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2003-04 Women's Basketball MIAC Postseason Award Teams
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2003-04
All-MIAC Team | 2003-04 All-Defensive Team | 2003-04
All First-Year Team | 2003-04 MIAC All-Conference Honorable
Mention Team |
Mandy Pearson Named Conference MVP; Four Others Receive Postseason Honors.
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Jr. Watkins, Minn. Became the program's fourth player to win MIAC MVP honors. |
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Sr. Evansville, Minn. Was named to the MIAC All-Defensive Team for the second straight year. |
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Was second on the team in scoring and third in rebounding. |
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Sr. Wood Lake, Minn. Led the MIAC in blocked shots. |
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Jr. Hallock, Minn. Earns all-conference honorable mention honors for the second straight season. |
(St. Paul, Minn.)— Mandy Pearson (Jr., Watkins, Minn./Eden Valley-Watkins HS) was named the MIAC Most Valuable Player as announced by the league office on Friday. Four other Cobber players also received MIAC postseason honors. All five Concordia starting players received a postseason award.
Pearson was also voted to the MIAC All-Conference Team. It is the second consecutive season that she has been named to the all-conference team, and third year that she has been honored with conference postseason awards.
Joining Pearson in the parade of conference postseason winners were Debbie Slack (Sr., Evansville, Minn.), who was named to the MIAC All-Defensive Team, and Annie Keeley (Fr., Grafton, N.Dak.), who garnered MIAC All-First Year Team honors. Slack, Keeley, Beth Drager (Sr., Wood Lake, Minn./Lakeview HS)and Jamie Visness (Jr., Hallock, Minn./Kittson Central HS) were all named to the MIAC All-Conference Honorable Mention Team.
Pearson becomes the first Concordia player to win MVP honors since Michelle Thykeson won the award in 1990. She becomes only the fourth player in school history to receive league MVP honors. She joins Jessica Rahman (Beachy), Jillayn Quaschnick and Thykeson in the elite club of Cobber athletes to win the MVP award.
She helped lead the Cobbers to their best record since the 1990-91 season. The team finished with a 21-7 mark and made it all the way to the MIAC playoff championship game, a first in school history. Concordia also set a school record for biggest improvement in one season. The Cobbers improved a full seven games from the 2002-03 season.
Pearson led the MIAC in assists (6.50 apg), was second in steals (3.73 spg) and 12th in overall scoring (13.7 ppg). She was also third in free throw percentage (82.3%) and fourth in assist-to-turnover ratio (1.21). Nationally, Pearson finished the year being ranked among the leaders in assists, steals and free throw percentage.
She led the team in overall scoring 14.1 (ppg), assists (172) and steals (95). All three totals are career highs for Pearson. She now has scored 931 career points, and is on pace to become the 19th player in women’s basketball history to surpass the 1,000-point barrier. Pearson scored in double figures in 24 of the Cobbers' 28 games this season, and finished the year with a streak of 10 consecutive games scoring at least 10 points. Her season-high came against St. Ben's in the conference semifinals when she scored 29 points.
She has started in every game the Cobbers have played since coming to Concordia as a first-year player in the 2001-02 season. Her 465 career assists ranks her fourth on the school’s all-time list.
Slack was named to the league’s all-defensive teams for the second consecutive season and all-conference honorable mention team for the first time. A rebounding force under the basket, she finished fourth in the MIAC in rebounding this season with a 9.2 rebounds per game average. Not known for her scoring ability, Slack finished the year with career highs in every major offensive statistical category. She finished eighth in the conference in free throw percentage (79.4), which is a complete turnaround from her career average of 57.6% heading into her senior season.
Slack was one of the leaders of the Concordia defense that allowed opponent’s an average of only 60.5 points per game which was the third best mark in the league. Concordia also finished the year by holding their foes to under 50 points on five different occasions in 2003-04. The team also led the MIAC in opponent’s field goal percentage. The Cobbers limited conference teams to just 35.7% shooting from the floor.
Slack finishes her career seventh on the school’s all-time rebounding list. She grabbed 719 rebounds in the 88 games she played for Concordia.
Keeley gave Concordia another player to handle the ball, and allowed Pearson to have someone to give her key breaks during the course of a game. She becomes the seventh Concordia player to be named to the league’s all first-year team since the conference first started the honor back in the 1993-94 season.
Keeley was second on the team in scoring with a 10.9 points per game average. The diminutive Keeley also finished the year as the team’s third leading rebounder (4.0 rpg). She was ranked 14th in the league in 3-point baskets made (32) and, unbelievably, 15th in offensive rebounds (46). Keely also factored among the top players in the league in scoring, 3-point field goal percentage and assists.
Beth Drager capped her senior season by being named to a conference postseason award team for the first time in her career. She led the league in blocked shots (3.30 blocks/game) and was 11th in the nation in that category. She was the team’s fourth leading scorer, averaging 7.6 points per game. She scored 206 points on the year, which is almost as many as her previous three seasons combined. She posted career-best numbers in every offensive statistical category, and finished 17th in the MIAC in field goal percentage (45.6%).
She finished her career with 157 blocks. That total is only one off the school’s all-time mark of 158 held by Ann Mehrkens (’97).
Jamie Visness rounds out the quintet of Cobber award winners. Visness earns all-conference honorable mention honors for the second consecutive season. She finished the year third on the team’s scoring list (10.0 ppg). She was among the league leaders in 3-point field goal percentage (33.7%) and 3-point field goals made (29). She scored in double figures in 11 of the team’s 28 games and tallied a season-high 22 points in the Cobber’s game against St. Mary’s on January 19.
2003-04
MIAC All-Conference Awards
2003-04 MIAC All-Conference
Team
Name
School Yr
Pos. Hometown
Anna Cunningham Bethel
So. Center Burnsville, Minn.
Linnea Engel Carleton
Sr. Forward Shoreview, Minn.
Beth Freeman Carleton
Jr. Forward Richfield, Minn.
Afton Hanson Macalester
Sr. Guard Karlstad, Minn.
Anna Heikenen St. Benedict So.
Forward Edina, Minn.
Kristi Huegel St. Thomas
Jr. Guard Alta Vista, Iowa
Jill Johnson St. Olaf
Sr. Post Butterfield, Minn.
Kim Johnson St. Benedict
Jr. Post Arden Hills, Minn.
Carolyn Korchik Hamline
So. Guard Bloomington, Minn.
Ashley Luehmann St. Mary's So.
Guard Lewiston, Minn.
Jenna Martin St. Catherine So.
Forward Grove City, Minn.
Mandy Pearson Concordia
Jr. Guard Watkins, Minn.
Angie Peterson Gustavus
Sr. Wing Northfield, Minn.
Jamie Rattunde St. Mary's Jr.
Forward Rollingstone, Minn.
Selina Theisen Augsburg
Fy. F/C Circle Pines, Minn.
Megan Vig Carleton
So. Forward Northfield, Minn.
Player of the Year
Mandy Pearson
Concordia
Sixth Player of the
Year
Kristin Kachelmyer Gustavus
Coach of the Year
Tammy Metcalf-Filzen Carleton
All-Defensive Team
Name
School Yr
Pos. Hometown
Sara Boldt Gustavus
So. Wing Faribault, Minn.
Linnea Engel Carleton
Sr. Forward Shoreview, Minn.
Angie Peterson Gustavus
Sr. Wing Northfield, Minn.
Jamie Rattunde St. Mary's Jr.
Forward Rollingstone, Minn.
Debbie Slack Concordia
Jr. F/C Evansville, Minn.
All-First Year Team
Name
School Yr
Pos. Hometown
Kate Bremmer St. Catherine Fy.
Guard Granite Falls, Minn.
Anne Keeley
Concordia Fy. Guard
Grafton, N.D.
Erin Petrich Hamline
Fy. Guard White Bear Like, Minn.
Selina Theisen Augsburg
Fy. F/C Circle Pines, Minn.
Jolynn Thielke Bethel
Fy. Forward Holoway, Minn.
2003-04 MIAC All-Conference
Honorable Mention Team
Name
School
Jessica Barrett Hamline
Ashley Brown
St. Benedict
Beth Drager
Concordia
Kristin Kachelmyer Gustavus
Anne Keeley
Concordia
Jen Klohs
Gustavus
Kate Sandvig
Gustavus
Deb Slack
Concordia
JoLynn Thielke Bethel
Jamie Visness
Concordia
Ashley Vossen
Augsburg
Katie Wiberg
St. Thomas
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