Diplomats Place Three on All-CC Women's Basketball Teams; Kreitz Named to First Team

by Sports Information
2/18/02

Lancaster, PA -- Western Division Champions Franklin & Marshall College placed three players on the All-Centennial Conference women's basketball team announced at the Centennial Conference Office on Monday.

F&M senior Amy Kreitz (Allentown, PA/Salisbury), who leads the Diplomats and ranks second in the Centennial Conference with an 18.9 scoring average, was a first team selection in the backcourt.

A four-time All-CC recipient following an honorable mention nod as a freshman, she becomes the fifth player to earn first-team All-Conference honors three times as she was named to the CC top squad in 2000 and 1999. The 2001 Centennial Conference Player of the Year, she is third in the CC in steals (3.13), sixth in three-point percentage (32.0), 12th in free-throw percentage (65.3) and 13th in assist/turnover ratio (0.90).

Kreitz led her Diplomats to the West Division title while shooting 45.1 percent from the field, 32 percent from beyond the three-point arch.

The fourth ranked scorer in F&M history, she is currently tied for fifth on the all-time Centennial Conference scoring list with 1,574 points and needs just two more points to ascend to the No. 4 position, surpassing Dickinson's Kim Selemba '01 (1,575).

The Centennial Conference all-time steals leader with 267, she is tied with teammate Lauren Howanski (Sr., Gap, PA/Pequea Valley) for 13th on the CC list for 3-point field goals with 103.

A 2001 first team recipient, Howanksi becomes a four-time All-Centennial honoree as she was named to the second team following honorable mention nods in 1999 and 2000.

The Conference leader in three-point field goal percentage (38.3), she is second in assists (4.22), fifth in free-throw percentage (74.2), seventh in three-point field goals (1.5&), 11th in assist/turnover ratio (0.95) and 19th in scoring (10.9).

For her career, she now has 1,149 points to rank ninth all-time in the history of women's basketball at Franklin & Marshall College. In assists, her 241 scoring passes rank fifth at the College, just 10 short of surpassing Mika Lugue '97 for fourth place.

Joining Howanski on the second team is center Amy Abernathy (So., Far Hills, NJ/American School Paris).

The Conference leader in blocked shots (2.57) and rebounding (12.2), she is third in the CC in scoring (15.7) and field goal percentage (53.5).

Through 48 games, she is ranked fifth all-time at F&M in blocked shots with 98, including 59 swats in 2001-02, 14 short of moving past Jen Gibbon '99 (111) for fourth place.

Swarthmore sophomore Katie Robinson, who leads the Conference in scoring (19.6), free throw percentage (86.4) and steals (4.21), was named the CC Player of the Year.

Robinson and the rest of the East Division #2 seeded Garnet (19-6, 12-3) will travel to Franklin & Marshall (18-5, 11-3 CC), the top seed in the West on Wednesday at 6 p.m. a Centennial Conference semi-final game, while East #1 Muhlenberg hosts either Johns Hopkins or Western Maryland in the other semi-final.

The winners will meet Saturday at a campus to be determined. If the Diplomats defeat Swarthmore, the title game will be in Lancaster. Otherwise, the championship tilt will be held at the winner of the JHU/WMC-Muhlenberg game.

A complete copy of the All-Centennial team is available at www.centennial.org.

2002 All-Centennial Conference Women's Basketball Team
First Team
Name Cl/Ht Hometown/High School
G-Amy Kreitz, F&M Sr/5-6 Allentown, PA/Salisbury
G-Katie Robinson, Swarthmore So/5-9 Medfield, MA/Medfield
F-Heather Kile - Swarthmore Sr/5-10 Marlton, NJ/Holy Cross
F-Kathy Darling - Johns Hopkins Jr/6-2 Milford, DE/Milford
F-Susan Marchiano - Muhlenberg So/5-11 Wayne, PA/Conestoga

Second Team
Name Cl/Ht Hometown/High School
G-Jen Piccolomini, Western Maryland Jr/5-6 Sheperdstown, WV/St. Maria Goretti
G-Jenn Risley, Muhlenberg Sr/5-9 Allentown, PA/Parkland
G-Lauren Howanski, F&M Sr/5-7 Gap, PA/Pequea Valley
F-Amy Abernathy, F&M So/6-0 Far Hills, NJ/American School Paris
F-Steph Drevna, Gettysburg Sr/5-8 Lancaster, PA/Lancaster Catholic

Honorable Mention
Name Cl / Ht Hometown / High School
G-Ashley Shepler, Johns Hopkins Jr/5-3 Tornado, WV/Charleston Catholic
G-Randi Baran, Muhlenberg Jr/5-7 Hazleton, PA/Bishop Hafey

CC Player of the Year: Katie Robinson, Swarthmore