Junior Maya Moore and senior Tina Charles are among the 31 preseason candidates for the Women’s Wooden Award, it was announced today. Hartford senior and Bridgeport resident Erica Beverly was also named.
Moore won the award last season.
The Huskies were one of four teams with two players on the list. Ohio State (Jantel Lavender, Samantha Prahalis), Stanford (Jayne Appel, Jeanette Pohlen) and Gonzaga (Heather Bowman, Courtney Vandersloot) were the others.
The Big 10 conference has a list-high five candidates, followed by the Big East, ACC, Big 12 and Pac-10 with four apiece; the SEC (3); West Coast (2); and with the America East, Atlantic 10, CAA, Mountain West and Sun Belt with one.
The Wooden Award Committee will release the Midseason Top 20 list in late December. The National Ballot, consisting of approximately 15 top players who have proven to their universities that they are also making progress toward graduation and maintaining a cumulative 2.0 GPA, will be released in March.
The Women’s Wooden Award All-American Team will be announced during the week of the NCAA Elite Eight. The 34th annual Wooden Award ceremony will held during the weekend of April 9-11.
2009-10 John R. Wooden Award
Women’s Preseason Top 30 List
Jayne Appel (Stanford)
Erica Beverly (Hartford)
Angie Bjorklund (Tennessee)
Heather Bowman (Gonzaga)
*-Jessica Breland (North Carolina)
Tina Charles (UConn)
Alysha Clark (Middle Tennessee)
Allyssa DeHaan (Michigan State)
Tyra Grant (Penn State)
Alexis Gray-Lawson (California)
Allison Hightower (LSU)
Ashley Houts (Georgia)
Ify Ibekwe (Arizona)
Jantel Lavender (Ohio State)
Gabriela Marginean (Drexel)
Danielle McCray (Kansas)
Nicole Michael (Syracuse)
Jacinta Monroe (Florida State)
#$-Maya Moore (UConn)
Jené Morris (San Diego State)
Dierdre Naughton (DePaul)
Ta‘Shia Phillips (Xavier)
Jeanette Pohlen (Stanford)
Samantha Prahalis (Ohio State)
Andrea Riley (Oklahoma State)
Danielle Robinson (Oklahoma)
Jenna Smith (Illinois)
Ashley Sweat (Kansas State)
Carolyn Swords (Boston College)
Courtney Vandersloot (Gonzaga)
Monica Wright (Virginia)
*-Possible 2010 medical redshirt
#-2009 Wooden Award winner
$-2008 Wooden Award All-American
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