Lehigh University Athletics
Annual teleconferences broadcast live online
9/16/2003 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
Center Valley, PA – Do you want to know what your favorite Patriot League basketball coach is thinking heading into the 2002-03 season? Do you want to know your team’s starting lineup? What to hear what the other Patriot League coaches have to say? The Patriot League and broadcastmonsters.com are teaming up to make the 2002-03 Men’s And Women’s Pre-Season Basketball Media Teleconference available to the public. It’s easy to find on the internet. Just log on to www.broadcastmonsters.com, and it’s interactive. Fans can just e-mail a question to broadcastmonsters.com, and they’ll ask the coach for you. All 16 Patriot League basketball coaches will participate in the pre-season teleconference Thursday, Nov. 14, beginning at 11 a.m. Each coach will offer a team preview, including information about the team’s starting lineup and top reserves and projections for the 2002-03 campaign. The approximate schedule for Thursday is: 11:04 a.m. — American coaches Shann Hart and Jeff Jones 11:18 a.m. — Army coaches Sherri Abbey-Nowatzki and Jim Crews 11:32 a.m. — Bucknell coaches Kathy Fedorjaka and Pat Flannery 11:46 a.m. — Colgate coaches Beth Spycher Combs and Emmett Davis 12:00 p.m. — Holy Cross coaches Bill Gibbons and Ralph Willard 12:14 p.m. — Lafayette coaches Tammy Smith and Fran O’Hanlon 12:28 p.m. — Lehigh coaches Sue Troyan and Billy Taylor 12:42 p.m. — Navy coaches Joe Sanchez and Don DeVoe This will be the first of three teleconferences this season. The others are slated for Thursday, Jan. 9 (prior to the opening of League play) and Wednesday, March 5 (to announce the All-League teams and preview the League Tournament). Broadcastmonsters.com first joined forces with the Patriot League at the 2002 basketball championship tournament at The Show Place Arena, and the response from the public was outstanding. The League and broadcastmonsters.com hope to build upon that success this season, starting with Thursday’s teleconference. The Patriot League, an NCAA Division I athletics conference founded on the principle of admitting athletes who are academically representative of their class, is in its second decade of academic and athletic excellence. Participation in intercollegiate athletics at Patriot League institutions is viewed as an important component of the undergraduate experience. A successful Division I-AA football conference since 1986 and an all-sport conference since 1990, membership includes American, Army, Bucknell, Colgate, Holy Cross, Lafayette, Lehigh and Navy, while seven additional institutions hold associate membership. Patriot League member institutions are among the oldest and most prestigious in the nation, graduating alumni who are well prepared for life with the ability to make meaningful contributions to their community and society in general. In the most recent NCAA Graduation Rate Report of student-athletes, the Patriot League ranked FIRST among NCAA Division I conferences. For more information, contact
