July 21, 2006

COLLEGE PARK, Md. - Maryland women's basketball head coach Brenda Frese has announced that Becky Bonner joins the national championship staff for the 2006-07 campaign. Bonner will serve as the team's Assistant Director of Basketball Operations.

"We are happy to welcome Becky as part of our women's basketball family," said Frese. "Becky had a very successful Division I playing career beginning at Stanford and finishing up at Boston University. She also brings with her knowledge and experience from playing overseas. Her energy and enthusiasm will fit right in with the rest of the staff."

Bonner began her collegiate playing career at Stanford University, helping the Cardinal win the 2002 Pac-10 Championship. She transferred to Boston University after her sophomore year and started all 30 games of the 2003-04 campaign. That season, she earned third team All-American East Conference honors, after averaging 14.1 points and 4.4 rebounds per game. She set the single-season school record with 72 three pointers, while shooting 42.9 percent from behind the arc.

In her two seasons with the Terriers, she made 113 treys, which ranks fourth in the career annals and is second all-time with a 37.3 career three-point shooting percentage.

After graduation from BU in 2005, Bonner spent the summer working for the New Hampshire Fisher Cats minor league baseball team before being contracted to play with Sweden's Norrkoping.

Bonner is a native of Concord, N.H. She was a third team Parade All-American at Concord High School and was selected her home state's Gatorade Player of the Year. In her junior year, she averaged a triple-double with 28.4 points, 16.0 rebounds and 10.0 assists per game, garnering All-American nods from Street & Smith's that season.

Bonner earned a degree in advertising from Boston University. She is the younger sister of Matt Bonner who was recently traded to the NBA's San Antonio Spurs. Her younger brother, Luke, will be a sophomore at UMass and is a member of the basketball team.

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