Lani's Basketball Scrapbook

2004-2005 Season

Selected news items:

• Vermont Athletics Year In Review: 2004-05
  Release Date: 06-22-2005
  After being picked to finish seventh in the America East Women’s Basketball Preseason Poll, the Catamounts decided to prove everyone wrong. The senior leadership of Lani Boardman, Katie McNamara, Tiffany Spinka and Danielle Sabourin led Vermont to a fourth place finish in the America East standings and the #4 seed in the America East Women’s Basketball Championship. The Catamounts played a tough schedule that included a road game against Michigan State, the same Spartans that lost to Baylor in the national championship game. During the year, Boardman and McNamara became the 15th and 16th players to reach the 1,000-point milestone. In back-to-back games, Vermont set a new school record for fewest points allowed in a 55-27 victory over UMBC and preceded to set a new school record with 14 three-pointers in a 90-72 victory over Albany. Vermont earned a quarterfinal victory over Binghamton at the America East Championship and advanced to the semifinals for the 14th time in the history of the program.
  
  
• Boardman Named Women's Basketball MVP
  Release Date: 05-12-2005
  
  
  BURLINGTON, Vt. – The University of Vermont Athletic Department hosted the First Annual Rally Awards on Tuesday night at the Flynn Theatre in downtown Burlington. The all-sports year-end event celebrated the accomplishments of the UVM student-athletes. The department handed out six awards, honored each team’s MVP and senior student-athletes, and presented a video highlighting the great moments of the 2004-05 season.
  
  The Most Valuable Players for each UVM varsity team were announced at the Rally Awards. Senior Lani Boardman (York, Maine) was named MVP of the women’s basketball team.
  
  Boardman led the women's basketball team to a fourth place finish in the America East Conference after the Catamounts were picked to finish seventh in the preseason poll. An ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America District I selection, Boardman finished her career at Vermont with 1,227 points, 544 rebounds, 208 assists and is one of six players in UVM history to score over 1,000 points, grab 500 rebounds and hand out 200 assists. In 2004-05, she became the 15th Catamount to reach the 1,000-career point milestone and the seventh member of Vermont's 1,000-point/500-rebound club. Boardman earned America East All-Conference Second Team honors and was named to the America East All-Championship Team after averaging 23.5 points, 6.5 rebounds and 2.5 steals while shooting 51.4% from the field in the tournament.



• Women's AE bid falls short
  The fourth-seeded Catamounts fought back from a 16-point deficit and gained an edge midway through the second half only to watch eighth-seeded BU snatch a 70-63 victory with clutch shots down the stretch... More
  
  
• Boardman's career ends
  In the locker room after a 70-63 loss in the America East semifinals to Boston University Friday night ended the Catamounts' season and the college career of former York (Maine) High School star Lani Boardman, Dawley told the rest of her team to emulate Boardman in the future. Not just Boardman's career-high of 31 points, but the way she carried herself for four years... More
  
  
• Record-Setting Day from the Field Lifts Vermont Women to Semifinals (AE release - 3/11/05)
  Vermont, the No. 4 seed, used the hottest shooting day in conference championship history to record an 80-65 victory over No. 5 Binghamton in the quarterfinals of the 2005 Friendship Cottage Cheese America East Women's Basketball Championship... More
  
  
• Boardman, Castro Earn America East Women's Hoop All-Conference Honors (UVM release - 3/9/05)
  University of Vermont senior Lani Boardman (York, Maine) and freshman Alexis Castro (Chula Vista, Calif.) have earned America East All-Conference honors. Boardman was named to the America East All-Conference Second Team, while Castro earned a spot on the All-Rookie Team... More
  
  
• Women's Basketball Victorious in Regular-Season Finale (UVM release - 3/5/05)
  
  
• Lani's 2/26/05 radio interview: Part 1 and Part 2 (mp3 files)
  
  
• Boardman leaves an impression (Foster Daily Democrat - 2/20/05)
  Lani Boardman, the York, Maine high school star who was never recruited by UNH, played her final game at Lundholm Gymnasium Saturday. Although UNH came away with the win, Boardman once again showcased the skills that made her an all-America East candidate and a member of the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America District I first team... More
  
  
• The old stomping grounds (Portsmouth Herald - 2/20/05)
  Lani Boardman came back to the Seacoast as a visiting college basketball player for the fourth and final time on Saturday, and the 2001 York High School graduate didn't disappoint her friends and family... More
  
  
• Boardman Named to ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America Women's Basketball District I Team (UVM Athletics - 2/17/05)
  
  
• Boardman reaches 1,000 - York grad reflects on plateau (York Weekly - 2/02/05)
  Been there, done that. Lani Boardman has gone to the free-throw line many times in her three-plus seasons as a member of the University of Vermont women's basketball team... More
  
  
• Boardman Nets 1,000th Point to Lead Vermont Past UNH in Women's Basketball (UVM athletics - 1/19/05)
  
  
• Cats out to prove themselves (BFP article - 1/3/05)
  The University of Vermont women's basketball team knows it has plenty to prove as the America East Conference season begins Wednesday against Northeastern at Patrick Gym...More
  
  
• America East stats for non-conference games (Nov-Dec 2004)
  
  
• Catamounts clout Colgate (12/3/04)
  
  
• Boardman, Smart Named Vermont Student-Athletes of the Week (11/22/04)
  
  
• UVM women edge Louisville (11/19/04)
  

Basketball photos from the 2004-05 season

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University of Vermont Women's Basketball:

• Main page
• 2004-05 Roster
• 2004-05 Schedule
• 2004-05 Season Outlook

Other College Basketball links:

• America East Women's Basketball site
  
  
• College Women's Basketball RPI (Rating Percentage Index) - Lists all Division I teams, schedules, results, and power ratings.

Basketball photos from last season.

2003-2004 Season Statistics - team individual stats, America East individual stats, and NCAA stats.

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