Dietz Named 2006 NCAA Woman of the Year From NCC
With the 2006-07 women's basketball season only days away, it
might have appeared the Bulldogs are getting comfortable with
Lindsey Dietz on the sideline. Leave it to the
NCAA to rightly honor her and bring her back out onto the court for
one last hurrah. The NCAA has announced that Dietz has been named
the North Central Conference Woman of the Year, capping off a sky
limiting career whose list of awards and honors are for the
ages.
Dietz is one of thirty female athletes from across the country who
were honored by the NCAA through their respected conferences. She
is the second Bulldog in as many years to garner the award, as
Heather Hamilton represented the state of Minnesota in the same
capacity a year ago before the guidelines were changed.
Dietz capped off a remarkable four-year career with he Bulldogs by
being named the Stan Marshall Award winner for the NCC, and was the
recipient of both the UMD Outstanding Senior Female Athlete Award
and the E.L. "Duce" Rasmussen Award (UMD's top scholar-athlete) in
2005-06. This past March the 6-0 forward was chosen to the NCAA
Division II Kodak/WBCA All-America Basketball First Team for a
second straight season and landed her third consecutive Daktronics
All-American honor (second team in 2006, first team in 2005 and
third team in 2004). Dietz, who is only the second three-time
basketball All-American the Bulldogs have ever produced (she joins
NCAA II career scoring leader Dina Kangas, 1987-91 in that elite
group), also was a repeat selection on the All-NCC Team in 2005-06
and received Daktronics All-North Central Region first team
recognition for the third time in as many years. The NCC Player of
the Year as junior and the conference's top scorer in each of the
past two seasons, Dietz holds down the No. 2 spot on UMD's all-time
scoring charts with 2,115 points in 104 games (a 20. 3 points per
outing clip). She is the proud owner of six Bulldog records,
including field goal accuracy in a single season (.664 set in
2005-06) and most free throws made (678) and attempted (721) in a
career. Dietz, the 2005-06 UMD co-captain, holds the distinction of
being the only player to ever lead the Bulldogs in scoring four
times. As a mathematics and psychology double major with a 3.97
cumulative grade point average, Dietz's academic achievements have
been equally as impressive. In 2005-06, she received the
prestigious ESPN The Magazine Academic All-American Player of the
Year award for the second season in a row. She's qualified for the
Dean's List eight semesters while earning NCC/Northern Sun
Intercollegiate Conference All-Academic Team acclaim on three
occasions (2004-06).
--Courtesy UMD Sports Information