Temple's Cardoza named Atlantic 10 Women's Coach of the Year
Temple's Tonya Cardoza has been named Atlantic 10 Women's Coach of the Year, La Salle's Ashley Gale was named Most Improved Player and Saint Joseph's Ashley Prim was named Sixth Player of the Year in a vote by the conference coaches announced yesterday.
Temple's Tonya Cardoza has been named Atlantic 10 Women's Coach of the Year, La Salle's Ashley Gale was named Most Improved Player and Saint Joseph's Ashley Prim was named Sixth Player of the Year in a vote by the conference coaches announced yesterday.
Temple's Shey Peddy made first team All Atlantic 10, while Gale and Temple's Kristen McCarthy were named to the second team. Temple's Qwedia Wallace made the third team. Peddy, Gale and Saint Joseph's Michelle Baker made the all-defensive team. La Salle's Jess Koci and Saint Joseph's Erin Shields made the all-rookie team.
Xavier's Amber Harris was named player of the year for the second straight year. In other awards, Duquesne's Wumi Agunbiade was named Rookie of the Year and Xavier's Ta'Shia Phillips was named Defensive Player of the Year.
In a game last night:
* At Drexel, Hollie Mershon, a sophomore out of Archbishop Carroll, scored a career-high 23 points and junior Kamile Nacickaite added 22 points and 12 rebounds to lead the Dragons (18-11, 10-8 Colonial Athletic Conference) to a 65-51 regular-season finale win over Old Dominion (20-9, 14-4).
Drexel will be the No. 6 seed in its conference tournament opener against No. 11 Towson (9-20, 3-15) on Thursday, March 10 at the Show Place Arena in Upper Marlboro, Md.