2008-09 at VC:  Played in 33 of the Pirates’ 35 games a year ago...Averaged 8.4 minutes per outing...Scored 24 points with 22 assists on the year...Had a season-high four points vs. Fullerton at the Glendale Tournament, 11/14...Had seven assists vs. LA Trade Tech 12/20...Had two points and four assists in the final regular-season game vs. Hancock 2/21...Earned the Coaches Award for her work last season. 

 

High School:  Is the first Pirate from Pacifica High School in Oxnard...Earned Defensive Player of the Year awards her junior and senior seasons for current VC men’s coach and athletic director Will Cowen...Helped lead the Tritons to the CIF State Tournament as a junior...Awarded Most Improved Player as a sophomore. 

 

Personal:  Parents are David  and Linda Van Someren...Born in Ventura February 23, 1990...Has two older sisters, Sarah and Andrea, and an older brother, David, who played basketball for VC... SpongeBob isher favorite cartoon character...Likes Mexican food as favorite...Favorite actor is Morris Chestnut...Enjoys watching Baldwin Hills on television...Hobbies include “hanging out with my family”...Brenda’s greatest basketball achievement was “going to state my junior year in high school”...”You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have” (unknown) is Brenda’s favorite quote... Dave Pelzer’s A Child Called It is her favorite book.

 

Major:  Sports Medicine

Favorite Food:  Mexican food

Favorite Song:  Missing You by First Lady 

Favorite Movie:  The Hangover

 

* Lebron James is Brenda’s favorite athlete.

* If she could live anywhere, Brenda would move to Louisiana or Africa .

* Brenda would “pay my family back for everything and spend the rest on myself” if she won $5 million.