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^Nicholson, the floor leader, averaged
12.6 points last season and led the
team with 162 assists and 108 steals.
This season she's averaging 20 points
and six assists.
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"that I don't know if it's possible for
her to improve."
McWhirter is a power player inside.
Using strength she gained pumping
iron with the Union football players,
McWhirter was averaging 25 points
and 10 rebounds after four games.
The center is 6-3 New Yorker Veta
Williams. Much-improved, she leads
the CIAA in blocked shots while
averaging 10 points and 14 rebounds a
night.
Sylvia Walker, Wanda Wood, Karen
Hurt, Jackie Gilcrest, Lisa Burns,
Wanda Hobbs and twin sisters Nadine
and Nathelma Walker, from
Baltimore, make up the supporting
cast.
Joining the team for the second
semester is striking 6-2 Val Ellis, who
transferred from Vanderhilt. Fllk
Williams and McWhirter give the Pantherettes
an overpowering advantage
on the backboards.
4'We've definitely got the talent to
go back to Springfield," says Heam.
"Last year, I sort of looked at it as
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Actually, coaching is more of an
avocation than a profession for Hearn.
He coaches the Pantherettes on a
purely part-time basis.
His full-time job is as Union's director
of Upward Bound, a program
designed to aid in the development of
students with poor high school
backgrounds. A nature of rural
Mathews, in eastern Virginia, Hearn/
was a high school basketball star with a
20-point average. He enrolled at
Virginia State with visions of college
hoop stardom, but his height (about
5-8) became a disadvantage on that
level and he never played on the VSU
varsity.
Hearn had very limited coaching experience
when he accepted the job as
Harris' assistant. As a head coach, he's
outstanding at motivating his players,
and instilling a "no-way-we-can lose"
type of confidence.
He leaves "being a genius" to
others.
And, whatever his style, Hearn was
good enough to be named Division U
National Coach of the Year last season
by Fast-Break magazine.
His biggest problem so far this year
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