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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 first team honors on the D3hoops.com Women's Basketball All Mid-Atlantic Region Team as voted on by the region's sports information directors. The honor marks the second year she has been honored by D3hoops.com as she earned All-Region second team honors last year. A finalist for one of ten places on the 2004 NCAA Division III Kodak/Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) All-America Basketball Team, 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 in 2002. The 2004 Centennial Conference Player of the Year and a three-time All-Centennial Conference honoree following a second team nod in 2001 and first team nods the last two seasons, Abernathy's selection as the player of the year marked the second time a Diplomat has earned the Conference's highest honor. In 2001, two-time All-America guard Amy Kreitz '02 garnered the honor. A 2004 D3hoops.com Preseason All-America selection, she recorded a breakout season as she tallied 401 points (16.7 ppg), 330 rebounds (13.8 rpg) and a school and Centennial Conference single season record 110 blocks (4.6 bpg) in 24 games with eighteen double-doubles. She made history on February 14 as she scored 13 points, pulled down 15 rebounds and swatted 10 blocked shots for a triple-double as the Franklin & Marshall College women's basketball team defeated Swarthmore College 57-48 in the Mayser Center. Historically, her blocked shot performance was record shattering on a number of levels. For Abernathy, who recorded nine blocked shots in a 62-37 rout of Dickinson earlier in the week, her 10 blocks tied the Centennial Conference (Heidi Snyder, McDaniel vs. Washington, 2-9-95) and Franklin & Marshall (Anne Krumrine, vs. Ursinus, 2-4-89) single game record of 10 blocks in a contest and mark the most ever in a two-game span by an F&M player. The third women's player in F&M history to record 1,000 points and 1,000 rebounds in a career, she concluded her career with 1,473 points, 1,141 rebounds and 268 blocked shots as she finished sixth in scoring, second in rebounding and second in blocked shots in F&M history. 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 then asked to vote ranking the players based on performance. 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. 2004 D3hoops.com All Mid-Atlantic Region Women's Basketball Team
First Team
G - Alyssa Antolick (DeSales)
G - Katie Robinson (Swarthmore)
F - Jessica Hollinshead (Elizabethtown)
F - Kathy Snell (Gwynedd-Mercy)
C - Amy Abernathy (Franklin & Marshall) Second Team
G - Kate Pierangeli (Scranton)
G - Tiffini Varrasse (Kings)
F - Bridget Golden (Delaware Valley)
F - Eli Cook (Messiah)
C - Jennifer Northcott (Lebanon Valley) Third Team
G - Toby McIntire (McDaniel)
G - Erin Eaby (Lebanon Valley)
F - Jen Wozniak (Kings)
F - Becky Soda (Arcadia)
C - Jill Friedman (Muhlenberg)
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