Women's Basketball's McEntee Named D3hoops.com First Team All-American
03/24/08
After recording one of the finest individual seasons in the esteemed history of New York University women's basketball, junior forward Jessica McEntee earned D3hoops.com First Team All-America honors.
The 5-11 junior captain from Flushing, NY, was also selected as a Women's DIII News Second Team All-American.
McEntee averaged a school-record 20.8 points and 11.4 rebounds while shooting 82.4% at the free-throw line to ascend from Second Team All-America status as a sophomore. She is the first-ever Violet to be named a two-time All-American by D3hoops.com, and just the third NYU women's basketball player overall to do so.
Also the website's East Region Player of the Year, McEntee enjoyed a historic season for NYU (14-11, 3-11 University Athletic Association). She was named the UAA Co-Player of the Year -- she earned the award outright in 2007 -- after tying the Association 14-game record for points scored (301) and scoring average (21.5). In addition, she emerged as the UAA career leader in free throws made (253).
McEntee became the first NYU women's basketball standout to be named UAA Player of the Year twice since Marsha Harris (1996, 1997).
This season, McEntee recorded 17 double-doubles, scored 20-plus points on 13 occasions and produced 30 or more points three times. She tallied a career-high 38 points and snared 19 rebounds while making a school-record 20 free throws (on 21 attempts) in an 87-82 victory over SUNY New Paltz on Dec. 1, 2007.
In addition, McEntee also established a new Violet standard for points scored in a half when she tallied 26 of her game-high 30 points in the second half vs. the University of Rochester on Feb. 17, 2008, in the team's home finale.
After three seasons, McEntee ranks sixth in rebounding (834) and eighth in scoring (1,210 points). She is on pace to join Patti McCrudden (1,682 points, 1,168 rebounds) and Carrie Kaczmarski (1,251 points, 1,075 rebounds) as the third-ever NYU women's basketball player to produce 1,000 points and 1,000 rebounds.