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CATAMOUNT WOMEN'S BASKETBALL – DID YOU KNOW...? • JAYNE ARLEDGE was the first female student-athlete to receive athletic grant-in aid at Western Carolina University in 1976 and was later the first female student-athlete to have her jersey retired in school history ... In 1992, Arledge was inducted into the Western Carolina Athletics Hall of Fame ... Prior to the 2012-13 season, the WCU women’s basketball staff sent a request to Arledge to allow Erika Joseph to wear the otherwise retired jersey ... Arledge whole-heartedly agreed and Joseph wore the honored No. 25 through her four-year career ... Arledge coached at North Greenville University for 36 years ... Remaining on-staff as the Senior Woman Administrator, she was inducted into the Crusaders’ Athletics Hall of Fame in 2019; • Western Carolina’s JAYNE ARLEDGE is the program’s all-time leading scorer, finishing with 1,928 career points, averaging 21.7 points per game over four seasons ... Arledge scored 30 points five times and owns 11 Western Carolina game, season and career records ... Arledge led the Catamounts to four-consecutive winning seasons and was twice named All-State; • Western Carolina’s 1969 women’s basketball team made history on March 22 as the first team to compete in the CIAW Championship, facing West Chester State (Pa.) in the title game, falling 65-39 ... Coached by BETTY WESTMORELAND, the team finished its fourth season with a 14-3 record, losing only to UNC Greensboro twice and West Chester in the final game ... the 1969 Catamount women’s basketball team was inducted into the WCU Athletics Hall of Fame in 2003;
JAYNE ARLEDGE
• WCU won its first Southern Conference tournament title in 2005, outlasting fifth-seeded Georgia Southern, 97-95, in double overtime to earn the program’s first trip to the NCAA Tournament ... WCU also became the first team in SoCon history to reach and win the tournament championship after playing in the opening round; • In 2007, Western Carolina won its first Southern Conference regular season title ... the Catamounts won a school-record 15 league games and tied Chattanooga for the regular season title, earning the program’s first-ever No. 1 seed in the SoCon tournament ... WCU went on to play in the post-season in the WNIT; • It took three overtimes, 101 points and clutch free throws down the stretch, but WCU weathered it all to capture the 2009 SoCon Tournament title, the second in program history ... the third-seeded Catamounts defeated No. 5 seed College of Charleston, 101-87, in the come-from-behind victory ... the game was the third-highest scoring game in SoCon Tournament history and also the first triple OT game in the tournament ... WCU earned a No. 13 seed in the NCAA tournament, the highest in school history.
BETTY WESTMORELAND
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