2004-05 Women's Basketball Roster
Cyndi Valentin
- Year:
- Junior
- Hometown:
- Bloomington, Ind.
- Position:
- G
- Height:
- 5-8
Freshman Year (2002-03)- Earned Big Ten All-Freshman team honors, becoming only the third player ever from Indiana selected to the team (Jill Chapman-1998, Jill Hartman-2000)...Became the first freshman in Indiana history to score 290 points, drain 25 three-pointers and record 30 steals in a season... Valentin ranks as the second-best scorer among freshman guards in Indiana history in terms of per-game scoring average... The school record for points per game by a freshman guard is 11.2 by Linda Cunningham in 1983, the year before Valentin was born...Ranked among the national leaders in free-throw percentage, shooting at an 869 clip...Put together a streak of 25 consecutive made free throws over a span of 13 games, a new record for an Indiana freshman and the second-longest streak in school histo-ry...Set a career-high by scoring 23 points at Wisconsin on Feb. 16.
Prep- High-scoring local product from Bloomington South HS, where she was a 2002 Indiana All-Star...Named to the Louisville Courier-Journal's first-team All-State squad after averaging 21.5 points per game during her senior season... Was also a first-team All-State selection by Hoosier Basketball Magazine and the Indiana Coaches of Girls' Sports Association ...Was a second-team All-State honoree by the Associated Press ...Selected to the Bloomington Herald-Times' first-team All-Area squad...A McDonald's All-America nominee...Chosen to the All-Conference Indiana team...Led Bloomington South to a number one ranking in the state after the Panthers won their first 23 games....Scored 38 points in a game against Ben Davis HS... Standing 5-8, Valentin led South in rebounding, and finished her career with 1,326 points, ranking her as the school's second-leading scorer of all time...Herald-Times All-Region selection in both her sophomore and junior years... Led the Panthers to a win over the top-ranked team in the state during her senior season...Chosen as a 2001 Junior All-Star... Earned All-State honors as a junior..
Personal- Cyndi Valentin was born on May 27, 1984...Major is undecided.
