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Gallaudet's Easter Faafiti named ECAC Division III South Player of the Year
CENTERVILLE, Mass. – The postseason women's basketball awards continue to pour in for senior forward/center Easter Faafiti (Pittsburg, Calif.) as she was named the 2010-11 Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Division III South Women's Basketball Player of the Year. In addition, for the second consecutive year Faafiti was named to the ECAC Division III South All-Star first team.
In February, Faafiti was selected as the North Eastern Athletic Conference (NEAC) Player of the Year and earned all-conference first team honors. She was the only player from the NEAC to be selected as an ECAC All-Star this year. She was honored three times during the season by the ECAC as South Player of the Week.
The other four first-team ECAC South All-Star honorees include Misericordia junior forward Christine Marks, Swarthmore senior forward Kathryn Stockbower, Neumann senior guard Katie Young and Lebanon Valley senior guard Andrea Hoover. La Roche freshman forward Jessica Pitts earned the Rookie of the Year distinction.
In leading the Gallaudet University women's basketball team to a 24-4 record on the year – including their third-ever NCAA tournament berth - Faafiti racked up impressive individual statistics. In the final NCAA Division III women's basketball statistics she ranked fourth in double-doubles (four), 11th in rebounds per game (13.5), 12th in points per game (20.5) and 12th in steals per game (3.8). In the NEAC, Faafiti placed first in field goal percentage (.531) and steals per game (3.82), second in points per game and rebounds per game and fifth in assists per game (4.21).
About the selection process
ECAC All-Stars, Players of the Year and Rookies of the
Year are eligible if selected as their primary conference's award
winner or all-conference first team selection. The teams and major
award winners are voted on by coaches – who were not
permitted to vote for their own players – from the ECAC
membership.
About the ECAC
The Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) is the
nation's largest athletic conference and only multi-divisional
conference, with 287 member institutions and over 122,000
student-athletes ranging from Maine to North Carolina and westerly
to Illinois. The ECAC publicizes the achievements of over 750
student-athletes annually through the postseason all-stars
programs. In women's basketball, the ECAC awards one Division I and
Division II all-star team each, and four regional Division III
all-star teams (New England, Upstate, Metro and South). For more
information about the ECAC please visit its website www.ecac.org.
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