Pondexter Named Naismith Mid-Season Candidate
Feb 21 | Women's Basketball
PISCATAWAY, NJ - Rutgers' Cappie Pondexter (Chicago, IL) has been named a mid-season candidate for the 2004-2005 Naismith National Player-of-the-Year Award. Pondexter was one of 30 Division I women's basketball student-athletes to be included on the mid-season list.
Pondexter, a 5-9 senior guard, also was a member of the watch lists for the State Farm Wade Trophy, Wooden Women's Award and Senior CLASS Award, and has been named one of 10 candidates for the Nancy Lieberman Award (top point guard). She is averaging 13.4 points, 3.4 rebounds and 2.9 assists per game this season, posting 12 double-digit scoring efforts in her 17 appearances.
Pondexter averaged 17.9 points, 4.6 rebounds, 4.3 assists and 1.8 steals per game for the Scarlet Knights last season, earning All-America honors from the Associated Press (third team), Full Court Press (third team) and Kodak/Women's Basketball Coaches Association (honorable mention). A finalist for three national player-of-the-year awards (Women's Wooden Award, State Farm Wade Trophy and Naismith) as well as the Nancy Lieberman Award (top point guard) last year, she also was named to the 2004 Kodak/WBCA All-Region 1 Team, was unanimously selected to the All-BIG EAST First Team, and earned a spot on the BIG EAST All-Tournament Team after averaging a tourney-best 23.3 points per game in leading RU to a runner-up finish.
No. 10 Rutgers (20-5, 11-2 BIG EAST) will play its final home game of the season Tuesday, Feb. 22, when RU hosts No. 25 Boston College at 7:30 p.m.
Naismith National Player-of-the-Year Award Mid-Season Candidates
Seimone Augustus 6'1' Jr. Guard LSU
Jacqueline Batteast 6'2' Sr. Forward Notre Dame
Steffanie Blackmon 6'2' Sr. Forward Baylor
Nikki Blue 5'8' Jr. Guard UCLA
Lindsay Bowen 5'7' Jr. Guard Michigan State
Jamie Carey 5'6' Sr. Guard Texas
Monique Currie 6'0' Jr. Guard Duke
Jessica Davenport 6'4' So. Center Ohio State
Jessalyn Deveny 5'9' Sr. Guard Boston College
Shay Doron 5'9' So. Guard Maryland
Ashley Earley 5'10' Sr. Guard/Forward Vanderbilt
Shyra Ely 6'2' Sr. Forward Tennessee
Sandora Irvin 6'3' Sr. Forward TCU
Dionnah Jackson 5'9' Sr. Guard Oklahoma
Tiffany Jackson 6'3' So. Forward Texas
Temeka Johnson 5'3' Sr. Guard LSU
Ivory Latta 5'6' So. Guard North Carolina
Sancho Lyttle 6'4' Sr. Center/Forward Houston
Janel McCarville 6'2' Sr. Center Minnesota
Cappie Pondexter 5'9' Sr. Guard Rutgers
Noelle Quinn 6'0' So. Guard UCLA
Khara Smith 6'2' Jr. Forward DePaul
Kim Smith 6'1' Jr. Forward Utah
Ann Strother 6'2' Jr. Guard Connecticut
Barbara Turner 6'0' Jr. Forward/Guard Connecticut
Kendra Wecker 5'11' Sr. Forward Kansas State
Tan White 5'7' Sr. Guard Mississippi State
Candice Wiggins 5'11' Fr. Guard Stanford
Tanisha Wright 5'11' Sr. Guard Penn State
Sophia Young 6'1' Jr. Forward Baylor
