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Lady Flames' Still Named To First Team All-American
posted March 26, 2008

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Senior Jessica Still has become Lee’s first NAIA Division I Women's Basketball Coaches First-Team All-American. Earlier Still joined former Lady Flame Lindsey Sparks as Lee’s only two players selected as State Farm’s Women’s Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) First-Team All-Americans.

Still finished her four-year career with 1,772 points and moved into fifth place on Lee’s all-time scoring list. Currently the top career 3-point shooter (365), the native of Owensboro, Ky. knocked down over 42 percent of her treys attempted. This season she scored 547 points and paced a well—balanced Lady Flame attack with a 15.6 per game average.

Senior Jan Dodson was a second-team All-American on both the WBCA State Farm club and the NAIA Coaches team. Dodson, known as one of the best all-around players to ever wear the Maroon and White, scored 1,396 for coach Marty Rowe’s club. She also grabbed 716 career rebounds to jump into 8th place in that department. Dodson posted 282 career assists.

Overall, Still and Dodson helped Lee win an amazing 110 games over the past four seasons and drop just 26 contests. The Lady Flames made four straight national tournament appearances and set a new Lee school record with 32 victories this season.

While Still and Dodson were outstanding on the basketball court, they also have been standouts in the classroom. Both earned the honor of NAIA All-American Scholar Athletes.

Sophomore Katie Nelson garnered a spot on the NAIA All-American honorable mention list. She averaged 14.4 points per game and 6.7 rebounds. In two seasons, Nelson has tallied 820 points and captured 447 rebounds.

The NAIA Player of the Year was Union University’s Josephine Owino, a 6-foot-4 junior center. The Lady Bulldogs were upset by Vanguard University (Calif.) in the semi-final round of the national tournament. Vanguard, a team Lee defeated during the holiday break in Hawaii, went on to defeat Trevecca Nazarene and win its first NAIA championship.

Owino was joined on the NAIA All-American first team by the lone repeat first-team selection from 2007, Vanguard (Calif.) University senior guard Jessica Richter.

2008 NAIA Division I Women's Basketball All-American Team

FIRST TEAM
#Josephine Owino, Union University (Player of the Year)
Jana Cross, Freed-Hardeman University
Kaitlin Dudley, Union University
Jessica Still, Lee University
*Jessica Richter, Vanguard University
Nicole Davis, California Baptist University
Colleen Planeta, Point Loma Nazarene University
Viola Beybeyah, Oklahoma City University
Chanel Ross, Harris-Stowe State University
Jamie Skinner, Langston University

# 2008 NAIA Division I Women's Basketball Player of the Year
* Repeat First-Team All-American from 2007

SECOND TEAM:
Jolene Fuzesy, Carroll College
Dee Preyer, Lambuth University
Kayla Hudson, Union University
Jan Dodson, Lee University
Abby Johnson, Azusa Pacific University
Melissa Cook, Vanguard University
Kerra Sutton-Wodarski, Point Loma Nazarene University
Dominique Thomas, Langston University
Betsy Simmons, Oklahoma Baptist University
Trenese Smith, Loyola University

THIRD TEAM:
Mickey Duncan, Berry University
Hilary Disch, Olivet Nazarene University
Kinzie Glover, Southern Nazarene University
Shannon Evans, Westminster College
Sadie Short, Lewis-Clark State College
Lissi Fuller, University of the Cumberlands
Sierra Wilcox-Lovorn, Lubbock Christian University
Kailah DeCamp, Oklahoma Christian University
Jasmine Nault, Hope International University
Erin Hanneman, St. Xavier University

HONORABLE MENTION (listed alphabetically by institution):

Nikki Jackson, Berry College
Nina Djokovic, Bethel College
Megann Alberts, Biola University
Courtney Danis, Campbellsville University
Rachel Oswald, Columbia College
Renae Williams, Cumberland University
Amber Neace, University of the Cumberlands
Sandra Nweke, Dillard University
Kristal Edney, Freed-Hardeman University
Megan Thompson, Freed-Hardeman University
Jayme Gilbert, Georgetown College
Laura Keaster, University of Great Falls
Jen Vander Zanden, Indiana University South Bend
Katie Nelson, Lee University
Jade Fulbright, Lewis-Clark State College
Terran Duncan, Lindsey Wilson College
Krystal Jackson, Lindsey Wilson College
Viktoria Krell, Lindsey Wilson College
Trenell Smith, Loyola University
Carolyn Manning, Lubbock Christian University
Annie Gillespie, The Master's College
Heather Elders, McKendree University
Heather Graham, Oklahoma Baptist University
Chelsea Ledbetter, Oklahoma City University
Ashley Birch, Park University
Jessica Harris, Robert Morris College
Kristina Yedinak, University of St. Francis
Jackie Heine, St. Xavier University
Yesi Castillo, University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma
Katrina Martinovic, Shorter College
Tejana Elmore, Southern Nazarene University
Kristin Archie, Trevecca Nazarene University
Abby Lawson, Trevecca Nazarene University
Mariska Reed, Trevecca Nazarene University
Crystal Eason, Union University
Amber Stevens, Westmont College
Ciara Sanders, Wiley College
Jarryn Cleaves, Xavier University

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