Cowher Named First-Team All-Ivy; Lockwood Earns Honorable Mention

PRINCETON, N.J. – For the second time in her three seasons at Princeton, junior forward Meagan Cowher was honored Wednesday as a member of the first-team All-Ivy League.

Cowher becomes just the fourth Princeton player to earn first-team all-league honors twice since the Ivy League began naming a team in 1980. She is just the second player to earn the honor in consecutive seasons and is in position to become Princeton's first three-time first-teamer a year from now.

Cowher joins Ellen Tomasiewicz '82 (1980, 1981), Sandi Bittler '90 (1988, 1990) and Kate Thirolf '00 (1998, 2000) as two-time first-team All-Ivy honorees from Princeton.

Cowher joins Dartmouth senior guard Ashley Taylor, Harvard sophomore guard Emily Tay, Penn senior guard Joey Rhoads and Yale senior post player Erica Davis on the first team. Taylor earned the conference's Player of the Year honor.

It is the third straight year Cowher has earned honors from the league. In 2005, she was named the Ivy League Rookie of the Year before joining Becky Brown '06 on the league's first team last year.

Senior forward Casey Lockwood was named Ivy League honorable mention, one of five players to earn that honor. It is the first Ivy accolade for Lockwood since her freshman season of 2004, when she was named to the league's all-rookie team.

Cowher won the Ivy League's scoring title by averaging 18.6 points per game in the 14-game league schedule. During that run, she had a 66-point weekend at home against Columbia and Cornell Jan. 12-13. That output was the highest Ivy League weekend total for any Princeton women's player and was more than any Princeton men's player aside from Bill Bradley '65. Her 35 points against Cornell were three points from matching the Princeton single-game record and were the most points scored by a Princeton woman since 1989.

Cowher scored in double digits in 25 of 28 games this season as one of two Tigers, along with Lockwood, to start every game. Cowher reached 20 points on 10 occasions this season, including a seven-game stretch from Dec. 30 to Feb. 3.

To go with her season-long scoring average of 17.7 points per game, Cowher was an exceptional rebounder as well, averaging 7.3 rebounds per game. She had eight double-doubles this season and set new career bests in back-to-back games Nov. 19 and 24 with 13 and 14 rebounds against Maine and Lehigh, respectively. Cowher had double-doubles in each game of a three-game stretch from Feb. 16-23.

On Feb. 3 against Brown, Cowher became the 17th player in Princeton history to reach 1,000 points. She ended her junior season with 1,137 points, good for 11th place all-time in Princeton history. On Mar. 3 at Yale, Cowher set a new single-season scoring record, topping Bittler's total of 480 in 1989. Cowher finished with 496 points this season, just short of becoming the 14th woman in Ivy League history to score 500 points.

Lockwood scored double digits in 18 of 28 games this season, setting a new career high with 22 points at Cornell Feb. 16. She scored 10 or more points in seven of the last eight games and had double-doubles in two of them, Feb. 23 against Dartmouth and Mar. 6 against Penn.

Princeton finished 13-15 overall and 7-7 in the Ivy League, earning a .500-or-better season for the second straight year for the first time since the 1998 and 1999 seasons.

All-Ivy League Teams

First Team
Ashley Taylor, Dartmouth, Sr., G
Emily Tay, Harvard, So., G
Meagan Cowher, Princeton, Jr., F
Erica Davis, Yale, Sr., P
Joey Rhoads, Penn, Sr., G

Second Team
Lindsay Hallion, Harvard, Jr., G
Jeomi Maduka, Cornell, So., F
Megan Griffith, Columbia, Sr., G
Sydney Scott, Dartmouth, Jr., F
Monica Naltner, Penn, Sr., G

Honorable Mention
Niki Finelli, Harvard, So., G/F
Casey Lockwood, Princeton, Sr., F
Moina Snyder, Cornell, Jr., F
Koren Schram, Dartmouth, So., G
Chinenye Okafor, Yale, Sr., F

All-Rookie
Danielle Brown, Columbia, G
Chelsea Frazier, Columbia, C
Margaret Smith, Dartmouth, F
Melissa Colborne, Yale, F/G
Lindsay Walls, Brown, C

Player of the Year
Ashley Taylor, Dartmouth, Sr., G

Rookie of the Year
Melissa Colborne, Yale, G

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