Amy Patton Archive

  • Season is slipping away from NAU women’s basketball

    Season is slipping away from NAU women’s basketball

    Laurie Kelly is still searching for answers. The head coach for the women’s basketball team at Northern Arizona University has been on a four-year search for the winning formula she used when she arrived at the Flagstaff school eight years ago. That system brought back-to-back 20-win seasons in 2006 and 2007.  But the Lumberjacks haven’t [...]

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  • Patton’s 23 pts. helps NAU Coach Kelly to win No. 100

    Patton’s 23 pts. helps NAU Coach Kelly to win No. 100

    Amy Patton scored 23 points to make sure NAU head basketball coach, Laurie Kelly, reached the 100-win milestone at the college over the weekend. The 61-57 win over Binghamton University in Northern Arizona’s Thanksgiving tournament was the squad’s third straight win and got the Lumberjacks into the tourney finals against Drake University.  But the ‘Jacks [...]

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  • NAU has top Big Sky freshman, but women’s hoops struggle

    NAU has top Big Sky freshman, but women’s hoops struggle

    Laurie Kelly knew what she was getting when she recruited Amy Patton out of McClintock High School in Tempe.  She led McClintock to the state finals last year and was named the Arizona Republic Player of the Year. But the head women’s basketball coach at Northern Arizona University could not have anticipated the extent to [...]

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  • Freshman leads NAU basketball to second-best game score

    Freshman leads NAU basketball to second-best game score

    Amy Patton has been on the Northern Arizona campus less than a year, but already she is making her mark on the women’s basketball program.  Just as she did in her first year playing for McClintock HS in Tempe. The 5’10″ guard scored 35 points in a shoot-out with Sacramento State, as the 202 combined [...]

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