Knoxville, Tenn. - University of Tennessee basketball player Candace Parker has been named an Associated Press first team All-American. This is her second AP award as she was a second-team recipient as a freshman.
"It's a huge honor," Parker said. "I wouldn't be where I am right now without my tremendous teammates."
Parker was a first-team pick on 49 of the 50 ballots from the national media panel that votes in the weekly Top 25, receiving 248 points. The voting was done before the start of the NCAA Tournament.
Through the first 30 games of her sophomore campaign, Parker averaged 19.7 points, 9.7 rebounds and 2.9 blocked shots per contest. Since the NCAA Tournament started and the votes were in, Naperville, Ill., native has shot 74 percent from the field and averaged 20.8 points and 10.3 boards per outing and carried the Lady Vols into their 17th NCAA Final Four.
Joining Parker on the first team were Courtney Paris of Oklahoma (46 first-team votes; 242 points), Duke's Lindsey Harding (44; 234), North Carolina's Ivory Latta (38; 218) and Ohio State's Jessica Davenport (20; 188).
Second team members were Crystal Langhorne (Maryland), Candice Wiggins (Stanford), Sylvia Fowles (LSU), Chrissy Givens (Middle Tennessee) and Angel McCoughtry (Louisville), while the third team included Purdue's Katie Gearlds, UNC's Erlana Larkins, Duke's Alison Males, Ole Miss' Armintie Price and Georgia's Tasha Humphrey.
The Southeastern Conference, which has two of the remaining Final Four teams, placed four student-athletes on the three teams, while the Atlantic Coast Conference had five players.
The 2006-07 AP women's All-America basketball team with school, height, class and key regular-season statistics, followed in parentheses by first-team votes and points awarded on a 5-3-1 basis by a 50-member national media panel:
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