USD Women's Basketball 1995-1996

WEST COAST CONFERENCE

A History of Achievement Since its inception in 1985-86, WCC Women's Basketball has done nothing but prosper. In the last four years, the league has sent six teams to the NCAAs and two to the NIT. The West Coast Conference started in 1952 as the Cali– fornia Basketball Association and remained as such until changing its name to the West Coast Athletic Conference in 1956. The league became known as the West Coast Confer– ence in 1989. The eight-team alliance currently sponsors eleven championships for women (basketball, cross country, tennis, soccer and volleyball) and men (baseball, basketball, cross country, golf, tennis and soccer). The league owns five NCAA automatic bids (women's and men's basketball baseball, men's soccer and volleyball). ' The conference alignment, unchanged since 1987, spans the West from Canada to Mexico and includes Gonzaga Uni– versity, Loyola Marymount University, Pepperdine Univer– sity, the Unversity of Portland, Saint Mary's College, the University of San Diego, the University of San Francisco and Santa Clara University.

West Coast Conference 400 Oyster Point Blvd., Suite 221 South San Francisco, CA 94080 Phone: (415) 873-8622 Fax: (415) 873-7846

Commissioner: Michael Gilleran Assistant Commissioner: Don Ott

Assistant Commissioner: Teresa Kuehn Supervisor of Officials: Dean Crowley Public Relations Assistant: Mike Villamor Public Relations Assistant: Phil Simon

REGULAR SEASON CHAMPIONS

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Year 1995 1994 1993

School

Overall

San Francisco

21-4 21-7 19-9

13-1 11-3 12-2

Santa Clara Santa Clara

1992 Santa Clara

21-10 10-4 19-10 10-4 14-14 10-4

San Francisco

Portland

1991 Santa Clara 1990 St. Mary's 1989 St. Mary's 1988 Gonzaga 1987 San Francisco 1986 U.S. International

28-3 21-7 19-9 18-9 19-8 24-9

13-1 12-2 12-2 11-3 10-2 11-1

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Jill Shaver (left) and Melisa Sortino (right) hold the WCC Championship Trophy after leading the Toreros to a 7-point upset of Santa Clara at the 1993 tournament.