Hempstead, NY - GoHofstra.com, in conjunction with the Hofstra University Office of Interactive Media, will host a live video chat with Head Men's Basketball Coach Mo Cassara and Head Women's Basketball Coach Krista Kilburn-Steveskey on Thursday, August 19 from 2-3 p.m. Coach Cassara will be available from 2-2:30 p.m., with Coach Kilburn-Steveskey following from 2:30-3 p.m.
The live video chat, which will be produced using Livestream, will last from 2 p.m. - 3 p.m. and shortly following the conclusion will be available on an on-demand basis at www.GoHofstra.com and www.livestream.com/hofstrauniversity.
Viewers can log into the video chat room and ask questions or guests can email questions in advance to stephen.a.gorchov@hofstra.edu. Questions will then be selected and presented to Coach Cassara and Coach Kilburn-Steveskey, who will answer them live on camera.
Cassara is entering his first season as the Hofstra Men's Basketball head coach, after spending the last four years as an assistant at Boston College. He inherits a team that includes Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) Player of the Year and two-time Haggerty Award winner Charles Jenkins, who is the sixth-highest returning scorer in the country (20.6 ppg). All-time leading shot-blocker Greg Washington is also back to anchor the frontcourt for his senior year, after blocking a school record 92 shots last winter. The Pride will meet perennial power North Carolina at the Puerto Rico Tip-Off in its first Division I game of the year on Thursday, November 18.
Now entering her fifth season at the helm of the Hofstra Women's Basketball program, Krista Kilburn-Steveskey has compiled 67 victories in her career. This past season, Kilburn-Steveskey guided the Pride to a 20-win campaign and an appearance in the second round of the Women's National Invitation Tournament (WNIT). It marked the second 20-win season in her four years at Hofstra and the second WNIT appearance as well. The Pride welcomes back a slew of talented returnees in 2010-11, led by second team All-CAA performer Shante Evans. Hofstra opens the season on November 12 when they host Virginia. The Cavaliers, a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference, made their third consecutive and 24th appearance overall in the NCAA Tournament a season ago.
