The Big South announced its postseason honors on Tuesday and the Winthrop Women's team is well represented. The complete release can be found here... It turns out all of politicking paid off as Coach Spenser Smith was named Big South Coach of the Year. Of course when I wrote that blog the Eagles were in fourth place, they of course finished in a five-way tie for first and grabbed the top-seed. The award was deserved before they got the top-seed but it must have been unanimous afterwards.
Courtney Durbin, Allie VandeWater and Katie Perkinson all are well deserved of first-team honors. Durbin scored six goals in nine conference games after beginning the season as a defender. Four of her goals were game-winners. Hard to argue with any of the picks on the All-Conference Teams, Che Brown of Radford and Marky Boyce of CSU certainly were deserving of their honors.
Now for the tournament which begins tomorrow in Radford. The top seed has not won the event since 1997. Last season, the top four seeds all lost in the quarterfinals. This tournament has not been kind to high seeds in recent years. What is interesting is the top five teams are all seemingly the same. Obviously with five co-champions there is no clear cut favorite. This should make for an exciting tournament.
Remember all matches will be video streamed on the Big South Network. If you want to listen at work for FREE, you can do that here. And of course you can follow Winthrop athletics on Facebook and twitter to get updates as well. Also look for video highlights after the match as well as thoughts from Coach Smith on Youtube and Winthropeagles.com.
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