Lean In. Kim Wilkins goes up for a shot as an opponent tries to district her. - photo by Public Rela. tions Office. 1984·85 AIC Women's Basketball Results University of Central Arkansas 13-3 Arkansas College 12-4 Arkansas Tech University 11-5 Ouachita Baptist University 8-8 Henderson State University 8-8 University of Ark .-Monticello 7-9 College of the Ozarks 7-9 Southern Arkansas University 5-11 Harding University 1·15 Go Blue! In its second year of intercollegiate competition, the women 's basketball team showed great improvement over the first year. The team was also strengthened by outstanding junior college transfers such as Kim Wilkins, Dena Sims , Jeannie Moore and Lynn Blue . Sims and Blue were superior dribblers and were aggressive in bringing the ball down the court. Blue thrilled the fans with her passing ability being able to catch her opponents offguard to thread the ball through the defense to another Lady Bison for a layup. Blue grew up in Milwaukee , Wis ., and began playing "sandlot" basketball with the boys on the asphalt courts of the inner city when she was about eight years old. "An older brother taught me to dribble ," Blue stated , "and I just learned to pass , partially in self defense ." As an eighth grader , she began playing organized basketball, being a starter on the junior high boy's team of her school. The following year , she was a starter on the senior high girl's team , the second freshman in the history of her high school to start as a freshman. In her junior year , she was chosen honorable mention on the All-State team. In her senior year, Blue broke the conference record for total pOints scored in a given season , averaging more than 21 pOints a game , and was chosen to the All-Conference first team and, again, honorable mention on the All-State team. The folloWing year , Blue enrolled at York College because she was recommended to the women 's basketball coach by one of York's men players who had attended the same Milwaukee high school. She started both years at York and averaged about 20 points per game her final year with York on a "run and gun" attack. This year , she frequently started with two of her former York teammates, Sims and Lynette Gardner, who transferred the year before. "We are going to do a lot better next year," Blue stated and her dribbling and passing and perhaps even her shooting will be a key factor. Keep an eye next year on No . 44. ~ - Dr. Joseph E. Pryor . Harding was no/ eligible lor conference championship Women's Basketball 147
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