Two Womens Basketball Players Named All-Centennial Team
LANCASTER, Pa.--Swarthmore College forwards Kathryn Stockbower and Karen Berk have been named to the 2008 All-Centennial Conference Women's Basketball Team. Stockbower was a first-team selection while Berk is honorable mention.
Stockbower, a freshman, led the Conference in rebounds (14.0 per game), free throws made (112) and double-doubles (21), while ranking second in points (17.6 per game) and third in blocks (1.46 per game). Her rebounding average this season ranked fourth in all of Division III while her scoring average was in the top-50.
Stockbower (left) is the second Swarthmore player to earn first-team status in her first year; All-America center Heather Kile ’02 was the first. Stockbower is just the third Centennial player to accomplish the feat, joining Kile and Gettysburg’s Caitlin Moser (named this year along with Stockbower).
Stockbower received a pair of weekly honors this season. For her efforts during the week of Jan. 7-13, the freshman was selected to the D3hoops.com Team of the Week after registering three double-doubles while averaging 23.0 points, 14.6 rebounds, and two blocks per game. Stockbower was also named Centennial Co-Player of the Week after averaging 14.5 points and 19 rebounds per game during the week of February 4.
Stockbower’s numbers this season fall in step with some of the lofty numbers Kile put up during her freshman campaign. The freshman grabbed 257 rebounds in 18 Centennial games, breaking the Conference record for total rebounds (240 set by F&M’s Amy Abernathy in 2004). Stockbower’s 21 double-doubles were one shy of the school record (22 by Kile in 1998-99). Her 335 overall rebounds this season are the second-most by a first-year player since Kile set the record with 355 in 1998-99.
Berk, a senior, makes All-Conference for the third straight year, joining Kile and
Katie Robinson ’04 as the only Garnet women to accomplish the feat. Berk, one of the top post players in Swarthmore history, was named to the first team in 2005-06 and placed on the second team in 2006-07. Her sparkling four-year career saw her become the first Garnet women’s basketball player to accumulate 1,400 points, 800 rebounds, and 100 blocks (fourth in the Centennial).
This season, Berk (right) ranked second on the team in points (13.7 per game), rebounds (8.1 per game), and field goal percentage (43.8%), finishing in the top-15 for the Centennial in all three categories.
Berk is the first player in Centennial history to be named All-Conference for both basketball and volleyball in the same season (she was an honorable mention selection in volleyball).