The Lady Toreros' Basketball season can be described by the oxymoron consistently inconsistent, much like jumbo shrimp.
The Lady Toreros had more ups and downs than David Hasselhoff's career. A six game winning streak? Check. A three game losing streak? How about two of them? A mid-season tournament title? Yep. Ending their season by falling in the first round of their conference tournament to a three-win Santa Clara team? Why not?
The Lady Toreros proved during their 2009-2010 campaign that they could compete with anyone. Unfortunately, that also meant they had the uncanny ability to let some inferior teams hang around with them or, in Santa Clara's case, beat them.
A six-game winning streak at the beginning of league play had USD in a great position to make the postseason, but the Lady Toreros lost eight of their last 12 games and are stuck watching March Madness like the rest of us.
Despite the disappointing finish to the year, there were quite a few bright spots on the roster. Sophomore guard Dominique Conners and junior forward Sam Child proved to be one of the top one-two punches in the conference.
Conners was named First-Team All-WCC after averaging 16 points and five rebounds per game, while Child chipped in just under 12 points per contest in being named to the All-WCC honorable mention team. Newcomer Felicia Wijenberg recovered from an early-season injury to record two double-doubles in the last month of the season to make the conference's All-Freshmen team. Snubbed from the postseason all-conference rosters, senior forward Morgan Henderson was the glue that held everything together and had several big scoring games herself.
Returning everyone but Henderson, USD has plenty to be optimistic about heading into next year. The returning players should all get better with another season under their belts, and the team has one of the best recruiting classes in the program's history to add to the mix.
"I know this group will get back to work," Head Coach Cindy Fischer said. "We have some tremendous recruits coming in and we'll be back here next year."
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