
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, March 30, 1990                   TAG: 9003300902
SECTION: SPORTS                    PAGE: B2   EDITION: EVENING 
SOURCE: From Associated Press reports
DATELINE: KNOXVILLE, TENN.                                LENGTH: Short

STALEY NAMED ALL-AMERICA

Stanford's Jennifer Azzi, the 1990 Naismith Award winner, heads the the 10-player Kodak All-America team announced Thursday and virginia's Dawn Staley was the only sophomore named to this years team.

Azzi, a 5-foot-9 senior guard, has been named the Pac-10 player of the year for the past two seasons and is the Cardinal's all-time leader in both assists and steals and Stanford's No. 2 career scorer.

Two other Final Four players also were named to the team - Louisiana Tech's Venus Lacy and Auburn's Carolyn Jones.

Staley, a 5-6 guard, is the first Virginia player to reach the 1,000-point plateau in only two seasons.

Also making the 10-player team were North Carolina State's Andrea Stinson, Iowa's Franthea Price, Tennessee's Daedra Charles, St. Joseph's Dale Hodges, Stephen F. Austin's Portia Hill and Vanderbilt's Wendy Scholtens.

In other basketball news:

Jim Calhoun, who led the University of Connecticut to its first Big East championship and to a No. 1 seed in the NCAA basketball tournament, was selected college basketball coach of the year by The Sporting News on Thursday.

by CNB