Brooks voted top SLC women's basketball academic honor
4/13/2010 2:15:00 PM | Women's Basketball
Brooks is one of two Bearkats on the 2010 honor squad. Ray Alexander, senior guard from Dallas Skyline, is a second team selection.
A native of Spring, Texas, Brooks is the first Sam Houston State player to be named women's basketball student-athlete of the year.
A business major with a 3.34 grade-point average, Brooks played an integral role in leading Sam Houston to its highest win total (11) since 2000, and first Southland tournament berth since 2004.
A second-team all-conference selection, Brooks started all 29 games in 2010 and finished fourth in scoring (15.3) in the league. Brooks ranked third in 3-pointers per game (2.3) and 3-point percentage (.332). Her 3.7 assists per game ranks sixth and 1.9 steals per game is seventh.
Alexander, a 5-5 guard, is a health major with a 3.00 GPA. She finished her Bearkat career ranked sixth in Sam Houston women's career assists with 281 and scored 758 points in her 100 games as a Bearkat. She was the team's third leading scorer this year.
"This is a tremendous honor for both these young ladies," Sam Houston head coach Brenda Nichols said. "They have been a part of all four of our teams here at Sam Houston and have played a major role in laying a solid foundation for the program in the future."
The Southland Conference awards committee, which consists of one administrator from each of the 12 member schools, voted for the student-athlete of the year.
The student-athlete of the year award is presented to the one male and one female student-athlete who achieve excellence in both academics and athletics. All nominees shall have earned at least a 3.2 GPA on a 4.0 scale, and demonstrated achievement in athletics for at least two years at the nominating institution.
The All-Academic teams are voted on by the head coaches, sports information directors and academic/compliance administrators from each Southland university. Student-athletes must possess a 3.0 cumulative GPA, have completed one full academic year at the nominating institution and participated in at least 50 percent of the team's competition to qualify for the all-academic squad.
2009-10 Southland Conference Women's Basketball All-Academic Teams
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First Team |
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Name |
University |
Class |
GPA |
Major |
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Sam Houston |
Sr. |
3.34 |
General Business |
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Ashley Crawford |
Lamar |
Gr. |
3.95 |
Kinesiology |
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Deziree Green |
A&M-C. Christi |
Sr. |
3.50 |
Kinesiology |
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Anna Cate Williams |
Northwestern St |
Sr. |
3.84 |
Health & Physical Ed. |
|
Lyndzee Greene |
Northwestern St |
Sr. |
3.74 |
Hospitality Mgmt. |
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Second Team |
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Whitney York |
UTSA |
So. |
3.12 |
Management |
|
Kalis Loyd |
Lamar |
So. |
3.22 |
General Studies |
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Sam Houston |
Sr. |
3.00 |
Health |
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Kiara Johnson |
McNeese State |
Jr. |
3.11 |
Childhood Education |
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Jasmine Hoskins |
Nicholls |
So. |
3.55 |
Nursing |
