Casey Smith named to the MAAC All-Rookie Team

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In addition to being named to Third Team All-MAAC, Casey Smith was also selected to the MAAC All-Rookie team by the 11 MAAC Women's Basketball Coaches.

The team is made up of Casey Smith of Fairfield University, Allie Clement of Marist College, Sajanna Bathea of Saint Peter’s University and Margot Hetzke and Kollyns Scarbrough of Siena College. One of these five players will be named the 2014-15 MAAC Rookie of the Year, also selected by the head coaches of the league. The winner will be announced on Friday, March 6 at 5:00 p.m. at the Postseason Awards Show located at the Swyer Theater at the Egg. The show will be broadcast live on ESPN3.

Smith, a 6-foot-2, redshirt sophomore guard from Danbury, Connecticut averaged 12.2 points per game, 4.7 rebounds per game, and added 27 blocks in her first season of collegiate competition while starting all 29 games for the Stags. She earned MAAC Rookie of the Week honors six times this season.

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Casey Smith was the Stags leading scorer during her rookie campaign, after having one of the best first-year campaigns in program history. Smith tallied 354 points which is three shy of current Stag assistant coach Gail Strumpf-Cheney (who is also the program’s leading scorer) for third most points in a rookie season. Smith is currently 19 points away from breaking the all-time rookie scoring mark set by her former coach, Lisa Mikelic in 1988. For the year, Smith averaged 12.2 points per game and has been named the league’s Rookie of the Week six times this season, which ties a program record.

“Smitty has done everything we asked for her in her first collegiate season,” Frager said. “We relied on both of them heavily and she has had a lot of big games for us.”

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Methinks Samantha Cooper got screwed. Guess they didn't want to have two players from the same team