WBB: Old Dominion Athletic Conference

[bcsid]

Here is the All-ODAC team released Wednesday.

First-Team
Player    Position    Team
Erin Hanson   F   Roanoke
Katy Herr   G   Bridgewater
Marsha Kinder   G   Bridgewater
Jennifer King   G   Guilford
Megan Silva   G   Randolph-Macon

Second-Team
Player    Position    Team
Jessica Hunsinger   F   Washington and Lee
Michelle Orton   F   Randolph-Macon
Heather Phillips   F   Virginia Wesleyan
Amanda Renalds   F   Eastern Mennonite
Megan Stensrud   F   Randolph-Macon Woman's

Honorable Mention
Player    Position    Team
Lauren Habel   G   Emory and Henry
Stephanie Mathews   F   Eastern Mennonite
Salem Shaffer   G   Randolph-Macon
Caroline Wesley   F   Lynchburg
Coby Wilmer    G   Hollins


Player-of-the-Year
Megan Silva – Randolph-Macon

Coach-of-the-Year
Stephany Dunmyer – Virginia Wesleyan

Freshman-of-the-Year
Kristine Ellis- Guilford

Scholar Athlete-of-the-Year
Marsha Kinder -Bridgewater

[valleybballfan]

Way to go BC! Placing two players on first team, Kinder and Herr, that is awesome! Once again ranked in the south region at #6 after the latest rankings came out. Also, Kinder is honored as scholar-athlete of the year! Both Herr and Kinder are very deserving of this recognition.

Congratulations to both Reynolds and Matthews from EMU for making second team and honorable mention respectively.

[valleybballfan]

Congratulations to Coach Dunmyer for Coach of the Year. VWC has come a long way in 3 short years. All the girls have played hard and it shows.

Congratulations to Heather Phillips of VWC for being named on the First Team.

Good luck to all the teams at ODAC.

Heather Phillips was named to the second team, which is still a great honor! Also, congratulations to Coach Dunmyer! What a great job she has done!

[GAVA]

End of the season. 24 hours and half you guys will be gone home.

[Matt Barnhart (kid)]

Well, here is my report card for picking All-ODAC honors;

So here would be my voting for All-ODAC honors:

1st Team (actual)
Megan Silva, R-MC (1st team)
Katy Herr, BC (1st team)
Jessica Hunsinger, W&L (2nd team)
Stephanie Mathews, EMU (hon. men.)
Marsha Kinder, BC (1st team)

2nd Team (actual)
Jennifer King, GC (1st team)
Amanda Renalds, EMU (2nd team)
Michelle Orton, R-MC (2nd team)
Heather Phillips, VWC (2nd team)
Salem Shaffer, R-MC (hon. men.)

Honorable Mention (actual)
Caroline Wesley, LC (hon. men.)
Erin Hanson, RC (1st team)

The three girls from R-MWC all have had decent years (Stensrud (2nd team), Prewitt and Rechnitzer), but there is no way statistically to differentiate them.  I'm probably safe in assuming two of the three will earn HM.  And finally, it's hard for me to "respect" someone's stats when it's a product of "the system."  Even though they just jack up threes, I can see the ODAC honoring at least one Wasp, so I'll go with Lauren Habel (hon. men.) (at least she shoots a decent percent from there; 33%).

Player of the Year: Megan Silva, Randolph-Macon (correct)
Coach of the Year: Stephany Dunmyer, Virginia Wesleyan (correct)
Freshman of the Year: Kristine Ellis, Guilford (correct)
Scholar-Athlete of the Year: Marsha Kinder, Bridgewater (correct)

I did alright.  All 14 players that I named to either 1st, 2nd or HM earned all conference, with Coby Wilmer being the only one I didn't pick.  I picked all four post-season awards correctly (that wasn't that hard though).

I'm most surprised by Hanson earning 1st team and Mathews only getting honorable mention.  I guess the coaches and SIDs put emphasis on shooting a lot (which Mathews clearly doesn't).

[Matt Barnhart (kid)]

Way to go BC! Placing two players on first team, Kinder and Herr, that is awesome!

I second that congratulations!  They were both very deserving.  Amazing that both of them put up the numbers they did with such a balanced Eagles squad.

Should be a fun tournament!

[Old School Marlin]

End of the season. 24 hours and half you guys will be gone home.

Thanks GAVA - you can always be counted on for a "classy" comment...you make your team look bad...as usual.

Congrats to Coach Dunmyer for giving her all and leading a bunch of frosh, sophomores, and juniors to a great season!  Congrats to Silva and to every woman on all the teams this year.  What a great year - can't wait for this week!

[GAVA]

End of the season. 24 hours and half you guys will be gone home.

Thanks GAVA - you can always be counted on for a "classy" comment...you make your team look bad...as usual.

Getting a little nervous marlin as your team gasps its last trash talking breaths?
You are one class act yourself marlin. Will be glad to see you and your third place team get on the bus back to the beach.
Noticed you never commented on your starter's kicking incident, or revise your " doubt it happened" stance.

[GAVA]

If Dunmyer ever thought they were acting at all unsportsman like, they would be yanked and benched indefinitely.  Man, I guess people really will say anything to bash teams rising to the top - especially "non valley" schools...

Does this mean your "kicking starter" won't be playing in the tourney?   oh...didn't think so .

[RMCAlum30]

A little more than 3 hours until tipoff in Salem! Good luck Yellow Jackets  Congrats to Megan for POY yet again... and of course Michelle and Salem on their awards as well. Let's go Jackets!  8)

[Jimmy Mad]

I'm most surprised by Hanson earning 1st team and Mathews only getting honorable mention.  I guess the coaches and SIDs put emphasis on shooting a lot (which Mathews clearly doesn't).

Point of clarification, SIDs do not vote on any of the awards except Scholar-Athlete.  The rest are solely decided by the coaches.

[GAVA]

...you make your team look bad...as usual.

Congrats to Coach Dunmyer for giving her all and leading a bunch of frosh, sophomores, and juniors to a great season! 

lol...to mention marlins and classy in same sentence....

What would you say the marlin's team players crowning moment was this season?

  a) bashing RMC on this board?
  b) refusing to help up opponents they knocked down? 
  c) kicking an opponent laying on the ground?

Too bad ODAC doesn't have a poor sportsmanship first team. VWC might have made a clean sweep.

  Know your choking on Siva's records for 3rd time POY and 4th time first team, especially since you didn't place anybody.

[Old School Marlin]

You're right...we all hate R-MC, we all hate Silva...

Make you feel better?  Like feeling like the world's against you?  Keep talking about how nobody else deserves to win the tourney, how everyone is going home...

I'm just saying let's congratulate all the teams and hope for some good games.  Leave your ego at the door.

[Old School Marlin]

End of the season. 24 hours and half you guys will be gone home.

Thanks GAVA - you can always be counted on for a "classy" comment...you make your team look bad...as usual.

Getting a little nervous marlin as your team gasps its last trash talking breaths?
You are one class act yourself marlin. Will be glad to see you and your third place team get on the bus back to the beach.
Noticed you never commented on your starter's kicking incident, or revise your " doubt it happened" stance.

Since you wanted a comment - The "kicking starter" was punished, although she still contends that she was tangled up and didn't mean to "kick" the other player.  And she's a good kid.  But of course NO ONE has EVER gotten tangled up on the floor and gotten into a scuffle, so VWC is just soooo unsportsmanlike.  Some people will look for anything they can say to bring down an up-and-coming team.  I understand, GAVA. 8)

[RMCAlum30]

Is anyone going to be providing in-game updates for the tourney? I'm all the way up here in New York VERY far away from Salem, with no way of listening to the game and no way of knowing what's going on other than *hopefully* some phone calls from R-MC fans at the Civic Center.