Consedine Named as League Rookie of the Week - NAVY OFFICIAL ATHLETIC SITE

Consedine Named as League Rookie of the Week

Fourth award of the year for the freshman

	Cassie Consedine

Jan. 21, 2008

CENTER VALLEY, Pa. - For the fourth time this season, the Patriot League office announced Monday afternoon that Navy freshman Cassie Consedine (Bartlesville, Okla.) was named as the Patriot League Women's Basketball Rookie of the Week.

The award is open only to freshmen in the league.

Consedine averaged 14.5 points, 8.5 rebounds and 3.0 blocks per game in two contests for the Mids last week. After connecting on 5-of-6 shots from the field on her way to scoring 15 points and adding four blocked shots against Lehigh, the 6-3 center tied a career high with a trio of three-point field goals, scored 14 points and grabbed 11 boards to notch her eighth double-double of the season against Lafayette.

The six blocks on the week increases her total to 46 this season. She broke the Navy freshman class record for blocks in a season (previously 21) in her 10th game of year, needs three blocks to set the overall Navy single-season record and already ranks eighth in Navy history for the most blocks tallied in a career.

In addition to leading Navy and ranking among the Patriot League leaders in both scoring and rebounding, Consedine also ranks 11th nationally in blocks per game.

Consedine previously earned the award Nov. 12, Nov. 19 and Jan. 7. Her four weekly laurels places her one behind Becky Dowling's 1994-95 mark of five Patriot League Rookie/Freshman-of-the-Week accolades for the most received by a Mid.

After opening a three-game homestand Wednesday night when the Midshipmen play host to Holy Cross (7 p.m.), Navy will face Army Sunday afternoon (2:30 p.m.) in Alumni Hall.