UALR SPORTS INFORMATION
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.—Senior Chastity Reed was named to the John R. Wooden Award Women’s Preseason Top 30 List announced today by the Los Angeles Athletic Club. Reed is the first UALR women’s basketball player to be named to the list which is comprised of 30 student-athletes who, based on last year’s individual performance and team records, are the early frontrunners for this prestigious honor.
The New Orleans, La.-native led the Trojans to the team’s first-ever NCAA appearance and win while averaging team highs of 24.8 points and 7.8 rebounds per game.
The two-time first team All-Sun Belt Conference and 2010 Associated Press Honorable Mention All-America honoree was named to the 2010-11 Preseason “Wade Watch” List.
Reed is the only student-athlete from the Sun Belt Conference named to the list.
The John R. Wooden Award was created in 1976 and is the most prestigious individual honor in college basketball. It is bestowed upon the nation’s best player at an institution of higher education who has proven to his or her university that he or she is making progress toward graduation and maintaining a minimum cumulative grade point average of 2.0.
Previous winners include Larry Bird (1979), Michael Jordan (1984), Tim Duncan (1987), Candace Parker (2007 and 2008), and Maya Moore (2009). Ohio State’s Evan Turner and Connecticut’s Tina Charles won the award in 2010.
