Marshall University Athletics
Shepard-Hall Earns Spot on C-USA Second Team
3/1/2006 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
March 1, 2006
DALLAS - Marshall guard Sikeetha Shepard-Hall (Houston, Texas) was named to the All-Conference USA Second Team, the league office announced today, in advance of the 2006 C-USA Women's Basketball Championships that begin on Thursday at SMU's Moody Coliseum.
Shepard-Hall led the Thundering Herd in scoring for the fourth straight season with 15.1 points per game, sixth best in C-USA. She also posted 3.9 rebounds and 2.5 assists per game for fifth-seeded Marshall, which will face No. 12 Memphis in Thursday's first round.
The senior's 16.2 points per contest in league play ties for the fifth most in the conference.
The second team nod is the second straight for Shepard-Hall, who was named to last season's Mid-American Conference Second Team. In fact, Shepard-Hall was selected to an all-conference team in all four of her years at MU. She was previously named to the MAC All-Freshman Team in 2003 and the honorable mention team in 2004.
Shepard-Hall will end her career as the No. 3 all-time scorer in Marshall history with over 1,560 points.
Tulsa's Jillian Robbins was named C-USA Player of the Year, along with Defensive Player of the Year. Robbins' head coach, Charlene Thomas-Swinson, was named the league's Coach of the Year.
Joining Robbins on the first team are SMU's Janielle Dodds, UAB's Carmen Guzman, Houston's Tye Jackson and Lauren Neaves of Rice.
ALL-CONFERENCE
First Team
Janielle Dodds, SMU
Carmen Guzman, UAB
Tye Jackson, Houston
Lauren Neaves, Rice
Jillian Robbins, Tulsa
Second Team
Cherie Mills, East Carolina
Megan Moody, Tulsa
Kendra Reed, Southern Miss
Sikeetha Shepard-Hall, Marshall
Jasmine Young, East Carolina
Third Team
Sarah Davis, SMU
Krystal Frazier, Rice
Sha'Ratta Hawkins, Houston
Kara Pongonis-Paslay, Tulsa
Jennifer Sands, Tulane
All-Freshman Team
Sha'Ratta Hawkins, Houston
Britney Jones, UAB
Ashley Langford, Tulane
Kendra Reed, Southern Miss
Jasmine Young, East Carolina
Coach of the Year
Charlene Thomas-Swinson, Tulsa
Player of the Year
Jillian Robbins, Tulsa
Freshman of the Year
Kendra Reed, Southern Miss
Jasmine Young, East Carolina
Defensive Player of the Year
Jillian Robbins, Tulsa
Sixth Player of the Year
Paris Leonard, Memphis
