DeWanna Bonner Named To Preseason Wooden Award List
Nov. 5, 2008
LOS ANGELES -- Auburn senior DeWanna Bonner was announced as one of 30 preseason candidates for the Women's Wooden Award All-American Team and Player of the Year trophy, Wooden Award chairman and founder Richard Llewellyn announced Wednesday. The list is composed of student-athletes who, based on last year's individual performance and team records, are the early frontrunners for the prestigious honor. Transfers, freshmen and medical redshirts are not eligible for the preseason list. These players and others who excel throughout the season will be evaluated and considered for January's midseason list and the official voting ballot released in March. In total, 17 seniors, 10 juniors and three sophomores were selected to the Preseason Top 30 List. The recognition comes the same day Bonner was chose as the SEC coaches' pick as Preseason SEC Player of the Year. She was also the preseason selection for conference player of the year in a poll of the league's media last month. Bonner enters the 2008-09 season following a junior campaign that saw her earn honorable mention All-America honors. The Fairfield, Ala., native averaged a double-double last season with 18.4 points and 10.0 rebounds per game. In mid-January, the Wooden Award Committee will release the Midseason Top 20 list, followed in March by the National Ballot, consisting of approximately 15 top players who have proven to their universities that they are also making progress toward graduation and maintaining a cumulative 2.0 GPA. The Women's Wooden Award All-American Team will be announced the week of the "Elite Eight" round during the NCAA Tournament. The 33rd annual Wooden Award ceremony, which will include the announcement of the Men's and Women's Wooden Award, and the presentation of the Wooden Award All-American Teams will be held at The Los Angeles Athletic Club in April, 2009. 2008-09 John R. Wooden Award
Jessica Adair, George Washington Jayne Appel, Stanford Chante Black, Duke DeWanna Bonner, Auburn Heather Bowman, Gonzaga Tina Charles, Connecticut Marissa Coleman, Maryland Allyssa DeHaan, Michigan State Krystal Ellis, Marquette Rachele Fitz, Marist Devanei Hampton, California Ashley Houts, Georgia Jareica Hughes, UTEP Jantel Lavender, Ohio State Shalee Lehning, Kansas State Rashanda McCants, North Carolina Angel McCoughtry, Louisville Renee Montgomery, Connecticut Maya Moore, Connecticut Courtney Paris, Oklahoma Ta'Shia Phillips, Xavier Epiphanny Prince, Rutgers Andrea Riley, Oklahoma State Takia Starks, Texas A&M Kristi Toliver, Maryland Kia Vaughn, Rutgers Ashley Walker, California Christina Wirth, Vanderbilt Monica Wright, Virginia Shavonte Zellous, Pittsburgh |
|
