Falcon Newcomers Enjoy Successful Senior Seasons

The Bowling Green State University women's basketball team had yet another successful season in 2012-13, going 24-11 overall and advancing to national postseason play for the ninth consecutive year. And, BGSU's women's basketball signees had successful 2012-13 seasons as well.

Kennedy Kirkpatrick (Lawrence, Kansas) finished her high-school career with 1,046 career points and 254 career assists. The 5-10 guard averaged 13.2 points, four rebounds and 4.1 assists to help Free State High School to a 16-6 record and the sub state championship game. Kirkpatrick earned All-Sunflower League First-Team honors for the third consecutive year, and also was named to the all-state 6A (the large-school division) second team. She played in the Missouri/Kansas All-Star game, where she led the Kansas team with 14 points. Kirkpatrick set school career records for assists, field goals and three-point field goals made, and also broke Free State's single-game assists record.

Rachel Konieczki (Rockford, Ill.) scored 17 points to help her team to an 82-80 victory in the Rising Stars senior all-star game. A 5-4 point guard, she was named second-team All-State in Class 3A by both the Associated Press and the Illinois Basketball Coaches Association as a senior at Rockford Lutheran H.S. Konieczki earned first-team honors in Class 2A as a junior after being named to the second team in her sophomore season, but moved up a class prior to her senior year. Konieczki averaged 17.2 points, 3.4 rebounds, 6.0 assists and 3.7 steals in her senior year, as Lutheran finished with a 22-7 record. In addition to the Rising Stars game, she also played in the All-Stars Classic and the IBCA All-Star Game.

Abby Siefker - Richard Parrish, The Lima News

Abby Siefker (Ottoville, Ohio) was named the Ohio Division IV Player of the Year in 2012-13, and ended her career with over 1,000 points and 1,000 rebounds, the first player in Ottoville H.S. history to do so. She averaged a double-double as a senior, with 17.1 points and 12.0 rebounds per game, and also had 2.4 assists, 2.2 steals and 3.0 blocks per contest. Siefker helped the Big Green to a perfect 7-0 record in the Putnam County League for the fourth time in her four years at the school, and led the team to the state semifinals and a overall record of 27-1. An All-Ohio First-Team selection, she also earned Academic All-Ohio honors. Siefker also was named the All-Northwest Ohio Player of the Year, the District 8 P-O-Y and the PCL P-O-Y. She had 15 points for the Division III-IV North Team as they lost a narrow 96-91 decision in the annual Ohio High School Basketball Coaches Association North-South All-Star Game.

The Falcons of head coach Jennifer Roos, as mentioned, went 24-11 overall in '12-13. BGSU was 11-5 in MAC play, and the Brown and Orange earned a berth in the WNIT, advancing to national postseason play for the ninth consecutive March. BG advanced to the third round of the 64-team tournament with wins over SMU and Duquesne, before losing a three-point decision to eventual tournament champion Drexel.

Roos and the Falcons lose the services of four seniors off of the 2012-13 team, but will add Kirkpatrick, Konieczki, Siefker and Erika Donovan to the active roster in the fall. Donovan (Northside, Texas), a transfer from North Carolina State University, sat out the 2012-13 season at BGSU and has three years of eligibility remaining.

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