(10/18/12) Bully Named to SAC Women's Basketball Preseason Team ROCK HILL, SC -- The South Atlantic Conference women’s basketball coaches have voted Wingate No. 1 in the league’s preseason poll, predicting the Bulldogs to repeat as conference champions in 2012-13 as announced by the league office. Catawba, runner-up to Wingate last year were fifth in the poll. Wingate garnered seven of the first-place votes. Lenoir-Rhyne, Newberry and Catawba received the other first-place votes. Catawba sophomore forward Chloe Bully, a member of the 2011-12 SAC All-Freshman Team, earned a spot on the preseason first team all-conference squad. Bully averaged 13.5 points per game and led the conference by shooting 38.2-percent on three-pointers last season. She connected on a school-record 73 three-pointers a year ago. The Lady Indians return just five players from last season. The preseason All-SAC Team is voted on by the conference’s media relations directors. 2012-13 SAC Women’s Basketball Preseason Coaches’ Poll 1. Wingate, 78 (7) 2. Lenoir-Rhyne, 66 (1) 3. Newberry, 58 (1) 4. Tusculum, 54 5. Catawba, 51 (1) 6. Lincoln Memorial, 40 7. Carson-Newman, 39 8. Anderson, 37 9. Mars Hill, 15 10. Brevard, 11 2012-13 SAC Women’s Basketball Preseason All-Conference Team First Team Kendal Baxter, Tusculum* Whitley Culler, Lenoir-Rhyne* Alissa Diaz, Anderson* Haylee Lepaio, Newberry*^ Chloe Bully, Catawba^ Neicey Lewis, Newberry
Second Team Breonda Shannon, Anderson Armeka Booker, Mars Hill^ Janitsha Williams, Wingate April McCann, Tusculum Micheala Watkins, Brevard Sierra Simpson, Anderson^ * 2011-12 All-SAC Second Team ^ 2011-12 SAC All-Freshman Team |