ANNOUNCEMENTS OF INTEREST

     The Starter "Family" is more than just basketball! We all watch daughters and teammates develop life-long friendships, learn to share and survive independently "on the road" and mature to college age young adults. We watch our coaches work with our daughters, share the "ups and downs" of athletic competition, gain experience, get married and move on to new opportunities. As parents, we get the opportunity to cheer for all the girls, provide words of support for a daughter whose parent(s) couldn't attend, and make our own new friendships.
     If you have a special announcement you would like to share, please e-mail us or fax us using the information at the bottom of this page.

Announcements:

• May 28, 2010
  *** Congratulations to Jennifer Ruys (Lyman Hall HS), who will be attending and playing basketball at Suffolk University in Boston.
  *** Congratulations to Rebecca Pope (Nonnewaug HS), who will be attending and playing basketball at UConn-Avery Point.
  *** Congratulations to Maura Hall (Pomfret School), who will be attending and playing basketball at Trinity College.
   
  
• May 7, 2010
  *** Congratulations to Lindsay Karle (Lyman Hall HS), who will be attending Albertus Magnus College in New Haven, where she will also play basketball.
   
  
• May 6, 2010
  *** Congratulations to Amanda Cormier (Wethersfield HS), who will be attending college at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), where she will be majoring in Biotechnology and also playing basketball.
   
  
• April 21, 2010
  *** Congratulations to Alexis Marek (East Granby HS), who will be attending Mount Holyoke College (MA) and playing basketball starting this Fall.
   
  
• April 21, 2010
  *** Congratulations to former Starters player Tiffany DeRosa on her recent engagement to Bryan Cofrin.
  *** Congratulations to former Starters player and coach Colleen Smith on her engagement to George Hardison.
   
  
• April 9, 2010
  *** Congratulations to Johannah Leedham, older sister of former CT Starters player Kirsty Leedham, on being drafted by the WNBA'S Connecticut Sun!
   
  
• April 8, 2010
  *** Congratulations to Lindsey Karle, Sara Kelley and Alexys Vazquez for being named to play in the Schoolgirl Classic All-Star Game on Saturday April 17 at 6:15 PM at the Bridgeport JCC.
   
  
• March 17, 2010
  *** Congratulations to Caroline Brasa (East Catholic HS) who will be attending and playing basketball at Western Connecticut State University in the Fall of 2010. The Colonials won the Little East regular-season and post-season tournament titles this past season and advanced to the 2nd round of the NCAA Division III Tournament.
   
  
• March 11, 2010
  *** Congratulations to Lindsey Henry (Suffield HS), who will be attending and playing basketball at Daniel Webster College in New Hampshire.
   
  
• March 2, 2010
  *** Congratulations to the following 8 CT Starters alumnae, as their teams all made the 2010 NCAA Division III Tournament.
  -- Julia Baily and Maggie Riddle (Tufts University)
  -- Lindsay Brown (Ithaca College)
  -- Nicole Coombes and Colleen Sweeney (Bowdoin College)
  -- Sarah Herlihy (University of Chicago)
  -- Taylor Nkonoki and Melissa Teel (Western CT State University)
  -- Kristyn Wright (University of Rochester)
  They all begin play in the 64-team tournament on Friday March 5. The tournament homepage can be viewed at:
  http://www.ncaa.com/sports/w-baskbl/champpage/w-baskbl-div3-index.html
   
  
• February 18, 2010
  *** Congratulations to former Starters coach and player (and current St. Joseph College women's coach) Kim Martin, on her recent engagement to Dave Sciascia.
   
  
• February 15, 2010
  *** Congratulations to former Starters player (and Siena alumnus) Laura Menty on her recent engagement to Michael Menges.
  *** Congratulations to Caldwell College junior guard Kirsty Leedham, who scored her 1,000th career point in a game against Nyack College on January 28. Leedham is just the 12th player in school history to achieve this milestone.
  *** Congratulations to Canton HS junior Sarah Benedetti, who scored the 1,000th point of her high school career in a win over Coventry on February 4.
   
  
• January 25, 2010
  *** Congratulations to former Starters player Christie (Williams) Diedrich. She and her husband Dave are the proud parents of their first child, Aidan Fox Diedrich, born Sunday January 17. According to current Starters coach Fred Williams, his grandson is blonde, 6 lbs 7 oz and "as cute as his grandfather".
   
  
• January 11, 2010
  *** Congratulations to Platt HS junior Damika Martinez on scoring her 1,000th career point in a win over Bulkeley on January 8.
   
  
• January 10, 2010
  *** Congratulations to former Starters player Courtney Upshaw. She is featured on the cover of the Holiday 2009 edition of Gladys Magazine, a national women's magazine. The cover can be viewed at www.gladysmagazine.com.
   
  
• January 7, 2010
  *** Congratulations to Eastern Connecticut State University freshman forward Tanisha Carter (East Hartford), named Rookie-of-the-Week by both the New England Women's Basketball Association (NEWBA) and by the Little East Conference for her play in two games last week. The 5-foot-11 inch Carter averaged 11.5 points and 9.0 rebounds and shot .500 percent from the floor last week when the Warriors won two games. In a 75-41 home win over Clark University last Wednesday, Carter had ten points and eight rebounds in 23 minutes and in a 52-49 victory over host Williams College Sunday in the opening round of the Williams College Winter Classic, she had 13 points and a career-high 15 rebounds in 36 minutes and scored the go-ahead basket with just under one minute left. The NEWBA honor is the first in the career of Carter, who was named conference Rookie-of-the-Week in the first report through games of Nov. 22. Through ten games for the 7-3 Warriors, Carter leads the team in rebounding (8.5) and field goal percentage (.471) and is second in scoring (10.8) and tied for second in minutes per game (32.3). Carter leads all freshmen in the conference in rebounding, is eighth overall in field goal percentage and tied for 15th overall in scoring.
   
  
• November 30, 2009
  *** Congratulations to Johannah Leedham of Franklin Pierce College, older sister of former Starters player Kirsty Leedham, who set two Northeast-10 Conference career records on November 21 in just the 2nd game of her senior season. Leedham is now the career scoring leader with 2,202 points, as well as the league's career leader for made free throws with 550 for the 2nd ranked Ravens.
   
  
• November 20, 2009
  *** Congratulations to Scott Medeiros for being named varsity girls basketball coach at Wilcox Tech in Meriden.
  *** Congratulations to Alexys Vazquez (Starters 16 Red-Berlin HS) on signing a National Letter of Intent to accept a full scholarship at Fairfield University.
   
  
• October 30, 2009
  *** Congratulations to former Starters player Meghan (Phelps) Martelli on the birth of her first child on October 20, an 8 pound, 11 ounce boy named Philip Stephen Martelli. Meghan's father is Steve Phelps, former Starters coach and current boys coach at St. Paul HS and her husband, Phil Martelli, Jr. is an assistant men's coach at Niagara.
   
  
• September 14, 2009
  *** Congratulations to former Starters coach (and current Middletown HS coach) Rob Smernoff on his September 13 marriage to Kate Nichols.
   
  
• July 27, 2009
  *** Congratulations to Alison Berman, who was a member of the USA Junior Girls Basketball team at the recent World Maccabi Games in Israel. The team won the Gold Medal at the Olympic-style competition and was coached by Rich Slater of the Long Island Lightning AAU Girls Basketball Club.
   
  
• July 02, 2009
  *** Congratulations to Kat Woods, named Female Athlete of the Week by the Waterbury Republican American!
   
  
• June 16, 2009
  *** Congratulations to Damika Martinez of Platt HS (and our 16 Red team), the only New England player listed in the ESPNU Top 100 list; also rated as one of the top 25 PG's nationally in her class!
   
  
• June 15, 2009
  *** Congratulations to Sarah Benedetti (15 Red); she was the starting first baseman for Canton HS, which won the Class S state softball championship on June 13 with a 4-2 win over Coginchaug.
   
  
• June 10, 2009
  *** Congratulations to former CT Starters player and Bryant University graduate Lindsay (Hermann) Lacey, on the birth of her first child. Lindsay gave birth to a daughter, Cameron Jayden, on June 5th.
   
  
• June 5, 2009
  *** Congratulations to Kat Woods (Northwestern Regional HS) for winning the long jump and 4 x 100 relay at the recent Class M state championship meet! She also finished 2nd in the 100 meter race.
   
  
• May 18, 2009
  *** Congratulations to Audra (Spremullo) DiBacco. Catholic Central High School of Albany, NY has named former CT Starters player Audra (Spremullo) DiBacco as girls’ basketball coach. DiBacco, who played her HS played basketball at Bridgeport Central and her college basketball at Siena, served the past three seasons as assistant coach under Chris LaBombard. She previously was coach at Bishop Gibbons and has spent the last six years coaching with the Albany Capitals.
   
  

   

Visit  http://BuySellTix.com
         Purchase NBA Basketball Tickets to all Playoff Games.