Word: nygaard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...list of future WNBA participants reads likea Who's Who inventory of college basketball starsand includes Feaster, Florida's Murriel Page--whoalso signed yesterday--North Carolina's TracyReid, Texas Tech's Alicia Thompson, Maine's CindyBlodgett, Arizona's Adia Barnes, Arkansas' ChristySmith and Stanford's Vanessa Nygaard...
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...
Stanford clearly missed the inside presence of junior All-American Kristin Folkl and the outside threat of senior All-American Vanessa Nygaard, both of whom were sidelined by knee injuries. Nygaard and Folkl entered the game averaging a combined 14.2 rebounds per game, but the Crimson badly outre-bounded the Cardinal in the first half, 22-12. The final rebound tally was 41-37 in Harvard's favor...
...With Nygaard's injury, there was some question before--and obviously during--the game as to who would defend Feaster, who led the nation in scoring at 28.2 points-per-game. The difficult task initially fell into the hands of freshman guard Sarah Dimson...
...American Olympia Scott--playing in herfinal collegiate game--turned in an 18-point,eight-rebound effort for the Cardinal, who waswithout the services of All-Americans KristinFolkl and Vanessa Nygaard, both sidelined withtorn knee ligaments. Junior Regan Freuen added 19points and six assists in the losing cause...