Princeton University Athletics
Cowher Earns Rookie Of The Year Honors
March 10, 2005 | Women's Basketball
March 10, 2005
PRINCETON, N.J. - Freshman Meagan Cowher was named Rookie of the Year by the Ivy League, Thursday, after earning the Rookie of the Week title four times in the first seven weeks of the season. Juniors Becky Brown and Katy O'Brien and freshman Ariel Rogers also earned All-Ivy honors.
Cowher, who was named the Ivy Rookie of the Week four times (Nov. 22, Dec. 6, Dec. 13, Jan. 10), earned a unanimous pick to the All-Rookie team. Cowher played in 21 games, while earning the starting nod in 19 contests this season. She recorded a career-high 28 points and nine rebounds versus Saint Peter's on Jan. 3. In her first-collegiate game, she tallied her first of two double-doubles this season with 10 points and 10 rebounds. Her second double-double of the season (19 points, 12 rebounds) was in the Army win. She finished the season second on the team in scoring (11.1) and third in the conference in field goal percentage (.500). Brown was named the all-Ivy second team and started 25 of 26 games this season. She posted her first double-double of the season with 20 points and 14 rebounds against Cornell on Feb. 11, while adding 21 points and 17 rebounds in the season-finale on March 5 at Dartmouth. Brown became the 14th Tiger in program's history to garner 1000 points with her 15th point in the Yale win on Jan. 29. She finished the season with eight 20-point games and led the team in scoring (13.8) and rebounding (6.7). She also sat atop the conference in field goal percentage (.527) and was fifth in scoring among Ivy players.
Honored to the all-Ivy honorable mention list, O'Brien played in all 27 games, while starting 22. She earned her first-career double-double with 11 points and 10 assists on the Feb. 18 against Yale. She tallied a career-high five steals in the St. Mary's game on Dec. 14 and scored the three-pointer that propelled the Monmouth game into overtime. O'Brien nailed a career-high six three-pointers off the bench in the Wagner contest for a season-high 18 points. She finished the season with 61 treys tying her seventh-place single-season mark from last season on the all-time season leaders list in three-pointers made. O'Brien is currently ninth on the three-pointers made (126) career list and is also tied Allison S. Cahill (1999-2003) for ninth on the all-time assists leader list (223). Her 111 assists this season is the third best output in programs history.
Rogers completes the all-Rookie team and played in all 27 games for Princeton. With three starts on the season, she was named to the Rookie of the Week list on Feb. 21. She recorded a career-best with 14 points in the Yale contest on Jan 29 after she scored 12 points in 27 minutes at Columbia in the previous game. She rallied 10 points, grabbed six rebounds and blocked two shots against Mount St. Mary's on Dec. 20, while going 6-6 from the charity stripe.
Princeton finished the season 13-14 overall and 5-9 in the Ivy League.