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LANCASTER, PA -- Pat Coleman, owner and publisher of D3Hoops.com and D3Football.com, has announced that Franklin & Marshall College guard Amy Kreitz (Sr., Allentown, PA/Salisbury) has been named a D3Hoops.com Women's Basketball Pre-Season Second Team All-American. The honor marks the first time an F&M women's player has been named to the D3Hoops.com pre-season team and comes on the heels of a 2000-01 season in which the Allentown native became the first F&M player to make the website's national Honorable Mention All-America squad. In addition, she was named a Women's Basketball Coaches Association/Kodak Honorable Mention All-American. A member of the Eastern College Athletic Conference Southern Region First Team and WBCA/Kodak All-Region District 4 team, she became just the tenth women's player in school history to record 1,000 points and was named a first-team All-CC team member for the second consecutive year. Her selection to the All Centennial Conference First Team last year marked her second straight year on the top squad and the third season the Conference office honored her as she received an Honorable Mention nod as a freshman in 1999. The 5'6" guard would finish first in steals (3.72) and scoring per game (18.4), fifth in three-point field goal percentage (38.7), seventh in free-throw percentage (73.1) and 13th in three-pointers per game (1.16) in the Centennial Conference as F&M advanced to the ECAC Championship field before falling to CC foe Western Maryland in the opening round. Following the regular season, Kreitz was named the Centennial Conference Women's Basketball Player of the Year. Her selection marked the first time an F&M women's basketball player has ever garnered Centennial Conference Player of the Year laurels. Overall, Kreitz became just the fourth Diplomat to register an "MVP" season joining Anne Krumrine (1989), Cathy Belser (1990) and Carrie Bowen (1992, 1993) who earned Middle Atlantic Conference Southwest Player of the Year honors during their careers. She joined Krumrine and Bowen as the only players in F&M history to record All-American women's basketball seasons. A 1989 and 1990 Kodak "Player of the Year" finalist and First Team All-American, Krumrine is the college's career scoring leader with 1,811 points. Bowen, a 1993 Honorable Mention All-American, ranks second with 1,686 career points. In her three year career at F&M, Kreitz now stands at 1,139 career points, good for eighth place all-time at the college having displaced 1997 graduate Aurora Gonzalez's 1,034 during the 2001 season. Further, in Kreitz's 74 career games with the Diplomats, she has registered 161 assists, 195 steals and 361 rebounds. In 2001 alone, she registered 59 assists, 93 steals and 128 boards as the Diplomats advanced to the semi-finals of the Centennial Conference playoffs. In addition, she would record nine twenty point scoring nights, including a season high 26 twice. On January 3 versus nationally ranked and NCAA Division III Championship game participant Messiah, she would pour in 24 points to lead the Diplomats to a stunning 72-71 win, one of only four losses the Falcons (26-5) suffered during the regular season. The Diplomats concluded their season 17-8, 11-4 in Centennial Conference play, the eighth best season record for wins in the 27-year history of the sport at the college. They will open the 2001-02 season on Saturday in the tournament opening game of the Franklin & Marshall College Tip-Off Tournament. Game time is set for 1:00 p.m. against the Yellow Jackets of Waynesburg University. The D3Hoops.com Pre-Season All-America Team is voted on by select panel of coaches, sports information directors and writers from across the country. The complete team is available at www.d3hoops.com. D3Hoops.com is widely considered the preeminent source of information on Division III basketball in the electronic medium. D3Hoops.com is the sister publication of D3Football.com, considered the most up to date and thorough information source on Division III college football. D3hoops and D3football have appeared in Sports Illustrated, ESPN Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, the Hartford Courant and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, among other publications.
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