1978-79 New York Stars Statistics

Women's Professional Basketball League (WPBL)
Team Record: 19-15
Finishing 2nd in the WPBL's East Division
Lost semifinals

Coach: Alan Cissorsky (6-5)
Coach: Donna Geils (0-1)
Coach: Lavozier Lamar (13-9)
Location: New Rochelle, New York

1978-79 New York Stars Roster

The New York Stars of the Women's Professional Basketball League ended the 1978-79 season with a record of 19 wins and 15 losses, finishing second in the WPBL's East Division.

Althea Gwyn tossed in a team-leading 718 points for the Stars, and Janice Thomas scored 18 or more per game, too. Althea Gwyn contributed 535 boards. Janice Thomas dished out 262 assists for the squad.

On defense, Janice Thomas added 108 steals.

Alan Cissorsky, Donna Geils and Lavozier Lamar coached the team. The 1978-79 New York Stars lost in the semifinals of the playoffs.

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Player Totals:

Player	GP	Min	FGA	FGM	3PA	3PM	FTA	FTM	Off	Def	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk	TO	PF	Pts
Althea Gwyn	31	1188	550	275			261	168	191	344	535	40	60	29	108	98	718
Janice Thomas	34	1226	589	256			158	123	44	120	164	262	108	5	194	104	635
Kaye Young	34	1140	424	160			146	102	53	109	162	90	46	7	114	98	422
Mara Melbourne	34	1012	319	147			166	89	102	212	314	23	36	15	74	121	383
Donna Geils	26	748	356	137			75	51	47	52	99	71	52	1	91	70	325
Faye Young	33	783	246	93			114	76	61	90	151	63	31	2	75	66	262
Carmen Fletcher	32	446	132	42			69	42	27	50	77	6	15	0	27	42	126
Maria Gross	31	497	134	55			14	10	14	28	42	36	19	2	46	55	120
Albrette Ransom	19	373	125	45			26	15	15	32	47	30	43	13	68	57	105
Lynn Arturi	32	375	124	38			15	9	20	17	37	18	19	4	48	38	85
Suzanne Alt	16	186	46	27			19	9	15	25	40	2	6	3	34	39	63
Harriet Novarr	15	74	28	13			8	7	12	15	27	2	1	3	9	16	33
Darlene Bailey	13	136	37	9			16	8	7	11	18	6	7	0	27	21	26
Barbara Howard	4	48	7	2			0	0	1	1	2	1	0	0	4	3	4
Connie Howe	1	1	0	0			0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	355	8233	3117	1299	0	0	1087	709	609	1106	1715	650	443	84	919	828	3307

Player Averages:

Player	GP	MPG	FG%	FT%	Off	Def	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk	TO	PF	Pts
Althea Gwyn	31	38.3	50.0	64.4	6.2	11.1	17.3	1.3	1.9	0.9	3.5	3.2	23.2
Janice Thomas	34	36.1	43.5	77.8	1.3	3.5	4.8	7.7	3.2	0.1	5.7	3.1	18.7
Kaye Young	34	33.5	37.7	69.9	1.6	3.2	4.8	2.6	1.4	0.2	3.4	2.9	12.4
Mara Melbourne	34	29.8	46.1	53.6	3.0	6.2	9.2	0.7	1.1	0.4	2.2	3.6	11.3
Donna Geils	26	28.8	38.5	68.0	1.8	2.0	3.8	2.7	2.0	0.0	3.5	2.7	12.5
Faye Young	33	23.7	37.8	66.7	1.8	2.7	4.6	1.9	0.9	0.1	2.3	2.0	7.9
Carmen Fletcher	32	13.9	31.8	60.9	0.8	1.6	2.4	0.2	0.5	0.0	0.8	1.3	3.9
Maria Gross	31	16.0	41.0	71.4	0.5	0.9	1.4	1.2	0.6	0.1	1.5	1.8	3.9
Albrette Ransom	19	19.6	36.0	57.7	0.8	1.7	2.5	1.6	2.3	0.7	3.6	3.0	5.5
Lynn Arturi	32	11.7	30.6	60.0	0.6	0.5	1.2	0.6	0.6	0.1	1.5	1.2	2.7
Suzanne Alt	16	11.6	58.7	47.4	0.9	1.6	2.5	0.1	0.4	0.2	2.1	2.4	3.9
Harriet Novarr	15	4.9	46.4	87.5	0.8	1.0	1.8	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.6	1.1	2.2
Darlene Bailey	13	10.5	24.3	50.0	0.5	0.8	1.4	0.5	0.5	0.0	2.1	1.6	2.0
Barbara Howard	4	12.0	28.6		0.3	0.3	0.5	0.3	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.8	1.0
Connie Howe	1	1.0			0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Averages	355	23.2	41.7	65.2	1.7	3.1	4.8	1.8	1.2	0.2	2.6	2.3	9.3

1978-79 New York Stars Statistics

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