BIRMINGHAM, Ala.- Three Texas A&M
women's basketball players earned recognition as the 2012-13
All-Southeastern Conference Women's Basketball Awards were announced by
the league on Tuesday.
Junior Kelsey Bone (Houston, Texas) was selected to
the All-SEC First Team, while senior Adrienne Pratcher (Memphis, Tenn.)
was selected to the All-SEC Second Team, freshman Courtney Walker
(Edmond, Okla.) represented A&M on the SEC All-Freshman
Team. The honors were voted on by the league's 14 head coaches who are
not allowed to vote for their own players, ties were not broken.
Kentucky's A'dia Mathies and Tennessee's Meighan
Simmons were named Co-Players of the Year and Tennessee's Bashaara
Graves was named Freshman of the Year. Tennessee's Holly Warlick has
been named Coach of the Year and South Carolina's
Ieasia Walker Defensive Player of the Year, while Arkansas' Sarah
Watkins and Missouri's Morgan Eye shared 6th Woman of the Year.
Additionally, Auburn's Blanche Alverson was named Scholar-Athlete of the
Year.
Bone is in her second season at Texas A&M and
led the league in field goal percentage, ranked second in rebounding and
third in scoring. The 6-foot-4 center started every game this season
for the Aggies and ranked eighth in the country
in field goal percentage, 56th in rebounding and 63rd in scoring while
recording the 28th most double-doubles (13). Bone was named to the
All-SEC second team and the SEC All-Freshman Team following her freshman
season at South Carolina. Bone recorded season
bests in minutes, field goals, free-throws, rebounds, assists and
points in 2012-13. Bone is the 24th player in program history to record
500 career rebounds and currently sits in 20th on the career list. She
is on pace to be the 26th player to record 1,000
points, just 77 points shy of the milestone.
Pratcher, in her final year in Aggieland, took over
the starting point guard role starting 28 of 29 games and relished her
opportunities by leading the league in assist-to-turnover ratio, ranking
third nationally. In conference games the
5-foot-7 guard took her game to another level, leading the league in
three-point field goal percentage and ranking 25th in scoring. Pratcher
with 301 career assists is just nine assists short of making the top-10
all-time in program history. Kerrie Patterson
(1995-99) currently ranks 10th with 309 career assists. Pratcher
recorded career bests in points, rebounds, assists and steals in
2012-13.
Walker in her first season at A&M and has
started every game this year, becoming the first freshman in the Gary
Blair era at Texas A&M to record back-to-back 20 point games. Later
in the season the 5-foot-8 guard scored 20 points two additional
times to help her rank second in scoring for the Aggies on the year at
10.5 points per game. Walker was a warrior on the floor averaging just
over 30 minutes per game and playing all 40 minutes during the final two
games of the year.
2012-13 Southeastern Women's Basketball Awards
Coach of the Year: Holly Warlick, Tennessee
Co-Players of the Year: A'dia Mathies, Kentucky
Meighan Simmons, Tennessee
Freshman of the Year: Bashaara Graves, Tennessee
Defensive Player of the Year: Ieasia Walker, South Carolina
Co-6th Woman of the Year: Sarah Watkins, Arkansas
Morgan Eye, Missouri
Scholar-Athlete of the Year: Blanche Alverson, Auburn
All-SEC First Team
Jasmine Hassell, Georgia
A'dia Mathies, Kentucky
DeNesha Stallworth, Kentucky
Theresa Plaisance, LSU
Ieasia Walker, South Carolina
Bashaara Graves, Tennessee
Meighan Simmons, Tennessee
Kelsey Bone, Texas A&M
Tiffany Clarke, Vanderbilt
All-SEC Second Team
Hasina Muhammad, Auburn
Jasmine James, Georgia
Samarie Walker, Kentucky
Adrienne Webb, LSU
Martha Alwal, Mississippi State
Bri Kulas, Missouri
Ashley Bruner, South Carolina
Aleighsa Welch, South Carolina
Adrienne Pratcher, Texas A&M
Jasmine Lister, Vanderbilt
All-Defensive Team
Jennifer George, Florida
Shacobia Barbee, Georgia
Samarie Walker, Kentucky
Danielle Ballard, LSU
Theresa Plaisance, LSU
Martha Alwal, Mississippi State
Ieasia Walker, South Carolina
All-Freshman Team
Sydney Moss, Florida
Shacobia Barbee, Georgia
Danielle Ballard, LSU
Lianna Doty, Missouri
Tiffany Mitchell, South Carolina
Bashaara Graves, Tennessee
Courtney Walker, Texas A&M
Heather Bowe, Vanderbilt
