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Steele and Davis Earn MVP Honors At Women's Basketball Banquet Findlay, Beck and Kreke also earn honors.
April 24, 2008
USAF ACADEMY, Colo. - Air Force seniors Alecia Steele and Jamie Davis took home team MVP honors Thursday night at the Air Force women's basketball team banquet. Steele took home offensive MVP honors for the fourth consecutive season and Davis earned defensive MVP honors. Senior Pamela Findlay earned the Falcon Award, freshman Raimee Beck the Attitude is Everything Award and junior Kim Kreke the Stength & Conditioning Award. Steele, a senior forward and team co-captain led the team in scoring and rebounding averaging 12.0 points and 7.1 rebounds per game. A four-time all-conference honoree, Steele is the first player in Air Force history to lead the team in scoring and rebounding all four years. She leaves the Academy as the all-time leading scorer at Air Force in the Div. I era, with 1,232 points. A native of Oklahoma City, Okla., Steele has been the team offensive MVP all four of her seasons at the Academy. Davis, a senior guard from Fresno, Calif., earned the defensive MVP award. A lockdown defender with quick hands, Davis was second in the team with 38 steals. Davis recorded 101 steals in 101 career games. In her final game as a Falcon against TCU, Davis led the team with 14 points. Senior guard and team co-captain Pamela Findlay earned the Falcon Award. The Falcon Award goes to the player that epitomizes the qualities of committment, strong work ethic and being a team leader on and off the court. Findlay earned all-conference honors as a senior, averaging 10.0 points and 5.0 rebounds. The senior was Air Force's top distance and free throw shooter, making 39.2 percent of her three-point attempts and sinking 87.5 percent from the free throw line.
Freshman guard Raimee Beck earned the Attitude is Everything Award. The Attitude is Everything Award goes to the player that gave everything, not just games but in practices and weight training and all aspects of being a college student athlete. A native of Blackfoot, Idaho, Beck started all 28 regular season games and led Air Force with 48 three's and finished second with 68 assists. Her 48 three's are the fifth-most in a season at Air Force. Junior center Kim Kreke earned the team's Strength & Conditioning Player of the Year Award. A native of Salem, Ill., Kreke started 27 of 28 games played in and led the team with 31 blocked shots. The 31 swats were the third-most in a season. Kreke also finished third on the team with 4.6 rebounds per game. Air Force finished the season with a 10-19 overall record and an 4-12 mark in Mountain West Conference play, good for a seventh-place finish, the programs best finish ever since joining the MWC. |
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