Sea~Hawks take home conference awards
Thistle and Mullaley named All-Stars; Parsons on Rookie Team
Three members of the Memorial Sea~Hawks women’s basketball
team were recognized with awards in an announcement made by
Atlantic University Sport (AUS) today. Vicki Thistle and Erin
Mullaley were both named to the AUS second all-star team while
Jennifer Parsons was named to the all-rookie team.
Thistle led the second place Sea-Hawks in scoring (15.1 points per
game) in 2009-10. She is second on the team in rebounding with 6.1
per game. Her aggressive play finds her on the free throw line a
team-leading 5.8 times per game. Last season Thistle, a native of
St. John’s, was named a first team all-star and became only
the fourth Memorial women’s basketball player to be named an
All-Canadian when she was named to the second team. Thistle is a
great all-around athlete and was a member of the Sea~Hawks
women’s soccer team this season.
Mullaley added 9.5 points per and ranked fifth in AUS assists with
3.6 per game. She was also fourth in the conference in three-point
percentage, connecting on 36.5% from long range. In her last season
with the Sea~Hawks Mullaley took on a leadership role and was the
catalyst to the Memorial defensive pressure. Mullaley will attempt
to end her varsity career this weekend with her fourth AUS
championship.
Parsons earned her position on the conference all-rookie team by
playing in all twenty of the Sea~Hawks regular season games, and
starting in six. Parsons, who is from Pouch Cove, gave coach Doug
Partridge a reliable player who would contribute defensively when
called upon. Parsons finished the season with averages of 3.9
points per game and 3.2 rebounds per game. It was the fourth season
that the AUS recognized an all-rookie team. Parsons joins teammates
Thistle, Ally Forsey and Ericka Gratton as the only Sea~Hawks to be
named to the team.
Others recognized with nominations to the all-star teams and
all-rookie team were:
First Team All-Stars:
Kelsey Hodgson,
Cape Breton (5th year - Fredericton, NB)
Alise Brown, Acadia (5th year - Halifax, NS)
Justine Colley, Saint Mary's (1st year - East Preston, NS)
Amanda Sharpe, UNB (4th year - Fredericton, NB)
Kari Everett, Cape Breton (4th year - Stilesville, NB)
Second Team All-Stars:
Ashley Stephen,
StFX (4th year - Toronto, ON)
Erin Mullaley, Memorial (5th year - Freshwater, NL)
April Scott, Dalhousie (5th year - Halifax, NS)
Victoria Thistle, Memorial (4th year - St. John's, NL)
Laurie Girdwood, Dalhousie (5th year - Dundas, ON)
All-Rookie Team:
Justine Colley, Saint Mary's (East Preston, NS)
Lindsay Harris, Acadia (New Minas, NS)
Jennifer Parsons, Memorial (Pouch Cove, NL)
Rebecca Sheehan, StFX (New Maryland, NB)
Robbi Daley, Saint Mary's (Fredericton, NB)
The 2010 Subway Atlantic University Sport Women's Basketball
Championship will be hosted by Cape Breton University, February
26-28, 2010 at the Sullivan Field House in Sydney, NS.
The championship schedule is as follows:
Friday, February 26th
Quarter-final #1:
Saint Mary's (3rd) vs. Acadia (6th), 6:00pm
Quarter-final #2: StFX (4th) vs. Dalhousie (5th), 8:00pm
Saturday, February 27th
Semifinal #1:
Cape Breton (1st) vs. Lowest Remaining Seed, 6:00pm
Semifinal #2: Memorial (2nd) vs. Highest Remaining Seed, 8:00pm
Sunday, February 28th
Championship
Game: Semi-final Winners, 1:00pm
The 2010 CIS Women's Basketball Championship is scheduled for March
12-14, 2010, hosted by McMaster University.