PORTLAND, Ore.  –
Kayleen Goggins is a first-team Great Northwest Athletic Conference honoree, and
Alisha Breen was awarded an honorable mention as announced by the conference office Tuesday.
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"I am happy for both Kayleen and Alisha for earning all-conference honors," MSUB head coach
Kevin Woodin said. "Kayleen had been a very consistent and impressive senior season. Alisha has established herself as one of the top younger players in the league this year. Both of them are very deserving of their respective post season honors."
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 Goggins, a forward from Shepherd, Mont. averaged 20.0 points her senior season. She is ranked in the top-20 in the GNAC in points, rebounds, field-goal percentage, assists, and steals
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Her 20.0 points per game ranks 20
th in the nation amongst NCAA Division II women's basketball athletes and second in the conference. She is ranked eighth in rebounds with 6.5 and 16
th in field-goal percentage at 46.3 percent. Goggins is also No. 18 in both assists (2.2) and steals (1.3).
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Goggins set a new career-high this season against Northwest Nazarene with 28 points. During the game she shot 68.8 percent (11-16) and was 4-4 from the free-throw line with six rebounds. Goggins had two double-doubles this year and matched her career-high in rebounds with 12 in a contest against Western Washington.
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Goggins was awarded GNAC Player of the Week honors this season for the week of Jan. 26-Feb. 1. She totaled 50 points, 10 rebounds, five assists, two steals and one block while shooting 59.4 percent (19-of-32). During the home-hosted 2014 Yellowjacket Women's Basketball Classic, Goggins was named an all-tournament selection.
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Her senior season, Goggins started all 28 games for the Yellowjackets. She is a 3-time academic all-conference honoree, holding a cumulative 3.61 GPA in elementary and special education.
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Goggins finishes her women's basketball career as a Yellowjacket with 1,456 career points, ranking her No. 7 all-time at MSUB, and 595 rebounds, tying her for 13
th all-time with Teri Weiderrick.
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Breen is a sophomore forward from Choteau, Mont. This season Breen averaged 15.5 points and 7.8 rebounds per game. She was top-5 in both categories in the conference almost every week this season, and currently sits at No. 5 in both spots.
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For the season, Breen was second on the team in field-goal percentage (44.4 percent) and second in free-throw percentage (83.3 percent). She started every game this season for the Yellowjackets, and averaged a team-high 33.6 minutes on the floor.
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Breen completed five double-doubles this season including a career-high 16 rebounds last week against Alaska Fairbanks. She also set a new career-high of 30 points against Montana Tech where she shot 10-16 from the floor and was 8-8 from the free-throw line.
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Accolades for the sophomore this season include being named to the 31
st Annual Al Kaly Classic all-tournament team in Pueblo, Colo., and she was the MVP of the 2014 Yellowjacket Women's Basketball Classic held in Billings. She is also an academic all-conference honoree this season, holding a 3.82 cumulative GPA in health and human performance.
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Erin Chambers from Simon Fraser was named the GNAC Player of the Year. Freshman of the Year was awarded to Central Washington's Jasmin Edwards. Alaska Anchorage picked up three major awards this season: KiKi Robertson was named Defensive Player of the Year, Newcomer of the Year was awarded to Megan Mullings, while the Seawolves head coach Ryan McCarthy is this season's Coach of the Year.