Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, April 14, 1993 TAG: 9304140224
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: B2 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: From staff reports
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
TECH'S ALFANO COACH OF YEAR
Virginia Tech coach Carol Alfano has been voted the Virginia Sports Information Directors women's basketball coach of the year, and the Virginia Cavaliers' Heather Burge is the state's player of the year.Alfano led the Hokies from a 10-18 record a year ago to a 20-8 record this season. She also was voted the Metro Conference coach of the year and the Women's Basketball Coaches Association District III coach of the year.
Burge averaged 19.1 points and 7.7 rebounds in leading the Cavaliers to the NCAA East Region final. She was the ACC player of the year and a first-team All-American.
VASID FIRST TEAM
Heather Burge, Virginia, senior; Dena Evans, Virginia, senior; Anna Pavlikhina, Virginia Commonwealth, senior; Celest Hill, Old Dominion, junior; Ashleigh Akens, William and Mary, junior.
VASID SECOND TEAM
Pam Huntley, Old Dominion, senior; Shannan Wilkey, Radford, junior; Beth Mollerup, Virginia Commonwealth, junior; Nickie Hilton, George Mason, junior; Tammie Crown, Radford, senior.
\ Shannan Wilkey and Tammie Crown of Radford have been selected to the Women's Sports Federation Fast Break All-America teams.
Crown, a 6-foot-1 senior from Murfreesboro, Tenn., was selected to the third team. She was the Big South Conference player of the year, averaging 15 points and 8.6 rebounds per game for the Highlanders, who went 17-11 and won their fourth consecutive conference championship. Wilkey, a 5-7 junior guard from Edinboro, Pa., led the Big South in scoring with a 17.3 average. She was MVP of the conference tournament.
Heather Burge of the University of Virginia made the first team, and Lisa Allison of Roanoke, Va., a senior at Campbell, was selected to the special-mention team.
AWSF ALL-AMERICA FIRST TEAM
Sheryl Swoopes, Texas Tech; Tony Sampson, North Carolina; Roschelle Vaughn, Tennessee Tech; Cinietra Henderson, Texas; Lauretta Freeman, Auburn; Sarah Behn, Boston College; Heather Burge, Virginia; Andrea Congraves, Mercer; Lisa Harrison, Tennessee; Heidi Gillingham, Vanderbilt; Natalie Williams, UCLA; Val Whiting, Stanford; Toni Foster, Iowa. PLAYER OF THE YEAR Sheryl Swoopes, Texas Tech FRESHMAN OF THE YEAR Katie Smith, Ohio State COACH OF THE YEAR Marsha Sharp, Texas Tech