On the women’s side,
junior Melissa Jones and senior Carrie Yerkey were each named to the
eight-player second team. Eleven players made the 2002 first team, including
Player of the Year Corey Grosskopf from Carroll.
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Glasgow, who scored 1,155 points in his Monmouth career
to rank ninth all-time, made the honorable mention team his freshman and sophomore
season. He’s ranked fourth in assists (249), fourth in steals (111) and third in double
figure games (56). No other MC player in history has been in the top five in steals and
assists and the top 10 in scoring. Glasgow closed his career by making his last
20 free throws to finish the year at 87.0 percent, good for the fourth-best single
season effort in school history. He also pulled his career mark up to 80.9 percent,
fourth-best on the all-time list.
Spranger closed the books on a very successful season by
leading the conference in rebounding and ranking third in scoring and steals. He was
also among the top 10 in field goal percentage, assists and blocks and was ranked 13th
in free throw percentage. The Moline product finished his two-year career at Monmouth
with 736 points.
Other top 10 players in the MWC for the Scots were Glasgow,
who was second in free throw percentage and ninth in scoring; Greg Kloepping, who
was sixth in free throw percentage; Jason Murren, who was fourth in blocked
shots; Rob Purlee, who was eighth in steals, and Mike Roehm, who was
eighth in blocked shots.
Jones, who will shoot for her fourth straight All-MWC
honor next season, will enter the year ranked sixth in scoring (967 points), first in
free throw percentage (75.5 percent) and second in blocks (67) in school history. She
hit an even 80 percent of her free throws this season, the third-best mark in school
history. In terms of MWC statistics, Jones ranked first in blocked shots, fourth
in rebounding, fifth in scoring and free throw percentage, 12th in field goal percentage
and 14th in steals. Monmouth’s other top 10 player was Yerkey, who was fifth in assists
and seventh in assists-to-turnover ratio.
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