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Nine Area Girls Voted To TSWA All-State Basketball Teams

Wednesday, March 29, 2006 - by Stan Crawley

Nine area players have been voted to the Tennessee Sports Writers Association girls all-state basketball teams.

Bradley Central's Jackie Pickel and Walker Valley's Alyson Butler were chosen in Class AAA. Pickel will play at Middle Tennessee State and Butler is headed to Alabama.

In Class AA, the honorees were Tyner's Katrich Williams and Grundy County's Megan Rollins.

Williams was a four-year starter at Tyner and Rollins averaged 14.2 points-per-game her senior season.

In Class A, Temple's Danielle Rector, Grace's Liz Carroll and Whitwell's Tiffany Barnes were chosen to the first team.

Rector was the first Temple player chosen all-state. Carroll led Grace to the state sectionals and Barnes was the District 6 MVP.

In Divison II, the honorees were GPS' Carly Morrow and Brandi Andrews. Morrow averaged 14 points-per-game and Andrews averaged 4.7 assists.

TSWA All-State Girls Basketball teams

Class AAA


Jackie Pickel (Bradley Central)


Jessica Mooney (Hillsboro)


LaKendra Phillips (Ridgeway)


Tierney Jenkins (Wilson Central)


Jasmine Hassell (Wilson Central)


Dawn Evans (Northeast)


Angela Puleo (William Blount)


Jasmine Brown (Munford)


Caitlin Hollifield (Powell)


Keke Stewart (Oak Ridge)


Kali Holtfreter (Hendersonville)


Anne Marie Lanning (Riverdale)


Alyson Butler (Walker Valley)


Anisha Buchanan (Shelbyville)


Candace Rucker (Memphis Northside)


Class AA


Brandi Brown (York)


Bianca Thomas (Chester County)


Whitney Houston (Hillcrest)


Jana Cross (Loretto)


Tara Deatheridge (Ezell-Harding)


Ashley Matthews (Livingston Academy)


Abby Lawson (Cheatham County)


LaToya Bellamy (Westview)


Kaitlin Dudley (Gibson County)


LaKrystle Goss (Austin East)


Gwen Delk (North Side)


Katrich Williams (Tyner Academy)


Megan Rollins (Grundy County)


Portia Bishop (Fulton)


Class A


Danielle Rector (Tennessee Temple)


Alecia Weatherly (Perry County)


Kayla Hudson (Gleason)


Gaby Bussell (Forrest)


Chelsie Alsup (Eagleville)


Abby Andrews (Collinwood)


Kristi Apple (Jackson County)


Heather Banner (Cloudland)


Lauren Pitman (Hampton)


Jama Hammontree (Greenback)


Liz Carroll (Grace Academy)


Tiffany Barnes (Whitwell)


Chelsea Cary (Houston County)


Lindsay Flynn (Jackson Christian)


Angelica Sails (Madison Academic)


Division II


Alliesha Easley (Briarcrest)


Glory Johnson (Webb)


Victoria Dunlap (Brentwood Academy)


Brittany Abernathy (Pope John Paul II)


Emily Perkins (Ensworth)


Carly Morrow (GPS)


Brandi Andrews (GPS)


Kaitlin Adams (Brentwood Academy)


Jessica Goswitz (Webb)


Caitlin House (Briarcrest )

(E-mail Stan Crawley at wscrawley@earthlink.net)


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