THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Thursday, November 9, 1995 TAG: 9511070134
SECTION: NORFOLK COMPASS PAGE: 18 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Sports
SOURCE: BY PATTI WALSH, COMPASS SPORTS EDITOR
LENGTH: Medium: 66 lines
FOR THE SECOND consecutive year, Norfolk Academy point guard Kendra Robins was named the Tidewater Conference of Independent Schools girls basketball all-league squad's honorary captain.
Robins, who was also a 1994 All-Tidewater selection, led the Bulldogs to a third-place regular season finish behind Nansemond-Suffolk and Norfolk Collegiate.
The junior then showcased her talent Saturday night in the tournament final against the Saints as she dazzled the crowd with a buzzer beating layup that gave Norfolk Academy its first post-season crown since 1988.
Robins, who averaged 16.4 points per game, is joined on the first team by Nansemond-Suffolk's Jill VanGuilder, a three-time All-TCIS performer; Ann Murden of N-SA and Norfolk Christian's Jacquie Macklem, who both earned all-conference awards for the second year. Norfolk Collegiate junior Elizabeth Swearingen, the team's only newcomer, rounds out the selections.
VanGuilder guided the Saints to a perfect regular season finish and was just outside the conference scoring leaders with 11 points per game.
VanGuilder teamed up with Murden at the post for a dominating baseline attack. Murden led the Saints team scoring and ranked eighth in the league with 12.8 points per game.
Macklem, a 5-foot-9 guard, was the Ambassadors' playmaker as well as one of the conference's most dangerous outside shooters. Macklem was second in league scoring behind Peninsula Catholic's Lindsey Carney with 20.04 points a game.
Swearingen helped the Oaks, who proved to be the league's darkhorse, pull off an upset victory over Norfolk Academy in the final week of the season for an 8-1 finish. Swearingen was just outside the conference scoring leader board with 10 points a game.
Named to the second team were Norfolk Academy senior Angie Hucles, also the tournament's most valuable player and two-time Virginian-Pilot soccer player of the year; Walsingham junior Katherine Julian; Julie Tebault, a Norfolk Collegiate senior; Peninsula Catholic junior Lindsey Carney; and N-SA senior Lea Wilson.
Earning honorable mention were Sara Curbow of Hampton Roads Academy; Catholic's Samantha Green; Greenbrier Academy's Katie Sherwood; Norfolk Academy's Kate Rowen; Walsingham's Courtney Naparlo; N-SA's Allison Dunn and Cape Henry's Summer Foster. ILLUSTRATION: ALL-TIDEWATER CONFERENCE GIRLS BASKETBALL TEAM
Kendra Robins
Norfolk Academy
Ann Murden
Nansemond-Suffolk Academy
Jill VanGuilder
Nansemond-Suffolk Academy
Jacquie Macklem
Norfolk Christian
Elizabeth Swearingen
Norfolk Collegiate
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