LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. - A total of five from the Southwestern University women's basketball team were named to the 2017-18 All-Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Team on Saturday evening at the site of the SCAC Championships in Colorado Springs.
Tori Carraway earned first team honors while four different Pirates earned Honorable Mention honors. Zhazze Brown, Noel Pratts, Madison Edwards, and Cecily Woolfolk earned a spot on the team.
Carraway, a junior out of College Station, Texas, was second on the team in points with 9.7 per game while finishing fourth in the conference in rebounds at 7.6 reb/gm. Carraway finished sixth in shooting percentage in the league at 46.3% and was fifth in offensive boards at 64 total.
Carraway was playing her best basketball of the season in late January, early February going for 21 points in back-to-back games at Texas Lutheran and Schreiner including 11 rebounds and three steals against the Bulldogs and 14 rebounds against the Mountaineers. Unfortunately, her season was ended in the next game against Trinity due to a knee injury.
Brown, a sophomore Helotes, Texas, played in 28 games and was third on the team with 8.0 pts/gm. She led the Pirates in steals on the season with 39 total, averaged 1.4/gm, good for 14th in the SCAC. She also led SU in 3-point percentage at 38.8%
Brown moved into a starting role later in the season and really thrived, especially on the defensive end. She had a huge game against Schreiner on February 2nd, going for 24 points to go with four assists and two steals in a win. She would earn a career-high five steals in the Pirates SCAC Quarterfinal win over Schreiner.
Pratts, a freshman out of Tomball, Texas, played in 26 games on the season and was also third on the team in points at 8.0/gm while shooting 40.2% from the field, the tops among guards.
Pratts had an outstanding rookie season for the Pirates highlighted by a 22 point outing on December 2nd against Howard Payne as she shot 11 of 15 from the field.
Edwards, a senior out of Fort Worth, played in all 28 games averaged 7.8 pts/gm while shooting 35% from behind the arc. She was tops on the team in assist-to-turnover ratio at 1.1 for the season.
Edwards really came on strong towards the end of the season, scoring in double figures in seven of her last eight contests after only scoring in double figures three times in 20 games. On February 3rd against Trinity, Edwards went for 17 points including three 3-pointers. She also scored 10 points in the fourth quarter in an overtime upset in the SCAC Semifinals of Austin College.
Edwards earned a spot on the SCAC All-Tournament Team after averaging 11.3 points during the SCAC Championships including 6 of 13 from behind the arc.
Woolfolk, a center out of Crowley, Texas, played in all 28 games and led the Pirates in scoring at 12.4 pts/gm, good for ninth in the SCAC, while averaging 7.3 reb/gm, good for fifth in the SCAC. Woolfolk was 10th in the SCAC in field goal percentage at 43.4% and third in the SCAC in free throws attempted at 154. Her 26 blocks were good for seventh in the conference.
Woolfolk finished with five double-doubles on the year, none bigger than hitting a career-high 31 points to go with 14 rebounds in a December 2nd matchup against Howard Payne. Woolfolk was named SCAC Player of the Week the final week of the season after a 25 point, 11 rebound, 2 block game against TLU on February 16th.
Woolfolk averaged 14.6 pts/gm and 8.6 reb/gm to earn a spot on the SCAC All-Tournament Team. She scored 24 points to go with eight rebounds and two blocks in the Pirates 81-79 overtime upset of Austin College in the SCAC Semifinal.
The Pirates finished 14-14 in the 2017-18 under first year head coach Greta Grothe. The Pirates finished third in the regular season and were conference runner-up in the SCAC Championships, falling 80-74 to Trinity.