2019-20 KJCCC Division I Women's Basketball Awards
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Combining for six conference and two national player of the week honors, Independence's Brittany Reaves and Hutchinson's Abby Ogle highlight the 2019-20 KJCCC Division I Women's Basketball awards.
Receiving his seventh West Division Coach of the Year award, Hutchinson's John Ontjes is joined by a pair of East Coaches of the Year as Coffeyville's Tony Turner and Butler's Mike Helmer receive distinction.
Earning Defensive Player of the Year awards are Deairah Mays of Independence for the East Division with Garden City's Donetria McGee and Northwest Technical's Lauryn Viera sharing West Division honors.
Freshman of the Year awards honored the East's Tamara Nard of Butler while the West again had a split vote with the Seward County duo of Leilani Augman and Karolina Szdlowska sharing the special recognition.
Brittany Reeves
Reeves won her first of two conference weekly honors in week six to also grab the NJCAA's fifth weekly honor in averaging a double-double including forty-three rebounds in a pair of wins.
The week was a synopsis of Reeves' season as the 6'5" sophomore from Macon, Georgia, led the conference at 19.5 points and 15.3 rebounds per game and ranked 2nd in blocks at 2.4 rejections.
In week twelve of the season, Reeves was awarded her second conference player of the week averaging twenty-five points and twenty-four rebounds. Reeves began her week with a twenty rebound six block game to follow it up with a career high thirty-eight points and a KJCCC 3rd most ever twenty-eight rebounds.
Abby Ogle
Ogle had an exceptional sophomore campaign being named the program's fifth Jayhawk West Player of the Year.
Always a staunch defender and player with plenty of hustle stats lining the stat sheet, Ogle added scoring to her resume this season averaging a conference 7th best 15.9 points per game this season.
A four-time conference player of the week, Ogle joined Reeves on the national list in week seven with another all-around performance highlighted by a double-double 23 points on 68.8% shooting and 12 rebounds, to go along with a pair of assists and seven steals.
Ogle led the leagues in steals at 3.8 per game, coming up with 106 total becoming just the sixth Blue Dragon to reach 100 steals in a season and just the second ever in program history recording 200 or more over a two-year career.
The all-around performance ranked Ogle third in three-point shooting (41.6%) and overall shooting at 61.8%, fourth best in assist to turnover ratio at 1.63, fifth best in assists (3.61), top twelve in assists per game (3.61), and within the top twenty in free throw shooting (71.8%) and rebounds (6.3) per game.
Tony Turner
Familiar in the KJCCC at Independence with head coaching stints as the women's and then the men's teams, Turner's first season at Coffeyville produced a second place finish in the East standings at 14-6 and a glossy 25-6 overall record.
Turner's Red Ravens were one of the better shooting teams in the KJCCC, in the top five of both overall and three-point shooting and distributed a second best assist average (16.5) to rank seventh in scoring at 69.1 per contest.
Defensively Turner had the squad equally tough in allowing a fourth stingiest 59.6 points per game and among the top four in lowest opponent shooting categories.
Mike Helmer
In his 12th season, Helmer's back-to-back coaching awards come after the Grizzlies won the Jayhawk East title outright for the second consecutive season, completing the regular season on top at 15-5 and 22-8 overall.
Averaging a fifth best 72.2 points and among the top of the team leaders in most offensive categories, the Grizzlies were equally tough defensively allowing a sixth best 61.1 points in part to commanding the glass with a second most 10.2 rebound edge.
John Ontjes
Now in his 13th season with the Blue Dragons, Ontjes earns his seventh West coaching honor and the first since 2016.
As the Blue Dragons battled through multiple injuries throughout the season, Ontjes' squad won the West title for the eighth time, concluding the regular season at 19-2 amongst conference opponents and No. 9 national ranking with a 27-3 overall record.
The Blue Dragons led the KJCCC in several categories including both ends of the floor scoring 76.5 points while allowing just 51.7 points to rank fourth nationally, field-goal percentage (47.1 percent), 3-point percentage (35.6 percent), assists (18.6 per game), defensive field-goal percentage (30.7 percent) and defensive 3-point percentage (23.9 percent).
DIVISION II WOMEN
CHAMPION CARDINALS NAB 3 OF 4 MAJOR KJCCC AWARDS
By Steve Carpenter
KJCCC Sports Information Directors Association
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The Labette Cardinals women's basketball team may have been a sleeper pick at the beginning of the season, but nobody is sleeping on them now as KJCCC Division I league champions.
The Cardinals nearly made a clean sweep of the league's all-conference honors this year. Denejsha Wilson is the league's Player of the Year, while Diamond Jones is the Defensive Player of the Year and head coach Mitch Rolls is the conference's Coach of the Year. Only Kansas City's Kamryn Estell kept it from being a Cardinals' sweep as she was named the league's Freshman of the Year.
DENEJSHA WILSON – PLAYER OF THE YEAR
The Cardinals' leading scorer in a very balanced offensive attack, Wilson averaged 11.8 points per game, which ranked seventh in the KJCCC. She 13 games scoring in double figures, including a key three-game stretch – at Kansas City, at Highland and Johnson County at home – where she had 20, 23 and 21 points in three Cardinals wins to clinch the KJCCC title.
She averaged 12.2 points per game in conference-only games.
In 24 games played (seven starts), Wilson averaged 4.3 rebounds, 3.1 assists (fourth in KJCCC) and 2.5 steals per game.
Wilson shot 44.7 percent from the field, including 35.2 percent from 3-point range (25 of 72) and she lead the KJCCC in free-throw percentage at 78.5 percent).
DIAMOND JONES – DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR
One of the toughest on-ball defenders in the league, Jones helped the Cardinals make key defensive stops throughout the season en route to a league title.
Jones averaged 1.7 steals per game, but moreover, was able to consistently lock down opposing teams' top scorers. The Cardinals allowed better than 54.4 points per game for the season, only 56. 8 in conference-only games.
MITCH ROLLS – COACH OF THE YEAR
Now in his fifth season at the helm of the Cardinals, Rolls broke through with a conference title, posting a 23-4 overall record and a 9-1 league mark. Labette goes into the postseason riding an eight-game winning streak.
The Cardinals ranked fourth in the KJCCC in scoring offense this season at 74.6 points per game. Defensively, the Cardinals were tough allowing only 54.4 points per outing. Opposing teams shot only 34.7 percent and 27.1 percent from distance.
KAMRYN ESTELL – FRESHMAN OF THE YEAR
The KJCCC's third-leading scorer, Kamryn Estell had an exceptional first season with the Blue Devils.
Estell averaged 15.0 points per game to lead KCK. She was also the league's sixth-leading rebounder with 7.4 boards per game. And she ranked fourth in field-goal percentage at 55.7 percent. Estell got to the free-throw line more than any other conference player, hitting 124 of 189 attempts this season.
Estell had 24 games scoring in double figures with a high of 29 against Southeastern Illinois. She posted five double-doubles this season.