Bowling Green State University Athletics
Women's Basketball Falcons Reflect Upon a Special Season
April 14, 2014 | Women's Basketball
Rogers picks up three awards at Sunday night's banquet
Rogers was named the team's Player of the Year in a vote of team members, and also earned the Falcons' Power Player of the Year Award and the Fran and Marty Voll Senior Achievement Award.
Several other team members earned awards as well. Senior Jillian Halfhill was the winner of the Impact Player of the Year and Playmaker of the Year awards, while Deborah Hoekstra was named the team's Most Improved Player. Hoekstra and senior Jill Stein were co-recipients of the team's Scholar-Athlete of the Year award.
For the first time in program history, the Falcon Award was given to the entire team. All 12 team members received at least one vote for the Falcon Award, which is given to the person or persons who embody qualities such as dedication, commitment, effort and being the ultimate team player.
Rogers, a native of West Chester, Ohio (Lakota West), was an All-MAC First-Team selection as well as a WBCA Coaches' All-America Team honorable-mention choice, earning each of those honors for the second time in three playing seasons at BGSU. She finished her BG career with 1,257 points in those three seasons, ranking 16th in school history in career scoring. Rogers earned MAC Player-of-the-Week honors four times in her final season. She led the Falcons in scoring, with 14.5 points per game, and was second on the team with 8.0 rebounds per contest. Rogers also paced BG in field-goal percentage (53.5%), field goals made (178), free throws made (124) and attempted (153) and steals per game (1.7). She finished ninth in the MAC in both scoring and rebounding, and was third in the conference in FG pct., ranking 39th in the nation in the latter category. Rogers scored in double figures 26 times on the year, including a BGSU-best nine games of 20 points or more. She had 10 double-digit rebounding games on the year, and recorded eight double-doubles.
Halfhill, a native of Canfield, Ohio (Canfield), joined Rogers on the All-MAC First Team in 2013-14. Like Rogers, she started all 35 games, and she averaged 13.2 points, 4.0 rebounds and 3.1 assists per game. Halfhill led the team in assists and ranked second in scoring. She paced the Falcons with 73 three-point field goals made, and shot 42.4% from three-point range, leading the MAC and ranking 15th in the entire nation three-point field-goal pct.. Halfhill was third in the conference in three-pointers made. A two-time MAC Player of the Week this season, she scored in double digits in a team-leading 28 games. Halfhill earned MAC Scholar-Athlete-of-the-Week accolades on April 2. Her layup with just 16.8 seconds to go gave the Falcons a 51-50 victory at Iona on Nov. 9, and she also hit the game-winning layup in the final seconds of the Falcons' road win vs. UA (March 8), a victory which helped clinch the MAC's outright regular-season title. Halfhill's one-handed three-point shot in the second half of the Rutgers game (March 31) was the number-three play on ESPN SportsCenter's 'Top Plays' segment that night. After playing just 102 minutes and scoring a total of 25 points as a freshman, Halfhill ended her BGSU career with totals of 932 points and 266 assists.
Hoekstra, from East Lansing, Mich. (East Lansing), blossomed into one of the top sixth players in the MAC in her junior year. She played in all 35 games off the bench, averaging 6.9 points per game. Hoekstra made 41 three-point field goals, the third-highest total on the team, and shot 36.3% from beyond the arc to rank seventh in the MAC in three-point field-goal pct.. She was BGSU's first substitution into the game in 31 of the season's 35 contests, and scored in double figures 10 times. In MAC games only, Hoekstra averaged 7.3 ppg and went 24-of-72 (33.3%) from long range. She was named BGSU's Player of the Game in the Falcons' win over Monmouth at the Basketball Hall of Fame Challenge in Springfield, Mass. (Dec. 1), part of a stretch in which she broke or tied her career scoring high in each of three consecutive games. After posting career totals of 83 points, 13 three-point field goals made, 16 assists and 10 steals over her first two years, Hoekstra had 243 points, 41 successful three-pointers, 35 assists and 27 steals in 2013-14.
Stein, a native of Clyde, Ohio (Tiffin Columbian), started all 35 games, averaging 6.5 points per contest. She led the Falcons in both rebounds (8.5 rpg) and blocked shots (1.1 bpg), and had 2.3 assists per contest to rank third on the team. Stein was sixth in the MAC in rebounding and fifth in blocks. In MAC games only, she had 7.7 points, 8.2 rebounds and 1.4 blocks per game, leading the team in rejections and ranking second in rebounds. Stein scored in double digits nine times on the season, had double-digit rebounding totals in 13 games, and had six double-doubles on the year. She led the Falcons, or tied for the team lead, in rebounding on 18 occasions. That included a monster game at Ohio (Jan. 30) in which she pulled down a whopping 18 rebounds, the highest total by a BGSU player since 1996. Her rebounding total in that game was just two shy of Ohio's team total. Her six double-doubles included the Falcons' second win of the season over Michigan, when she had 10 points, 11 rebounds and five assists in the WNIT's third round (March 27). Stein scored a total of 516 points in her career, and had career totals of 582 rebounds, 124 assists and 76 blocked shots at BGSU.
In addition to the presentation of awards, the crowd was treated to dinner and a season highlight video. Freshman Abby Siefker delivered the invocation, and Siefker, fellow freshman Rachel Konieczki and redshirt sophomore Erica Donovan received letter jackets after officially becoming BGSU first-year letterwinners. The team's three seniors – Halfhill, Rogers and Stein – had the opportunity to speak, sharing their thoughts and memories on their four years at BGSU.
The 2013-14 Falcons went 30-5 overall under head coach Jennifer Roos, winning the MAC's regular-season title with a 17-1 league record. BGSU won more than 20 games for the 11th consecutive season, a MAC record, and the Falcons became only the second team in MAC history to win as many as 30 games in a season (joining the 2006-07 BGSU team). BG advanced to national postseason play for the 10th consecutive year, qualifying for the WNIT, and the Falcons won three national postseason games in a season for the first time in program history, before losing to eventual tournament champion Rutgers in the quarterfinal round.
The team's seniors were part of 106 wins during their time at BGSU, with an overall mark of 106-28 and a MAC regular-season record of 55-11 over the last four seasons. That is an average of 26.5 overall wins and 13.75 MAC victories per year. BGSU won three MAC East Division titles, including two outright conference regular-season championships, during that time, advancing to national postseason play in all four seasons.
2013-14 BGSU WOMEN'S BASKETBALL AWARDS
* Player of the Year: Alexis Rogers
(Sponsored by Dan Long/Long's Cleaners)
* Falcon Award: BGSU Team (award given to all 12 players)
(Sponsored by Joan Slebos)
* Power Player of the Year: Alexis Rogers
(Sponsored by George & Susan Lang)
* Playmaker of the Year: Jillian Halfhill
(Sponsored by Ron Thompson)
* Impact Player of the Year: Jillian Halfhill
(Sponsored by Bill Lloyd)
* Most Improved Player: Deborah Hoekstra
(Sponsored by Larry & Fran Weiss)
* Scholar-Athletes of the Year: Deborah Hoekstra & Jill Stein
(Sponsored by Steve & Rhonda Melchi)
* Fran & Marty Voll Senior Achievement Award: Alexis Rogers
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