Kristen Henneman

February 21, 2013

Gauchos Prep to Host First Place Hawaii

By Kristen Henneman

At just 3-7, the UCSB women’s basketball team has struggled at home this season. It will need to find the answer tonight when the team takes on conference leader Hawaii in the second of its three game home stand. The G...

February 19, 2013

Gauchos Fall to Rival Cal Poly at Home

By Kristen Henneman

Most teams prefer to play at home — not the UCSB women’s basketball team. The Gauchos’ home struggles continued Saturday as they dropped a critical game to Cal Poly 65-56. Santa Barbara is now 4-7 when playing at t...

February 15, 2013

UCSB Seeks Revenge in Blue-Green Rivalry Game

By Kristen Henneman

The Blue-Green Rivalry game is always an intense matchup, but this Saturday, a potential Big West title could be on the line. The UCSB women’s basketball team is currently in a three-way tie for second place in the Big...

February 14, 2013

Former Gaucho David Takes Shot at MLS

By Kristen Henneman

After being drafted 44th in the MLS Supplemental Draft on Jan. 22 by the Colorado Rapids, former Gaucho Machael David is currently in Colorado training with the team. According to David, the Rapids are in the process of ...

February 11, 2013

Gauchos Make Epic Comeback to Bring Streak to Three

By Kristen Henneman

The UCSB women’s basketball team went into Stockton as the clear underdog. It left as a top contender for the Big West title. Looking like the team that won the Big West Tournament Championship last year, the Gauchos w...

February 8, 2013

Gauchos Back to Winning Ways

By Kristen Henneman

All season long, the UCSB women’s basketball team has said its defense fuels its offense. That was certainly the case last night as the Gauchos edged out UC Davis on the road, 60-52. With the victory, Santa Barbara imp...

February 7, 2013

Gauchos Travel North for a Pair of Games

By Kristen Henneman

With just two games separating the second and seventh place teams in the Big West to begin round two of conference play, every game counts. And after losing to lower-ranked UC Riverside last Thursday, this weekend’s ga...

February 6, 2013

A Day in the Life of Kirsten Tilleman

By Kristen Henneman

On the UCSB roster, Kirsten Tilleman is listed as a senior, but she is definitely no ordinary student athlete. For one, Tilleman isn’t an undergrad; she’s a second-year graduate student at the Bren School of Environm...

February 4, 2013

UCSB Wins 40th Straight Against CSUF

By Kristen Henneman

Usually when Head Coach Carlene Mitchell makes her patented five-man line change, she’s looking for an increase in intensity, which is exactly what she got. After blowing a 10-point lead and watching the score become a...

February 1, 2013

Keeping the Streak Alive

By Kristen Henneman

After a devastating 45-42 loss to ninth-place Riverside last night in a game that went down to the buzzer, the UCSB women’s basketball team will have to rebound quickly to take on Fullerton Saturday as the team looks t...

January 31, 2013

UCSB Hungry for Third Straight Win

By Kristen Henneman

Tonight against UC Riverside, the UCSB women’s basketball team will have the opportunity to do something they have yet to do all season: win three consecutive games. The Gauchos enter tonight’s game in a three-way ti...

January 29, 2013

LeBron Is Great, but Is He One of the All-Time Best?

By Kristen Henneman

Nearly two weeks ago, LeBron James became the youngest player in NBA history to reach the 20,000-point mark. Going into the game, he was 18 points shy of the plateau, but a 25-point performance handed the reigning MVP th...

January 28, 2013

Nesbit’s Heroics Lift Gauchos in Hawaii

By Kristen Henneman

The last time the UCSB women’s basketball team played Hawaii was in 1997 and it wasn’t a close game as the Gauchos lost 91-66. However, Saturday night in the Rainbow Wahine’s first matchup against Santa Barbara sin...

January 25, 2013

Goodbye Northridge, Aloha Hawaii

By Kristen Henneman

Coming into tonight’s game with a 2-3 conference record and a blowout 66-47 loss to Cal Poly lingering in its mind, the UCSB women’s basketball team needed to prove that it could play with the best in the Big West. W...

January 23, 2013

UCSB Student Takes Over as Official Play-by-Play Announcer

By Kristen Henneman

For the first time in 19 years, a student has taken over the job of the official radio play-by-play announcer for the UCSB women’s basketball team, according to Assistant Athletics Director Bill Mahoney. Fourth-year Mi...

January 22, 2013

Gauchos Fall to Rival Mustangs in SLO

By Kristen Henneman

In a Blue-Green rivalry game that pitted two teams with polar opposite styles against each other, Cal Poly’s offense proved to be too much to handle for the UCSB women’s basketball team as the Gauchos fell 66-47 to t...