Moore, Ulmer represent EWU on All-Big Sky conference team
Eastern Washington University’s inside-outside combination earned All-Big Sky Conference women’s basketball honors, announced Tuesday afternoon by the conference.
Junior center Felice Moore and record-breaking senior Stephanie Ulmer represent the Eagles on the 10-player team. Junior forward Julie Page was named honorable mention.
The 6-foot-2 Moore leads the Eagles in scoring at 11.6 points a game, which was ninth in the conference. She also averages 5.2 rebounds and is third in the Big Sky in field-goal shooting, at 54 percent.
Moore is also the third member of Central Valley High School’s 2001 state championship team to earn postseason honors in college. Raeanna Jewell, a senior at Gonzaga, was honorable mention in the West Coast Conference and Emily Westerberg, a sophomore at Arizona State, was a selected for the All-Pacific-10 Conference team.
Ulmer, who has started 95 of 112 games in her career, averages 9.4 points but was second in the conference in 3-pointers (2.22), third in 3-point percentage (.385) and fourth in steals (2.19). In her home finale she set the school record for 3-pointers made (now 194) and passed the 1,000-point mark. She was an honorable mention selection last year.
Page, a 6-2 forward out of England, is second on the Eagles in scoring at 10.2 and leads in rebounding at 5.4. She is also fifth in the conference in shooting, at 51 percent.
Montana and Weber State also have two players on the all-conference team, including co-Most Valuable Players Holly Tyler and Julie Gjertsen. UM’s Tyler is a four-time all-Big Sky player and Gjertsen, the conference’s leading scorer (16.2), is a three-time selection.
The other Montana player is junior guard Katie Edwards. Sophomore post Becky O’Neill also represents Weber State.
Idaho State, which plays Eastern in the first round of the Big Sky Conference Tournament in Missoula at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, is represented by sophomore Molly Hays. A repeat selection, Hays joins the MVPs as the only unanimous picks. Natalie Doma of Idaho State is the Outstanding Freshman after averaging 10.7 points and 5.6 rebounds.
Kati Burrows, a senior from Montana State, is the only other repeat winner. Montana point guard Lynsey Monaco is the Defensive Player of the Year.
Northern Arizona’s Nicky Eason and Sacramento State’s Kim Sheehy split the Top Newcomer Award. Their teams square off in the other first-round game.
Johnson on all-tourney team
Aubrey Johnson of Arizona State, a Post Falls High product, was selected to the Pac-10 Conference women’s all-tournament team.