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Thursday, February 28, 2002 2001-02
SOUTH ATLANTIC CONFERENCE MEN'S AND WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
ALL-CONFERENCE TEAMS AND AWARD RECIPIENTS ANNOUNCED HICKORY,
NC – The 2001-2002 South Atlantic Conference
men’s and women’s basketball All-Conference teams
and award recipients were announced during the
tournament basketball awards and Hall of Fame induction
banquet Thursday night at the Catawba Valley Community
College Arena in Hickory, N.C. Approximately
300 players, coaches, media, support staff and special
guests attended this year’s function, which tips off
the final rounds of the tournament, to be played Friday
and Saturday, March 1-2, in the CVCC Multipurpose
Facility. As part of the festivities, six new members
were inducted into The South Atlantic Conference Hall of
Fame. Dale
Clayton, who guided the Carson-Newman Eagles to their
first conference championship since 1991, was named
Men’s Coach of the Year. He wins the award for the
second time in his 13-year career. Wingate
University’s Lorinza Harrington was named Men’s
Player of the Year. He led the SAC in assists and
steals, ranked among the league leaders in four other
statistical categories. He was named conference Player
of the Week four times. The
men’s Freshman of the Year is Lenoir-Rhyne College
forward Roman Davis. Davis, out of South Stokes High
School in Walnut Cove, N.C., was a key player on a Bears
team that finished in a tie for fourth place in the
conference. He averaged 10.3 points and 4.1 rebounds per
game, while shooting nearly 54 percent from the floor. The
SAC Scholar
Athlete Awards went to Jerome Ramsey of Mars Hill College. Ramsey is a two-year lettermen for the Lions. This year he averaged nearly 9 points per game and led the team in 3-pointers. He scored a season-high 20 points twice. Ramsey has a 3.87 GPA as a Math Education major and has been a member of the Dean’s List three times. In the community, Ramsey has volunteered for Habitat for Humanity, and is active in the United Baptist Church Youth Group, where he has worked with mission trips and teaching Bible school. He also volunteers at various youth basketball camps.
The SAC Scholar Athlete Award is presented to one
athlete from each of the SAC's 14 sports programs and
represents a combination of athletic s kill,
academic achievement, and participation in community
service anleadership roles. The South Atlantic Conference also added six members to its Hall of Fame. The new members are: Charlie Coles, a former SAC Football Defensive Player of the Year at Newberry College; Ann Hancock, the second-leading all-time scorer in women’s basketball from Wingate University; Bill Morningstar, a successful golf, basketball and cross country coach from former SAC member Elon University; Tom Parham, also from Elon, who guided the men’s tennis team to eight SAC championships and three national championships; Allen Morris, a 1956 graduate of Presbyterian College who was an outstanding tennis player and later served as Director of Athletics at PC from 1994-2000; and Mars Hill College basketball standout Susie Hopson Shelton, a former SAC Freshman of the Year, Player of the Year and All-American. ALL-SAC FIRST TEAM
ALL-SAC SECOND TEAM
ALL-FRESHMAN TEAM
COACH
OF THE YEAR: Dale Clayton, Carson-Newman PLAYER
OF THE YEAR: Lorinza Harrington, Wingate FRESHMAN
OF THE YEAR: Roman Davis, Lenoir-Rhyne 2001-02 SOUTH ATLANTIC CONFERENCE MEN’S AND WOMEN’S BASKETBALL STATISTICAL CHAMPIONS The SAC Statistical Champion Award recognizes those individuals and teams that have finished the regular season as SAC leaders in various overall statistical categories. Individual leaders must have participated in 75 percent of the team’s games. MEN’S BASKETBALL
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