CAPE COD, Mass. – The postseason
women's basketball awards continue to pile up for Gallaudet
University junior Easter Faafiti (Pittsburg,
Calif.) as she was selected to the Eastern College Athletic
Conference Division III South All-Star First Team on Wednesday.
This is the first ECAC All-Star selection for Faafiti, who was
named an ECAC Division III South Region Player of the Week back on
February 22.
Faafiti, the 2010 Capital Athletic Conference Player of the
Year, is the only honoree on one of the three South All-Star teams
from the CAC. The other four first-team honorees include Moravian
senior forward Kirsty Stearns, Washington & Jefferson senior
guard Kennan Killeen, Neumann senior guard/forward Brittany Whetts
and Lebanon Valley junior guard Andrea Hoover. Whetts, the Colonial
State Athletic Conference Player of the Year, was selected as the
ECAC Division III South Region Player of the Year. Penn St.-Behrend
freshman guard/forward Taylor Lotis took home South Region Rookie
of the Year honors.
Faafiti, a junior-college transfer from Pasadena City College,
led the CAC in scoring (19.1 points per game), rebounding (11.1 per
game), field goal percentage (.597), offensive rebounds (5.1 per
game) and was second in steals (3.3 per game) and fourth in
defensive rebounds (6.0). Nationally, Faafiti was ranked in several
categories among all NCAA Division III women's basketball programs
including; field goal percentage (10th overall), scoring (27th),
rebounding (30th) and steals (38th).
Student-athletes are nominated by their Sports Information
Director to the ECAC to be eligible to be selected to an ECAC
All-Star team.
About the ECAC
The Eastern College Athletic Conference is the nation's
largest athletic conference and only multi-divisional conference,
with approximately 300 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. In
men's and women's basketball, the ECAC names one Division I
all-star team, one Division II all-star team, and four regional
Division III all-star teams (New England, Upstate, Metro, and
South). For more information about the ECAC please visit its Web
site - www.ecac.org.
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