December 1, 2009 – Hillsdale College women’s basketball coach Claudette Charney is pleased to announce the signing of four players to National Letters of Intent for the 2010-11 basketball season. Next year, the Chargers will welcome Lyndsay LaCourse, Allyson Lloyd and Angela Bisaro to the program.

Also joining the team next year, having signed during the late signing period in April, is 5-foot-9 guard Marissa DeMott from Sandusky, Mich.

LaCourse will come to Hillsdale from Traverse City St. Francis High School, while Lloyd and Bisaro are entering their senior seasons as teammates at Brighton High School.

LaCourse hails from the same high school as 2007 Hillsdale College graduate Lauren Fewins, who as a senior with the Chargers, was named First-Team All-GLIAC South Division.

A 6-foot forward at St. Francis, LaCourse averaged 12 points and 11 rebounds per game as a junior. She also blocked three shots per game, and had four steals and four assists per game, making her mark as a talented all-around player. She is entering her fourth year as a starter for the Gladiators and is in her third season as team captain.

She’s been named All-Conference three times and All-District three times in her first three seasons. She was named to the Traverse City Record-Eagle Dream Team following the 2008-09 season, and is the 49th-ranked overall player in the state of Michigan, according to the Michigan Girls Basketball Report.

LaCourse played for the MGBR AAU-17 Team last summer, and was part of a state championship AAU-18 team. She was also a member of Team USA at the United World Games that competed in Australia last summer, winning three out of four games played Down Under.

Lloyd is a 5-foor-11 player entering her second season on the Bulldogs’varsity team. She was a key part of Brighton’s division and district championship teams in 2008-09.

A well-rounded athlete, Lloyd earned four varsity letters in volleyball and has three so far in softball. She was team captain for volleyball twice and helped lead her volleyball team to division and district titles this fall. In softball, she was named First-Team All-Conference in 2009, and has already earned a total of eight varsity letters in her career.

She plays for the Livingston Sting AAU basketball team and has been named a BHS Scholar-Athlete each season of her playing career. She is also a member of DECA and the B-KOM Mentoring program.

Lloyd’s teammate, Bisaro, is a 6-foot forward for the Bulldogs and was an honorable mention All-County selection as a junior in 2008-09. Brighton is in the middle of eight straight conference championships, and Bisaro was a go-to player on a team that was ranked as high as No. 2 in the state during the 2008-09 season.

DeMott was named the Class C Player of the Year by the Associated Press following the 2009-10 season, completing one of the most impressive careers in recent years in the state.

She led her team to an 82-12 record during her four years as a starter, scoring a total of 1,708 points. Many of those points came from the free throw line, where she ended her career as the most accurate free throw shooter in Michigan prep history, making 88 percent of her free throws over the course of her career. In four years, DeMott missed just 59 out of 492 free throw attempts, and in 2007-08, she set the state's single-season record with a 91 percent free throw mark.

As a senior, she averaged 23 points, 5.7 rebounds, 3 assists and 5.8 steals per game for Sandusky High School. She once made 55 straight free throws, and was 36-for-36 in free throw attempts in the fourth quarter of games during her senior season.

The Detroit Frere Press named her First-Team All-State twice and earned All-Conference honors in all four years of her career. Her 133 steals as a senior is also a school record.

DeMott also participated in track, where she set the school record in the high jump as a sophomore, clearing 5 feet, 2 1/2 inches.

In the classroom, DeMott earned a 3.997 overall grade point average and is her class salutatorian.