Temple's "Roxbury Girls" Honored By Atlantic 10 -- Cardoza Earns Coach Award
By Mel Greenberg
PHILADELPHIA – At Connecticut, Tonya Cardoza shared in the reception of a great deal of postseason hardware as a 14-year assistant to coach Geno Auriemma.
Since leaving the Huskies three seasons ago to succeed Dawn Staley, her good friend and former Virginia teammate as coach of the Owls, Cardoza has done a nifty job of picking up trophies in her own right.
A new one is on the way to the mantle after Tuesday’s postseason awards announced by the Atlantic 10 that included Cardoza as coach of the year in a vote by her peers.
After a shaky start on a tough nonconference schedule, Cardoza guided Temple on a five-season high 15-game win streak that included a perfect run through the Atlantic 10 until the other team with a perfect run – No. 6 Xavier – beat Temple Sunday in the closing minutes of the second half at the Owls’ Liacouras Center to win the regular season A-10 title.
Cardoza has already won two Big Five coach of the year honors and could win a third with her first City Series crown outright unless voters go in a different direction because the won-loss record is not always a key requirement for the award.
Both La Salle’s new coach Jeff Williams and Penn’s second-year coach Mike McLaughlin have had their programs begin to make progress,
The Explorers, picked to finish last, placed ninth in the Atlantic 10, had a key upset of Charlotte and improved by four games in the conference to qualify for their first A-10 postseason action in four years.
La Salle will open against St. Joseph’s in a pseudo city series rematch Friday at noon to the get the Atlantic 10 under way at the Tsongas Center in Lowell, Mass., the second straight year the A-10 has held the women’s tourney at a neutral site.
Penn has improved by eight games – a best-ever turnaround and the Quakers broke a 24-game losing streak in the Big Five by beating La Salle.
McLaughlin’s team could impact the Ivy race Friday night by beating Harvard, which could knock the Crimson out of the hunt and send Princeton to a second straight title if the Tigers beat Dartmouth at home the same evening.
Temple has a bye and will meet either seventh-seeded St. Bonaventure or 10th-seeded Fordham Saturday in the quarterfinals.
Local players were sprinkled throughout the Atlantic 10 honors but the name of Temple junior and newcomer Shey Peddie gives the list a Roxbury Girls impression.
Both Cardoza and Peddie hail from Roxbury, Mass., a reason Peddie transferred from Wright State to join the Owls.
Two of the other individual awards went to local players with La Salle’s Ashley Gale named most improved and Ashley Prim of St. Joseph’s picking up the Sixth Player of the Year honor.
Xavier senior Amber Harris won her second straight player of the year award and her Musketeers teammate Ta’Shia Phillips won defensive honors. The two dominant post players are likely to go high in next month’s WNBA draft, which the pro league announced Wednesday will be held at ESPN Studios in Bristol, Conn.
Duquesne’s Wumi Agunbiade was named rookie of the year.
Harris’ placement on the all-conference first team is her fourth – an honor achieved only twice previous and both with Duquesne connections.
Duquesne coach Suzie McConnell-Serio earned four first-team honors starring for Penn State when the Lady Lions were in the Atlantic 10. Former Duquesne scoring sensation Korie Hlede also was a four-time honoree.
La Salle’s Gale and Temple’s Kristen McCarthy made the second team and the Owls’ Qwedia Wallace was named to the third team.
La Salle’s Jess Koci and St. Joseph’s Erin Shields, the sister of Boston College star Kerri Shields, made the all-rookie team while St. Joseph’s Michelle Baker was named to the all-defensive team.
Conference pairings can be found on the tracker post two stops down below this one.
-- Mel
PHILADELPHIA – At Connecticut, Tonya Cardoza shared in the reception of a great deal of postseason hardware as a 14-year assistant to coach Geno Auriemma.
Since leaving the Huskies three seasons ago to succeed Dawn Staley, her good friend and former Virginia teammate as coach of the Owls, Cardoza has done a nifty job of picking up trophies in her own right.
A new one is on the way to the mantle after Tuesday’s postseason awards announced by the Atlantic 10 that included Cardoza as coach of the year in a vote by her peers.
After a shaky start on a tough nonconference schedule, Cardoza guided Temple on a five-season high 15-game win streak that included a perfect run through the Atlantic 10 until the other team with a perfect run – No. 6 Xavier – beat Temple Sunday in the closing minutes of the second half at the Owls’ Liacouras Center to win the regular season A-10 title.
Cardoza has already won two Big Five coach of the year honors and could win a third with her first City Series crown outright unless voters go in a different direction because the won-loss record is not always a key requirement for the award.
Both La Salle’s new coach Jeff Williams and Penn’s second-year coach Mike McLaughlin have had their programs begin to make progress,
The Explorers, picked to finish last, placed ninth in the Atlantic 10, had a key upset of Charlotte and improved by four games in the conference to qualify for their first A-10 postseason action in four years.
La Salle will open against St. Joseph’s in a pseudo city series rematch Friday at noon to the get the Atlantic 10 under way at the Tsongas Center in Lowell, Mass., the second straight year the A-10 has held the women’s tourney at a neutral site.
Penn has improved by eight games – a best-ever turnaround and the Quakers broke a 24-game losing streak in the Big Five by beating La Salle.
McLaughlin’s team could impact the Ivy race Friday night by beating Harvard, which could knock the Crimson out of the hunt and send Princeton to a second straight title if the Tigers beat Dartmouth at home the same evening.
Temple has a bye and will meet either seventh-seeded St. Bonaventure or 10th-seeded Fordham Saturday in the quarterfinals.
Local players were sprinkled throughout the Atlantic 10 honors but the name of Temple junior and newcomer Shey Peddie gives the list a Roxbury Girls impression.
Both Cardoza and Peddie hail from Roxbury, Mass., a reason Peddie transferred from Wright State to join the Owls.
Two of the other individual awards went to local players with La Salle’s Ashley Gale named most improved and Ashley Prim of St. Joseph’s picking up the Sixth Player of the Year honor.
Xavier senior Amber Harris won her second straight player of the year award and her Musketeers teammate Ta’Shia Phillips won defensive honors. The two dominant post players are likely to go high in next month’s WNBA draft, which the pro league announced Wednesday will be held at ESPN Studios in Bristol, Conn.
Duquesne’s Wumi Agunbiade was named rookie of the year.
Harris’ placement on the all-conference first team is her fourth – an honor achieved only twice previous and both with Duquesne connections.
Duquesne coach Suzie McConnell-Serio earned four first-team honors starring for Penn State when the Lady Lions were in the Atlantic 10. Former Duquesne scoring sensation Korie Hlede also was a four-time honoree.
La Salle’s Gale and Temple’s Kristen McCarthy made the second team and the Owls’ Qwedia Wallace was named to the third team.
La Salle’s Jess Koci and St. Joseph’s Erin Shields, the sister of Boston College star Kerri Shields, made the all-rookie team while St. Joseph’s Michelle Baker was named to the all-defensive team.
Conference pairings can be found on the tracker post two stops down below this one.
-- Mel
posted by Mel Greenberg | 7:21 AM
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