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Campus Review
March 6, 2012
Woodard, Cox Earn Peach Belt
Conference Postseason Honors
by Lee Wright, Sports Information
With the Peach Belt Conference
Tournament on the horizon, the Clayton
State Laker women’s basketball team
picked up numerous postseason awards
from the Peach Belt Conference on
Tuesday.
Forward Tanisha Woodard was selected
both Peach Belt Conference Defensive
Player of the Year and first team All-
Peach Belt Conference for a second
straight season, while Laker head coach
Dennis Cox was honored as the Peach
Belt Conference Coach of the Year for a
second straight season. In addition,
Clayton State guard Brittany Hall was
selected second team All-Peach Belt
Conference and guard Drameka Griggs
was a third team selection.
Woodard, a 5-foot-10 senior from Rome,
Ga., followed up a stellar junior season by
leading the Peach Belt Conference in both
steals and assists, while ranking fourth in
blocked shots and seventh in assist-to-
turnover ratio. She led the conference in
steals for a second straight season and is
also ranked 10th in the nation in steals and
21st in assists.
Woodard set the Peach Belt Conference
career record for steals with 408. That
eclipses the old mark of 407, held by for-
mer Columbus State standout LaShawn
Mincey from 1997-2001. In addition, she
also recorded just the third triple-double
in the history of Peach Belt Conference
women’s basketball with 13 points, 11
assists and 10 rebounds on Saturday
against Georgia College.
Offensively, Woodard is averaging 11.6
points and 5.9 rebounds a game, while
dishing out 148 assists heading into this
weekend’s Peach Belt Conference
Tournament. She scored in double-figures
in 20 games this season, scoring a season
high 18 points against Georgia
Southwestern on 5-for-5 shooting from 3-
point range.
Woodard became the seventh player in
Clayton State women’s basketball history
to eclipse 1,000 career points this season,
and is now ranked second all-time with
1,324 points. She also set the Laker sin-
gle-game record for assists and the career
marks for assists, blocked shots, field goal
attempts and games played.
Hall, a 5-9 senior from Smyrna, Ga., earns
All-Conference honors for the first time in
her career. A two-year starter and three-
year team captain, Hall is averaging 10.3
points, 3.4 assists and 2.9 rebounds a
game this season. She has scored in dou-
ble-figures in 15 games this season with a
season-high 20 points against Montevallo.
Hall is ranked 10th in the Peach Belt
Conference in steals, assists and assist-to-
turnover ratio. This season, she set the
Clayton State career record for 3-point
field goals and became the eighth player
at Clayton State to eclipse 1,000 career
points. Hall is now fifth all-time at
Clayton State with 1,096 points.
Griggs, a 5-5 junior from Ellenwood, was
the Lakers’ spark off the bench both
offensively and defensively with her
tremendous speed and agility. She is aver-
aging 10.7 points, 3.3 rebounds, 2.4
assists and 2.2 steals a game. Griggs
scored in double-figures in 15 games with
a career-high 28 points against Wingate,
plus 20 points against Georgia College.
Griggs is ranked seventh in the Peach Belt
in free throw percentage (.764) and eighth
in steals.
Coming off last season’s NCAA Division
II National Championship, Cox paced the
Lakers to their fifth Peach Belt
Conference regular season championship
in his eighth season at the Clayton State
helm. Overall, this is the third time that
he’s been honored by the Peach Belt, hav-
ing also won the award in 2007. Cox has
paced Clayton State now to eight straight
20-win seasons, and with an overall
record of 210-47 and a winning percent-
age of .818, he is the third-winningest
active head coach in the nation at the
Division II level.
Coach Cox
Woodard
Hall
Griggs
five points, Smith scored again in the lane
to cut the Pacer lead to 49-47 at the 1:16
mark.
Clayton State made a defensive stop and
had a chance to either tie or take the lead.
But a Laker turnover with 35 seconds
remaining put Pacer guard Brittany Hill at
the free throw line. She converted the first
but missed the second, giving the Lakers
another opportunity.
The two teams traded turnovers before
Clayton State had a final shot to tie it with
18 seconds remaining. However, Dixon’s
corner 3-point attempt was off.
Dixon scored 15 points off the bench for
Clayton State, while Woodard scored 11
points and Mobley added nine points.
Woodard and Mobley were both selected to
the All-Tournament team. PBC Tournament
Most Valuable Player Hannah DeGraffinreed
paced USC Aiken with 18 points and Kayla
Harris scored 15 points .
Vs. Aiken, cont’d. from p. 17