ABILENE – ACU sophomore guard Mack Lankford has been voted to the Daktronics women's basketball all-America team, which was announced Tuesday.
Lankford – a first team member of the Daktronics all-South Central Region – was voted to the third team all-America squad. She is joined on the third team by Chelsea Carlisle of California-San Diego, Hanna Johanson of Alaska-Anchorage, Jewel White of Franklin Pierce (N.H.), and Cassie Morgan of Northern Kentucky.
The first team is comprised of national Player of the Year Jaymee Carnes of North Georgia College and State, Kari Daugherty from Ashland (Ohio), Ashley Arlen from Wayne State (Neb.), Satoria Bell from Newman (Kan.), and Laurent Battista from Bentley (Mass.).
The second team is comprised of Lydian Bridenbaugh of West Virginia Wesleyan, Kaitlin Snyder of Fairmont State (WVa.), Veronica Walker of Delta State (Miss.), Jolysa Brown of Concord (WVa.), and Christine Wooding of Philadelphia (Pa.).
Honorable mention selections were Ebonie Williams of Emporia State (Kan.), Felicia Joyner of C.W. Post (N.Y.), Brittany Cox of Pfeifer (N.C.), Tanisha Woodard of Clayton State (Ga.), Kelly Meredith of Assumption (Mass.), Shayla Washington of BYU-Hawaii, Christina Whitelaw of Colorado Christian, Michaela Hawley of Florida Southern, and Angie Jetvig of Minnesota State-Moorhead.
The team is sponsored by Daktronics, Inc., an acknowledged world leader in scoring, timing and programmable display systems for virtually every sport at every level of competition. The team is voted on by the members of the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).
Lankford – a first team all-Lone Star Conference selection in 2012 – led the league in scoring at 21.5 points per game and led the Wildcats in assists (3.1 per game) and was fourth in rebounds (4.3 per game).
Lankford played in just 21 games (20 starts) in 2011-12 because of a shoulder injury suffered late in the Wildcats' Dec. 17 overtime win at Eastern New Mexico. ACU went 0-3 in league play without its leader, and those three losses were a factor in the team missing the LSC Post-Season Tournament.
But she still posted four games of 30 points or more to give her seven in her career, including a career-high 38-point effort against Texas A&M-Kingsville on Feb. 19. She also had 33 against Texas-Permian Basin on Nov. 22, 31 vs. Tarleton State on Feb. 14, and 31 vs. Eastern New Mexico on Feb. 11.
Lankford is the first ACU guard to be voted all-America since Anita Vigil was voted Women's Basketball Coaches' Association-Kodak honorable mention all-America in 1990-91.
