tappan Zee 1 Alejandra Madrigal So. G 5-3 New Oxford, Pa. / New Oxford 3 Ashley Henderson Fr. G 5-3 Waldorf, Md. / North Point 5 Teniera Prioleau So. G 5-6 Baltimore, Md. / Milford Mill Academy 13 Nana Ohene-Manu So. G 5-6 Accra, Ghana / Tema International School 14 Katelyn Wingerd Jr. G 5-5 Orrtanna, Pa. / Gettysburg 20 Amber Jones Fr. G 5-3 Waldorf, Md. / Maurice J McDonough 21 Kallie Butts Fr. F 5-7 Pasadena, Md. / Chesapeake 23 Precious Cutler Fr. G 5-2 West Deptford, N.J. / West Deptford 30 Morgan Wonders Jr. F 5-11 Newville, Pa. / Big Spring 31 Ashley Horn Fr. G 5-3 Fredericksburg, Va. / Massaponax 32 Madeleine Chausse So. F 5-8 Ellicott City, Md. / Centennial 33 Miranda Long Fr. F/G 5-11 Catawissa, Pa. / Southern Columbia 55 Olivia Noone Fr. G 5-6 Wyalusing, Pa. / North Rome Christian Head Coach: Jared Trulear (2nd Season) Assistant Coach: Brandi Mixell (1st Season), Bobby Christian (1st Season) Team Captains(s): Morgan Wonders, Teniera Prioleau Team Mascot: Phoenix Team Colors: Royal, White, Black and Gray Location: Chambersburg, Pa. SCHEDULE NOVEMBER 3 Monday Away Penn State Mont Alto (Scrimmage) 6:00 PM 6 Thursday HOME Cedar Crest College (Scrimmage) 7:00 PM 15 Saturday HOME Cairn University 3:00 PM 22 Saturday HOME Christendom College 5:00 PM DECEMBER 6 Saturday Away Penn College of Technology* 1:00 PM 7 Sunday HOME College of Saint Elizabeth* 1:00 PM JANUARY 6 Tuesday Away Bryn Athyn College* 6:00 PM 8 Thursday HOME Penn State Abington* 1:00 PM 10 Saturday Away College of Saint Elizabeth* 1:00 PM 11 Sunday HOME Penn College of Technology* 12:00 PM 17 Saturday HOME SUNY Institute of Technology* 3:00 PM 18 Sunday HOME SUNY Cobleskill* 12:00 PM 21 Wednesday Away Gallaudet University* 5:00 PM 22 Thursday Away Wells College* 5:00 PM 24 Saturday Away SUNY Morrisville* 1:00 PM 25 Sunday Away Cazenovia College* 1:00 PM 27 Tuesday HOME Bryn Athyn College* 5:00 PM 30 Friday HOME Lancaster Bible College* 5:00 PM 31 Saturday HOME Penn State Berks* 1:00 PM FEBRUARY 8 Sunday HOME Keuka College* 12:00 PM 14 Saturday HOME Gallaudet University* 1:00 PM 18 Wednesday Away Penn State Abington* 6:00 PM 20 Friday Away Penn State Berks* 6:00 PM 21 Saturday Away Lancaster Bible College* 1:00 PM 22 Sunday H/A NEAC Make Up Date TBD 23 Tuesday H/A NEAC First Round (At higher Seed) TBD 28 Saturday H/A NEAC Championship (At #1 Seed) TBD MARCH 1 Sunday H/A NEAC Championship (At #1 Seed) TBD * North Eastern Athletic Conference

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