Date: Fri 20-Dec-1996

Publication: Bee

Author: KIMH

Quick Words:

Girls'-Hoop-Records

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Girls' Basketball All-Time Scoring List Is Constantly Changing

B Y K IM J. H ARMON

For the last six years or so, the Top 10 All-Time scoring list of the Newtown

High School girls' basketball program has been shaped and re-shaped like a

child's pile of silly putty and it should endure its final mutations this

season when senior co-captain Liz Glaser makes an appearance somewhere near

the end of January of beginning of February.

And then, with her graduation, whatever form the scoring chart takes it should

retain for several years - maybe as many as six - as the girls' basketball

program retools for the 21st century.

It will be the end of an era . . . an era that saw Lynn Lattanzio become the

school's only female 1,000-point scorer; and an era that saw Micaela Hurley,

Sarah Wasko, Katie Lyddy, Melissa Eigen and Erica Hanson (the starting five in

1993-94) all end up on the Top 10 chart.

The late Jackie Smith once topped the list with 632 points upon her graduation

in 1983, but 13 years later she is 10th and soon to be bounced off the list

for ever more. And once Glaser appears on the list, Eigen's total of 669 will

be the bottom rung of that 10-step ladder of success.

After the 1988-89 season - Lattanzio's freshman year - the scoring chart

looked like this (with current placement in parentheses):

1. Kasey Keating 913 (2nd)

2. Jenn Wyslick 751 (4th)

3. Laura Oberstadt 745 (5th)

4. Jackie Smith 632 (10th)

5. Tracy Teichert 528 (11th)

6. Allison Borelli 447 (13th)

7. Mardi Shreders 441 (14th)

8. Liza Fairfield 435 (15th)

9. Donna Springmeyer 416 (16th)

10. Terri Staudinger 415 (17th)

Right now, three games into the 1996-97 season, Glaser has 4xx points (12th on

the list) and in that time leap-frogged from 20th place over Joan Glover

(406), Debbie Shreders (407), Terri Staudinger (415), Donna Springmeyer (416),

Liza Fairfield (435), Mardi Shreders (441), and Allison Borelli (447).

Giannini started the year 29th on the list and has since moved past Barb

Cassin and Pam Skelton into 27th. At her current pace, she should at least

finish up her career in the top 15 all-time.

After that, with Glaser and Giannini and Michele Draper (currently with 100

points) graduating, the players with the highest active totals - most likely

Nikki Streegan and Krista Bell - will be below 100 career points.

From there, it's a long climb to the top.

It will be as if the program is starting out utterly fresh, waiting for the

influx of the next crop of players being developed at Newtown Middle School.

There are girls there playing under coach Bill Girard that have coach Simon at

the high school anxiously anticipating four or five years.