Women's Basketball Release - All-ODAC - Guilford College

Greensboro, NC (02/27/03) -- Guilford's Courtney Hill (Kannapolis, NC/North Rowan) and A.J. Robertson (Eden, NC/Morehead) earned second team All-Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) honors, the league announced Wednesday night at its annual banquet in the Salem (VA) Civic Center. Freshman guard Jennifer King (Reidsville, NC/Rockingham County) received honorable mention recognition.

The league's 11 head women's basketball coaches made the all-conference selections.

Roanoke senior guard Katrina Williams received the ODAC's Player of the Year Award, while Randolph-Macon's Megan Silva claimed the Freshman of the Year prize. Emory & Henry Joy Scruggs won the ODAC's Coach of the Year Award.

Hill, the 2001-02 ODAC Freshman of the Year, leads Guilford's scorers and ranks ninth in the conference with 13.2 points per game. The sophomore also tops the club and stands 11th in the league with 6.3 rebounds per contest. Her team-leading .604 field-goal percentage ranks second among the ODAC's best. Hill rejoined the Quakers in January after spending the fall semester at UNC Greensboro, where she did not play basketball. Guilford has won 16 of 19 game with Hill in the lineup and the 5-8 forward led the team's scorers eight times. She has a squad-best three double-doubles and 14 games with 10 or more points. Hill netted a season-high 23 points in a January 8 win over Roanoke and had 10 markers plus a career-high 13 boards in a double-overtime victory over Bridgewater January 18. She received the league's Player of the Week Award for her play in the week of January 6.

After averaging 5.0 points per game in two seasons as a reserve, Robertson is scoring 12.3 points per outing as a junior and has 17 games with 10 or more points. She also contributes 3.3 rebounds and 1.4 assists per game. A 5-9 guard, Robertson notched her first college double-double with 15 points and a career-high 11 rebounds in Guilford's 77-70 victory over regionally ranked Ferrum February 4. Over the last 13 games, Robertson leads the Quakers with a 13.4 points per game average and has made 21 of her career-high 26 three-point baskets. She scored a career-high 19 points in Guilford's January 19 win at Roanoke. Robertson earned first team Verizon Academic All-District III honors last week after receiving second team Verizon All-District III volleyball recognition in the fall.

King enters the ODAC Tournament second to Hill on the Quakers' scoring chart and 10th in the ODAC with 13.0 points per game. A 5-8 guard, she leads the Quakers and ranks among the top-11 in the league in assists (2.92) and steals (2.00) per game. Her team-high 29 three-pointers rank eighth on Guilford's single-season list and mark the most trifectas in a season by a rookie. King has led Guilford's scorers six times, including in her first college game when she tallied a career-high 19 points against Thomas More. She scored 17 points and led Guilford with seven rebounds, six assists and six steals in a January 5 win at Virginia Wesleyan.

Coach Barb Bausch's Quakers (19-6, 16-4 ODAC) earned the top seed for the ODAC Tournament for the second straight season and open play Thursday (2/27) with a quarterfinal contest versus Hollins at 12:30 pm in the Civic Center. The tourney champion earns the ODAC's automatic bid to the NCAA playoffs. Guilford is the two-time defending league champion.