BLOOMINGTON, Minn.—Junior Aliah Curry (Windsor, Mass.) of the Norwich University women's basketball team has been named to the D3hoops.com 2014 All-Northeast Regional Fourth Team, as announced by the organization on Monday morning. Senior Lianna Carrero (Hamden, Conn.) of Albertus Magnus College was named to the D3hoops.com All-Northeast Region Third team.
Curry, who ranked second in the Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) in points per game for the entire season, earns the D3hoops.com regional distinction for the first time in her career. Earlier this month, she was named a GNAC All-Conference First Team selection.
Curry was the workhorse for the Cadets this season, as she led the team in points per game (22.2), field goals (186), three-point field goals (71), free-throws made (180), free-throw percentage (.853), and steals (46). She finished the season ranked 12th in all of Division III in points per game and 43rd in free-throw percentage.
The junior guard also achieved a series of school milestones this season, as she became the all-time leading scorer in the Cadets' final home game against Albertus Magnus on Feb. 15th and concluded the season with 1,671 career points. She also set a new single-season scoring record in Norwich's GNAC semifinal win against Johnson & Wales University on Feb. 28th with 623 points. She now holds three of the top-six slots on Norwich's single-season scoring list.
Haley Kanner, a junior forward from Tufts University, was named the Region's Player of the Year, while her coach, Carla Berube, was honored as the region's Coach of the Year. Forward Alycia Rackliffe of Framingham State was honored as the Northeast Region Rookie of the Year.
Joining Kanner on the first team was Leslie Leong of Wellesley, Meredith Kelly of Bates, Hannah Brickley of Trinity (Conn.), and Vandell Andrade of Rhode Island College.
Senior Lianna Carrero (Hamden, Conn.) of Albertus Magnus College was named to the D3hoops.com All-Northeast Region Third team. Carrero and Curry were the only two GNAC student-athletes to earn regional recognition. Curry was also one of two selections from a Vermont school, as senior guard Alyssa Leonard of Castleton was named to the second team.
Carrero, who was most recently named the 2014 Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) Player of the Year, is currently second in the nation (Division III) in points per game with a 25.2 average. She is the only Academic All-American in Albertus Magnus College history and has earned that recognition the last two years.
Carrero earned numerous GNAC Player of the Week honors throughout the year and led the conference with 25.2 points per game and a 41.1 three-point shooting percentage.
She was also named to the GNAC All-Conference First Team for the second-straight year, while it was her third year earning GNAC All-Tournament Team honors after being named to the Third Team as a sophomore.
Throughout her career, she led the Falcons each season with in total points and points per game.This past season, she became the program's all-time leading scorer, surpassing Natalia Perlaza's '05, as Carrero finished her career with 1,905 points.
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