Eastern Michigan Athletics
Women’s Basketball Adds Two for 2010-11 Campaign
11/24/2009 5:10:09 PM | Women's Basketball
Additions to the Eagles are from South Euclid, Ohio and Toledo, Ohio
YPSILANTI, Mich. (EMUEagles.com) – Eastern Michigan University women's basketball Head Coach AnnMarie Gilbert announced that two student-athletes have committed to the Eagles in the fall early signing period Tuesday, Nov. 24. Olivia Fouty (Toledo, Ohio-Sylvania Northview) and Natachia Watkins (South Euclid, Ohio-Brush) will join EMU for the 2010-11 season.
“Both players offer depth for us at the guard and forward positions along with being terrific students in the classroom,” Gilbert said. “Their chemistry was terrific with the staff and team on their visits and both know what it takes to be winners. They will certainly help take us to the next level.”
Fouty, a 5-foot-10 forward, is a three-year starter for the Wildcats and has won multiple local and regional awards. In three seasons at Northview she has scored 859 points, including averaging 15.1 points, 9.0 rebounds, 2.3 assists, and 1.4 steals per game. Voted the team's MVP as both a sophomore and a junior, Fouty was a 2008 and 2009 Division I All-Ohio honorable mention selection along with earning second-team honors from both the Associated Press and the Toledo Blade. She also picked up first-team All-Northern Lakes League and All-District VII accolades.
As a freshman, Fouty broke onto the scene by being named second team All-Conference, as well as achieving honorable mention status in the district and by the Associated Press.
Watkins, a 5-foor-10 guard, averaged 16.9 points, 12.1 rebounds, 4.6 steals, 3.8 assists and 3.1 blocks per game as a junior last season at Brush High School in Lyndhurst, Ohio. For her efforts, she was named the team's MVP along with being named All-Conference and All-State. That performance followed on the heels of a sophomore campaign that only scratched the surface of her potential, when she averaged a double-double with 17.1 points, 10.7 rebounds, 4.2 steals, 3.3 blocks and 2.1 assists per game.
As a freshman, Watkins averaged 7.2 points, 7.7 rebounds and 4.3 steals per game.
Coach Gilbert and crew are off to a perfect 4-0 start to the 2009-10 campaign, as the Green and White wrap up a three-game road trip Tuesday afternoon, Nov. 24, against Temple University. Tipoff is set for 5 p.m. at the Liacouras Center in Philadelphia, Pa. Following the Thanksgiving break, the Eagles return to action versus Missouri State University Sunday, Nov. 29, at the Convocation Center.
