Women's Basketball

Hardin-Simmons University

2200 Hickory - Abilene, TX - 79698
Team Office: Tel: (325) 670-1468 Fax: (325) 670-1572
Team website: hsuathletics.ocsn.com

Founded in 1891, Hardin-Simmons University (or HSU) is a private Baptist university offering 70 majors, and seven graduate degrees as well as pre-professional programs in dentistry, engineering, medicine, law, pharmacology, and seminary. The school also offers a doctorate in physical therapy. US News 2008 Report on America's Best Colleges ranked HSU #34 among universities in the west offering a Master's degree.

The 93 acre campus is located in Abilene (pop. 115k).

School website
www.hsutx.edu

College Profile

Type:

Private, co-ed

Religious Affiliation:

Baptist

Enrollment:

2,300

Getting In:

Moderately Difficult. ACT 25/75: 19-24

Tuition + Room & Board:

In-state: ~$20,000
Out-of-State: ~$20,000

Most Popular Majors

Business - Education - Parks and Rec

Misc. Information

Head coach Shanna Briggs completed her sixth season at Hardin-Simmons in 2007-08. The former HSU graduate, who had a record setting career as a player (1992-95), got her coaching start at the prep level (Decatur, Venus and Abilene HS). Briggs inherited an already successful program which had won four straight conference titles before she took over in 2002-03. In her inaugural season she led the Cowgirls to a 27-1 mark and has since rolled off six consecutive 20+ winning seasons, made four NCAA appearances, and been ranked 5x in the top 25. In 2007-08, Briggs led her team to 21-6 mark but did not earn an NCAA bid.

Team Name	Cowgirls
Colors	Purple and Gold
Division	NCAA Division III
All-Time Record	610-411 (.597)

Recent Record (Last 8 Years)

	Last Yr	Last Yr - 1	Last Yr - 2	Previous 5 Years
Overall	21-6	21-5	24-5	121-14 (.896)
Conference	17-4	18-3	18-4	74-6 (.925)
Conf. Finish	3	3	3	1, 1, 1, 1, 1
Post Appear.	n/a	n/a	Final 4	NCAA 4x
Final 25 Rank	#15	#21	#20	4x

Coaches

Head Coach	Shanna Briggs
	Birthday: 0000-00-00
Started at Hardin-Simmons	2002-03
Contract Expires
Record as Head Coach	140-23 (.858)
Record at Hardin-Simmons	140-23 (.858)
Coaching Awards	ASC COTY (03)

Asst. Coaches	Melanie Orsak, Diana Salinas

Recruiting Coordinator

Shanna Briggs, (325) 670-1468, sbriggs@hsutx.edu

Conference and Schedule

Hardin-Simmons competes in the American Southwest Conference (www.americansouthwestconf.org) or ASC which is comprised of 16 schools in Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas and Mississippi. The ASC is split into two divisons. HSU plays in the Western division. HSU will play each team in the West twice and each school from the East once, however, only those games played against western division opponents count in the standings. League play can start in late November or early December though non-league opponents are scheduled in until January. Conference games are usually piggyback with the men's and played on Thursdays and Saturdays. The season concludes with the ASC tourney which includes the top four teams from each division with initial bracketing pitting east v. west. The eventual winner is an automatic qualifier to the NCAA tourney.

Conference Opponents

East: Mississippi College, Ozarks, Austin, Texas-Dallas, Texas-Tyler, East Texas Baptist, Le Tourneau, Louisina College. West: Mary Hardin Baylor, Texas Luthern, Concordia-Austin, Howard Payne, Sul Ross St., Schreiner, and McMurry.

Facilities

Mabee Gym
Capacity: 3,000

Style/Stats

In 2006-07, Hardin-Simmons was ranked #3 in offense, averaging 78.5 ppg.