01-30-2013, 02:34 PM
(01-29-2013, 06:33 PM)81alum link Wrote:Anyone have some insight into whether Tara can pull a rabbit out of her hat to keep Reuf here another year, or whether she would want to?
There are only two ways Ruef could return:
(1) She walks on -- no scholarship.
(2) Or another player who was promised a scholarship quits the team or changes to walk-on status.
To give a bit more detail on this: WBB is limited to 15 scholarships. (You can't play a trick like giving a 2-sport player her scholarship in a different sport, because basketball is considered primary, so if a student has an athletic scholarship and plays on the basketball team, her scholarship counts against the basketball team's limit, even if she plays another sport also. A player might have an academic scholarship, but the NCAA would scrutinize that closely to make sure she would have gotten that same scholarship even if she didn't play a sport.)
This is the projected roster for next year. There are 15 scholarship players and 3 walk-ons, without Ruef.
| No. | Name | Pos. | Ht. | Yr. | Hometown (Last School) | Comments |
| 00 | Alex Green | G | 5-9 | RS SO | Dallas, Texas (Bishop Lynch) | |
| 4 | Taylor Greenfield | F | 6-3 | JR | Huxley, Iowa (Ballard Community) | |
| 5 | Denia Ebersole | G | 5-6 | SO | San Francisco, CA (International) | Walk-on |
| 13 | Chiney Ogwumike | F | 6-3 | SR | Cypress, Texas (Cy-Fair) | |
| 21 | Sara James | G | 5-10 | SR | El Dorado Hills, Calif. (Oak Ridge) | |
| 22 | Kiran Lakhian | G | 5-10 | SO | Plano, TX (Plano West) | Walk-on |
| 23 | Jasmine Camp | G | 5-7 | JR | Ellenwood, Ga. (Chamblee) | |
| 25 | Erica Payne | F | 6-2 | JR | Concord, Calif. (Carondelet) | |
| 31 | Toni Kokenis | G | 5-11 | SR | Oak Brook, Ill. (Hinsdale Central) | |
| 33 | Amber Orrange | G | 5-7 | JR | Houston, Texas (Westbury Christian) | |
| 34 | Tess Picknell | F/C | 6-5 | SO | Medford, OR (South Medford) | |
| 35 | Aly Beebe | F | 6-3 | RS FR | Santa Maria, CA (Saint Joseph) | |
| 41 | Bonnie Samuelson | F | 6-3 | JR | Huntington Beach, CA (Edison) | |
| Kailee Johnson | F | 6-3 | FR | Portland, OR (Central Catholic) | ||
| Erica McCall | F | 6-3 | FR | Bakersfield, CA (Ridgeview) | ||
| Briana Roberson | G | 5-7 | FR | Fullerton, CA (Troy) | Walk-on | |
| Karlie Samuelson | G | 5-11 | FR | Huntington Beach, CA (Mater Dei) | ||
| Khaliya ("Lili") Thompson | G | 5-7 | FR | Mansfield, TX (Timberview) |
References:
http://www.gostanford.com/sports/w-baskb...l-mtt.html (this year's roster)
http://www.gostanford.com/sports/w-baskb...12aaa.html (signings for next year)
http://mbd.scout.com/mb.aspx?s=18&f=1711&t=9927136 (Briana Roberson, committed as a walk-on for next year)
http://espn.go.com/high-school/girls-bas...a-roberson (more on Briana)