Missouri University of Science and Technology

(Rolla, Mo.) – Missouri S&T women’s basketball coach Alan Eads has announced the signings of two players to national letters of intent to play for the Lady Miners in the 20010-11 season.

The newcomers are Toni Knar, a 5-9 guard from Mundelein High School in Mundelein, Ill.; and Taylor Jensen, a 5-7 guard from Mineral Area Community College in Farmington, Mo.

Knar, a senior at Mundelein High School in the Chicago area, averaged 13.3 points and five rebounds per game as a junior while converting 40 percent of her attempts from behind the three point line. She was named the team’s Most Valuable Player last year and was an all-conference, all-area, all-Lake Shore and all-state special mention selection last season. Her father played for current Miner basketball coach Jim Glash at the University of Illinois-Chicago.

“Toni is a shooting guard that’s got some very good numbers from the three point area and can handle the ball a little bit,” Eads said. “She comes from an athletic family as her dad was a college basketball player, her mom was a college softball player and she’s got a couple of brothers that play high school basketball.”
Jensen, a freshman at Mineral Area Community College, has scored 20 points, handed out seven assists and pulled down five rebounds in her first two games at Mineral Area. She was a first team all-state selection and was named the KFMO Player of the Year at Farmington High School last year.

“Taylor is a point guard that we really like,” Eads said. “She’s got good athletic ability, is very athletic, quick, handles the ball really well and we are expecting here to come in here and give us some quality minutes at the point guard position next year.”

The Lady Miners tip-off their 2009-10 season this Friday and Saturday hosting the Lady Miner Classic against Upper Iowa on Friday night at 7 p.m., and against Wayne State (Mich.) at 3 p.m., on Saturday afternoon at the Bullman Multi-Purpose Building.