Stockbower Named ECAC Divison III South Co-Rookie of the Year
CAPE COD, Mass. -- Swarthmore freshman Kathryn Stockbower earns ECAC Division III South Women's Basketball Co-Rookie of the Year, as announced Tuesday, April 22. Stockbower (Ft. Washington, Pa. / Upper Dublin), a forward, led the Centennial Conference in three categories while ranking in the top three in two others. She ranked first 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 and Gettysburg’s Caitlin Moser (Co-Rookie of the Year) were the second and third women’s basketball players in Conference history to be named All-Centennial first team as freshman.
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 All-America Heather Kile ’02 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.
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