Tene Lewis

Height:
5-8
Class:
Freshman
High School:
Detroit CMA
Hometown:
Southfield, Mich.

Tene Lewis splits a pair of Eastern Michigan defenders, Ryan Coleman (left) and Amy Freidenberger, in the second half of BGSU[apos]s 77-57 win in the MAC Tournament semifinals on March 11, 2005. The Falcons went on to win the tourney championship (AP Photo/Ron Schwane)

2004-05: A team co-captain along with Kelly Kapferer ... received the team[apos]s Falcon Award, presented to the player who exemplifies commitment, dedication and loyalty to the women[apos]s basketball program ... played in all 31 games, making seven starts, as the Falcons won the MAC[apos]s regular-season and tournament titles ... averaged 2.8 points and 3.1 rebounds on the season, ranking fifth on the team in the latter category ... was second on the Falcons with 2.9 assists, and was third with 1.8 steals per game ... was 13th in the MAC in steals ... all of her starts came in non-league play ... generally the first player off the bench during MAC action and the team[apos]s tournament championship run ... provided a spark off the bench, and was a defensive stopper for the Brown and Orange ... had two points and six rebounds in the NCAA Tournament game vs. Kansas State ... scored a season-high 10 points, tying her career best, in home win over Western Michigan ... had a career-high 10 assists at IPFW ... averaged 3.4 points and 3.8 boards in MAC play, along with 3.25 assists (second on the team) ... in league games only, was 10th in assist/turnover ratio, and tied for 14th in steals ... had 20 assists in a three-game span (all wins), with six helpers in home win over Northern Illinois and seven apiece vs. Ohio and at Ball State ... that began a seven-game span in which she averaged 5.4 assists ... in that NIU game, had nine points on 4-of-6 shooting, and four rebounds in addition to the six assists ... had five steals in back-to-back contests on BG[apos]s Pennsylvania trip prior to Christmas, at Saint Francis and Robert Morris ... had 167 career assists and 120 career steals, leading all 2004-05 Falcons in the latter category ... her career high for minutes played had been 27 prior to February, but she played at least 27 minutes in seven of the last nine regular-season games ... in her career, played in 109 games, making 12 starts.

2003-04: One of the team[apos]s top defensive players for the second consecutive season ... came off the bench to play in 29 games ... averaging 1.7 points, 1.5 rebounds and 1.0 assists ... provided a spark off the bench in the latter stages of the season ... scored a season-high six points in MAC Tournament win over Central Michigan, and added four rebounds and three assists ... tied her season high with 20 minutes played ... had three points, two boards and two assists vs. Toledo, and hit her first three-point field goal of the year ... scored four points and added four rebounds and a season-high four assists in 20 minutes at Ball State ... had three points and seven rebounds, tying her career high in the latter category, in only 10 minutes of action at Marshall ... vs. Kent State, had four points, two boards and a game-high four steals in nine minutes ... point total matched a season high, while steals total tied a career best ... got herself to the foul line eight times in both the Marshall and KSU games ... scored four points and had a steal in just six minutes at CMU ... had a pair of steals in eight minutes in the Western Michigan regular-season game ... three rebounds vs. Akron ... had three assists and four steals in a combined eight minutes in the two games at the EKU Classic ... had three points and a season-high six rebounds in 14 minutes at IUPUI ... four points and three assists vs. SE Missouri State ... two points and an assist vs. both Youngstown State and Oakland.

2002-03: Played in the first 25 games of the season, starting two ... but, missed the final three games after having surgery on her broken nose on Feb. 27 ... broke the nose in practice on Feb. 20, but played in the Akron (Feb. 22) and Marshall (Feb. 26) games, wearing a protective covering on her face ... had the surgery once the swelling went down ... averaged 1.7 points, 2.2 rebounds, 1.4 assists and 1.1 steals per game ... fourth on the team in assists and third in steals ... had 35 assists after totalling 12 during all of her freshman year ... three rebounds in just six minutes at UA ... had four points and a team-high five assists at UB ... made her first start of the season vs. Toledo (Feb. 8), and was a key contributor ... did not score, but tied her career bests with seven rebounds and six assists in a career-high 27 minutes ... also had a game-high three steals vs. UT ... made a steal in the final seconds to clinch a one-point win at Oakland ... tied her season best with seven points in that game, including a three-pointer to beat the first-half buzzer ... in the next game, vs. Ohio, guarded the Bobcats[apos] Andrea Johnson on the final possession and forced her to take an off-balance shot that missed at the buzzer, giving BG another one-point win ... had a career-high six assists, several of the crowd-pleasing variety, in the Cincinnati game ... also had seven points vs. UC, and added six more vs. Savannah State the next day ... had eight assists in the two games at UC[apos]s tournament, after amassing a total of 16 in the first 31 games of her Falcon career ... had seven rebounds vs. Butler and six boards against IUPUI ... had three steals on five occasions on the year.

2001-02: Played in 24 games, starting three ... averaged 1.6 points and 1.6 rebounds ... was named the team[apos]s Most Improved Player ... had four points, two rebounds and a team- and season-high four steals at Miami ... two assists in just three minutes at UB ... recorded first career blocked shot vs. Akron ... two points and four rebounds in just four minutes vs. Lehigh ... three points and three boards in three minutes vs. Yale ... scored 10 points, the first double-digit outing of her young career, and added three boards at Butler ... had a season-high five rebounds vs. IPFW and a season-best three assists vs. EKU ... two points, two rebounds and two assists in her first collegiate start, vs. Yale ... had five points vs. Colorado, adding two steals ... made her debut at Detroit, and provided a spark off the bench ... had two points, a rebound and a steal in eight minutes.

HIGH SCHOOL: A three-year letterwinner for coaches James Rogers and Andrea Rogers at Communication & Media Arts H.S. ... helped the Pharoahs to the championship game of the Michigan Class C State Tournament in her last year ... team made back-to-back Detroit Public School League title-game appearances, and won a pair of district and regional titles in her last two seasons ... averaged 10 points and 10 assists as a senior ... captained the team her final year ... Pharoahs went 51-13 during her three years, including 29-4 in the Public School League.

PERSONAL: Tene Rochelle Lewis was born August 14, 1983, in Detroit, Mich. ... daughter of Michael Lewis, Sr., and Deborah Besant ... a sociology major at BGSU, with a minor in ethnic studies ... the youngest of four children ... has a pair of brothers, Michael, Jr., and Chaka, and a sister, Demeeka.