McCarthy rejuvenating women’s swimming
By Wes Shaw, senior writer

They keep in touch over the holidays, but James Madison women’s basketball coach Kenny Brooks and his former assistant Krista Kilburn-Steveskey are on different sides now. Kilburn-Steveskey now coaches Hofstra, which lost four starters to graduation in 2007, like JMU. But Kilburn-Steveskey knows that the one JMU holdover from last season, senior forward Tamera Young, provides “breathing room” for a team that she feels will come together in the absence of freshman point guard Dawn Evans. More...

Senior guard has ‘soft wisdom’
By Matthew McGovern, assistant sports editor

She’s part of the “pipeline” of players who migrated from New York City to James Madison to play women’s basketball, but more importantly, she’s a mentor to her teammates. Queens native Jasmin Lawrence    anticipated she would go to school in state because she wanted to stay close to home, but the presence of a couple acquaintances at JMU changed her mind. The senior guard made a trip down to Harrisonburg by car on Sept. 11, 2003 — her mother wouldn’t let her fly because of the Twin Towers catastrophe two years earlier. More...