UW Women's Basketball Team Names Annual Award Winners
April 21, 2002 | Women's Basketball
Members of the University of Wisconsin women's basketball team were honored in the annual team awards banquet Sunday at the Sheraton Hotel in Madison. Badger Coach Jane Albright and staff presented a variety of awards honoring the Badgers, who finished the season with an 19-12 record and attended their second-straight NCAA tournament.
Honored as Most Valuable Players were seniors Jessie Stomski (Oakdale, Minn.) and Tamara Moore (Minneapolis). The `dynamic duo' led the Badgers this season and were both drafted into the WNBA last week. Stomski, a 6-3 forward, led the Badgers in scoring and rebounding with 18.3 points and 8.9 rebounds per game. She was named all-Big Ten first team for a second-straight year by both the coaches and media, and was a Kodak/WBCA all-America honorable mention. Stomski was also honored as the TJ Flarup Media Award winner by a vote of the area media.
Moore, who earned her fourth-straight Defensive Player of the Year award, also earned the team's Offensive Excellence Award with her overall fine statistics line averaging 16.6 points, 5.1 rebounds, 6.1 assists and 3.0 steals. She set UW 's career records in steals and assists, earned first team all-Big Ten honors, and was a Kodak/WBCA all-America honorable mention.
Moore also won the Free Throw Shooting award hitting 83 percent. She completed her career ranked second in career free throw shooting hitting 78 percent.
Senior guard Kyle Black (Indianapolis) joined Moore and Stomski in earning the Captains Award.
Others receiving awards include the Academic Excellence Award to freshman Ebba Gebisa (West Lafayette, Ind.), who had a 4.0 the first semester. The Service Excellence Award went to Kristi Seeger (Stoughton, Wis.) for her community service work. Sophomore 6-5 starting center, Emily Ashbaugh (Woodinville, Wash.), was recognized as the Most Improved Player.
Also honored were UW's Academic All-Big Ten team members. With seven honorees, the Badgers had the most athletes of any Big Ten school earn Academic All-Big Ten honors. The figure gives the Badgers the most Academic all-Big Ten honorees in the 16-year history of the award with a total of 58.
Repeat honorees include two-time members senior Kyle Black, business; junior Leah Hefte (McFarland, Wis.), elementary education; junior Jessica Liegel (Plain, Wis.), Spanish; junior Kristi Seeger, kinesiology; and senior Jessie Stomski, journalism. First time honorees include sophomores Emily Ashbaugh, Bacteriology; and Abby Simmons (Verona, Wis.), kinesiology.
