Brian De Los Santos bdelossantos@mustangdaily.net With 24 seconds on the clock, head coach Faith Mimnaugh called a timeout and looked to her bench. “Brittany, Kayla, you’re going in,” she yelled. Neither Brittany Woodard nor Kayla Griffin had any idea what was going on. The two had fallen victim to season-ending knee injuries and both had […]
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Griffin ends career with knee injury
Stephan Teodosescu steodosescu@mustangdaily.net Half-crying in pain, half-crying because of elation, senior guard Kayla Griffin was the first one on the ladder to cut down the net. With scissors in hand, Griffin’s teammates lifted her up onto the top rung as she snipped away at the nylon — symbolizing the Cal Poly women’s basketball team’s first […]
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49ers end women’s basketball winning streak, defeat Mustangs 71-58
Jefferson P. Nolan jnolan@mustangdaily.net The Mustangs will have to settle for the No. 2 seed in the Big West Conference Tournament after Long Beach State brought down the Cal Poly women’s basketball team 71-58 in the last regular season matchup of the season. Despite falling short of its third consecutive Big West regular season title, […]
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Women’s basketball hopes to put road losses behind them
Mustang Daily Staff Report sports@mustangdaily.net The women’s basketball team is focused on finishing, according to redshirt sophomore point guard Ariana Elegado. After two straight road losses, including a game in which they led by 10 points with less than 11 minutes to play, the team returns to Mott Athletics Center to take on Cal State […]
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Brittany Woodard fights the pain
Jefferson P. Nolan sports@mustangdaily.net “Pop.” It’s the sound athletes hope they will never hear: the hallow noise of your knee ripping apart from your bone structure. But that’s not all. It’s the echo of a smashed “null and void” stamp on a scholarship. It’s the sound of the last cheer you’ll hear from your parents […]
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Woodard tears ACL, out for the season
An MRI confirmed the worst for senior Brittany Woodard on Wednesday. The second-leading scorer on the women’s basketball team tore her anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), sprained her medial collateral ligament (MCL) and bruised a bone in her leg after falling awkwardly during Cal Poly’s game against Pacific on Saturday. Woodard said that she was considering petitioning […]
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Women’s basketball team takes down rival Aggies 73-71
Jefferson P. Nolan jnolan@mustangdaily.net As head coach Faith Mimnaugh predicted, it was “fast-pace mode” for the Cal Poly women’s basketball team against rival UC Davis. The Mustangs (8-6, 2-1 Big West Conference) defeated the Aggies (5-8, 0-2 Big West), 73-71 Thursday night in Mott Gym. And they did it while dealing with an offensive formation […]
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Lucky straight seventh win for Mustangs
The Cal Poly women’s basketball team — the same one that lost seven straight games in December — won its seventh straight game against UC Riverside on Saturday. Cal Poly (13-12, 9-3) looks poised to defend its 2011 Big West league championship, playing its best basketball at the most critical point in the season. “We’re […]
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Brittany Woodard: Moving forward
Junior forward Brittany Woodard was recruited by Cal Poly as a senior at Christian Brothers High School in Sacramento in 2008, but instead, she chose to play basketball at Nevada. Two years later, a frustrated Woodard contacted Cal Poly about a possible transfer. After one official visit, she signed with the Mustangs and began her […]
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Turning up the heat after heartbreaks
With one shot, Cal Poly women’s basketball snapped its losing streak, defeated its arch-rival and began Big West Conference with a much-needed victory. Prior to senior guard Ashlee Burns’ last-second layup to defeat UC Santa Barbara 61-58, the Mustangs lost nine of 12 games, including all six games on a two-week, cross-country road trip in […]