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