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 Senior women's basketball standout Yoneko Allen has been named to the Academic All-District III first team for the second consecutive year. |
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Feb. 19, 2004
Cullowhee, N.C. - Western Carolina University women's basketball senior Yoneko Allen has been selected to the Academic All-District III first team as voted on by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). This is the second consecutive year Allen has made the first team list after earning second team honors during her sophomore season. By virtue of her district first team appointment, Allen will be a candidate for Academic All-America honors. The national team will be announced on March 5.
A Gray Court, S.C., native, the 5-8 guard has excelled both on and off the court during her career as a Catamount. Allen has started all but one game in her three years on the team after transferring from Clemson University. She has certainly made her mark on WCU women's basketball history as she currently owns five single-season and career records, including single-season 3-point field goals made (67 in 2003), 3-point field goals attempted (187 in 2003) and 3-point field goals per game (2.4 in 2003). The three-year captain also holds records for career 3-pointers made and attempted with 163 and 491 to date, respectively.
As the senior wraps up her final year with the Catamounts, she is currently leading the team and ranks second in the Southern Conference in 3-pointers per game at 2.17. She also ranks 13th in 3-point field goal percentage (.321) and 21st in overall scoring at 9.9 points per contest. Allen has led the Cats in scoring in three games this season.
Off the court, Allen continues to excel in the classroom and in the community. An example of hard work, she maintains a 3.98 grade point average as a triple major in Sport Management, Marketing and Business Administration & Law and has been named to the Dean's List the past seven consecutive semesters. For her academic efforts, Allen has twice been named an Arthur Ashe, Jr., Scholar Athlete, a TIAA-CREF Academic All-SoCon member in 2003, a TIAA-CREF Student-Athlete of the Week in 2003 and has made the SoCon and WCU Honor Rolls each year. She is additionally on this year's Collegiate Basketball Award of Excellence "Watch List", which will be presented at the end of the 2003-04 basketball season on April 13 in Albuquerque, N.M.
A leader in the local community as well as in her hometown in South Carolina, Allen has been the co-director and coordinator for the Laurens Amateur Association in Laurens, S.C., as well as assisted in planning community service projects for her church back home. She also began a clothing ministry at her church to provide clothes for the needy. In the local area, Allen has been involved in several service projects with her teammates and her sorority such as trash pickup, clothing drives, canned food drives, serving food at the local Community Table, raising money for cancer research, promoting breast cancer awareness and tutoring/mentoring local grade school students.
Allen has been a member of the Beta Gamma Sigma sorority, the Alpha Kappa Psi Business Honor Society and the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., Business Fraternity. She has also served on the Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award Committee, the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) and the Faculty and Athletics Committee.
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