Best guard in the Fennelly era?

[Cyhart]

Who would you consider to be the best guard in the Fennelly era? It doesn't have to be a point guard. There have been some great ones in Fennelly's 20 years. Stacy Frese, Megan Taylor, Lindsey Wilson, Tracy Gahan, Lyndsey Medders, Allison Lacey, Heather Ezell, Kelsey Bolte, Nicki Moody, etc.

I'd be tempted to chose Stacy Frese. But splitting hairs. Megan Taylor was one of my favs too. What do you think?

 

[swarthmoreCY]

Taylor, Lacey or Anne O'Neil

 

[isulive2train]

Seeing every one of them play, I would say Lacey.

 

[jay moe]

I'd take Lacey too, her size, big shot making, and ability to get to the basket puts her at the top in my mind.

 

[Cyhart]

Yes, hard to go wrong with Aus!

 

[NWICY]

Personal favorite Frese gutsiest guard I can remember. Lacey and the 2 Lyndseys all good points. Taylor my favorite off guard she had radar for getting rebounds. ISU has been fortunate with many good guards over the years.

 

[StClone]

Taylor, Lacey or Anne O'Neil

Lacey played guard her senior year only. But she was the best! Being picked as a top ten in the WNBA draft gives credence to that. It is hard to believe in the 1999-2000 season we had Wilson, Gahan, Frese, Welle, Taylor and Juno all on one team.

 

[Cyhart]

Lacey played guard her senior year only. But she was the best! Being picked as a top ten in the WNBA draft gives credence to that. It is hard to believe in the 1999-2000 season we had Wilson, Gahan, Frese, Welle, Taylor and Juno all on one team.

Yes. That was a fantastic team. So was the team from a year prior that beat Uconn in the dance. Those Frese/Taylor teams were prob Fennelly's best.

 

[acoustimac]

Not only the best guard, but best player ever under Fennelly has to be Megan Taylor. She did a little of everything. Handled the ball, shooting (had the scoring record before it was broken the next year by Welle), rebounded (had the rebounding record and this is a guard!!), etc. I always thought of her as the little engine that could. She will always, until someone spectacular comes along, be the BEST player in ISU history for women's ball.

 

[MNCyGuy]

Lacey played guard her senior year only. But she was the best! Being picked as a top ten in the WNBA draft gives credence to that. It is hard to believe in the 1999-2000 season we had Wilson, Gahan, Frese, Welle, Taylor and Juno all on one team.

??? Aus switched between point and off-the-ball a few times over her career, but I can't think of a season when you wouldn't have called her a guard. She's also my favorite, but I'm biased because I was in the WBB pep band for all of her run.

 

[StClone]

??? Aus switched between point and off-the-ball a few times over her career, but I can't think of a season when you wouldn't have called her a guard. She's also my favorite, but I'm biased because I was in the WBB pep band for all of her run.

Only doing her senior year did she play guard exclusively. And the OP was asking about guards (point or otherwise) not forward. She played three positions through her career.

 

[pulse]

Not only the best guard, but best player ever under Fennelly has to be Megan Taylor. She did a little of everything. Handled the ball, shooting (had the scoring record before it was broken the next year by Welle), rebounded (had the rebounding record and this is a guard!!), etc. I always thought of her as the little engine that could. She will always, until someone spectacular comes along, be the BEST player in ISU history for women's ball.

Completely agree. Megan Taylor best player period.

 

[Dryburn]

I would have to go with Lacey, then Taylor and Frese at about the same level. I think the most remarkable thing about Lacey was that she did not start out as a point guard at all, yet became probably the best one ever here.

 

[ISUCubswin]

Amazing question.

When hot, I think Moody is the best on the list. Unfortunately, she's probably the worst on the list when it comes to decision making and makes me way more mad than any other guard on that list.

Honestly, a 4 guard lineup of Medders, Frese, Taylor and Lacey would probably challenge Baylor with Griner.

 

[scyclonekid]

Aus for me

 

[Jambalaya]

Frese was the least athletic--but nails....great leader, shot-maker......ultimate teammate like the rest

She was the catalyst for ISU's WBB fortunes the day she landed in Ames--when she transferred from Iowa...It spelled the end of Angie Lee

She was the biggest star on campus back then with Darren Davis.....until Fizer was a soph

Heather Ezell was tough as nails too. It's what ISU wbb has been missing for years

 

[kcbob79clone]

Megan Taylor

 

[Buster28]

Too many choices for me to be able to select just one. Having been going to wbb games since 1997, I've seen dozens of games by everyone mentioned. No question that Frese was the "missing piece" that launched the program into the stratosphere in 98-99-00. But you add Taylor to the mix (with Welle in the post), and you had a nearly unbeatable combination. I guess if I had to choose one, it would have to be Frese, since I don't believe we would have the program that exists today without her coming from Iowa (the same year I did, btw).

 

[Ames]

Aus for sure. Gamer also.

 

[CyBroncos]

I was in school during the Frese-Taylor-Welle-Gahan glory years and those teams were fun to watch.

Frese was a great point guard who could shoot the lights out...but Taylor could do everything. I'd give her the edge