March 1, 2010
3.1.10 - Oklahoma City, Okla.- Four players from the Mid-America Christian University women's basketball team received Sooner Athletic Conference awards. Karina Trindade was named Third Team All-SAC, Brittany Johnson was named Honorable Mention All-SAC, while Jamie Floyd and April Hale were named Academic All-Conference.
Trindade, a senior from Sao Paulo, Brazil, is the Lady Evangels leading scorer, averaging 11.6 points per game. She is also the team's leading rebounder, averaging 7.8 boards per game. She grabbed the most steals with 76 on the season.
Junior Brittany Johnson is a native of Tulsa, Okla. She finished second on the team in scoring with 11.4 points per game. She leads the team in blocks with 32 on the season and played in all 31 games.
Hale is a junior from Weatherford, Okla., majoring in Behavioral Science. She is the President of the MACU Student Government.
Floyd is a two-sport athlete who also plays volleyball for the Lady Evangels. She is majoring in Secondary Mathematics Education and a native of Sherman, Texas.
Oklahoma Baptist and Oklahoma City finished tied for the SoonerAthletic Conference regular season title with no SAC losses to anyonebut each other. The All-Sooner Athletic Conference team reflects thatwith the teams dominating the awards.
OBU senior guard Taujhnae Travis is the SAC Player of the Year afterfinishing second in the SAC in scoring at 16.6 points per game andfourth in steals at 2.1. Travis was Player of the Year last season andis from Humble, Texas.
Her teammate, Ashley Harrell, a senior guard from Camden, Ark., wasnamed Defensive Player of the Year. She averaged 2.3 steals and 1.6blocked shots per game.
Oklahoma City's Rob Edmisson is the SAC Coach of the Year, havingguided the Stars to a league record of 20-2, partially on the strengthof two new players recognized as the best new talent in the conference.
Lauren Gober was named Freshman of the Year, while Donica Cosby earnedNewcomer of the Year. Gober, a 6-1 forward from Newcastle, Okla.,averaged 10.4 points per game. At 14.2 points per game, Cosby, a juniorguard who transferred from Arkansas-Fort Smith, was third in the SAC inscoring.
Southern Nazarene's Lauren Langston won the Sportsmanship Award.
Travis and Cosby were also First-Team All-SAC selections and werejoined on there by Lana Keith of Southern Nazarene, Holly Hardin ofOklahoma City and Jenny Hardin of Rogers State.
Keith was the leading scorer in the SAC at 18.1 points per game. HollyHardin averaged 12.1 and Jenny Hardin averaged 13.6.
The Second Team included Brittany Hampton of Lubbock Christian, AshleyTaylor of John Brown, Starr Fairbanks of Oklahoma City, Harrell, LoganMartin of Southern Nazarene and Charitie Lewis of USAO.
Third-Team selections included Gabriell Mattox of Oklahoma Baptist,Lisa Chenoweth of Oklahoma Christian, Kailan DeCamp of OklahomaChristian, Karina Trindade of Mid-America Christian, Shamon Doss ofWayland Baptist and Amy Pryor of OBU.
