University of Connecticut Athletics
Moore Named ECAC Player of the Year
3/29/2011 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
March 29, 2011
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. - Senior forward Maya Moore has been honored as the Eastern College Athletic Conference Player of the Year while junior guard Tiffany Hayes earned a spot on the Second Team, as announced by the ECAC on Tuesday, March 29. Moore was voted onto the ECAC First Team last season.
Moore, Hayes and the top-ranked Huskies are set to tip-off against No. 2 seed Duke in the Philadelphia Regional Final with the winner earning a spot in the Final Four. Game time is set for 7 p.m. at Temple's Liacouras Center.
Moore was recently selected as a First Team All-American by the Associated Press for the fourth time. She and former Oklahoma standout Courtney Paris are the only student-athletes in history to accomplish that feat. Moore was honored as the BIG EAST Player and Scholar-Athlete of the Year in 2010-11 and also earned mention as the BIG EAST Championship Most Outstanding Player.
She is a finalist for the Wade Trophy, Naismith Trophy, Wooden Award and AP and USBWA Player of the Year Awards.
Hayes, who earned a spot on the All-BIG EAST First Team, is second on the team with 14.0 points per game and leads the squad with 139 made free throws. She has started in all 36 contests for the Huskies this year and is shooting a solid 34.7 percent from beyond the 3-point arc.
2010-11 ECAC Division I Women 's Basketball All-Stars
Player of the Year
Maya Moore Sr. F Connecticut
Rookie of the Year
Alyssa Thomas Fr. F Maryland
First Team
Maya Moore Sr. F Connecticut
Carolyn Swords Sr. C Boston College
Dawn Evans Sr. G James Madison
Jasmine Thomas Sr. G Duke
Erica Allenspach Sr. G Marist
Second Team
Courtney Hurt Jr. F Va. Commonwealth
Elena Delle Donne So. F/G Delaware
Shante Evans So. F Hofstra
Serena Moore Sr. F Siena
Tiffany Hayes Jr. G Connecticut
Sugar Rodgers So. G Georgetown
About the ECAC
The Eastern College Athletic Conference is the nation's largest athletic conference and only multi-divisional conference, with 287 member institutions and over 122,000 student-athletes ranging from Maine to North Carolina and westerly to Illinois. The ECAC publicizes the achievements of over 750 student-athletes annually through the postseason all-stars program. In women's basketball, the ECAC awards one Division I and Division II all-star teams each, and four regional Division III all-star teams (New England, Upstate, Metro and South).
