Abernathy Named to D3Hoops.com All Mid-Atlantic Region Second Team

by Sports Information
3/18/03

LANCASTER, PA - Pat Coleman, owner and operator of D3Hoops.com and D3Football.com, has announced that Franklin & Marshall College center Amy Abernathy (Jr., Far Hills, NJ/American School - Paris) has earned second team honors on the D3Hoops.com Women's Basketball All Mid-Atlantic Region Team as voted on by the region's sports information directors.

An All-Centennial Conference first team honoree this year, Abernathy led the Diplomats in points (391), rebounds (247), blocked shots (51), steals (49) and field goal percentage (.555) this season while raising her career numbers to 1,072 points, 811 rebounds, 158 blocks, 128 steals and 78 assists.

The December 16 and February 18 Centennial Conference Player of the Week, she was named the Most Valuable Player of the Bahamas Goombay Shootout in Nassau for scoring 14 points, grabbing 14 boards and blocking six shots in a 57-53 win over then #25 ranked Carnegie Mellon University.

She was the team leader in scoring 14 times, rebounding 19 times and blocked shots 21 times during the 2002-03 season recording season high totals of 30 points (vs. Haverford, 2/15/03), 21 rebounds (vs. Haverford, 2/15/03) and six blocks (vs. Carnegie Mellon, 1/6/03) while leading the team to a record of 13-10, 7-7 in Centennial
Conference games.

As a team the Diplomats ranked among the CC's top five in scoring defense (62.7, fifth), field goal percentage (.405, third), field goal percentage defense (.382, fifth), rebounding offense (44.0, first), rebounding defense (38.5), rebounding margin (+5.4, first), blocked shots (3.87, second), assists (13.52, fifth), steals (10.91, fourth), offensive rebounds (16.87, second) and defensive rebounds (27.09, fifth) per game.

Abernathy is the second F&M women's basketball player to be honored by D3Hoops.com as two-time All-America guard Amy Kreitz '02 was honored on the second team last year.

Due to her selection to the All-Region team, Abernathy is now eligible for the D3Hoops.com All-America team, to be announced during the Division III Women's Final Four this weekend.

The D3Hoops.com team was created by website owner Pat Coleman and Emory University Sports Information Director John Arenberg to honor the most deserving players in each region. Players are nominated by the Sports Information Directors at the various institutions who submit dossiers on their respective players. All Sports Information Directors in the regions are asked to vote ranking the players from ten to one in descending order. The votes are then calculated with the top two guards and three front court players (forward or center) making each team.

D3Hoops.com is 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.

2003 D3Hoops.com All Mid-Atlantic Region Team
First Team
G Katie Robinson Swarthmore
G Kate Pierangeli Scranton
F Christina Vouirotis Messiah
F Stephanie Tighe Lebanon Valley
C Whitney Bull Wilkes

Second Team
G Amber Smolinski Delaware Valley
G Tiffany Varrasse Kings
F Jay Hodge Gettysburg
F Whitney Deeney Immaculata
C Amy Abernathy Franklin & Marshall

Third Team
G Alyssa Antolick DeSales
G Nikki Kingston Kings
F Jen Wozniak Kings
C Kathy Darling Johns Hopkins
C Teri Antolick DeSales