Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Coale, Hand, Courtney Paris Win Top Lady Awards

Oklahoma racked up the Big 12 Conference women’s basketball postseason awards, led by Courtney Paris, who was named Player of the Year for the third straight season, and Sherri Coale, who was named Big 12 Coach of the Year for a fourth time.
OU’s Whitney Hand was named the Freshman of the Year, desite missing the last two weeks of the season with a broken finger, and Sooner forward Nyeshia Stevenson shared the Sixth Man Award with Baylor’s Melissa Jones.

Courtney and Ashley Paris and point guard Danielle Robinson gave OU three players on the All-Big 12 first team. Hand was an honorable-mention selection.

Oklahoma State point guard Andrea Riley was also a first-team All-Big 12
selection.

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