Women's Basketball
Women's Basketball
Katie Tacheny Named All-America Finalist
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
All-America Finalist Katie Tacheny |
Atlanta -- St. Cloud State senior basketball guard Katie Tacheny (Woodbury) has been named a finalist for the 2009 State Farm Coaches' All-America Basketball Team for NCAA Division II. Tacheny is one of five finalists from Region 7. The 10-member All-America team will be presented at the NCAA Division II Women's Basketball Banquet on Monday, March 23, 2009 at the Buckhorn Museum in San Antonio, Texas.
This is another in a list of honors bestowed on Tacheny in the last month. She was named First Team All-Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (NSIC) and to the NSIC/Sanford Health All-Tournament Team. She was named an NSIC Player of the Week. She helped lead the Huskies to the 2009 NSIC/Sanford Health Tournament Championship, the first conference title for SCSU since the 1989 season and the sixth in school history.
Tacheny is the Huskies leading scorer this season, averaging 16.8 points per game, and is nearing the 1,000 career points mark, having scored 971 career points. She led the NSIC in scoring in 2008-09. In addition, Tacheny scored a career high 31 points on Jan. 16 against Southwest Minnesota State University and tied the single game school record for steals with 10 on Dec. 30.
Tacheny and her teammates are preparing for the 2009 NCAA Division II Central Region Tournament to be played March 13, 14, and 16 in Mankato, Minn. The Huskies are the seventh seed in the region and will play #2 seed Fort Lewis College in the opening round at 1:00 p.m. on Friday afternoon.
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