Here’s an update for those fans who have been curious about the play of incoming Stanford women’s basketball players at Kezar this summer.
This year the league put together four teams and scheduled their games for Friday night play (7pm and 8:30pm). Each team is slated to play every week through July leading to an August championship tourney. When the season schedule and team rosters were released, it showed that four incoming Stanford Women’s Basketball players would play. Haley Jones and Fran Belibi were assigned to the San Francisco team; Hannah Jump and Ashten Prechtel were assigned to the Paye’s TNT Crush team.
Unfortunately, the information supplied on the Pro-Am website has been sparse again this year, so fans wishing to go to games had no way of knowing who was going to show up. This has resulted in little to no Stanford-fan attendance again this year and a dearth of information on our players.
My wife and I decided to chance it tonight, so we journeyed to Kezar and this is what we discovered.
The San Francisco coach reported that she had not seen or heard from Jones or Belibi this summer. That is not too surprising since Belibi is playing on the U19 team and wouldn’t be available. Jones’s family lives in Santa Cruz—she is in PA for the summer, but we have no idea whether she goes home on weekends. In any case, it’s not surprising that she didn’t choose to play, given the logistics and caliber of play at Kezar.
The coach of the TNT Crush team said that Prechtel, who injured her hand in the spring, did not show up to play, but Jump did. After the first three games of play, he was very enthusiastic about her play. However, late in the third game, when the game was no longer in contention, Hannah’s defender made an aggressive move toward her and injured her by undercutting her. The coach didn’t indicate that her injury was serious, but she was advised (possibly by the Stanford coaching staff) to pull out of the league as a precautionary measure to safeguard her status for Stanford season play. Apparently, she will not return to Kezar.
Bottom line: if you go to any of the remaining Pro-Am games this summer at Kezar, it is very unlikely that you will see any of Stanford’s incoming freshmen women’s basketball players.
This year the league put together four teams and scheduled their games for Friday night play (7pm and 8:30pm). Each team is slated to play every week through July leading to an August championship tourney. When the season schedule and team rosters were released, it showed that four incoming Stanford Women’s Basketball players would play. Haley Jones and Fran Belibi were assigned to the San Francisco team; Hannah Jump and Ashten Prechtel were assigned to the Paye’s TNT Crush team.
Unfortunately, the information supplied on the Pro-Am website has been sparse again this year, so fans wishing to go to games had no way of knowing who was going to show up. This has resulted in little to no Stanford-fan attendance again this year and a dearth of information on our players.
My wife and I decided to chance it tonight, so we journeyed to Kezar and this is what we discovered.
The San Francisco coach reported that she had not seen or heard from Jones or Belibi this summer. That is not too surprising since Belibi is playing on the U19 team and wouldn’t be available. Jones’s family lives in Santa Cruz—she is in PA for the summer, but we have no idea whether she goes home on weekends. In any case, it’s not surprising that she didn’t choose to play, given the logistics and caliber of play at Kezar.
The coach of the TNT Crush team said that Prechtel, who injured her hand in the spring, did not show up to play, but Jump did. After the first three games of play, he was very enthusiastic about her play. However, late in the third game, when the game was no longer in contention, Hannah’s defender made an aggressive move toward her and injured her by undercutting her. The coach didn’t indicate that her injury was serious, but she was advised (possibly by the Stanford coaching staff) to pull out of the league as a precautionary measure to safeguard her status for Stanford season play. Apparently, she will not return to Kezar.
Bottom line: if you go to any of the remaining Pro-Am games this summer at Kezar, it is very unlikely that you will see any of Stanford’s incoming freshmen women’s basketball players.