Fenwick girls basketball head coach Lenae Fergerson (L) and star freshman power forward Avani Williams (R). | Instagram
Fenwick girls basketball head coach Lenae Fergerson (L) and star freshman power forward Avani Williams (R). | Instagram
Fenwick Friar varsity girls basketball wrapped up their regular season with a 49 – 28 loss to conference opponent Montini Catholic last Thursday, cementing a 0-7 conference finish and third consecutive year at the bottom of the Girls Catholic Athletic Conference.
The Friars finished 11-14, padding their overall record with a win 52-22 win last week against non-conference opponent the Amundsen Vikings of the Chicago Public League.
Standout freshman and power forward Avani Williams leads the team with an average of 11 points per game, 37 percent field goal percentage, and seven rebounds per game according to maxpreps.com.
Williams already holds a Division 1 scholarship offer from the University of Dayton.
Junior shooting guard Cammie Molis chipped in ten points per game and made 34 percent of her shots from three-point range, leading the team.
St. Ignatius leads the Girls Catholic Athletic Conference at 6-0, 19-3 overall.
Loyola Academy is ranked second at 5-1 in conference play and 22-2 overall.
The Fenwick team is led by Lenae Fergerson, in her third season as head coach.
Fergerson came to Fenwick with credentials as a player. She played for Doug Bruno at DePaul, scoring 2,046 points and finshing as the school's fourth leading scorer, all time. Fergerson averaged 26 points per game her senior year, second in the nation, and was a second round pick by the Detroit Shock of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) in 2002.
After a single WNBA season, Fergerson played in Europe for twelve years, seven of those in France, before returning to work at her high school alma mater Addison Trail High School as a library aide, according to Linkedin.
As Fenwick girls varsity head coach, Fergerson has posted just one conference win in three years.
Fenwick girls basketball was started by coach Dave Power in 1992 when the school went co-ed.
Power coached the team for 29 years, winning sixteen straight East Suburban Catholic Conference titles, two state championships (2001, 2007) and a state runner-up finish in 2003.
Power, who previously coached at Proviso West (1977-82) and Immaculate Heart of Mary (1982-92), retired with 1,020 wins, second only in Illinois state history to Chicago Marshall legend Dorothy Gaters (1,133 wins between 1975 and 2019).
In his last season as head coach, Fergerson was assistant coach to Power, when the squad went 23-11 overall and 3-4 in conference play.
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