Weisner Named Media Player of the Year
March 02, 2016 | Women's Basketball
CORVALLIS – Oregon State continued to bring in the honors this week, taking the top player awards in the Pac-12's media voting. Jamie Weisner was named the conference's Co-Media Player of the Year (split with Oregon's Jillian Alleyne), while Ruth Hamblin earned Media Defensive Player of the Year recognition. Weisner and Hamblin were joined on the All-Pac-12 Team by teammate Sydney Wiese.
Weisner has been one of the top offensive threats in the conference throughout her four-year career. The senior is averaging 17.0 points per game this season, the fourth-best total in the conference, and leads all Pac-12 guards in field goal percentage at 47.8 percent. The Kinesiology major is also shooting 43.0 percent from 3-point range and 87.7 percent from the free-throw line, making her one of the most efficient players in the country. Weisner became the seventh player in Oregon State history to surpass 1,500 points earlier this season, and is currently 42nd in Pac-12 history with 1,630 career points. Possibly most impressively, the guard from Clarkston Washington has played her best in the big games, scoring 12 of her 18 points in the fourth-quarter of the Beavers' comeback at Stanford, and putting up 25 points against both Arizona State and UCLA.
Hamblin, the 2014-15 Pac-12 Media Player of the Year, will go down as one of the best defensive players in the history of the Pac-12. The senior sits just eight blocks short of the conference's all-time career record, and has recorded at least one block in 27-straight games. On the offensive end, Hamblin is averaging 11.4 points and 9.0 rebounds per game this season, and became the 20th player in Oregon State history to pass the 1,000-point mark earlier this season. She played one of her best games of the season on Sunday, finishing with 11 points, 19 rebounds and six blocks. Off the floor, Hamblin has been selected Academic All-District three-straight years, holding a GPA of 3.85 as a Mechanical Engineering major. She is also a finalist for this year's Senior CLASS Award.
. Wiese, a Pre-Communication Major, became the fourth-fastest player in Oregon State history to reach the 1,000-point mark earlier this season, and has already cracked the top-10 in Pac-12 history for career 3-pointers. She currently sits sixth in the nation in career 3-point percentage, and has filled the stat-sheet throughout the season, averaging six rebounds and 4.9 assists per game.
The Beavers locked down a share of the Pac-12 title with their win over California on Sunday, repeating as conference champions. Oregon State (25-4, 16-2 Pac-12) is currently ranked No. 8 in the AP Poll and were tabbed at No. 6 in Monday's NCAA Selection Committee's Top-10.
Oregon State is the No. 1 seed in this week's Pac-12 Tournament, and will face the winner of USC vs. Washington State Friday at 6 p.m. at Key Arena in Seattle.
