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FEBRUARY 28, 2008
KING'S PLACES THREE ON ALL-FREEDOM WOMEN'S TEAM
(Fiorino Named 1st Team - Palumbo, Hochstuhl 2nd Team Choices)WILKES-BARRE -- The King's College women's basketball team has placed three players on the 2008 All-Freedom Conference Team, announced Thursday by the Middle Atlantic Conferences Office.
Gaining first-team honors for King's is junior guard-forward Kaitlyn Fiorino (North Brunswick, NJ/Immaculata), while second-team laurels were awarded to senior guard Jenna Palumbo (Hazleton/Hazleton Area) and senior center Andrea Hochstuhl (Landenberg/St. Marks, De.). The trio led King's to a 14-12 record and the second seed in the Freedom Conference playoffs.
Fiorino has enjoyed an outstanding season for King's, ranking fourth in the Freedom Conference in scoring with a 17.0 points per-game average. She has also posted career highs with 4.4 rebounds, 2.0 assists, and 65 three-pointers. This season, Fiorino reached the 30-point plateau twice, setting a career-high of 31 points January 5 against Norwich University in which she set a new program record with eight three-pointers made in the game.
She also tallied 30 on Saturday in a victory over Delaware Valley. She also established a career-high 12 rebounds on December 1 against Richard Stockton. In her three-year career at King's, Fiorino has tallied 1,103 points to rank 14th in Lady Monarch history with one season to go. She has also made 181 three-pointers, averaging 60 treys per-season
Palumbo, who was also a second-team choice in 2007, also enjoyed a fine season despite playing the entire year with a knee injury. Palumbo started all 26 games for King's, averaging 12.1 points and 3.3 rebounds per-game with 36 assists and 19 steals. Her 72 three-pointers on the year ranks as the second-highest single-season total in King's history, trailing only the school-record 98 treys she put up a year ago.
Palumbo set a career-high with 28 points in a November 17 victory over Salisbury University and made six three-pointers in a game twice during the year. For her career, Palumbo is 17th on the Lady Monarchs' all-time scoring list with 1,026 points, including a school-record 242 three-pointers.
Hochstuhl, meanwhile, battled through a frustrating senior year in which she was a second-team Division III pre-season All-American but sustained a number of physical ailments that greatly limited her game. Knee and ankle injuries were accompanied by a broken hand that required surgery, forcing her to miss seven games. Playing through constant pain, she concluded the regular-season averaging 9.5 points and 8.8 rebounds with 40 assists, and 30 blocked shots .
She scored a season-high 20 points January 30 against Manhattanville while posting six double-doubles (point-rebounds) during the season. For her career Hochstuhl has totaled 937 points, 733 rebounds, and 125 blocked shots. A year ago she earned first-team all-conference and all-regional honors while playing at 100-percent.
First Team Freedom All-Conference
Player Team Pos. Yr. Hometown (High School)
LeighAnn Burke DeSales G Jr. Philadelphia, PA (Archbishop Ryan)
Kaitlyn Fiorino King’s G Jr. North Brunswick, NJ (Immaculata)
Emily Cerankowski FDU-Florham G Jr. Easton, PA (Notre Dame)
Kim Rarick DeSales G Jr. Ringtown, PA (North Schuykill)
Moira Donohue Del-Valley G Sr. Philadelphia, PA (Cardinal Dougherty)
Caitlin Sparks Arcadia C Sr. Harleysville, PA (Souderton Area)
Second Team Freedom All-Conference
Kim Vennera Del-Valley G So. Norristown, PA (Kennedy-Kenrick)
Player Team Pos. Yr. Hometown (High School)
Jenna Palumbo King’s G Sr. Hazleton, PA (Hazleton Area)
Andrea Hochstuhl King’s C Sr. Landenberg, PA (St. Mark’s DE)
Olivia Nastasi Manhattanville G Jr. Cold Spring, NY (Haldane)
Caitlin Miller DeSales F So. Fogelsville, PA (Northwestern)PLAYER OF THE YEAR: LeighAnn Burke, DeSales
ROOKIE OF THE YEAR: Brittany Battineri, Delaware Valley
COACH OF THE YEAR: Fred Richter, DeSales