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IllInoIs state

2013-14 Preview
2013-14 Illinois State Redbirds Roster
No. Name
3
4
11
12
14
21
22
24
31
32
34
35
45

Pos. Ht.

Octavia Crump
Chloe Nelson
Stekara Hall
Lindsay Smith
Alexis Foley
Zenobia Bess
Alison Seberger
Katy Winge
Maddie Oliver
Taylor Stewart
Kalyn Gebhardt
Brianna Puni
Mackenzie Freeman

F
G
G
G
G
F
G
G
F
G
C
F
G

Yr.

5-10
5-7
5-8
5-10
5-10
6-0
6-1
5-11
6-1
5-7
6-4
6-0
5-10

Hometown (Previous School)

So.
Sr.
So.
So.
So.
Fr.
Sr.
Jr.
Jr.
Fr.
Fr.
Jr.
Fr.

Zion, Ill. (Zion-Benton)
Florissant, Mo. (Incarnate Word)
Oak Park, Ill. (Oak Park-River Forest)
DeWitt, Iowa (Wisconsin)
White Bear Lake, Minn. (White Bear Lake Area)
Gahanna, Ohio (Gahanna Lincoln)
Geneva, Ill. (Montini Catholic)
Eden Prairie, Minn. (Minnetonka)
Roland, Iowa (Roland-Story)
Lakeville, Minn. (Lakeville North)
Beaver Dam, Wis. (Beaver Dam)
St. Charles, Mo. (Incarnate Word)
Silver Lake, Kan. (Silver Lake)

Barb Smith

At A Glance

Head Coach

Alma Mater: Ohio State (1986)
Overall Record: 49-86 (5)
Record at ILS: 0-0 (First Season)
2012-13: 24-11 / 13-5 (3rd)

Year-By-Year Record

Overall
W
L

Season

School

1997-98
1998-99
1999-00
2000-01
2001-02

San Diego State 10
San Diego State
7
San Diego State
9
San Diego State 13
San Diego State 10

Illinois State Totals (First Year)
Career Totals (Sixth Year)

--49

15
19
19
15
18

--86

Conf.
W L

Place

Conf.
Tourn.

4
4
4
5
2

7th
7th
T-6th
6th
7th

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0-1
0-1

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--0-3

10
10
10
9
12

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Chloe Nelson

2012-13 Finish: 24-11; 13-5 MVC (3rd)
Letterwinners Returning/Lost: 8/5
Starters Returning/Lost: 2/3
NOTEWORTHY

• The 2013-14 Redbirds will be led by head coach Barb Smith, as she takes
over the helm at Illinois State. Smith, who has 26 years of Division I coaching
experience, is the seventh head coach in Illinois State history. Smith brings a
tremendous pedigree into her second head coaching position and is known
as a prominent recruiter, with over ten top-20 nationally-ranked classes. Most
recently, Smith spent the 2012-13 season at Saint Louis University as the associate head coach, recruiting coordinator and offensive coordinator. Smith
has also been an assistant coach at Minnesota, California and Colorado. During Smith’s five seasons (1997-2002) as the head coach at San Diego State,
the Aztecs landed the highest-ranked recruiting class in program history and
featured guard Claire Swinbank, the team’s first WNBA prospect. Smith also
built SDSU into one of the Mountain West Conference’s top-defensive teams,
with the 2000-01 Aztecs finishing second in the league in defense.
• Illinois State has never shied away from a tough non-conference schedule, and
the 2013-14 season is no different. The Redbirds will play 11 non-conference
games with seven of those opponents having made postseason appearances
last season. DePaul, UT-Martin, Princeton and Penn State qualified for the
NCAA Tournament, while Florida and Fordham played in the WNIT and Northern
Kentucky in the WBI.
• Illinois State’s berth in the 2013 Postseason WNIT put the Redbirds in the
postseason for the seventh-consecutive season. ISU made WNIT trips in six
of the last seven years and appeared in the NCAA Tournament in 2008. ISU’s
seven-year postseason run is the longest run in school history. The previous
best was six-straight trips from 1980-85.

Basketball Support Staff

Lisa Hayden
Asst. Coach

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Erin Dickerson
Asst. Coach

Jessica Grayson
Asst. Coach

Annie Isler
Operations

Mark Uitermarkt
Operations