Melanie Carter earns another honor
Division II Bulletin names sophomore honorable mention all-America
For immediate release 08 April 2002
ABILENE -- ACU sophomore Melanie Carter has been named honorable mention
all-America by Division II Bulletin, a newsletter that covers NCAA Division
II women's basketball.
The award is the latest in a long line of awards for the 6-2 center from
Lubbock, who has led the Wildcats in both scoring and rebounding in each
of her first two seasons.
Prior to her award from Division II Bulletin, Carter was named honorable
mention all-America and first team all-district by WBCA / Kodak. Carter
-- the LSC South Division Pre-Season Player of the Year and a Division II
Bulletin Pre-Season all-America -- has already been voted to the Verizon
academic all-District VI first team and has also been named first team academic
all-LSC South Division.
She was also named first team all-LSC South Division and the division's
Player of the Year last season after leading the LSC in scoring at 20.5
points per game.
Carter followed her fabulous freshman season in 2000-01 with a spectacular
sophomore year. She led the LSC in scoring (20.5 points per game), field
goal percentage (67.9 percent on 165 of 243 shooting from the field), and
blocked shots (3.1 per game), and finished third in rebounding (9.9 rebounds
per game).
Despite missing two games during the season with a knee injury, she still
collected 12 double-doubles in 24 games, giving her 24 double-doubles in
52 career games. Her 1,039 career points is the second-highest total ever
by an ACU player in her freshman and sophomore seasons (Claudia Schleyer
holds the record with 1,269 points in 1982-83 and 1983-84).
She is on pace to score 2,078 career points, which would be third on
ACU's all-time scoring list behind Schleyer (2,770 points) and Jennifer
Clarkson-Frazier (2,463 points), who rank second and seventh, respectively,
on the all-time NCAA Division II scoring list. Carter would be only the
third ACU basketball player -- male or female -- to top the 2,000-point
plateau.
