Brown earns NE10 Coach of the Year honors for the fifth time in her career and fourth time over the last eight years (PHOTO BY Lewis Glass/SportsPix) |
Brown earns NE10 Coach of the Year honors for the fifth time
Raymond earns All-NE10 first team honors for first time
Reuter picks up first career All-NE10 recognition with third team honors
NE10 Women's Basketball Postseason Awards Announcement
EASTON, Mass. (March 2, 2020) – Stonehill College head coach Trisha Brown has been named the Northeast-10 Conference Coach of the Year and placed two players on the All-Northeast-10 Conference teams by the league's 14 head coaches, the league announced today.
Brown earns NE10 Coach of the Year honors for the fifth time in her career, with her second selection over the last three years and fourth in the last eight years – most in the NE10 over that time frame. Senior Gabrielle Reuter and sophomore Kayla Raymond both earn All-NE10 honors, with Raymond earning the honors for the second-straight year with her first first team selection and Reuter collecting All-NE10 honors for the first time in her career with third team accolades. The duo gives the program 50 All-NE10 honors all-time, with Raymond's first team selection the 23rd in program history.
Brown's five NE10 Coach of the Year awards give Stonehill ten awards since the NE10 started sponsoring women's basketball in 1981-82 as she matches the total Paula Sullivan accumulated between 1981 and 1995. Brown has guided the Skyhawks to their third-straight 20-win season and the 27th in program history overall and the program's second NE10 Northeast Division title in three years, marking the tenth NE10 regular season championship in program history. She also earned NE10 Coach of the Year honors in 2017-18, 2014-15, 2012-13 and 2007-08.
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Stonehill, winners of a season-high ten straight and 14 of 15 since the New Year, has reached these heights despite Raymond and returning starter Jennifer Worden missing the first seven and 11 games of the season, respectively, and employing seven different starting lineups over the course of the season. The Skyhawks have also been without sophomore Isabella Santoro due to a season-ending injury since December after she led the team with 13 points, 5.4 rebounds, 1.9 assists and a steal per game over the first 11 games.
Stonehill, receiving votes in both Division II national polls and ranked No. 2 in the NCAA Division II East Regional rankings, have played the toughest schedule in Division II this season, with its opponents boasting a .615 winning percentage. The Skyhawks have played eight of the other nine teams in the most recent NCAA East Regional rankings, posting a 6-4 record against those teams, including wins over top-ranked Adelphi University and No. 3 University of the Sciences.
Brown, a three-time East Region Coach of the Year by the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA), has led Stonehill to a 385-176 (.686) record over her 19 seasons at the helm, including a 285-133 (.682) mark in the NE10, with 19 NE10 Tournament appearances, four NE10 regular season championships, the 2008 NE10 Tournament title and 2018 NCAA East Regional Championship. The Skyhawks are on pace to receive their 13th NCAA Tournament bid over her career.
Raymond, the 2018-19 NE10 Rookie of the Year, earns All-NE10 first team honors for the first time after being named to the second team as a freshman. She is averaging a team-high 16.8 points (4th NE10) and 8.1 rebounds (7th) in 25.8 minutes per game over the 19 games (16 starts) after a preseason injury. Raymond is shooting 41.9-percent from the floor, including 32.7% (34-for-104) from three-point distance, while converting 84.2% (48-for-57) of her free-throws (7th), to go with 1.6 assists, 1.4 blocked shots (7th) and 0.7 steals per game.
Raymond, also a Division II Bulletin and NE10 All-Rookie Team selection as a freshman, has led Stonehill in scoring in 11 of her 19 games played, scoring in double-figures 15 times, with 20-plus points in five games, including a season-high 30 points in the Skyhawks 66-63 win at Saint Anselm College on February 8. She has posted four double-doubles, including each of the last two games, leading Stonehill in rebounding 12 times.
Raymond earns All-NE10 honors for the second-straight year with first team accolades for the first time (PHOTO BY Rich Ryan Photography) |
Raymond earned NE10 Player of the Week honors for the first time in her career on February 3 after setting a program record with nine NE10 Rookie of the Year honors as a freshman. She has started 40 of her 45 career games played and totaled 740 points, 304 rebounds, 71 assists, 36 steals and 74 blocked shots to this point in her career. Raymond was an All-Tournament Team selection at the 2019 NCAA II East Regional.
Reuter earns All-NE10 honors for the first time in her career with her third team selection. The four-year letterwinner has started 55 of Stonehill's 56 games over the last two seasons and emerged as one of the top interior defenders in program history with 136 blocked shots to rank fifth all-time at Stonehill. Reuter has totaled 727 points, including 526 over the last two seasons, on 49.7-percent shooting, with 457 rebounds, 150 assists and 47 steals over her 104 career games.
Reuter has started all 26 games this season, and contributes 9.8 points, on a team-best 46.1-percent shooting (11th NE10), with 6.1 rebounds, 2.1 assists, 1.3 blocks (8th) and 0.8 steals in 28.7 minutes per game. She has led Stonehill in scoring five times and rebounding seven, scoring in double-figures 16 of the Skyhawks 26 games, with three double-doubles and four games with double-digit rebounds overall. Reuter scored a season-high 18 points in wins at Southern New Hampshire University (1/5) and Franklin Pierce University (2/12), matching her career-best with 12 rebounds in wins over Le Moyne College (1/11) and rival Bentley University (2/5).
Top-seeded Stonehill (21-5, 16-3 NE10) is back in action on Thursday night, when it hosts Southwest No. 2-seed Le Moyne College for an NE10 Tournament Semifinal at Merkert Gymnasium at 7 p.m. Tickets are $8.00 for adults, $5.00 for children ages 12-18, college students with an ID and senior citizens (65+), and $1.00 for students of participating institutions with their ID. Stonehill students will be admitted free of charge with their HillCard.
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