Lincoln – Nebraska’s
Crystal Elliott earned Most Outstanding Player Honors and was named to the Women’s Bowling Championship All-Tournament Team by the NCAA.
The sophomore was the lone Husker named to the All-Tournament Team and sixth Husker to win the Most Outstanding Player Award. Her achievement places her alongside Husker elites such as
Raquel Orozco, Liz Kuhlkin, Cassie Leuthhold, Amanda Burgoyne and Lindsay Baker.
Elliott had four top-10 finishes in five regular season tournaments, highlighted by a third-place performance at the Mid-Winter Invite with an average of 228.33. Her other top-10 appearances include fourth at the Columbia 300 Saints (211.67), fourth at the Big Red Invitational (231.00) and 10th at the Music City Classic (207.40).
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Stanford’s Haley Jones Brings Final Four Experience To USA AmeriCup Trials
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Apr 20, 2021
With the depth and balance the Stanford women’s basketball team had this season, it could be easy to overlook the star quality of certain players.
But when the Cardinal made it to the Final Four, the ball seemed to find its way into the hands of
Haley Jones and she more than met the moment.
First Jones hit the go-ahead jumper with 32 seconds left in Stanford’s 66-65 win over South Carolina in the national semifinals. Then she scored 17 points and grabbed eight rebounds in a 54-53 victory over Arizona to give the Cardinal their first national championship since 1992. Jones was named the NCAA Tournament’s Most Outstanding Player, as much for her 41 points in the two Final Four games as for her calm leadership on the floor.
At AmeriCup Trials, USA Basketball Rookies Alongside Experience
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Apr 19, 2021
Her dad played collegiately at Wake Forest and professionally in Germany. But, basketball wasn’t the focus for
Elizabeth Kitley until her sophomore year at Northwest Guilford High School in Greensboro, North Carolina. Instead, she thought her path to a college scholarship would be in softball or maybe even volleyball.
But as it became clear to her that those options might not be ideal, Kitley began to blossom on the basketball court.
Coming off a sophomore season at Virginia Tech in which she averaged 18.2 points and 10.4 rebounds per game, it looks like her future in hoops could be very bright. The 6-foot-5 center’s stock steadily has risen in the past four years to the point where she was one of 20 players invited to the USA Basketball Women’s AmeriCup Team trials. It is Kitley’s first USA Basketball experience.