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Cindy Hovet - Head Women's Basketball Coach |
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Cindy Hovet returns to the helm entering her seventh year as the head basketball coach at UW-River Falls with the 2006-07 season. Hovet works to get the most out of her players both on and off the court. Ten of last season's 12 Falcons earned their way onto the WIAC Scholastic Honor Roll. The Falcons have held their own in competing in the tough Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference that has produced three NCAA champions and two second-place finishers. She starts the 2006-07 season fourth among active WIAC coaches in wins. She needs just eight wins to move into 13 th place in wins among all WIAC coaches. Hovet has coached 12 Falcons to All-WIAC honors and Erin Effle was named the WIAC basketball Scholar-Athlete after the 2004-05 season. Hovet was inducted into the UW-Stout Athletic Hall of Fame in November 2005. She is the only person who has been named a WIAC Coach of the Year (2001) and WIAC Player of the Year (1994). The Falcons play another rugged 25-game schedule in 2006-07. UWRF will look to get off to a fast start with the first games at the Karges Center. The Falcons play three MIAC teams to start the season - Hamline, Augsburg and St. Thomas. The Tommies have won more MIAC titles (10) than any other institution. The Falcons open WIAC play on Nov. 29 against Superior and perhaps the biggest game of the early-season schedule will be a home contest against Stevens Point on Dec. 2. "With five seniors we have a lot of experience and maturity to lead us. This is the strongest senior class I've ever coached and I'm excited about the opportunity they have to put together a really special season," said Hovet. "Traci (Reimann) and Megan (Lindman) are the toughest post tandem in the league; Krista (Cordes) is versatile and can shoot the lights out; Chan (Melgaard) is a great athlete and competitor and Melanie (Preiner) is one of the best all-around players I've seen. We also have a solid group of young players that will contribute a great deal to our team; they are the future of our basketball program. This team has some great players that are truly exceptional people, I'm proud of them and I couldn't ask for a better group of women to coach this year." The 2005-06 Falcons had a disappointing 12-14 overall record, but managed to finish 8-8 in the WIAC. The biggest win for the Falcons was a 67-48 victory over Oshkosh at the Karges Center on Jan. 28. Oshkosh finished in a tie for first place in the final WIAC standings. In 2004-05 the Falcons finished 17-8 overall and 10-6 and in fourth place in the WIAC. The 17 wins and 10 WIAC victories were the second most by a Hovet coached team. The 2003-04 season concluded with a 13-13 overall record, and 4-12 in the WIAC. Although the team didn't do as well in conference play as they had hoped, they managed to put together a perfect 9-0 non-conference record. That perfect record included impressive victories against two NCAA national tournament qualifiers, Lakeland (22-6) and Maryville (23-3). Both Lakeland and Maryville went undefeated and were champions of their respective conferences. UWRF finished in sixth place in the WIAC with a 10-15 overall record in 2002-03 and 11-15 in 2001-02. Hovet's first season at the helm for UWRF was the program's most successful since 1988-89. With an 18-8 overall record, they tied for third place in the conference. Hovet was named the WIAC Coach of the Year for the team's accomplishments that season. Hovet was the UWRF head tennis coach and assistant basketball coach for five years before taking over the basketball program in 2000-01. Her playing career was also in the WIAC. As a student-athlete at UW-Stout she was a two-time All-WIAC first team selection in 1993 and 1994. Her senior season she was named the 1994 WIAC Player of the Year and earned All-American honors. She was named to the second All-WIAC team in 1992. She helped the Blue Devils to a 76-27 record and berths in both the NCAA Division III and NAIA National Tournaments for four seasons. Hovet received her psychology undergraduate degree and coaching minor from UW-Stout. She completed here Master's Degree in kinesiology with an emphasis in sport psychology and sociology at the University of Minnesota. She currently teaches at UWRF in the Health & Human Performance Department along with her coaching duties. |
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