THE OFFICIAL ATHLETICS SITE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-WHITEWATER

Laura Mildebrandt earned four letters in basketball at UW-W, leading her team to winning records and into the NCAA III championship tournament all four years.  She was UW-W's team captain and the Sportswoman of the Year in basketball her junior and senior years, adding first team all-WWIAC and all-region honors for the 1985-86 season.  Mildebrandt averaged 4.4 points and 2.3 assists her first year, helping the Warhawks to a 17-3 mark, 7-1 in WWIAC play.  Her averages increased to 9.8 points and 3.8 assists in 1983-84, when UW-W went 14-8.  Increasing her assist total again, up to 4.7 per game with an 8.2 scoring mark, Mildebrandt and the Warhawks went 21-8, finishing sixteenth

in the final NCAA III rankings for 1984-85.  With Mildebrandt at the point, Whitewater went undefeated, 16-0, in WWIAC play in 1985-86 to capture the league title.  With Mildebrandt averaging 9.6 points and 5.2 assists, UW-W was 24-4 overall.  Mildebrandt still reigns as UW-W's career assist leader (428), setting the single game record with 16 late in the 1985-86 season.  Her 135 assists in 1985-86 is second in the school's record book, and the 32 she dished out in 1984-85 is fourth on the list.  She is seventh in games played for Warhawk women's basketball, ninth in career free throw pecentage (.761), and tenth in career points (853).  She is among the top twenty on nineteen lists in the UW-W women's basketball record book. A 1983 South Milwaukee High School graduate, Mildebrandt is a physical education and health teacher in the Milwaukee area.  She is also the head softball coach at Nicolet High School, and head basketball coach at Thomas More.