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April
7, 2000 SLOAN NAMED DIVSION II BULLETIN CLINTON,
S.C. — Presbyterian College junior center Rachel Sloan has been selected to the Division II Bulletin Women’s Basketball honorable mention
All-American team announced today. Sloan, a native of
Greenville, S.C., already earned Kodak and Daktronics
honorable mention All-American honors earlier this
season as well as being named to the Daktronics
first team All-Region squad for the second
consecutive season. She led the team in rebounding
(10.4), field goal percentage (52.1%) and steals (2.9),
and finished second in scoring (15.1). She also led the
South Atlantic Conference in steals and ranked in the
top 10 in different seven statistical categories this
season, the most of any women’s basketball player in
the conference. She also led the SAC in double-doubles
(points-rebounds) with 15. Earlier this season, Sloan
became only the 11th Blue Hose player to surpass the
1,000-point plateau. Sloan currently has 1,358 career
points which ranks third in program history and is the
program’s all-time leader in rebounds (854), a record
she obtained also earlier this season. She currently
ranks fourth in steals (206) in program history and
second in the SAC in field goal percentage (55.7%),
sixth in rebounds and steals, and eighth in career
scoring average. Sloan helped lead the 1999-2000 Blue Hose squad to
a school-record 28-2 record this season and a #4
national ranking in the final WBCA/USA
Today NCAA Division II top 25 regular season poll
and #14 in the final poll of the season. The Blue Hose’s record of 28-2 marks the best record in men’s or women’s basketball history at Presbyterian and in the history of the South Atlantic Conference. PC won the SAC regular season title with a 15-1 mark, also the best in league history. The regular season title was Presbyterian’s third straight either shared or outright title. The Blue Hose also won the Food Lion/SAC Tournament title for the third straight season and it was their fourth in the last six seasons. |