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LANCASTER, PA - Franklin & Marshall women's basketball center Amy Abernathy (Sr., Far Hills, NJ/American School-Paris) has been named to the 2004 DIII News All-America fourth team. An Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Women's Basketball South Region first team all-star and a Kodak/Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) All-America honorable mention selection, she was named the Centennial Conference Player of the Year and an All-Centennial Conference first team selection earlier this year. A three-time All-Centennial Conference honoree following a second team nod in 2001 and a first team nod last year, 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 1,456 points, 1,112 rebounds and 261 blocked shots as she finished sixth in scoring, second in rebounding and second in blocked shots in F&M history. The sixth All-America selection in F&M history joining Anne Krumrine '90 (1989, 1990), Carrie Bowen '93 (1993) and Amy Kreitz '02 (2001, 2002), Abernathy was one of two Centennial Conference players named to the DIII News All-America team joining fellow fourth team selection Katie Robinson of Swarthmore College. Franklin & Marshall concluded the season 12-12, 12-6 in Centennial Conference play as Abernathy recorded a 62-37 overall record, 41-21 in Centennial Conference play, during her career. A monthly publication of GSR Communications of Beaverton, Oregon, Women's DIII News covers Division III women's basketball and celebrated its 11th year of publishing this past season.
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