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Richardson receives All-Academic honor from ESPN The Magazine
Melissa Richardson has been named to the 2009-10 ESPN The Magazine District 8 All-Academic Women's Basketball Team.
2/5/2010 10:29:49 AM
WALNUT CREEK – Chico State women’s basketball player Melissa Richardson excels in the classroom as well as the court – and her accomplishments have officially been recognized on a national level. The senior from Issaquah, Wash. has been named to the 2009-10 ESPN The Magazine District 8 All-Academic Women’s Basketball Team, it was announced Thursday.
Richardson, the Wildcats’ second-leading scorer and top 3-point shooter, was among five players included on the District 8 All-Academic second team. Two other California Collegiate Athletic Assocation (CCAA) players joined Richardson in being honored – Reyana Colson of Cal Poly Pomona was named to the District 8 All-Academic first team, while teammate Stephisha Walton was a second team selection.
To be nominated, a student-athlete must be a starter or important reserve with at least a 3.30 cumulative grade point average (on a 4.0 scale) at his/her current institution. The nominee must also have completed one full calendar year at his/her current institution and reached sophomore athletic eligibility.
Nominations and voting for the All-America programs are conducted by members of the College Sports Information Directors of America. Three Academic All-District teams are chosen in each district, with those on the All-District first teams placed on the national ballot for Academic All-America consideration.
Women's Basketball vs Western Washington - NCAA Championship Tournament West Regional first round
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Wildcats of the Week
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Men's Golf
Sylvester Gama carded three consecutive sub-par rounds and finished alone in second place at 7-under par at the Coyote Classic last Monday and Tuesday. Gama, competing as an individual, finished six strokes clear of third place in a standout performance that was bettered only by Cal State San Bernardino's Gene Webster, Jr.
Gama went 2-under in the opening round on the par-70 course at Arrowhead Country Club. He went 1-under in the afternoon. And on Tuesday, Gama's 66 was bettered only by Webster and matched his teammate Kyle Souza for the third lowest round of the tournament.
A 6-foot senior from Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara CC), Gama has now gone under par in eight of his 16 rounds of the 2009-10 season. His stroke average of 72.1 is second on the Wildcats as are his three top-five finishes.
Those efforts have made him easily the team's most improved player thus far this season. His stroke average was 75.3 last season and he had just one top-10 finish - an eighth-place finish at the CCAA Championships.
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Women's Track
There’s something about the annual Chico Multi that always brings out the best in heptathlete Kelly Clancey. For the second straight year, the junior from Modesto earned an NCAA Championships provisional bid in the heptathlon during the two-day Chico Multi, collecting 4,743 total points over the seven events, easily surpassing the 4,400 points needed to secure the provisional bid.
Clancey was the dominant athlete in the 12-person field, taking first place in four of the seven hepthatlon events. She took top honors in the high jump (5 feet, 3.25 inches), long jump (17 feet, 9.5 inches), 100-meter hurdles (15.42 seconds) and the 800-meter run (2 minutes, 20.25 second), while finishing second in the 200-meter dash (26.34 seconds), fourth in the shot put and sixth in the javelin throw.
Clancey, already well ahead of last season's schedule in which she scored a 4,400 in the Chico Multi and went on to post a career-best 4,811 at the CCAA Championships and advance to the NCAA Championships, will try to better her provisional mark March 24-25 at the California Multi, hosted by UC Berkeley.
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3.10.10 | Women's Basketball
CHICO – Back in mid-December, the Chico State women’s basketball team traveled to Bellingham, Wash., taking a 5-0 record into their CCAA/GNAC Challenge opener against Western Washington University. The host Vikings handed the Wildcats their first loss of the season, 80-59, and since then the ’Cats have been hoping for the opportunity to even the score. Friday at Seattle Pacific University’s Brougham Pavilion, Chico State gets the chance to do just that, as the Wildcats and Vikings meet again in the opening round of the NCAA Championship Tournament West Regional.
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3.8.10 | Women's Basketball
SEATTLE - The Chico State women’s basketball team, the No. 6 seed in this weekend’s NCAA Championship Tournament West Regional, will play the first of four scheduled first round games Friday, taking on third-seeded Western Washington University at 12:30 p.m. The game takes place at Royal Brougham Pavilion on the Seattle Pacific University campus. CLICK HERE TO VISIT TOURNAMENT CENTRAL.
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3.7.10 | Women's Basketball
CHICO – The Chico State women’s basketball team has been so successful and accomplished so much this season, that a loss in the California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) Championship Tournament title game was simply not the way the Wildcats deserved to finish the 2009-10 campaign. The NCAA selection committee evidently agreed, as Chico State was one of the eight schools announced Sunday to participate in the NCAA Championship Tournament West Regional, beginning Friday at Brougham Pavilion on the campus of Seattle Pacific University.
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3.6.10 | Women's Basketball
ARCATA – With a win over Humboldt State Saturday in the California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) Championship Tournament final, the Chico State women’s basketball team had a chance to officially punch its ticket to the NCAA Championship Tournament West Regional. But it was not to be – with the Lumberjacks’ convincing 85-55 win over the Wildcats at Lumberjack Arena, it is Humboldt that earns the CCAA’s automatic bid to the West Regional, leaving the ’Cats awaiting Monday’s NCAA selection committee decision as to whether Chico State will be awarded an at-large berth to the West Region…or if the 2009-10 season has come to an end.
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3.5.10 | Women's Basketball
ARCATA – It’s an American tradition to go out and “find yourself” on the nation’s highways and bi-ways. This season’s Chico State women’s basketball team has carried on that tradition. The team the Wildcats eventually found, they like. And now that team has found its way to the California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) Championship Tournament riding a 10-game winning streak, including Friday’s 71-56 thumping of Cal Poly Pomona in the CCAA Championship Tournament semifinals at Humboldt State’s Lumberjack Arena.
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3.4.10 | Women's Basketball
ARCATA – What’s the old saying: “the third time’s the charm”? The Chico State women’s basketball team is hoping that phrase rings true Friday afternoon at Humboldt State’s Lumberjack Arena – after losing a pair of regular season games to Cal Poly Pomona, the Wildcats square off once again with the Broncos, this time in the California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) Championship Tournament semifinals. The 12:30 p.m. game could very well turn out to be the latest in a long string of classic Wildcat contests, with Chico State’s toughest opponent the only team standing in the way of the ’Cats earning the right to play for their second conference tourney title in three years
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3.3.10 | Men's Basketball, Women's Basketball
The Chico State men’s and women’s basketball teams will compete in the California Collegiate Athletic Association tournament semifinals on Friday, March 5 at Lumberjack Arena in Arcata. Both teams will take on Cal Poly Pomona, and tip-off is set for 12:30 p.m. for the women and 5:30 p.m. for the men. The finals will take place on Saturday. The winners of the CCAA Championship Tournament earn an automatic bid in the NCAA Championship Tournament. CLICK HERE TO GO TO WOMEN'S TOURNAMENT CENTRAL. CLICK HERE TO GO TO MEN'S TOURNAMENT CENTRAL.
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