by RVINE, Calif. – Riley Holsinger (Nez Perce Tribe) is named GSAC Player of the Year for 2014-2015 and Head Coach Russ Davis is named Co-Coach of the Year. This is the ninth time Davis has received the award and the second straight award for Coach Davis. Holsinger makes it two straight years in which a Vanguard women’s basketball player has won the GSAC Player of the Year award.
The 2014-15 Women’s Basketball All-GSAC Team Presented by Under Armour consisting of 11 athletes is headlined by GSAC Player of the Year Riley Holsinger of Vanguard. GSAC Co-Coach of the Year honors go to Russ Davis of Vanguard, Kirsten Moore of Westmont, and Trisha Stafford-Odom of Concordia.
Holsinger averaged 19.9 points, 7.8 rebounds, 3.0 assists and 2.3 steals per game. The junior guard has scored 30 or more points four times so far this season, including her season-high 37 points in Vanguard’s overtime loss at then No. 9-ranked Concordia, the eventual GSAC Champion. She also tallied eight double-doubles and was named GSAC Player of the Week in January. Holsinger was the 6th highest scorer in the country this season in point per game and was 11th in total points scored.
Samantha Doucette (JR/Irvine, CA) was the other representative from Vanguard on the 2014-2015 ALL-GSAC Team presented by Under Armour. Doucette was second for the Lions in scoring with 16.6 ppg, grabbing 3.5 rpg, and shooting 85% from the free throw line which ranked her fifth in the country . She was the 26th highest scorer in the nation.
Special thanks to Sheri Pine, the Sports Information Director of the Golden State Athletic Conference, for contributing to this press release.
