Weisner and Hamblin Named All-Region
March 22, 2016 | Women's Basketball
CORVALLIS – Oregon State standouts Jamie Weisner and Ruth Hamblin were tabbed as All-Region selections by the Women's Basketball Coaches' Association, the WBCA announced Wednesday morning.
Weisner and Hamblin are two of the eight players selected in Region 5. The All-Region honorees from all five regions are now All-America finalists, with the final WBCA All-America team slated for release on April 2.
Weisner, who was honored as Pac-12 Player of the Year earlier this month, will go down as one of the best players in Oregon State history. She sits sixth in school history with 1,714 career points, second in in 3-pointers made (243) and is tied with Sydney Wiese for the Oregon State lead in 3-point percentage (40.8). One of the best rebounding guards in the Pac-12 throughout her career, Weisner has tallied 14 career double-doubles and has pulled down 697 boards over the course of her four years, the eighth-best total for an Oregon State player.
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 48.2 percent. The Kinesiology major is also shooting 43.5 percent from 3-point range and 87.1 percent from the free-throw line, making her one of the most efficient players in the country.
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, who was named the Pac-12's Defensive Player of the Year for the second-consecutive season earlier this month, set the Pac-12 record for career blocks during the Pac-12 Tournament. She has recorded a block in 32-straight games, and is flying up the Oregon State rebounds list, needing just six more to match the Beavers' career record.
The 6-foot-6 Canadian, who has earned All-Pac-12 honors two-straight seasons, is ninth in school history with 1,296 points. She is averaging 11.9 points and 9.9 rebounds per game this season. Her 23-point, 20-rebound performance in the Pac-12 title game was the third 20-20 game in school history, and the Beavers' first since 1990. The showing also matched the Oregon State single game record for rebounds.
Off the floor, Hamblin has been named an Academic All-America First Team honoree, as a Mechanical Engineering major with a 3.85 GPA. She has been named an Academic All-District selection three straight years, and is one of 10 finalists for this year's Senior CLASS Award.
The Beavers are headed to their first Sweet 16 in 33 years this week, as the head to Dallas to take on DePaul on Saturday. The game will air live on ESPN.
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