Bowling Green State University Athletics
Four Falcons Earn All-MAC Honors
March 06, 2006 | Women's Basketball
March 6, 2006
CLEVELAND, Ohio - For the first time in 12 years, the Bowling Green State University women's basketball team has had four players named to the All-Mid-American Conference Team. Juniors Ali Mann, Liz Honegger and Carin Horne and sophomore Kate Achter earned the honor, the league office announced Monday morning (March 6). Mann earned first-team honors, while Achter and Honegger were named to the second team and Horne picked up third-team accolades.
Mann is the first Falcon to be named to the all-conference first team in six years, since Francine Miller in 1999-2000. The All-MAC Team is the result of voting by the league's head coaches.
 Kate Achter was named to the All-MAC Second Team (photo by Dave Yoblick)  |
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 ... while Liz Honegger joined Achter on the all-league second team (photo by Brad Phalin) |
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Mann earns all-league honors for the third-straight year, having been named to the second team last season after earning honorable mention as a freshman. Honegger and Horne garner all-league accolades for the second time in their respective BGSU careers. Honegger is a repeat selection to the second team, while Horne was an honorable-mention pick last year. Achter was named to the MAC's All-Freshman team a year ago.
Mann, a native of Chelsea, Mich. (Chelsea H.S.), leads the Falcons in scoring, with 14.7 points per game, and is second in rebounding (7.3 rpg). She averaged a team-best 14.9 points along with 6.8 boards in the Falcons' 16 MAC games, all wins. Mann has scored in double digits in 23 of the Falcons' 27 games, including five games of 20 points or more. The fourth-fastest player in school history to reach the 1,000-point mark for her career, Mann -- just a junior -- currently ranks 11th on the BGSU list with 1,227 career points.
Achter, a native of Oregon, Ohio (Clay H.S.), averages 11.0 points, 4.4 boards and a team-leading 4.7 assists per game. She is fourth on the Falcons in scoring and third in rebounding. Achter currently ranks second in the MAC in assists and fourth in assist/turnover ratio (1.53). In MAC games, she averaged 11.2 points, 4.5 rebounds and 4.4 helpers per game, and was second in the league in assist/TO ratio, at 1.64. Over her career, the Falcons have a record of 45-6 when Achter is in the starting lineup.
 Carin Horne earned all-league third-team honors (photo by Brad Phalin) |
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Horne, a product of Lima, Ohio (Lima Senior H.S.), ranks third on the team with 11.7 points, and also has 4.1 rebounds and a team-high 2.2 steals. Horne is second on the team with 41 three-pointers made, and -- like Achter and Honegger -- has scored in double digits in 18 games this season to date. In MAC play, she averaged 12.0 points and 3.3 rebounds, and had a team-best free-throw percentage of 90.0%. Horne enters the Kraft MAC Tournament with a career total of 877 points.
The 2005-06 season marks the third-straight year that BGSU has had at least three players selected to the all-league team. Prior to the current run, BG had not had more than one all-conference pick since 1997-98.
The Falcons are 25-2 overall, and BGSU became the fifth team in MAC history to finish the regular-season schedule without a loss, going 16-0 in league play. BGSU, the East Division's number-one seed for the Kraft MAC Tournament, will meet Northern Illinois (West #4) in Wednesday (March 8) action at Quicken Loans Arena in downtown Cleveland. That quarterfinal game is scheduled to begin at 5:30 p.m.
The MAC's specialty award winners (Player of the Year, Coach of the Year, etc.) will be announced at the Kraft MAC Tournament banquet on Tuesday night (March 7) in Cleveland.
The complete 2005-06 All-MAC and All-Freshman teams ...
ALL-MAC TEAMS
(as voted by league head coaches)
First Team Ali Mann, Bowling Green Ryan Coleman, Eastern Michigan Lindsay Shearer, Kent State Carrie Moore, Western Michigan Casey Rost, Western MichiganSecond Team Kate Achter, Bowling Green Liz Honegger, Bowling Green Patrice McKinney, Eastern Michigan Nikki Knapp, Eastern Michigan Stephanie Raymond, Northern Illinois
Third Team Jessie Crooks, Akron Julie DeMuth, Ball State Carin Horne, Bowling Green Cindi Merrill, Miami Heather Turner, Buffalo
Honorable Mention (six members due to a tie in voting) Ann Skufca, Central Michigan Malika Willoughby, Kent State Kristin Wiener, Northern Illinois Rachel Frederick, Ohio Simone Redd, Ohio Danielle Bishop, Toledo
All-Freshman Team Niki McCoy, Akron Jamie Schiebner, Buffalo Jenna Schone, Miami Rachel Frederick, Ohio Diana Reindl, Toledo
