University of Louisiana at Lafayette Athletics
Cajuns headed to "The Last Frontier"
8/7/2004 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
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August 7, 2004
LAFAYETTE - The University of Louisiana-Lafayette announced on Saturday that women's basketball head coach J. Kelley Hall has accepted an invitation to join the 2004 Carrs/Safeway Great Alaska Shootout. The Shootout gives the Cajuns an opportunity to play in two of the finest tournaments in women's basketball during the 2004-05 season.
The Cajuns will first travel to Colorado Springs, Colo. to compete in the Radisson Inn Classic hosted by the U.S. Air Force Academy. Louisiana will open the RIC against Montana State on Nov. 19 and follow with a game on Nov. 20 against either California-Davis or the host Air Force Falcons.
UL Lafayette then undertakes a 3,553 mile journey north from Denver, Colo. to Anchorage, Alaska.
The Cajuns open Shootout play with the defending champion Alaska Anchorage Seawolves on Nov. 23 at 9 p.m. (CT). Louisiana follows with either Eastern Washington or Stanford on Nov. 24. More Shootout information is available at www.GoSeawolves.com/shootout.
In total, the Cajuns eight-day trip will cover over 10,000 miles on the ground and through the air. The entire 2004-05 men's and women's basketball schedules are expected to be released in the near future.
UL Lafayette returns six-foot-three senior center and reigning Sun Belt Conference Player of the Year Anna Petrakova. Petrakova spent this past summer playing for the Russian U20 National Team, winning a gold medal at the Eural Trans Gas European Championship (www.fibaeurope.com). She averaged 18.6 points, 9.5 rebounds, 2.3 blocks, 2.0 assists and 1.0 steals per game for the Cajuns in 2003-04. Petrakova also led the team in three-point shooting percentage (21-50, 42.0%).
-Ragin' Cajuns-
