It’s the explosion of a trend that began with the emergence of Sugeiry Monsac, a Dominican Republic native, as an all-conference player four years ago. Nigerian native Joy Ike spent one year with the Colonials, and England native Mary Durojave arrived as a freshman last year.
Now the Lady Colonials will add freshman Spanish forward Vega Martinez-Gimeno, freshman 6′6 Latvian center Anna Gailite, junior Dominican guard Yohanna Morton, junior Latvian guard Kristine Silijara, and two Ohio freshmen in forward Libby Ladrach and guard Jasmine Tate.
You can read more about the individuals by reading the official release. Robert Morris had several spots open following an injury plagued season last year. Sade Logan, Kendra Williams, Grace Williams, Latavia Vails, and Angela Pace were all seniors, while Pittsburgh native Monica Jones played just the first half of the season before finding herself ineligible.
Colonials Corner will do some research to find out some additional information about the new recruits, but we can already tell you that Sugeiry Monsac was a major influence in convincing Yohanna Morton – who played at Monsac’s junior college – to come to Robert Morris.
Over the next week or so, we’ll keep this post pinned to the top of the page. I invite all of you to submit your recommendations for a 25-man starting lineup. That’s 11 offensive players, 11 defensive players, and three special teamers – kicker, punter, return specialist. We’ll assume that it’s a standard lineup (only two wide receivers, a tight end, a 4-3 defense, etc), but I’m willing to make this a two-deep depth chart if we get enough responses and discussion.
Feel free to take an on active roll in the comments. Defend your picks, critique others (be kind and constructive), submit just one or two players or submit an entire two-deep roster. Up to you. We’ll give you about a week, and next Tuesday, I’ll post the results and contribute my own version.
Have at it.
Jeremy Chappell will begin his professional career in France.
With the Pittsburgh Summer Basketball League ending tonight, a few pieces of news to pass along, plus a few site updates to inform you of. One we’ll mention right now: I’m now on Twitter, so you can click the link on the right side of the page to follow OR you can follow along at the bottom of the page. I might move the twitter feed up once things get going.
From there, the hope is to work out the final few bugs and then see if/how some additional features – more photos, video, additional multimedia, a message board – can be included as we go along. The primary focus, though, is to get the true format of the site up and running this weekend. Keep your fingers and toes crossed that all goes well.
On to the notes:
Jeremy Chappell (in gray) works on offense during his Pittsburgh Summer League basketball game July 7th. Photo: Andrew Chiappazzi/Colonials Corner.
Round Five of the Pittsburgh Summer Basketball League sponsored by the Pittsburgh Basketball Club is in the books. Just one more week of round-robin play remains for the playoffs begin and the champion is crowned.
Colonials Corner took in all three games at the GreenTree Sportsplex on Wednesday night, and with a few Pitt Panthers shelved, the players opened up the throttle and upped the intensity – and the acrobatics – from the opening week. All three games, but especially the middle one between UPMC and SPK, had a variety of players playing well above the rim.
All three games featured your Robert Morris Colonials, with the middle game serving as the highlight for a packed gym. Game one featured LAIR against Jeremy Chappell and Khalif Foster’s PGT team and went down to the wire. Game two featured Mezie Nwigwe and Lijah Thompson taking UPMC against Rob Robinson and SPK. Game three had Dallas Green and Russell Johnson’s CRONS squad trying to hold off a Pitt-heavy PBC squad.
For more, read on.
The news includes a change in the conference scheduling for women’s teams, as the NEC moves towards a reduction in travel costs; the continuation of a one-sided but entertaining rivalry that was expected to die; a surprise addition to the hoops schedule for the men featuring another major state university; and an early look at how strong the schedule will be for the defending champs.
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