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2011-12 Women's Basketball Roster

3 Joanna Zalesiak

  • Position Guard
  • Height 5-8
  • Year 4th
  • Hometown Gorzow Wielkopolski, Poland
  • High School University of Texas at El Paso

Biography

• 2011-12 CIS First-Team All-Canadian
• 2011-12 Canada West Most Valuable Player
• 2011-12 Canada West First-Team All-Star
• 2010-11 CIS Second-Team All-Canadian
• 2010-11 Canada West First-Team All-Star
• 2009-10 CIS Championship All-Star
• 2009-10 Canada West Second-Team All-Star


UNIVERSITY OF REGINA 2011-12: Named a first-team All-Canadian, becoming the seventh player in University of Regina history to garner multiple All-Canadian selections ... named Canada West’s Most Valuable Player and a conference first-team all-star ... becomes the second U of R player to earn Canada West MVP honours, joining Cymone Bouchard (2004) … served as team co-captain ... led the CIS with 117 assists during conference play, a total which trails only Jana Schweitzer’s 122 (2004-05) in the school’s single-season record book … also finished fourth in the conference with 55 steals … was second on the Cougars in both points (12.8) and rebounds (6.2) per game … had a career-high 11 assists at Lethbridge (Feb. 10) … had four double-doubles during the Canada West schedule and another against Fraser Valley in the conference semifinals (Mar. 2) … averaged a team-high 13.9 points and also led the team with 59 assists during the team's nine postseason games ... despite playing just three seasons with the Cougars, ends her career ranked 10th on the U of R’s all-time list with 931 career points in conference play … career average of 14.5 points per game ranks sixth in school history … also ranks second on the U of R’s all-time list with 315 career assists.

UNIVERSITY OF REGINA 2010-11: Named a second-team All-Canadian and a Canada West first-team all-star ... one of three Cougars to start all 24 of the team’s Canada West games … finished second in the conference in both points (390) and assists (111) … averaged 16.3 points and 6.5 rebounds per game … also had a team-high 48 steals … tied her career high with 26 points at Winnipeg on Jan. 22 …  had a career-high seven steals at Alberta (Dec. 4) … registered six double-doubles during the conference season ... scored a game-high 24 points in the team’s 70-67 win over Victoria in Game 2 of the Canada West quarterfinals ... played a career-high 40 minutes and scored 16 points against Alberta on Mar. 4 in the Canada West semifinals ... scored at least 11 points in all six of the team’s postseason games ... pulled down a career-high 17 rebounds in the team’s CIS West Region semifinal against Victoria (Mar. 11).

UNIVERSITY OF REGINA 2009-10: Named a Canada West second-team all-star ... finished second on the Cougars and 11th in the conference with an average of 14.3 points per game ... also finished second on the team with an average of 6.3 rebounds per game ... led the Cougars with 87 assists and was second with 41 steals ... had a career-high 26 points in the team’s CIS bronze medal game against Saskatchewan (Mar. 14) ... was named a CIS Championship all-star after averaging 22.3 points and eight rebounds per game at nationals ... had three double-doubles in Canada West play and one more in the playoffs ... had a season-high 12 rebounds against Fraser Valley on Nov. 27 ... including conference and postseason, eclipsed the 20-point barrier six times ... started all seven playoff games for the Cougars and averaged 16.7 points and 7.1 rebounds per game.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Played pro ball in Poland after leaving UTEP, suiting up with AZS PWSZ Gorzów for 18 games and with MUKS Poznan for six games.

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO: Played in 21 of UTEP’s 32 games ... registered 21 points and 14 rebounds for the Miners ... averaged 7.1 minutes played per game.

NATIONAL TEAM EXPERIENCE: Helped Poland’s U20 team promote to European Division A in 2008 ... was named an all-star at the 2006 European Division B Championship with Poland’s U18 team in 2006.

PERSONAL: Daughter of Jadwiga and Krzysztof Zalesiak ... enrolled in the Faculty of Kinesiology & Health Studies and is majoring in sport & recreation management ... has one sister (Kamila) ... was a 2007 graduate of Liceum Ogólnoksztalcace No. 4 in Gorzów Wielkopolski, Poland.

  Minutes  Total  3-Point  F-Throws  Rebounds   
Year  gp-gs  min  avg  fg  fga  pct  fg  fga  pct  ft  fta  pct  off  def  tot  avg  pf  fo  ast  t/o  blk  stl  pts  avg 
2009-10 20-18  582  29.1  99  208  .476  16  43  .372  72  106  .679  38  87  125  6.3  57  87  75  41  286  14.3 
2010-11 24-24  739  30.8  144  329  .438  21  70  .300  81  134  .604  33  122  155  6.5  63  111  119  11  48  390  16.3 
2011-12 20-20  581  29.1  93  244  .381  13  50  .260  56  88  .636  34  90  124  6.2  42  117  98  55  255  12.8 
TOTAL  64-62  1902  29.7  336  781  .430  50  163  .307  209  328  .637  105  299  404  6.3  162  315  292  20  144  931  14.5 

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 21

    2009-102nd

    Guard
    5'9"
    21
  • 3

    2010-113rd

    Guard
    5'8"
    3
  • 3

    2011-124th

    Guard
    5'8"
    3