MAYS LEAVES IOWA WOMEN’S BASKETBALL TEAM

IOWA CITY - - Iowa Head Women’s Basketball Coach Lisa Bluder announced today that freshman Tia Mays has left the team to concentrate on her academics. Mays is from Des Moines, IA, and played prep basketball at East High School.

“This was a very difficult decision for Tia to make and we fully support her decision,” said Bluder. “The number one goal for all our student-athletes is to earn their degrees. We understand her decision to leave the team and focus on academics.”

Iowa’s 12-player roster for 2008-09 includes five seniors, one junior, two sophomores and four freshmen. The Hawkeyes return eight letterwinners, including two starters and a part-time starter, from last year’s co-Big Ten regular season championship team.

Iowa women’s basketball media day is scheduled for Oct. 8 at 10 a.m. at Carver-Hawkeye Arena.

Fessler Ranked 9th Winningest Active Coach

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. - Concordia University women's basketball coach, Paul Fessler, is the ninth winningest active coach by percentage in the NCAA Division II. With a winning mark of .7295, Fessler trails only Northern State's Curt Fredrickson (.7559) among coaches in the region. He enters his ninth season at the helm of the Concordia program.

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Swish Clinic Is Coming To Town

Dear friend of the Swish Method,

Greetings to you and thanks for your support of the "Swish Method" of shooting a basketball. I will be coming to Minnesota Oct. 9-13 to be part of a Youth Coaches' Clinic at the amazing Colin Powell Leadership Center in south Minneapolis. The Coaches' Clinic is all day Saturday, the 11th. I'll be presenting twice.

Contact Kelby Brothen, Athletic Director for info about this special all-day Clinic:
Work #: 612/638-1014
Cell: 612/720-8852
Email: urbanstars@urbanventures.org

TWO CLINICS FOR KIDS & COACHES!
While I'm there I'll be putting on two clinics at the Powell Center, as follows:
· Friday after school, Oct. 10th (5-9PM)
· Sunday evening, Oct. 12th (5-9PM)

These clinics are 4 hours long and I can coach up to 24 kids at a time. Because of the Coaches' Clinic on Saturday, I'm going to open my clinics to both kids AND coaches. The coaches will take the clinic as a student, as that's the best way to coach anything ... be able to do it yourself, be in the "stew" of learning, so to speak. I'll continually point out the coaching points during the clinics.

FEES
NOTE: The fees are reduced for these clinics, in light of the challenging economy we are all facing. They are as follows:

Regular fee for a player: $50, which includes the Swish 2 DVD
Fee for siblings, $40, no video (where first sibling pays full price)
Fee for repeaters: $40 (no video)
Fee for coaches: $40 (including Swish 2)

ON-LINE ENROLLMENT IS AVAILABLE
Go to this web page for details on the clinics and the links to enroll On Line:
Colin Powell Center Shooting Clinics

I HOPE TO SEE YOU!
My clinics are getting more and more exciting and effective as I see additional things all the time and new ways to say and coach them. I can see that the main thing I'm doing (and teaching others to do) is coaching kids to be able to coach themselves in these simple principles. As they learn to shoot a basketball -- and, more powerful for them, how to learn anything -- their self images can alter and self esteem rise. This is one of the great things about sports, the potential for growth as human beings. Let's work together to help more kids experience how awesome they truly are!

Cheers,
Tom

P.S. Please note that there is secure parking both in front of the amazing Powell Center and also with underground parking (enter on the north side of the building, off 29th Street). If you have any concerns about this, please call Kelby Brothen. His #'s are above.

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Tom Nordland, Swish International, Inc.
Swish Website
Tel: 888/SWISH-22 (888/794-7422)
Originator of the Official Swish Method of Shooting!
For a Basketball Shooting Renaissance!
My cell phone while traveling: 831/247-4519

Article in Minn. State Tournament Program, March, '07:

***** NEW: TROUBLE SHOOTING GUIDE *****
This newly-revised PDF document can help anyone
having problems learning the Swish approach to
shooting. But it's also a great general review of the
Method and how to practice and coach yourself:
Trouble Shooting Guide

SAMPLE CLIPS: See sample flash clips from both Swish
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BIG TEN ANNOUNCES EXPANDED WBB MEDIA COVERAGE

September 15, 2008

IOWA WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

BIG TEN ANNOUNCES EXPANDED MEDIA COVERAGE

IOWA CITY – The Big Ten Conference today announced its women’s basketball non-conference Big Ten Network (BTN) television schedule for 2008-09, along with its expanded streaming schedule on bigtennetwork.com. Big Ten teams will receive more coverage than ever before with a record 119 games set to be distributed by BTN, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU and bigtennetwork.com.

All games streamed on bigtennetwork.com will be live and made available free-of-charge. In all, BTN currently boasts a slate of 55 regular season games and an additional 56 on its website.

Iowa’s home games against Iowa State (Dec. 7) and Northern Iowa (Dec. 11) have been picked to be televised to a national cable audience on BTN. The Iowa State contest will start at 1 p.m., while the Northern Iowa game will tip at 7 p.m. in Carver-Hawkeye Arena.

In total, Iowa will be televised a minimum of six times on BTN, with the last three regular season games serving as ESPN2/BTN wildcard selections and every Big Ten Tournament contest receiving television coverage. Additionally, Iowa’s first non-conference road game, at Kansas (Nov. 18), will be broadcast to a national cable audience on ESPN.

The conference office announced that 10 of Iowa’s conference games will be available for webcast on bigtennetwork.com. In total, a minimum 14 of its 18 conference games will be available on different media platforms. Iowa’s final three regular season games could be chosen for broadcast on either BTN or bigtennetwork.com; a decision on those three games will be made in mid-February.

“This is an exciting time for our program and the Big Ten Conference with the amount of media coverage we are receiving on a national scale,” said Iowa Head Coach Lisa Bluder. “With 14 of our 18 conference games selected by BTN and bigtennetwork.com, it gives recruits and Hawkeye fans the opportunity to watch unprecedented coverage of our games home and away.”

A special thanks to the Iowa Hawkeye media department for providing this item.