Andi Daugherty earns another basketball honor

| March 4, 2016

ASHLAND – Sophomore forward Andi Daugherty has earned several honors in her first two seasons as an Ashland University Eagle.

She added another one on Wednesday, March 2, as she has landed a spot on the 2015-16 CoSIDA Academic All-America Division II Women’s Basketball second team. Daugherty is the women’s program’s seventh Academic All-American, and its first since sister and current Eagle assistant coach Kari (Daugherty) Pickens and Daiva Gerbec each earned first-team laurels in
2012-13.

Through the GLIAC Tournament quarterfinals, Daugherty is averaging 15.3 points, 7.4 rebounds and 2.7 assists per game, while shooting 52.5 percent from the field and 77.2 percent from the free-throw line.

A finance major, Daugherty also sports a 3.93 cumulative grade-point average.

The list of awards Daugherty has earned in less than two full college seasons includes:

SOPHOMORE (2015-16)

– Second-team CoSIDA Academic All-American

– Five GLIAC South Division Player of the Week awards

– CoSIDA Academic All-District

– U.S. Basketball Writers Association (USBWA) Division II Women’s Basketball
Player of the Week on Jan. 26

– Team’s nominee for the 2016 Allstate Women’s Basketball Coaches Association
(WBCA) Good Works Team.

FRESHMAN (2014-15)

– GLIAC Freshman of the Year

– Second-team All-GLIAC

– All-GLIAC Defensive Team

– Midwest Regional All-Tournament Team

– Two GLIAC South Division Player of the Week awards

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