July 12, 1999 Volume 21, No. 17

Women’s Basketball Coach Makes Move from East Hill to South Hill Jennifer Kroll, an assistant women’s basketball coach at Cornell University for the past four years, was recently named head women’s basketball coach at Ithaca College. She succeeds Christine Pritchard, who resigned after 14 seasons. Kroll joined the Big Red coaching staff in 1995. During her tenure Cornell twice set a school record for Ivy League wins in a season, twice came within a win of matching the school record for single-season victories (finishing 12-14 in 1995–96 and 1996–97), and recorded the program’s highest Ivy League finish (fourth in 1996–97). She helped recruit and coach three all–Ivy League players and three members of the Ivy League all-rookie team, including last season’s rookie of the year. A 1991 graduate of Northwestern University, Kroll played basketball for four years for the Division I Wildcats. She helped lead Northwestern to the Big Ten championship in 1990 and to NCAA tournament berths in 1990 and 1991. She spent two seasons as an assistant basketball coach at the University of Kentucky while earning her master’s degree in sport management. Kroll takes over a program that has experienced great success in recent years. Two years ago Ithaca set a school record with 22 victories and won New York State Women’s Collegiate Athletic Association and Eastern College Athletic Conference Upstate New York titles. The previous season the Bombers won the program’s first Empire Athletic Association championship and advanced to the second round of the NCAA play-offs. The Bombers finished 12-12 last winter and have not had a losing season since 1987.