WOLFF AND PALMER EARN LIBERTY LEAGUE FIRST TEAM HONORS

Feb. 28: St. Lawrence University senior guard Jamie Wolff and junior forward Katie Palmer were selected to the Liberty League’s First Team, as the conference announced its yearly award winners on Thursday. It was the third straight First Team selection for Wolff and the second straight for Palmer, who was the league’s “Player of the Year” last season.

A six-time Liberty League “Guard of the Week” this season, Wolff led St. Lawrence with a career-high 410 points. The Buffalo, NY native, who was the only unanimous selection to the First Team this season, scored her 1,000th career point against Skidmore on January 18. Wolff leads the conference in points and points per game (16.4) as she helped the Saints to a second place finish in the conference standings.

The Saints' co-captain shot 42% from behind the arc this season while pulling down 84 rebounds and picking up 70 assists and 49 steals.

Meanwhile, Palmer had 365 points in her junior season as she started in each of the Saints' 25 games. A 2007 WBCA Regional All-American, Palmer is second in total points in the conference, averaging 14.6 per game, and fourth in steals with 58. The forward has also been named to the Liberty League All-Academic Team twice.

William Smith’s senior guard Marisa Vespa was named the Liberty League’s “Player of the Year,” while Clarkson’s Sierra Noles and William Smith’s Mollie Danahy were named “Co-Rookies of the Year.” Lindsay Drury, the coach of the regular season champion Herons, and her staff was named the “Coaching Staff of the Year.”

Joining Wolff and Palmer on the conference’s First Team were Elizabeth Barker of Rensselaer, Vespa and Hamilton’s Pumla Sathula.

William Smith landed three players on the Second Team, including Paula Foote, Erin Cunningham and Stephanie Czajkowski. The trio was joined by Hamilton’s Sydney Fasulo and Union’s Michelle Rogers.

The 2008 Liberty League Tournament is set to begin tomorrow, Friday, February 29 in Geneva, NY.

St. Lawrence, the No. 2 seed, will meet Hamilton in the semifinal match-up at 6:00pm, with the winner advancing to Saturday’s championship game against the winner of William Smith and Rensselaer.