Women's Basketball
Senior Maryann Abanobi earned her third SLC All-Academic honor on Monday. |
ABANOBI EARNS THIRD SLC ALL-ACADEMIC FIRST TEAM HONOR
April 29, 2008
FRISCO, Texas - Maryann Abanobi closes out her senior year at UT Arlington earning her third Southland Conference All-Academic First Team honor, as announced by the league office on Monday.
Abanobi is no stranger to success both on and off the court. A former two-time Student-Athlete of the Year and bio-chemistry major, Abanobi received CoSIDA All-District IV First Team honors with a 3.51 grade point average while leading UTA in scoring with 12.7 points per games and 32 minutes played per game.
Abanobi scored her 1,000th career point with 44 seconds left in the Mavs 77-49 win over SFA in their second-to-last game of the regular season. She went on to score 1,048 career points, including 124 three's. She set a single-season record with a .820 free-throw percent this season and finished her career fourth with a free-throw percentage of .779 over her four years.
Players selected to CoSIDA All-District Teams are automatically named as conference all-academic selections. This season's automatic selections include SLC Player of the Year Joyce Ekworomadu, Deziree Green of Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, and Abanobi.
Ekworomadu, a senior marketing major holding a 3.28 grade point average, received CoSIDA All-District Second Team honors after leading Texas State to its first regular-season title and WNIT appearance. She is one-of-seven Bobcats with 1,500 career points.
Texas A&M-Corpus Christi sophomore, Deziree Green joins former teammate Nicole Duncan as the only Lady Islanders named to the CoSIDA All-District teams university level. A kinesiology major, Green received Second Team merits from CoSIDA after starting all 32 games for TAMUCC and knocking down 53 shots from beyond the arc for the third most in school history while maintaining a 3.51 grade point average.
Rounding out the SLC All-Academic First Team selections are seniors Brooke Necaise of Southeastern Louisiana and Aida Bakhos of Lamar.
Necaise, a native of Kiln, Mississippi and education major, holds a 3.65 grade point average and set the SLU single season record sinking 66 three-pointers.
Four year letter winner and Beirut, Lebanon native, Bakhos, started all 31 games for the Cardinals pulling down 227 rebounds for sixth in conference while holding a 3.10 grade point average in general studies.
