STANFORD, Calif. – Erica McCall and Karlie Samuelson received recognition from the league's media when their All-Pac-12 votes were announced by the conference office on Wednesday morning.
The Pac-12 media awards are in their eighth year and are in addition to the conference awards voted on by the league's coaches, which were unveiled yesterday. The panel included both local and national media members.
McCall was awarded All-Pac-12 honors by the press for the second consecutive season after averaging team highs in points (15.0), rebounds (8.5) and blocks (1.5). The senior has scored in double figures in all but three games this season, collected 12 double-doubles and leads the conference in offensive rebounds with 3.9 per game.
On watch lists for the Naismith Trophy, Wade Trophy, Wooden Award and Ann Meyers Drysdale Award, McCall is 27th in school history in points (1,278), eighth in rebounds (889) and fourth in blocks (182). She's one of only four players at Stanford with 1,200 points, 800 rebounds and 180 blocks (Jayne Appel, Chiney Ogwumike, Val Whiting) and is one of five players in conference this season in the league's top 10 in both scoring and rebounding.
A psychology major with a 3.58 GPA, McCall is also accomplished in the classroom and earlier this month was selected to the CoSIDA Academic All-District Women's Basketball team for the second consecutive season. She's a finalist for the Senior CLASS Award and will graduate a quarter early, finishing her studies at the end of the winter session.
Samuelson, a league honorable mention selection according to the media last season, moved up to the All-Pac-12 team with a sterling senior campaign in which she's averaged career highs in points (12.5), rebounds (3.7), assists (2.6), field goal percentage (.488) and 3-point field goal percentage (.477). Samuelson is third in 3-point field goal percentage this season and fourth in the nation among active players with a .437 career mark.
The senior is 35th in program history in scoring with 1,068 career points and fourth in 3-pointers made with 224. Her career 3-point percentage is second in the Cardinal record books to Jennifer Azzi (.452) and she will likely go down as owning two of the three best single seasons in terms of 3-point percentage in program history. Samuelson's .473 clip as a junior last season is currently second to Azzi's .495 in 1988-89.
Stanford, the No. 2 seed in the upcoming Pac-12 Tournament, has a bye into the quarterfinals and will play the winner of No. 7 Washington State and No. 10 Colorado on Friday, March 3 at 6 p.m.
