Julie Stockwell, a 2000 graduate of Stonehill College, was a standout member of the women’s basketball team over her four years at the College and holds the distintion as the first female student-athlete at the College to be named Academic All-American when she was named to the first team as a senior.
One of the premier interior players in the program’s history, earning All-Northeast-10 Conference honors three-times, including first team selections as a junior and senior. She was named the Northeast-10 Player of the Year her junior season when she was also rewarded with a spot on the Kodak/WBCA Division II Coaches’ All-America Team. Stockwell would go on to collect Daktronics All-America honors her senior season as well as Academic All-America accolades from CoSIDA.
Stonehill won 83 games over her four-year career, capturing the NE-10 Tournament Championship her freshman season and reaching the Conference finals twice overall and earning a pair of NCAA Tournament bids. Stonehill posted a 57-48 triumph over rival Bentley in the 1997 NE-10 Championship.
Stockwell still ranks fourth all-time in Stonehill history with 869 career rebounds, including a program-record 338 on the offensive glass. Her 1,430 career points rank 11th in school history, while ranking fifth for blocked shots (107) and sixth for field goal percentage (.497). Stockwell’s 10.5 rebounds per game as a senior is the school-record as she averaged a double-double that season with 18.4 points per game (8th-highest in program history). She also collected a program-best 128 offensive rebounds as a junior.
