Kristen Newlin and Nicole Powell played together at Stanford in 2003-4, Kristen's freshman year and Nicole's senior year. Olympia Scott ('98) preceded both of them. Today the three played together in Turkey, in the first game of the best-of-five finals of the
Turkish Basketball League playoffs.
Kristen and Nicole play for Fenerbahce, a Turkish team located in Istanbul. Going into the playoffs, Fenerbahce leads the Turkish League with a 17-3 record. In today's game, Kristen (her Turkish name is Nevin Nevlin) had 13 points, eight rebounds, an assist and a block. Nicole had one point, three rebounds , two assists and three steals.
Olympia plays for Mersin, a town on the southern coast of Turkey. Mersin is third in the league with a 15-5 record. Olympia is a starter for Mersin. In today's game, she had 10 points, the team-high seven rebounds, an assist and two steals.
Fenerbahce defeated Mersin 87 - 61. Here is the
box score. The second finals game will be played on Tuesday, the third on Friday and the fourth and fifth, if required, next weekend.
I couldn't find any photos of today's game or any of Kristen and Nicole playing together, but here is one from
Kristen's blog of them out to dinner with their teammates.
Brooke was signed to a training camp contract by the Phoenix Mercury this season. The Mercury have played two preseason games — against the Sacramento Monarchs and the Seattle Storm.
Although Karen is not a Stanford alumna, she is a Stanford women's basketball alumna.
She was an assistant coach at Stanford for ten seasons before leaving in 2007 to take a job as assistant coach at Illinois.
She was announced today as the new Head Coach of Western Carolina University women's basketball.
Congratulations, Karen!
Jennifer Azzi, who was in Tara's first Stanford recruiting class in 1986, will be inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame next month. 
Kristen got the birthday present she was hoping for -- a gold medal! Her team, Fenerbahce, defeated Mersin 68-54 and won the Turkish Women's Basketball League championship today.
Fenerbache won the second game of the best-of-five finals of the Turkish Basketball League playoffs today. They defeated Mersin 102- 63, which, as the game report says, took a big bite out of Mersin's title hopes.
Candice Wiggins played just six minutes and scored only four points, but her team, Ros Casares of Valencia, won its third straight Spanish League title by beating Perfumerias Avenida 70-66 in Salamanca on Friday to sweep the best-of-three championship series 2-0.
