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Jahzinga Tracey Named to Daktronics All-East First Team and is Candidate for All-America Honors

An honor-filled week for IUP sophomore forward Jahzinga Tracey continued on Wednesday when she was selected to the Daktronics Division II East Region women’s basketball first team as voted on by region sports information directors.

Tracey will now be on the national ballot for All-America consideration.  That team will be announced the week of the Elite Eight later this month.

Already this week, Tracey was chosen the MVP of the PSAC tournament when she led the Crimson Hawks to their first conference title since 1988 and second in school history.  She was then named the PSAC West Player of the Year and to the all-conference first team on Tuesday.

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 averaged 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).

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