Women's Basketball

State University of NY College Oneonta

Ravine Parkway - Oneonta, NY - 13820
Team Office: Tel: (607) 436-2360 Fax: (607) 436-3581
Team website: www.oneonta.edu/academics/athletics/

Founded in 1889, SUNY Oneonta primarily offers a liberal arts program with a pre-professional focus. It is one of 14 schools in the NY state-run university system. Oneonta is particularly renowned for its education program. It offers over 50 Bachelor degree programs and nine graduate majors. Some of the majors offered include Water Resources Engineering, Meteorology, International Relations, Music Management and Merchandising, Museum Studies, and Dietetics/Human Nutritional Services. US News 2005 report on America's Best Colleges ranked SUNY:Oneonta in the third tier among universities in the north.

SUNY Oneonta is located in central New York, overlooking the Susquehanna River Valley, not far from Cooperstown. Oneonta, (pop.15k), is approximately midway between Binghamton and Albany in the western foothills of the Catskill Mountains.

School website
http://www.oneonta.edu

College Profile

Type:

Public, co-ed

Religious Affiliation:

None

Enrollment:

5,600

Getting In:

Moderately Difficult. Incoming SAT and ACT: 1070 and 23

Tuition + Room & Board:

In-state: ~$12,000
Out-of-State: ~$17,000

Most Popular Majors

Education - Visual and Performing Arts - Home Economics

Misc. Information

Head Coach Daphne Thompson begins her first season at SUNY Oneonta in 2008-09. Thompson took over from Dan McGraw who served for nine seasons, producing a .665 winning percentage. Thompson most recently served as the head coach at Hartwick College. During her tenure at Hartwick she compiled a 223-161 record while making four NCAA tournament appearances. A 1990 graduate of the University of Delaware, Thompson was a four-year varsity player for the Division I Blue Hens and a team captain as a senior. In 2007-08, the Red Dragons posted a 20-9 record, the program's ninth straight winning season.

Team Name	Red Dragons
Colors	Red and White
Division	NCAA Division III
All-Time Record	346-310 (.527)

Recent Record (Last 8 Years)

	Last Yr	Last Yr - 1	Last Yr - 2	Previous 5 Years
Overall	20-9	14-12	21-8	96-45 (.680)
Conference	12-4	7-9	12-4	65-18 (.783)
Conf. Finish	1	6	3	4, 1, 6, 4, 1
Post Appear.	n/a	n/a	n/a	NCAA 1x
Final 25 Rank	NR	NR	NR	0x

Coaches

Head Coach	Daphne Thompson
	Birthday: 0000-00-00
Started at SUNY College Oneonta	2008-09
Contract Expires	?
Record as Head Coach	223-161 (.581)
Record at SUNY College Oneonta	0-0
Coaching Awards	WBCA District COTY, Empire 8 COTY 3x

Asst. Coaches	Norm Kaufman, Tom Moriarty, Mara Tichy

Recruiting Coordinator

Daphne Thompson, Ph. (607) 436-2360, thompsdj@oneonta.edu

Conference and Schedule

Oneonta plays in the State University New York Athletic Conference or CUNYAC (www.sunyac.com) which is comprised of 11 teams, all from New York. League play usually commences in early December and are usually piggybacked with the men's. Oneonta plays most teams twice. Games are often played on Tuesday, Friday and Saturday. The season concludes with the SUNYAC tourney which takes . . .(explain seeding)

Conference Opponents

Cortland, Geneseo, Buffalo, Fredonia, New Paltz, Plattsburg, Brockport, Oswego, Potsdam and SUNYIT

Facilities

Dewar Arena
Capacity 3,500, Average attendance ?