High honor for La Salle's Hightower
For the first time in four years, the Big 5 women's basketball Player of the Year does not play for Temple's Dawn Staley.
This year's honor went to La Salle's Carlene Hightower, who was second in the Atlantic-10 with 17 points per game.
Hightower was also one of 40 hoopsters invited to the WNBA's predraft camp; the last two winners went on to be drafted.
Staley's players may have come up empty-handed, but she herself took home some hardware, winnig the Big 5 coach of the yar.
Penn's Carrie Biemer - who led the Quakers with 13.9 points per game - was a second team All-Big 5 selection, while guard Anca Popovici cracked the All-Academic Team.
Other winners include Rookie of the Year Sarah Acker, from Saint Joseph's, and senior Temple guard Ashley Morris, the Most Improved Player.
- David Gurian-Peck
Crabs claim Navy's Freshman 8
The Navy Midshipmen beat Penn in the Callow Cup on the Schuylkill River on Sunday in the Varsity 8 race.
It was the eighth-straight year that Navy has won the Callow Cup. The Midshipmen won by just over two seconds, with a time of 5:47.9 to Penn's 5:50.7.
Things went a little better for the Quakers in the Freshman 8. An overhead crab - a rowing error in which a rower does not remove the oar from the water in a timely matter, occasionally knocking him flat or even ejecting him - caused Navy's boat to lose ground. Penn finished in 5:58.0 while Navy's closest boat, the 2F, clocked in at 6:00.6.
- Brandon Moyse
