Word: folkl
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...needed Palo Alto. Big, bad Stanford, teamof the '90s, participant in each of the threeprevious Final Fours, winners of 59 straight atMaples Pavilion, but as unable to overcome kneeinjuries to All-American Kristin Folkl and VanessaNygaard as the dream of Allison Feaster...
Joining Feaster on the Kodak All-America Team were Sales, Tennessee's Chamique Holdsclaw and Tamika Catchings, Stanford's Kristin Folkl, N.C. State's Chasity Melvin, Florida's Muriel Page, Old Dominion's Ticha Penicheiro, North Carolina's Tracy Reid and Texas Tech's Alicia Thompson...
Numerous columnists have written that without the services of All-American forwards Kristin Folkl and Vanessa Nygaard, Stanford was doomed before the start of the game. Harvard just happened to be in the right place at the right time--how else could one explain Stanford losing to "Harvard and little Suzie Miller" as one writer...
...Folkl's defensive presence was sorely lacking for the Cardinal as well, as most of the smaller Crimson's points were scored on the inside. Many expected that Harvard's lack of physical size would make it impossible for the Crimson to stick with the Cardinal without hoisting a slew of three-point shots, but Harvard buried just six threes overall in the game...
...With Folkl out the lineup on offense, the Crimson was able to collapse on All-American forward Olympia Scott inside. Scott, who entered last night's contest averaging 17.5 points-per-game, looked noticeably distracted by Harvard's triple-team in the paint, and did not get into the scoring column until she canned a jumper from the top of the key with 8:59 to go in the first half. Both of Scott's two first-half field goals came on long jump shots...