Emory Women's Basketball Puts Two On All-UAA Honors List

(Mar. 4) - Two members of the 2008-09 Emory University women's basketball squad have been selected to the All-University Athletic Association Team.  The all-league honorees were chosen by the conference coaches.

Leading the way for Emory was senior Lora Turner (Florence, AL) who landed her second straight berth on the first team. The 5-foot-11 Turner led Emory in scoring with a 16.8 points per game average in both overall and conference action, good for the No. 2 position among UAA performers.  In addition, she grabbed a team-high 6.4 rebounds per outing (7th in the UAA) in all games while her 7.3 per-game showing league affairs ranked her sixth on the conference ladder. 

She paced the team and the UAA with a school seasonal record of 59.6 percent mark from the floor (174-of-292) in overall play while her 61.1 percent mark in league contests (99-of-162) also topped the league chart.  One of two Emory players to have started all 25 games, Turner scored in double figures on 23 occasions and produced 10 performances of 20 or more points.  She either led or shared for the team's scoring lead in 18 outings and finished as the club's leading rebounder in 12 games as well.  Career-wise, she registered 10 or more points in 74 of 99 games and came through with 18 contests of 20 or more points.  She finished as the school's No. 3 all-time leading scorer (1,312 pts) and held down the No. 8 spot in rebounding (615) and the No. 2 slot in field goal percentage (.533). Turner becomes just the third player in school history to have earned a pair of first-team berths on the All-UAA Team, joining Mandy Jackson (1993 & 1994) and Alicia Moore (1996, 1997 & 1998).

Junior LeShonda Lillard (Bloomington, IN) was the other Eagle to be recognized with her second straight honorable-mention selection.  The 5-foot-6 Lillard averaged 4.0 assists per game in overall play, good for a first-place tie among UAA cagers, while her mark of 4.2 in conference games topped all players.  She scored in double figures in 13 affairs and her 11.9 points per game average in league contests ranked her eighth on the UAA ladder.  Lillard finished with a team-leading 69 steals, second on the school's seasonal list, and her average of 2.92 thefts per game was fourth among UAA players.  She had steals to her credit in 22 of the 24 contests she saw action in and recorded two or more steals in 20 games.

Emory concluded the season with an overall record of 13-12, 4-10 in UAA action.