Siena Women's Basketball Program Timeline

1970…Siena starts up first club team with head coach Tim Devine
1974-75…Saints enter first season with varsity status, 10-4 under Ellen McEwen
1979-80…First 20-win season under John Cusack and Joe Hogan
1979-80…Vicki Aromando's 23.7 ppg sets highest single season scoring mark.
1979-83…Four consecutive seasons with 20+ wins
1980…Vicki Aromando selected CoSIDA Academic All-America, First Team and is first player to score 1,000 points.
1980-81…Mary Gaudreau's 41 point game is single highest scoring output in program history.
1981 & 82…Mary Gaudreau selected CoSIDA Academic All America, First Team
1983-84…First season playing in Division I, 19-9
1984…First coach to record 100-wins Joe Hogan in 96-40 win over Delaware State
1984…Ann Marie Graney named to CoSIDA District II Academic All-America, First Team.
1985-86…Laura Lord swats a program best 74 shots, 2.6 bpg.
1987…Shawn Shafer selected to Women's Basketball Yearbook Freshman All-America, Second Team.
1987…Vicki Aromando becomes first women's basketball player enshrined in Siena Hall of Fame.
1988…Mary Gaudreau elected to Siena Hall of Fame
1990-91… Gina Castelli named seventh head coach of women's basketball program and becomes the first rookie coach to record 20-wins
1991…Heidi Harkins becomes third player enshrined in Siena Hall of Fame.
1991…Val Higgins named GTE Academic All-America, Second Team.
1991…Gina Castelli named New York State Division I Coach of the Year
1991-92…Michelle Collins first to attain 97 steals in a season, 3.5 spg.
1992…Catherine Rousseau entered into Siena Hall of Fame.
1993-94…First regular season championship as members of the MAAC.
1994…Ann-Marie Graney enshrined into Siena Hall of Fame.
1994…Lisa Serafino named GTE/CoSIDA District II Academic All-America, First Team.
1994…Liz Lops selected Kodak All-America, Honorable Mention.
1996…Kristen Bernert named to GTE/CoSIDA District II Academic All-America, First Team.
1996-97…Melanie Halker grabs a program best 341 caroms in a season, 12.2 rpg.
1998…Val Higgins inducted into Siena Hall of Fame
1998-99…First trip to the WNIT, beat Georgetown and lost to Wisconsin in second round.
1999…Gina Castelli recognized for the second time as New York State Division I Coach of the Year
2000…Liz Lops enshrined into Siena Hall of Fame
2000-01…First NCAA appearance for Saints, lost to Colorado
2001-02…Second appearance in postseason WNIT, loss to St. Joseph's
2002…Gunta Basko selected Kodak District II All-America
2002…Gina Castelli wins her sixth MAAC Coach of the Year Award
2002-03…Third appearance in postseason WNIT, beat Seton Hall and lost to Creighton
2002-03…Set single season victory record with 25-8 mark.
2002-03…Liene Jansone and Erica Anderson become the most recent players to surpass the 1,000 point plateau, 21 players to date have achieved that feat.
2003…Kim Colunio inducted into Siena Hall of Fame
2003…Gunta Basko named Kodak District II All-America
2003-04…Fourth consecutive season with at least a share of the MAAC regular season crown.
2004-05…Gina Castelli records career victory #250 in a 56-46 win over Manhattan.
2005…Melanie Halker becomes ninth basketball player enshrined in Siena Hall of Fame.
11/18/2005…First ACC school to come to the ARC, Maryland vs. Siena
2005-06…Women's basketball program has 498 career victories in 30 years of varsity status.