TicketsKing Earns Third All-Conference USA Honor
Contact: Geoff Wiswell
3/3/2004
Valerie King |
FORT WORTH, Texas -- Senior guard Valerie King was named second team All-Conference USA, announced the league on Wednesday. The second-leading scorer in Cincinnati women?s history, she earned first team honors the previous two years.
King has scored 2,083 career points, trailing only Oscar Robertson (2,973) and Cheryl Cook (2,367) in Bearcat basketball history. She set a UC and C-USA women?s record earlier this year by scoring 46 points in a game, the most by any player in Fifth Third Arena. Her 323 career three-pointers is fifth in Division I history and just seven behind the C-USA record. She is also UC?s career leader in three-point percentage (.397) and free throw percentage (.868). She is the first Bearcat woman to earn three all-conference accolades in their career. She is averaging 15.1 points per game this year and has made .401 of her three-pointers, 26th in the nation.
?I think it is very deserving,? said head coach Laurie Pirtle.? ?If we would have won some of the close games she deserved to be even higher.? I think it's a credit to her to finish her senior season as one of the best players in the league.?
The Bearcats closed the regular season 14-14 overall and 5-9 in C-USA. They open play in the C-USA Tournament on Thursday, March 4 when they face USF at 1 p.m. CT.
2004 CONFERENCE USA WOMEN'S BASKETBALL AWARD WINNERS
All-Conference
First Team
Sandora Irvin, TCU
Chandi Jones, Houston
Sara Nord, Louisville
Khara Smith, DePaul
Courtney Willis, East Carolina
Second Team
Jazz Covington, Louisville
Jessica Dickson, USF
Valerie King, Cincinnati
Sancho Lyttle, Houston
Charlene Smith, DePaul
Third Team
Victoria Crawford, Memphis
Jenni Dant, DePaul
Jennifer Jackson, East Carolina
Angie Lewis, Saint Louis
Natasha Thomas, UAB
All-Freshman Team
Jazz Covington, Louisville
Jessica Dickson, USF
Natasha Lacy, TCU
Nalini Miller, USF
Deondra Carter, Southern Miss
Coach of the Year
Joe Curl, Houston
Player of the Year
Chandi Jones, F, Houston
Freshman of the Year
Jessica Dickson, F, USF
Defensive Player of the Year
Sandora Irvin, F, TCU
Sixth Player of the Year
Victoria Crawford, F, Memphis