George Fox University honors national basketball champions Nov. 20

November 4th, 2009

Banner-raising event prior to women’s home opener commemorates 32-0 season

NEWBERG, Ore. – George Fox University will honor its 2008-09 national-champion women’s basketball team with a championship banner-raising ceremony before the team’s home opener against Concordia on Friday, Nov. 20.

The ceremony is scheduled for 5:45 p.m., with the game set to tip off at 6 p.m. in the university’s Wheeler Sports Center on the Newberg, Ore., campus. The game will be followed by the men’s home opener against Claremont-Mudd-Scripps at 8 p.m.

The event commemorates the Bruins’ surprising 2008-09 season, when they posted a perfect 32-0 record despite returning just one senior and bringing in 10 freshmen. George Fox clinched the Division III title with a 60-53 defeat of Washington University of St. Louis in the finals, contested on the campus of Hope University in Holland, Mich., in March.

After the season, head coach Scott Rueck was named Division III National Coach of the Year, senior Kristen Shielee was chosen the Final Four’s most valuable player, and freshman Sage Indendi was chosen National Rookie of the Year.

The Bruins open defense of their title with a 5:30 p.m. away game at Corban on Tuesday, Nov. 17.

Tickets for the Nov. 20 game are available at the door for $5 (adults), $3 for non-George Fox students and $1 for seniors (55 and older) and children 12 and under.

George Fox University is ranked by Forbes as one of the top 100 colleges in the country and highest among Christian colleges. George Fox is the only Christian university in the Pacific Northwest classified by U.S. News & World Report as a national university. More than 3,300 students attend classes on the university’s campus in Newberg, Ore., and at teaching centers in Portland, Salem, and Redmond, Ore., and Boise, Idaho. George Fox offers bachelor’s degrees in more than 40 majors, degree-completion programs for working adults, five seminary degrees, and 12 master’s and doctoral degrees.

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Contact:
Todd Dickerson
Office of Development
503-554-2118
tdickerson@georgefox.edu