Press Release

Feb. 2, 2009

Bearcat Weekly for the Week of Feb. 2, 2009

Men's Basketball (9-11, 4-9 MIAA)

• Northwest spends the week at home for a pair of games against Nebraska-Omaha Wednesday night and Pittsburg State Saturday afternoon.
• The Bearcats have won three of their last four games at home while the two teams this weekend have combined to win two road games since Jan. 14.
• Hunter Henry continues to lead the MIAA with 8.7 rebounds and 3.05 offensive rebounds per game.
• Northwest is two games behind for eighth in the MIAA standings and tied for Pittsburg State at 4-9 in conference play.

Women's Basketball (6-14, 2-11 MIAA)

• The Bearcats stay at home following the longest road game of the conference season to host Nebraska-Omaha and Pittsburg State.
• It's the first trip to Maryville for Nebraska-Omaha since 2003. Northwest leads the series 6-3 when playing in Bearcat Arena.
• Head Coach Gene Steinmeyer was recently inducted into the Doane College Athletics Hall of Fame, after posting a 360-141 record in 15 seasons.
• Rickeya McElroy is leading Northwest with 17 points and a 53.8 field-goal percentage in the last three games.

Men's Track and Field

• After a weekend of rest, the Northwest men's team travels to Central Missouri Saturday for the first of three meets this season at the UCM Multipurpose Building.
• The men's multi-events athletes will split and head to the Bill Hillenbrand Open at South Dakota Feb. 6-7.
• Ben McKim is one of three MIAA athletes to qualify for the NCAA championships in the shot put. He has the program's ninth-best throw at 53-6.25 in all-time performer lists.

Women's Track and Field

• The Bearcats head to Central Missouri Friday afternoon for the UCM Mule Relays.
• Emily Churchman was named MIAA Field Athlete of the Week after improving her NCAA provisional mark and the program record with 3,372 points at the Kip Janvrin Multi-Events Feb. 1.
• Hannah Henry provisionally qualified with 8.37 in the 55-meter hurdles at the Scott Nisely Memorial Classic Jan. 31. The 8.94 conversion time leads the MIAA and is 14th in Division II performance lists.