Lady Frogs ink four letters of intent from Southwest recruits
The Lady Frogs went west for three commitments, then signed a player close to home. Head coach Jeff Mittie made the announcement Wednesday on National Signing Day.
By Jay Zuckerman
Skiff Staff

Head women’s basketball coach Jeff Mittie announced Tuesday that four high school players signed letters of intent to play for TCU in the 2003-04 basketball season.

Guards JimAnne Baker, Natasha Lacy, Adrienne Ross and center Jenna Lohse all officially committed to become Lady Frogs Tuesday.

“We went into the class looking for speed on the perimeter and we wanted to get more physical inside,” Mittie said. “I really feel that these players fit that bill.”

Baker is a 5-foot-10-inch guard from Cisco High School. She averaged 25 points, 12 rebounds and four assists a game in her junior season. She received the 2002 Texas Association of Coaches Class 2A Player of the Year honors as a junior. A highly-decorated runner who won five gold medals in varsity track as a junior, she will also run for the track team.

“She is just now moving to the perimeter more as a player and you’ll see her best basketball ahead of her,” Mittie said.

A 6-foot guard from El Paso, Lacy averaged 23 points, six rebounds, and six assists a game as a high school sophomore. She could not participate during the 2001-02 season due to transfer rules, but she will play her senior season for Montwood High School. She is rated as the ninth-best point guard in America by the All-Star Girls’ Report.

Ross is the only signee not from Texas. A 5-foot-8-inch guard from Hobbs, N.M., Ross is rated as the third best high school point guard in the nation. She averaged 23.7 points, 7.0 rebounds and 6.5 assists a game for Hobbs High School. She earned all-state honors in 2002.

Mittie had to look no farther than the Dallas/Fort Worth area to find 6-foot-3-inch center Jenna Lohse, a junior at Richland High School. Lohse averaged 15 points, 11 rebounds and four blocks a game in her junior season.

“Lohse gives (us) a physical player who can play inside,” Mittie said. “She will be able to play the power forward spot as she progresses into college.”

Mittie believes that all four players are good fits in his system.

“We are excited about the fact that they want to be here as part of our women’s basketball program,” Mittie said. “They started on the top of our list and that is what’s exciting about getting this group together.”

m.j.zuckerman@tcu.edu