2007 NESCAC Women's Basketball All-Conference Teams Announced
Flaherty of Bowdon Earns Player of
the Year
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HADLEY, Mass. - Bowdoin senior forward Eileen
Flaherty (Fairfield, Conn.) has been named the 2007 NESCAC Women's
Basketball Player of the Year. Flaherty helped lead the Polar Bears
to a perfect 9-0 conference record for the fourth time in five
years and the 2007 NESCAC Women's Basketball title, the seventh
year in a row that Bowdoin has won the league crown. It is the
second time in four years that a member of the Polar Bears squad
has earned Player of the Year accolades, after Bowdoin's Lora
Trenkle received the award in 2004.
Flaherty, the Co-Rookie of the Year in 2004, also gained
recognition on the 2007 NESCAC All-Conference First Team,
completing a four-year run as a First Team honoree. The senior
forward has continued a trend of leading her team in scoring from
the previous two seasons by averaging a NESCAC-best 18.1 points to
go along with a team-leading 6.4 rebounds per game this year.
Starting all 27 games this season, Flaherty led the Polar Bears in
scoring 22 different times, posting a season-high 26 points in a
win at William Paterson on Nov. 25. Flaherty is the all-time
leading scorer at Bowdoin with 1,780 points entering this weekend's
NCAA action and the only basketball player in Polar Bear history to
surpass 1,700 career points.
Joining Flaherty on the All-Conference First Team is sophomore
teammate Jill Anelauskas (Medfield, Mass.), as the Polar Bears
placed two players on the First Team for the sixth year in a row.
Anelauskas follows Flaherty in second on the Bowdoin stat sheet
this season with 11.6 points and 6.0 rebounds over 27 games,
hitting 46.2-percent of her shots (132-268) so far to rank among
the top 10 players in the conference in field goal percentage. The
sophomore forward scored a season-high 24 points on two occasions
this year, the most recent coming at Trinity on Jan. 26 where she
went 10-for-13 from the floor (.769) and came within one point of
her career high of 25 that occurred against the Bantams a year
ago.
Williams senior forward Maggie Miller, who shared Co-Rookie honors
with Flaherty in 2004, received All-NESCAC recognition for the
fourth year in a row, earning a spot on the First Team for the
third time (2003, 2006) after coming away with Second Team honors
during her sophomore campaign. Miller ranks among the top five
players in the NESCAC in both scoring (4th) and rebounding (5th)
this season, averaging 15.7 points to lead the Ephs in scoring for
the second year in a row while grabbing 7.6 boards to place second
among her teammates.
After finding a spot on the Second Team last year, Trinity senior
guard/forward Sarah Cox (Norwell, Mass.) moved up to the
All-Conference First Team in 2007. Cox, who paced the Bantams in
both scoring and rebounding for the second-straight season, ranks
second overall in the league in scoring with 17.4 points per game
and is sixth in rebounding with 7.1 boards. Cox was first in
scoring in conference play, averaging 19.0 points against NESCAC
foes this season with a career-high 30 points coming during the
Bantams' first NESCAC win of the season against Colby on Jan. 27.
Cox was also first this season in the league in steals per game,
averaging 2.74 over 23 contests.
Bates sophomore forward Val Beckwith (Woburn, Mass.) rounds out
the 2007 NESCAC All-Conference First Team selections. Beckwith
finished her second season with the Bobcats third among conference
players in scoring, averaging a team-high 16.8 points while
starting all 25 games. Beckwith, who led the Bobcats in scoring on
16 different occasions this winter, scored a career-high 27 points
in a win over Williams on Feb. 2.
The NESCAC Defensive Player of the Year award was shared between
Bowdoin's Katie Cummings (Summit, N.J.) and Williams' Kaylan
Tildsley (Andover, Mass.). The two seniors helped their respective
teams lead the conference in defense this season, as Bowdoin
allowed 46.3 points per game (1st) while Williams gave up an
average 53.5 points (3rd). Cummings has the most steals in the
NESCAC at 68 and ranks fourth with an average 2.52 per game.
Cummings and Tildsley are one-two in assist-to-turnover ratio, as
Cummings leads the league with 3.18 while Tildsley is second at
1.85.
Amherst forward Samantha Swensen (Rockaway Park, N.Y.) earned
NESCAC Rookie of the Year honors. Swensen started 24 of 25 games
and was third among her teammates in scoring with 9.6 points along
with placing second among the Jeffs in rebounds with 6.2. Her field
goal percentage of 49.8-percent ranks third among conference
players (102-205).
Tufts head coach Carla Berube was chosen by the conference coaches
as NESCAC Coach of the Year for the first time during her tenure
with the Jumbos. Berube guided Tufts to an 8-1 conference record
and a second-place finish in the NESCAC standings this season, both
program-bests, while the Jumbos' overall record of 18-8 came within
one win of the school record. Tufts reached the conference
championship for the first time ever this year.
2006-07 NESCAC Women's Basketball
All-Conference
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| First Team
| School
| Yr.
| Hometown
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| G/F
| Sarah Cox
| Trinity
| Sr.
| Norwell, Mass.
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| F
| Jill Anelauskas
| Bowdoin
| So.
| Medfield, Mass.
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| F
| Val Beckwith
| Bates
| So.
| Woburn, Mass.
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| F
| Eileen Flaherty
| Bowdoin
| Sr.
| Fairfield, Conn.
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| F
| Maggie Miller
| Williams
| Sr.
| Wellesley, Mass.
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| Second Team
| School
| Yr.
| Hometown
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| G
| Sarah Barton
| Bates
| Jr.
| Portsmouth, N.H.
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| G
| Ali Fourney
| Wesleyan
| So.
| East Northport, N.Y.
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| G
| Valerie Krah
| Tufts
| Sr.
| Mountain Lakes, N.J.
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| G
| Meghan Stetson
| Williams
| Sr.
| Clinton, N.Y.
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| F
| Stefanie Reiff
| Amherst
| Jr.
| Hinsdale, Ill.
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| Player of the Year
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| F
| Eileen Flaherty
| Bowdoin
| Sr.
| Fairfield, Conn.
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| Co-Defensive Player of the
Year
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| G
| Katie Cummings
| Bowdoin
| Sr.
| Summit, N.J.
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| G
| Kaylan Tildsley
| Williams
| Sr.
| Andover, Mass.
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| Rookie of the Year
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| F
| Samantha Swensen
| Amherst
| Fy.
| Rockaway Park, N.Y.
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| Coach of the Year
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| Carla Berube
| Tufts
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