IUP sophomore forward
Jahzinga Tracey has been selected the PSAC West Player of the Year and named
to the all-conference first team while Cindy Martin was chosen PSAC West
Coach of the Year in balloting by the league’s head coaches.
Joining Tracey on the
all-conference squad were second team selections Katie Glaws, Lauren Fisher
and Staci Heberling. Tracey, the PSAC West Rookie of the Year a season ago,
moved up from the second team while Glaws, Fisher and Heberling are on the
team for the first time.
Entering this weekend’s
NCAA Division II East Region tournament, Tracey (Des Moines, Iowa/Hoover) is
averaging a team-leading 18.8 points and 9.4 rebounds per game while also
pacing the Crimson Hawks with 91 steals and 19 blocked shots.
She has already set IUP
single season records for points scored (563) and field goals made (230) and
attempted (491) while ranking third in scoring average and steals and fifth
in rebounds (283).
Tracey currently stands
third in the PSAC and 26th nationally in scoring, third in the
conference and 32nd nationally in rebounding and second in the
league and 26th in the nation in steals. Her field goal
percentage of .468 is the 10th best mark in the PSAC.
Tracey has posted 11
double-doubles on the year, including 20 or more points on 14 occasions and
at least 14 rebounds six times. She scored a career-high 36 points in an
83-82 overtime win over Shippensburg, two shy of the IUP single game record,
while tying the school mark with 15 field goals in that contest.
She also had a 24-point,
20-rebound game against East Stroudsburg and scored 15 points and pulled
down 17 rebounds against Glenville State, the top-ranked team in the East
Region and No. 2 in the nation. Tracey was named the MVP of the PSAC
tournament after averaging 20.7 points and 9.0 rebounds in wins over
Edinboro, Millersville and California.
In 58 games over the past two seasons, Tracey has scored 836 points, and her
average of 14.4 is the fifth highest career mark in school history. She is
also sixth in career rebounding average (8.2) and ninth in steals (165).
In her second season as
head coach at IUP, Martin led the Crimson Hawks to the school’s second PSAC
championship and first since 1988 as well as the team’s fourth appearance in
the NCAA Division II tournament. IUP faces Barton in the East Region
quarterfinals Friday in Glenville, W.Va.
IUP earned the PSAC West
title, its first since 1999, by going 9-3 in the division, and with a 22-8
overall record, the Crimson Hawks have the third 20-win season in school
history. IUP has achieved this success with a young team that features only
one senior and one junior in its core rotation.
Including a 19-9 record
last year, Martin has a two-year mark of 41-17, and her winning percentage
of .707 is the best ever at IUP with a minimum of 50 games coached.
When the team won 19 games last season under Martin, it marked the most
victories by a first-year IUP head coach and represented a 7.5 game
improvement from the 9-18 mark of 2004-05, the seventh best increase in
Division II women’s basketball.
Glaws (North Canton, Ohio/Hoover) has steadily climbed the IUP record book
and stands in the top 20 in 12 categories. The senior guard has played in
all 111 games in her career and will move into a tie for third in the game
against Barton on Friday. She is 15th on the all-time scoring
list with 1,078 points, two behind former teammate Jacqui Martin.
Glaws holds the IUP career record for 3-point field goals made (159) and
attempted (480) and her percentage from behind the arc (.331) places her 5th.
She also ranks eighth in assists (303), ninth in free throws made (245),
fourth in free throw percentage (.763) and tied for 10th in
steals (159).
This season, Glaws is averaging 12.6 points and 5.2 rebounds per game to
stand second on the team in both categories as well as 17th in
the PSAC in scoring. She has made a school single season record 60
3-pointers and is shooting 77.1 percent from the free throw line. She also
has 85 assists and 33 steals.
Glaws scored a career-high 22 points in a 69-50 win over California that
helped the Crimson Hawks snap a 12-game losing streak to the Vulcans. She
has scored in double figures 24 times this season.
Fisher (Deptford, N.J./Deptford) leads IUP in assists with 101, the 14th
highest single season figure in school history, and is averaging 3.37 per
game, the fifth highest figure in the PSAC. Her tenacious style of defense
has resulted in 49 steals, and despite standing just 5-5, the junior guard
is averaging 4.6 rebounds per game to rank fourth on the team.
Fisher is averaging 7.6 points for the season and has reached double figures
eight times, including a career-high 19 points to go along with seven
rebounds and seven assists against Slippery Rock. She also had 13-point
games against Shippensburg and Edinboro and had 11 points, seven rebounds
and five assists in the PSAC semifinal win over Millersville.
Heberling (Punxsutawney/Punxsutawney) is third on the team in both scoring
at 9.2 points per game and rebounding at 5.1 caroms per outing. She is
shooting 46.9 percent from the floor (112 of 239), the top mark on the
Crimson Hawks and ninth in the PSAC.
Heberling, a 5-11 sophomore forward, is also second on the team with 13
blocked shots and fourth with 46 steals. She scored in double figures 14
times and had a double-double with 19 points and 14 rebounds against
Mansfield. She had 16 points and eight rebounds in a 63-53 win over
California in the PSAC championship game on Saturday.
Heberling has scored 510 points in her two-year career and her field goal
percentage of 47.2 (210 of 445) is 14th in school history.
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