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2008-09 Women's Basketball Coaches
 
JimCook
Head Coach
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The 2008-09 season will mark the first season in which Jim Cook will just be the head women's basketball coach.  After three seasons of coaching both the men's and women's programs at Judson University, Cook will now only coach the women's team.  He became the eighth head coach for the women's program in 2005 when he replaced long-time head coach Tory Gum who stepped down after 15 seasons and five NAIA National Tournament appearances.
 
After only winning 12 games in the 2007-08 season, Cook will look to put Judson back atop the CCAC and into the NAIA National Tournament in 2009.  Cook has been a part of several NAIA National Touranment teams at Judson and took the team in his first season as head coach to the NAIA National Tournament in 2006.
 
In that 2005-06 season, he led the team to a 21-11 overall record and a 5-3 conference record. But more importantly the team made another appearance at the NAIA National Tournament after winning the CCAC Championship at Cardinal Stritch, 68-50. That appearance was the 6th in 11 seasons for Judson at the NAIA National Tournament.  In 2006-07, Cook coached four seniors who left their mark on the Judson women's baskteball program.  They finished 11-18 on the year but in their four years they went to two NAIA National Tournaments, the Sweet 16 in 2004-05, and finished with a 77-49 record and three 20-win seasons. 
 
Cook is no stranger to the Judson women's basketball program as he was an assistant for three seasons under Gum before becoming the head coach. He was a part of the staff when the team finished in the Sweet 16 at the NAIA National Tournament in 2002.
 
The past three seasons, Cook coached both the men and the women's programs at Judson and took both teams to the NAIA National Tournament and won a CCAC Championship.  In 2005-06, his women's basketball team won the CCAC Tournament Championship and went to the NAIA National Tournament.  Then, last year, his men's basketball team won the first, ever, CCAC regular season and tournament championship for Judson.  That same team then qualified for the NAIA Division II National Tournament for the first-time, ever.  In 2005-06, he coached both the men's and women's teams to 20-win seasons and both played for the CCAC Tournament Championship.  It was the first-time, ever, that both programs won 20 games and played for the CCAC Tournament Championship in the same year.
 

Cook is the founder, director and coach of Team USA, an AAU organization. He has coached athletes as they compete in the highest level of competition during the summer months and then assists them in earning college scholarships. Along with coaching his AAU teams, Cook was a Dean's Assistant in School District U46 for 12 years. Most recently he worked at Bartlett High School. During his tenure in U46, he had various coaching experiences including Head Boy's Basketball Coach at Canton Middle School and Assistant Varsity Girl's Basketball Coach at Larkin High School.

Cook graduated from Eisenhower High School in Decatur, Ill. He completed his collegiate athletic eligibility with an outstanding basketball career at both Shasta Community College in California and Carroll College in Montana. He eventually received his bachelor's degree in Applied Behavioral Sciences at National Louis University in 2002 and finished up his Masters of Sports Management from Nova Southeastern University. Cook is also the Judson Dean of Men.  He resides in Huntley with his wife Vicki.


 
KellyFriestad
Assistant Coach
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Kelly Friestad has been a familiar face around Judson University the past four years as a player and now will move to the bench in her first season as an assistant coach under Jim Cook.  Friestad graduated from Judson with an physical education degree in May 2008 and was a part of two NAIA National Tournament teams in the 2004-05 and 2005-06 seasons.  In her four seasons, she also helped Judson to a CCAC Tournament Championship and a CCAC Regular Season Championship.
 
Friestad was a consistent player for the Eagles the past four years and in her senior season she led the CCAC in assist/turnover ratio at 1.64 per game and finished 25th in the NAIA.  She averaged 3.6 assists per game and 2.2 steals per game and had 105 assists to just 65 turnovers.  In that same season, she was third in the CCAC in assists (105) and steals ( 64), 12th in three-point field goals made (0.97), 18th in rebounding (4.6), and 22nd in scoring (7.6). 
 
Named to the NCCAA Academic All-American team as a junior, Friestad also garned the CCAC Player of the Week, once, in her senior season.  She will also be in the Judson record books as she finished 8th overall for a career with 252 assists.
 
Friestad is a native of Newark, Illinois, and the daughter of Kirk and Phyllis Friestad.

 
TomKendall
Assistant Coach
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Assistant coach Tom Kendall begins his 14th season as women's basketball assistant coach at Judson. He has been a part of all six NAIA National Tournament teams, joining the team in 1995-96. He has brought a vast amount of strategies and basketball knowledge to help the program be so successful. His focus is on helping the team with its offensive strategies.

Kendall is no stranger to excellence when it comes to women's basketball programs. Soon after graduating from Southern Illinois University in 1975, he began his coaching career in 1980 at Pittsville High School. Before coming to Judson, Kendall coached at Hoffman Estates High School from 1986-94. In 1991, his team finished fourth at the state tournament.

Kendall and his wife Kathi reside in Wauconda, Illinois with their two sons, Michael and Matthew. He has been an English teacher at Hoffman Estates High School for 22 years.


 
JeronShelton
Assistant Coach
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Just working with the Judson women's basketball team in the 2008-09, Jeron Shelton enters his fifth season on Jim Cook's coaching staff.  Shelton started on staff with Cook as a student assistant in the 2004-05 season with the men's basketball teams and then pulled double duty helping the women's program since the 2005-06 season. He graduated in 2007 from Judson with an elementary education degree and now coaches a local junior high girl's basketball team.

Shelton transferred to Judson after receiving his associate's degree in paralegal studies from Rockford Business College. He graduated from Judson with an Elementary Education degree with an emphasis in English in May 2007. 
 
He is a graduate of Auburn High School in Rockford and has coached youth basketball and directed athletic programs through the Rockford Elementary Basketball Association and the YMCA over the past four years. He led two of his teams to the final four in the conference, earning third and fourth place, respectively. He enjoys reading books, playing pool, chess, spades, euchre and doing anything related to basketball.
 
Shelton was recently married on May 23, 2008, to Sheila Rodriguez and they reside in Elgin.   He also currently coaches the Larson Middle School 8th grade 'A' team for both boys and girls. 

 
LenaBeaman
Manager
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Lena Beaman is in her first year as manager of the women's basketball team.

 
IvettDiaz
Manager
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Ivett Diaz is in her first year as a manager for the women's basketball team.

 
HeidiRosenbaum
Manager
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After playing one-year for Judson, will help the women's basketball team as a team manager.  She came to Judson after attending one semester at Minot State University.  She is a 2006 graduate of Sioux City North High School in South Dakota and is the daughter of Jim Rosenbaum and Rose Rosenbaum.