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The Philadelphia Inquirer
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Sport
Mike Jensen

Maddy Siegrist has Villanova’s scoring mark, and a special bond with Sister Rose Marie, the old record-holder

PHILADELPHIA — Maddy Siegrist remembers being nervous.

“So nervous,” the Villanova star said this past week.

Since Siegrist had gotten to ‘Nova, she’d been hearing the name Shelly from her first coach, Harry Perretta. The mythical Shelly, as in Shelly Pennefather, was the program standard, especially for a scoring forward such as Siegrist. Shelly almost could have been out there with them during Siegrist’s first couple of seasons.

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