University of Richmond Athletics
Koclanes Garners First Team All-CAA Honors
03/07/2001 | Women's Basketball
March 7, 2001
RICHMOND, Va. - Spider junior point guard Michele Koclanes (Pelham, N.Y./Pelham Memorial) has been named first-team all-Colonial Athletic Association as voted upon by the league's nine head coaches and released by the conference office on Wednesday evening. Koclanes, a leadership studies major, was also selected to the conference's all-academic team.
Koclanes led the Spiders in scoring (12.1 ppg), assists per game (7.4 apg), field goal percentage (.458) and minutes per contest (33.0) this season. She is the program's runaway all-time assists leader with 572 and ranks fourth among the league's all-time leaders in that category. Koclanes averaged a league-best 7.4 assists per game this season. Among NCAA Division I statistical leaders released on March 5, Koclanes ranked eighth among the nation's assists leaders. In addition, with her 208 assists this season, Koclanes broke her own single-season record for a third straight year. She had 200 assists as a sophomore and piled up 164 during her freshman campaign.
Over Richmond's final six games of the season, she averaged 18.7 points per contest as well as 7.3 assists per game and the Spiders were 4-2 in that stretch. She shot 58 percent from the field over the Spiders final six regular season contests. On the campaign, Koclanes registered a team-best 19 double figure scoring games and led or tied the team in single-game assists in 27 of the Spiders 28 contests this year. Heading into her senior season, the Spiders are 40-32 over the past three years when Koclanes earns the starting nod.
The honor marks the first time that Koclanes has been selected to a CAA all-conference team.
Richmond, ineligible for this week's CAA Tournament due to the athletic department's move to the Atlantic 10 Conference as an all-sports member beginning in the fall of 2001, finished the season with a 16-11 overall record and 10-6 conference mark. The win totals mark the program's most since the 1996-97 season when the Spiders were 16-11 and 10-6 in league play.
