2020-21 Georgetown Women’s Basketball Gameday ProGram 1 Georgetown Women’s BasketBall 2020-21 SCHeDUle .................................1 tHiS iS GeOrGetOwn BaSketBall ......2 nOtaBle alUmni ..................................4 DireCtOr OF interCOlleGiate atHletiCS lee reeD ..............................5 HeaD COaCH JameS HOwarD ..............7 COaCHeS & SUppOrt StaFF ..................9 2020-21 rOSter ....................................11 taYlOr BaUr .......................................13 anita kelaVa ......................................15 GraCeann Bennett ...........................17 Jillian arCHer ...................................19 SHanniaH wriGHt .............................21 taYlia StimpSOn ................................23 JazmYn HarmOn ................................25 teaGHan FlaHertY ............................27 YaSmin Ott .........................................29 kelSeY ranSOm ..................................31 Sari CUretOn / leXi kimBall / BreOnna maYFielD............................33 meet tHe team ...................................35 UpCOminG OppOnentS ......................36 1,000 pOint ClUB .................................39 Career leaDerS .................................40 SeaSOn leaDerS .................................41 awarDS & HOnOrS .............................42 all-time SerieS reCOrDS ..................44 all-time letterwinnerS ..................45 tHOmpSOn Center ............................47 Table of contents...We Believe in our hearts.4 2020-21 Georgetown Women’s Basketball Gameday ProGram Notable alumni Otto pOrter Jr. Sugar rODGerS Patrick ewinGRebekkah BrunSOn Bill ClintOn Former President of the United States malCOlm lee Former Hoya athletics department employee and director of motion picures Girls Trip, Best Man, Roll Bounce and Undercover Brother maria SHriVer Journalist, activist and author paul taGliaBue Former Hoya basketball player, former Commissioner of the NFL amerie R&B Singer BraDley COOper Former member of the crew team and actor in films such as American Sniper, Silver Linings Playbook, A Star is Born and The Hangover katHryn ruemmler Former White House Counsel to President Barack Obama SteVe paluSzek Principal, PRB Investors, LP and a member of the Georgetown University Wall Street Alliance aimee mullinS Athlete, actress and fasion model teD leOnSiS Monumental Sports & Entertainment founder, chairman, majority owner, CEO Allen iVerSOn2020-21 Georgetown Women’s Basketball Gameday ProGram 5 Georgetown administration • Came to Georgetown University in April of 2010 as the 17th Francis X. Rienzo Director of Intercollegiate Athletics • Oversees one of the largest broad-based intercollegiate athletics programs in the nation with 29 varsity programs and 700 student- athletes, 12 percent of the undergraduate population at Georgetown • Has been a part of 32 conference tournament and regular season championships on the Hilltop. This also includes five national coach of the year honors and seven team national championships (2019 men’s soccer, 2011 women’s cross country, 2016 men’s lightweight rowing, four ICSA national sailing titles) • Led the Hoyas during the 2013 BIG EAST transition and instituted a 10-year multimedia rights deal with FOX Sports in 2015. Opened the Thompson Center in 2016 and Cooper Field in 2020. • Established the Cooper Athletics Leadership Program as well as bringing on the department’s first full-time counselor, dietician and diversity, equity & inclusion position exclusively for student-athletes as Georgetown strives to support the whole person • 2018-19 National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) President • Played basketball at Cleveland State and later served as the athletics director from 2002-2010. 2020-21 Georgetown Women’s Basketball Gameday ProGram 7 Head Coach James hoWard James Howard was named the 10th head coach in Georgetown women’s basketball history in June 2017. He was promoted after serving as the associate head coach for two seasons. Howard returned to the Hilltop after being an assistant coach for the Blue & Gray during the 1997-98 season. As the head coach at Georgetown, Howard has posted two WNIT appearances as GU advanced out of the first round in both, marking the first time since 2009. The Blue & Gray has also made two-straight trips to the BIG EAST Tournament semifinals. Over the past three years, he has coached four All-BIG EAST honorees, including two that have been four-time All-BIG EAST selections, as well as boasted the 2018 BIG EAST Defensive Player of the Year in Dionna White and the 2018 BIG EAST Most Improved Player in Cynthia Petke. In his two seasons as an assistant, Howard helped the Hoyas to a 33-27 record and two-consecutive appearances in the WNIT. He coached All-BIG EAST honorees Dorothy Adomako as well as White in both those campaigns. James hoWard fourth season (siXth overall) 115-126 (overall)Next >