MONMOUTH, Ore. - Katie Torland has been named first team All-Great Northwest Athletic Conference for the second consecutive season, by the conference coaches.
Torland, a senior forward from Burns, Ore. (Burns High School), ranked in the top 10 in the GNAC in points (third, 16.1), rebounds (seventh, 6.9), free throw percentage (sixth, 82.0), three-pointers per game (third, 1.9), three-point percentage (10th, 39.3) and minutes played (seventh, 31.3). Torland also set the GNAC record this season for free throws made (16) and free throws attempted (20) in a single game, while leading the league with 132 total free throws converted.
Torland was one of two repeaters from last year's All-GNAC first team and is the first Wolf since Leada Berkey (2006-07 & 2007-08) to earn back-to-back first team all-conference honors.
Torland also excelled in the classroom this year, en route to earning her first GNAC All-Academic honor with a 3.26 GPA as an Exercise Science major and a Health minor.
2009-10 GREAT NORTHWEST ATHLETIC ALL-CONFERENCE TEAM
Player-of-the-Year: Daesha Henderson, Seattle Pacific
Newcomers-of-the-Year: Kelsie Gourdin, Alaska Anchorage, and Sarah McNamee, MSU Billings
Freshman-of-the-Year: Heather Adams, Northwest Nazarene
Coach-of-the-Year – Julie van Beek, Seattle Pacific.
FIRST TEAM: +*Daesha Henderson, Seattle Pacific (G, 5-8, Sr., Snohomish, WA); Amanda Dunbar, Western Washington (G, 5-9, Jr., Marysville, WA); Lindsay Brady, Northwest Nazarene (G, 5-8, Sr., Boise, ID); Nicci Miller, Alaska Anchorage (F, 5-10, Sr., Denver, CO); *Katie Torland, Western Oregon (F, 5-10, Sr., Burns, OR); Jessica Summers, Western Washington (P, 6-1, Sr., Blaine, WA).
SECOND TEAM: Tamar Gruwell, Alaska Anchorage (G, 5-8, Sr., Fairfield, CA); Megan Hoisington, Seattle Pacific (F, 5-11, Sr., Bremerton, WA); Willow Cabe, Western Washington (F, 6-1, Sr., Elma, WA); Dara Zack, Saint Martin’s (F, 5-10, Jr., Spokane, WA); Kayla Ryan, MSU Billings (C, 6-1, Jr., Big Timber, MT).
HONORABLE MENTION: Janee Olds, Northwest Nazarene (G, 5-8, Sr., Coos Bay, OR); Kristin Hein, Northwest Nazarene (F, 5-11, Sr., Tualatin, OR); Hanna Johansson, Alaska Anchorage (F, 6-2, So., Gothenburg, Sweden); Kelsie Gourdin, Alaska Anchorage (F, 5-10, Jr., Littleton, CO); Sophie Russell, Central Washington (W, 5-10, So., Lacey, WA).