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Haddock,
Cant Garner All-Conference Awards; Weissenfluh Unanimous Choice for
Coaching Award
Michelle Kinley
recognized on Honorable Mention list
February 23, 2003
LA GRANDE, Ore. - Earlier today, Tricia
Haddock, Jamie Jo Cant, and Michelle Kinley, were
selected by the conference coaches to this year's All-Cascade
Collegiate Conference teams. Haddock and Cant were named to the
1st team, while Kinley was placed on the honorable mention squad.
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| Tricia
Haddock |
Haddock, a 5-4 senior guard from Parma,
Idaho, was runner-up in the voting for CCC Player of the Year behind
Oregon Tech's standout junior forward Nikki McElligott.
Haddock finished the regular-season as
the conference's leading assist maker a just over seven assists per
game and averaged 10.4 points per game.
Earlier in the year, Haddock broke the
school's career assist record that was previously held by head coach
Anji Weissenfluh. Then, last Friday night against Western
Baptist, Haddock dished out a career-high 13 assists, breaking the
single-game assist mark of 12 that was shared between herself,
Weissenfluh, and Sarah Wilder.
Haddock was previously named a 1st Team
All-Conference selection in 2001-02, during the Mountaineer first-ever
conference championship season. She was also named conference
Freshman of the Year in 2000-01.
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| Jamie Jo
Cant |
This is Jamie Jo Cant's (5-7, Jr.,
Guard, Imbler, Ore.) second consecutive selection to the Conference's
1st Team. She was also a runner-up in the Freshman of the Year
voting in 2001-02.
Cant leads the team in scoring (12.8
ppg), tied Haddock in steals (48), and tied with Cory Nelson for
second in rebounding (4.8 rpg). She also in tops on the
Mountaineer roster in field goals (112).
Cant, a junior, has elected to end her
collegiate career after graduating this summer with a degree in Nursing
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| Michelle
Kinley |
If the Cascade Conference had a
Sixth-Man (or Woman) of the Year award, Michelle Kinley (5-10, Sr.,
Forward, Chewelah, Wash.) would surely be in the running for it. So
the coaches handed her the next best thing, a spot on the
All-Conference team as an honorable mention selection.
Kinley led the Mountaineers off the
bench in rebounding with 5.9 rebounds per game and is third in scoring
at 9.8 points per game.
Her .481 shooting percentage also ranks
third among active players, behind Christy Smith and Candice Davis.
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Head Coach
Anji Weissenfluh |
As the coaches were handing out awards,
the easiest choice of all was bestowed upon Mountaineer head coach Anji
Weissenfluh. The other nine coaches within the Conference
selected Weissenfluh as the CCC Coach of the Year for the second time
in three years.
To go along with their second CCC
regular-season title in three years, the Mountaineers will be making
their first-ever appearance at the NAIA Women's Division II National
Championship in Sioux City next March 10-16.
The team's 23-2 regular season record
is the best since the 2001-02 team's 20-5 record and it ties the
1981-82 team for the most wins by an EOU squad. That team ended with a
23-9 record. The Mountaineers have assured themselves of no
worst than a 23-4 (.852) season
In just her fourth year as Eastern
Oregon's head basketball coach, Weissenluh has complied a career
record of 65 wins and just 37 losses, for a wining percentage of .635.
The Mountaineers, who are the No. 1
seed in the upcoming Cascade Collegiate Conference tournament, will
host No. 8 seed Albertson College at 7 PM, tomorrow at Quinn Coliseum.
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