Tuesday, March 10, 1998
The University Daily Kansan
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Unanimous All-American title goes to Tennessee's Holdsclaw
The Associated Press
Chamique Holdsclaw, who helped make Tennessee an unanimous No. 1 in the poll, was a unanimous selection yesterday to The Associated Press women's All-America basketball team.
Holdswain was on the first team on all 40 ballots from a national media panel after leading Tennessee to a 33-0 regular-season record.
She was joined by Connecticut's injured star Nykesha Sales, Old Dominion's Ticha Penichelo, Texas Tech's Alicia Thompson and North Carolina's Tracy Reid.
Sales was the only other player named on all 40 ballouts, although she was not a first-team pick on every one. Penicheiro was listed on all but one ballast. Holdswclaw and Penicheiro became the first repeat selections on the first team in the four-year history of the AP team. Holdswclaw, a 6-foot-2 junior, was a third-team pick as a freshman in 1996.
Tennessee freshman Tamika Catchings made the second team. Old Dominion was the only other school with two players in the top three teams, and Nayre Roberts earned a third-team berth.
Holdswclaw has led Tennessee to the last two national titles and improved even more this season. Surrounded by a cast that includes Catchings and three other talented freshmen, Holdswclaw did not have to do as much as she did last season, when she played everything from the post to the point.
Holdswclaw is averaging three steals, and her defensive plays often spark Tennessee's devastating transition game. She also is averaging 22.9 points and eight rebounds and shoots 56 percent from the field.
Sales, a second-team pick in 1997, was having a big senior year when she went down with a ruptured Achilles tendon in the next-to-last regular-season game.
Sales averaged 20.9 points and shot 56.6 percent from the field. She was the Big East's player of the year and, in a testimony to her all-around ability, was chosen as the league's defensive player of the year as well.
Penicheiro, the flashy point guard who helped Old Dominion to a runner-up finish in last year's NCAA tournament, was slowed early by an ankle injury, and her numbers are down slightly this year — 10.4 points and 7.3 assists per game.
Thompson. a 6-1 senior, led Texas
AP WOMEN'S ALL-AMERICA TEAM
Chamique Holdsclaw,
Tennessee*
Nykesha Sales, Connecticut
Alicia Thompson, Texas Tech
Ticha Penicheiro, Old Dominion
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Tracy Reid, North Carolina
*Unanimous
Tech to the Big 12 regular-season and tournament championships and a No. 1 seeding in NCAA play. She's averaging 22.9 points and 8.8 rebounds and shoots 54.7 percent from the field.
Reid, a 5-11 senior, moved up from last year's second team and again showed her versatility, averaging 20.6 points, 9.2 rebounds and shooting 54 percent. She also averages more than two steals a game.
Catchings was joined on the second team by Alabama's Dominique Canty, Florida's Murriel Page, Stanford's Kristin Folkl and Louisiana Tech's Alisa Burras. The third team had Roberts, Arizona's Adia Barnes, Illinois' Ashley Berggren, Maine's Cindy Blodgett and Stephen F. Austin's Katrina Price.
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