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Laput and Timberlake Were Both NE10 Players of the Year.
MANSFIELD, Mass. - Bentley senior guard Zach Laput and Southern New Hampshire graduate guard Adriana Timberlake both earned All-America honors for the second-straight season, as the Division II Conference Commissioners Association (D2CCA), the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) and the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) announced their All-America teams.
Laput, an NABC All-American and D2CCA Third Team All-American, was named the Northeast-10 Conference Player of the Year and the D2CCA East Region Player of the Year for the second-straight time following the 2023-24 season. He finished the year averaging 20.0 points per game - second-most among NE10 players - while ranking in the top 10 in rebounds (7.1 per game), assists (4.3 per game), steals (1.4 per game) and free throw percentage (88.3). Earlier this week, he was named to the NABC All-East District First Team. Laput earned D2CCA Second Team and NABC All-America honors in 2022-23.
Timberlake, a WBCA All-American, was selected as the Northeast-10 Conference Player of the Year for the second consecutive season after leading the league in scoring with 18.4 points per game and ranking third in assists (3.9 per game). She was named to the D2CCA All-East Region First Team following her outstanding performance during the season. Timberlake earned Honorable Mention All-America honors from the WBCA in 2022-23.
A trio of other NE10 women's basketball players were named Honorable Mention All-America by the WBCA - including AIC's Briana Lee, Assumption's Molly Stokes and Bentley's Maggie Whitmore. Lee averaged a near double-double of 18.2 points and 9.4 rebounds per game this season, while Stokes was third in NE10 scoring with 15.4 points per contest. For Whitmore, it is the second-straight season that she has earned Honorable Mention All-America honors.
For the full list of NE10 All-America honorees, please see below.
NABC
Zach Laput, Bentley
D2CCA - THIRD TEAM
Zach Laput, Bentley
WBCA
Adriana Timberlake, SNHU
WBCA - HONORABLE MENTION
Briana Lee, AIC
Molly Stokes, Assumption
Maggie Whitmore, Bentley
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