Sharee Shepherd Named Defensive Player of the Year

[Tipoff96]

Congrats to Sharee! It's nice to see some of our girls receive personal awards - here's to cheering for that ultimate team award - a trip to the NCAA tournament!!

2007-08 Conference USA Women's Basketball Individual Awards


Sixth Player of the Year
Amanda Peterson, UAB, 5-10, Fr., Homewood, Ala./Homewood


Defensive Player of the Year
Sharee Shepherd, SMU, 5-10, Sr., Houston, Texas/Dobie


Freshman of the Year Tia Lewis, UCF, 6-3, F/C, Fr., Poulan, Ga./Worth County


Newcomer of the Year
Natasha Lacy, UTEP, 5-10, G, Sr., El Paso, Texas (TCU)


Player of the Year
Jareica Hughes, UTEP, 5-3, G, So., Southfield, Mich/Southfield-Lathrup


Coach of the Year
Keitha Adams, UTEP

[Bigtime41]

It is really nice to see some of the accolades for Conference USA be spread around SMU's way. Great Job Sheree and we all here in Mustang land are very proud of you. Now get go and lock down a NCAA bid. Go Mustangs!!

[MustangStealth]

Congrats Sharee on a great season!

[George S. Patton]

Nice to see especially in a season when she set the single-game steals record. Now, let's see some of the game this weekend at the tournament.

Congrats and good luck.

[J.T.supporta]

terrific honor for her to receive. just goes to show that hard work does pay off. congrats!

[SMUguy]

I don't have a real problem with any of those awards except player of the year. Hughes was awesome, but the big kid at Rice (after Janielle Dodds, Delisha Wills, Jillian Samuels, Katy Cobb, Sharee Shepherd, Brittany Gilliam, etc. - of course), was the best player I saw all year. Valerie Something - she can really take over a game.

Congratulations, Sharee. Very much deserved.

Beat Tulsa High!

[The XtC]

Valerie Berezhynskya is a great player, but she missed nine conference games with an injury. Cant be conference MVP when you miss most of the conference gamesm even if you average 17 points and 10 rebounds per game.

UTEP was conference champs, Hughes was UTEP's best player, so she gets the award.

Rice is a different team when Berezhynskya is healthy, and they play UTEP tomorrow. Could be interesting.

[DallasDiehard]

You're right, Rice IS a different team when Valeriya Berezhynska is healthy, which is exactly why SMUguy is right. They're very mediocre without her - they have a guard (Revering, or something) who's pretty decent, but that's it. Berezhynska is the reason that team is still alive in the tournament - A&M is the best team to come to Dallas this year, but she's the best player to come in to Moody all year.