University of Louisiana at Lafayette Athletics
Hall Named Co-Coach of the Year, Petrakova Named First Team Again
3/2/2005 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
Tuesday, March 2, 2005
LAFAYETTE
–
Not
only has Louisiana's Ragin' Cajuns women's basketball
head coach J. Kelley Hall won the first conference regular
season championship in school history, but he can now add
another piece of hardware as he was named the Sun Belt
Conference Co-Coach of the Year, as announced Wednesday by
the conference office.
Senior Anna Petrakova, last season's Sun Belt Conference Player of the Year, was named to the All-Sun Belt First Team and teammate Ashley Blanche was named All-Sun Belt Honorable Mention.
Petrakova's first team selection marks the second consecutive first team All-Sun Belt selection for the Cajuns. Blanche's honorable mention selection gives the Cajuns three all-conference selections under coach Hall.
Petrakova
also becomes the seventh player in school history to receive
back-to-back all-conference honors. Former Ragin' Cajuns
great Kim Perrot was the last Cajuns player to accomplish
the feat as a four-time all-conference selection (1987
Southland, 1988-90 American South).
This season, Petrakova became the school's all-time blocked shots leader and will finish her career as the fourth all-time scorer and second all-time rebounder in Louisiana-Lafayette history. Blanche, a junior from New Orleans, is 12 assists shy of moving into fourth place on the school's all-time list, while having the sixth-best single-season assist total (136) in school history.
Hall, in
just his third season, became the school's second all-time
winningest coach with 41 wins. Hall led the Cajuns to a 20-8
overall record – just their second 20-win season in school
history – and their first regular season conference
championship of any kind in school history. On Saturday, the
Cajuns won the Sun Belt Western Division championship.
“I am extremely proud of everything we have accomplished this season,” Hall said. “We've worked hard all year long and nobody thought we could win a championship this soon. I think that says a lot about the players on our team.
“Anna Petrakova and Ashley Blanche both deserved their All-Sun Belt honors. They have been vital to our success this season.”
All-Sun
Belt Women's Basketball Team
First Team
Ali Carter, G,
Arkansas
State
Adrianne Davie, C,
Arkansas
State
Patrice Holmes, G, Middle
Tennessee
Crystal Kelly, F, Western Kentucky
Leslie Logsdon, G, Western Kentucky
Jocelyn Love, G/F, Arkansas-Little Rock
Anna Petrakova, C, Louisiana-Lafayette
Rudy Sims,
G,
Arkansas
State
Tiffany Porter-Talbert, G,
Western Kentucky
Milena Tomova, F/C,
Florida
International
Honorable
Mention
Ashley Blanche, G, Louisiana-Lafayette
Erika Bobo,
G, North Texas
Genevieve Delk, F/C, South Alabama
Krystle Horton, F, Middle
Tennessee
Tia
Stovall, F, Middle
Tennessee
Player of
the Year:
Tiffany
Porter-Talbert, Western Kentucky
Defensive of the Year:
Patrice
Holmes, Middle Tennessee
Newcomer of the Year:
JoAnna
Williams, South Alabama
Freshman of the Year:
Crystal
Kelly, Western Kentucky
Co-Coaches
of the Year: Brian Boyer, Arkansas State; J. Kelley Hall,
Louisiana-Lafayette
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