Kerr Honored by the Commonwealth Coast Conference

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. – Student-athletes from all 10 member institutions in the Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) were represented on the 2013-14 All-CCC Women's Basketball Team. In addition to the all-conference team, six major individual award winners and the team sportsmanship award winner were selected.

Roger Williams University senior Kaitlyn Bovee was named CCC Player of the Year and University of New England sophomore Lauren Hayden was selected CCC Defensive Player of the Year. Gordon College freshman Fredi Nielsen was awarded CCC Rookie of the Year and Wentworth Institute of Technology's Kendra Kerr (Marshfield, Mass.) was honored as CCC Senior Scholar-Athlete of the Year. The University of New England's Anthony Ewing and Roger Williams University's Kelly Thompson were both selected as the CCC Coach of the Year, while Gordon received the Team Sportsmanship Award.

Voting for the All-CCC team and each of the major awards was conducted among CCC women's basketball coaches.

Joining Bovee and Kerr on the first team were Kelly Coleman (University of New England), Samantha Crough (Endicott College), Meaghan Harden (Salve Regina University), and Marissa Pendergast (Salve Regina).

Second team honorees included Kylie Beltz (Curry College), Meghan Gribbin (University of New England), Brooke Kratche (Gordon), Ari Renwick (Roger Williams), and Chelsea Vujs (Western New England).

Joining Hayden on the third team were Angelica Ariola (Roger Williams), Kelsey Cuddy (Endicott), Brianna Del Valle (Salve Regina), Ruby Leon (Eastern Nazarene College), Amber Litwinko (Nichols College), Devon Spirka (Nichols), and Kayleen Whall (Endicott).

A Business Management major, Kerr earns senior scholar-athlete accolades after being been listed on the Dean's List every semester, earning Academic All-CCC honors as a sophomore and a junior, and being a part of the following honor societies: Chi Sigma Alpha, Tau Alpha Pi, and Sigma Beta Delta. She has been a Student-Athlete Advisory Committee representative since her freshman year and has been involved in several Special Olympics events held on the Wentworth campus.

On the court Kerr has been a four-year starter who was named honorable mention as a sophomore and second team as a junior before being named first team all-conference this season. In 24 games she is averaging 15.4 points, 8.8 rebounds, 1.9 assists, and 3.3 steals per game. She recorded a career-high 26 points in a 64-61 loss to Lasell on December 12, and, in that game, she became the 10th player in program history to eclipse the 1,000-point mark for their career. She also matched a career high with seven steals on two occasions; in a 77-72, double overtime loss to Eastern Nazarene on February 8, and in a 54-35 win over Nichols on February 22. The latter helped the Black & Gold clinch a spot in the CCC Tournament.

The program's all-time leader in games played (100), Kerr has 93 starts and is averaging 12.8 points, 8.1 rebounds, 1.7 assists, and 2.3 steals per game. She ranks fourth on Wentworth's all-time list in steals, sixth in scoring (1,277 points) and rebounding (812), and seventh in assists (173).

Under the direction of first-year head coach Matt Phippard, Wentworth finished the regular season with an 8-16 record and was 5-13 in conference play, which was god for an eighth-place finish. The Leopards travel to top-seeded University of New England tonight for a CCC quarterfinal contest.