Bowling Green State University Athletics
Falcons Get The Point (Two, Actually)
April 26, 2000 | Women's Basketball
April 26, 2000
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio - The Bowling Green women's basketball program has signed two student-athletes to National Letters of Intent, BGSU head coach Dee Knoblauch has announced. Lindsay Austin and Emily Pohl will join the Falcon program next fall.
Austin, a 5-7 point guard from Cincinnati, Ohio, currently attends Sycamore High School. She led the Aviators in both scoring and steals, with 12.1 points and 3.4 thefts per game this past season.
Austin, a team captain, was named to the All-Greater Miami Conference First Team, and also was an academic all-league selection. She was named to the all-district second team. In addition to her scoring and steal totals, she averaged 3.9 rebounds and 3.0 assists last winter. Austin shot 47.5 per cent from the floor, and 38.5% from three-point range.
Pohl (pronounced: Pool), also a 5-7 point guard, is from Fowler, Mich., and currently attends Fowler High School. She averaged 20 points, seven rebounds, five assists and four steals as FHS advanced to the championship game of the state tournament in Class D.
Pohl earned first-team all-conference, all-area and all-state honors last fall, and earned both All-State First-Team and Academic All-State First-Team honors by the Basketball Coaches Association of Michigan. She nearly had a triple-double in the state semifinal game, with nine points, 10 rebounds and 12 assists in a 67-44 win over Painesville-Jeffers. Pohl, the Student Council President, has a 3.99 grade-point average and will serve as her class valedictorian.
"I am very excited that Lindsay and Emily are coming to BGSU," said Knoblauch. "I think we're going to have a very nice situation, with some healthy competition at the point-guard position.
"Both Lindsay and Emily are very smart, and they do not make a lot of mistakes. I think they both will be ready to play and contribute for us next year. They had better be ready, because we are going to need them."
Austin and Pohl join Andrea Ault, Kelly Kapferer and Stefanie Wenzel in the 2000-2001 recruiting class. Those three players inked letters of intent during the early signing period in November.
BGSU finished the 1999-2000 season with an overall record of 11-17, and a Mid-American Conference mark of 8-8. The Falcons lose two seniors, forward Sherry Kahle and point guard Jaymee Wappes, off that squad.
BGSU WOMEN'S BASKETBALL RECRUITING CLASS
Name Ht. Pos. Yr.* Hometown (Previous School) Andrea Ault 6-0 F Fr. Urbana, Ohio (Urbana) Lindsay Austin 5-7 G Fr. Cincinnati, Ohio (Sycamore) Kelly Kapferer 6-2 C Fr. Jefferson, Ohio (Jefferson) Emily Pohl 5-7 G Fr. Fowler, Mich. (Fowler) Stefanie Wenzel 6-0 G Fr. Sussex, Wis. (Hartland Arrowhead Union) * denotes year of eligibility for 2000-2001 academic year
