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Lisa Steele, a member of the GW women’s basketball team from 2004 until January of this year, has been hired as an assistant women’s basketball coach at Mount St. Mary’s, the school announced today.
As noted in the press release, Steele totaled 206 points, 107 rebounds, 36 assists and 25 steals during her GW playing career. Despite a reputation as one of the Colonials’ top shooting threats, Steele’s court time was limited during her time in Foggy Bottom due to a number of injuries. She redshirted in the 2004-05 season during her first year at school because of a stress fracture to her foot before missing nine games the next season with another foot injury.
She would play in a total of 60 games over her sophomore and junior seasons and averaged 7.8 points per game as a second-year player. It was in that season that she hit a game-winning shot against a nationally ranked Auburn team in one of the team’s most dramatic victories of what would be a Sweet Sixteen season.
Steele played only six games as a senior in the 2008-09 season, averaging 1.3 points in just under nine minutes of action per contest. She was declared ineligible Jan. 12 for undisclosed reasons, though head coach Mike Bozeman said she remained a part of the team “family.”
