Stockbower Named to WBCA All-America Honorable Mention Team
ATLANTA - Junior Kathryn Stockbower of the Swarthmore College women's basketball team has been named a member of the 2010 WBCA State Farm Coaches' All-America Honorable Mention Team for Division III, the organization announced on Friday morning.
Stockbower was named All-America Honorable Mention for the second consecutive season.
The honor marks the second consecutive season that Stockbower has been named All-America Honorable Mention by the WBCA. The accolade is just the latest in a trio of awards for Stockbower just this week, as she was named to the D3Hoops.com First Team Mid-Atlantic Region as well as to the ECAC South Region Second Team. She also recently received First-Team All-Centennial Conference honors for the third consecutive season.
Last month, Stockbower was named an Academic All-American for her performance in the classroom by ESPN the Magazine and CoSida, becoming just the 11th Swarthmore student-athlete to do so.
Stockbower is coming off a tremendous 2009-10 campaign that saw her lead the Centennial Conference in rebounding (13.5 rpg), finish second in scoring (17.7 ppg), third in shooting percentage (51.2) while finishing seventh in the nation in rebounding average . For the 2009-10 season, Stockbower finished with a Centennial Conference-leading 22 double-doubles while scoring in double-figures in all 25 of the Garnet's games. For her career, Stockbower has 64 double-doubles - just 15 shy of the NCAA Division III record - while scoring in double-figures in a Centennial Conference-record 72 consecutive games.