The heights listed for quite a few women on the Cougars have spiked since last year. And it's a little late for these women that are in their late teens or early 20s to have sudden growth spurts.
Simultaneously.
Last year's point guard Alexi Tann is listed at 5-foot-8 on the Cougar women's roster page on Highland's Web site.
She was listed at 5-foot-6 just a year ago.
Freeport alum Suporia Dickens is listed at 5-foot-10, though she was not only listed at 5-foot-8 while a Pretzel, but she was clearly shorter than Towson volleyball hitter and former Freeport forward Kelsey Hoefer, who was listed as 5-foot-10 just a year ago.
Fellow alum Courtney Shiffer continues to be listed at 6-even, but considering she was closer to 5-11 in 2008, that doesn't surprise me.
*** UPDATE (10/6/09): Just found my Highland program from a year ago and it appears that the worse thing that can happen to a basketball player happened over the summer: Renee Deuth lost four inches in height.
Deuth is apparently aging at a very young age and lost shrunk from 6-foot-even to 5-foot-8, as listed below.
Amazing. ***
Here's the full list of the 2009-10 Highland women's basketball team:
| No | Name | Ht | Yr | Position | Hometown |
| 10 | Jackie Cahill | 5'5 | F | G | Stockton, IL |
| 12 | Nicole Olson | 5'9 | S | G | Shannon, IL |
| 15 | Courtney DeHaven | 5'6 | F | G | Orangeville, IL |
| 24 | Alexia Tann | 5'8 | S | G | Beloit, WI |
| 30 | Suporia Dickens | 5'10 | F | G | Freeport, IL |
| 31 | Courtney Shiffer | 6'0 | F | F | Freeport, IL |
| 33 | Ashanti Walker | 6'1 | F | F | Chicago, IL |
| 34 | Mallory Magee | 6'0 | S | F | Stockton, IL |
| 40 | Taylor Gallentine | 6'0 | F | F | Prophestown, IL |
| 42 | Renee Deuth | 5'10 | S | F | Polo, IL |
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