Hairston and Comfort Win Big in Atlantic 10 Women's Basketball All-Conference Awards

Feb. 27, 2007

PHILADELPHIA - Temple University senior Kamesha Hairston was tabbed the 2007 Atlantic 10 Conference Women's Basketball Player of the Year, in a poll conducted by the Conference coaches. Temple has now featured the last three Player of the Year honorees after Candice Dupree (`06) was a two-time winner from 2005-06. Hairston was also voted to the Conference's First and Defensive teams. Junior center Lady Comfort was named the Most Improved Player of the Year. She was also selected to the A-10 Second Team.

Guard LaKeisha Eaddy was named to the All-Rookie Team, marking the first time since the 2003-04 season that a Temple freshman has been voted to an All-Conference squad.

Hairston ranks first in the Conference in scoring (19.3) and third in rebounding (8.8) while leading her team to a first round bye in the 2007 A-10 Championship. The senior from Toledo, OH, finished the regular season tied with a league-leading 11 double-doubles en route to earning five A-10 Player of the Week honors. She led the Owls to their fourth straight 20-win season with a 23-6 mark and has helped Temple win 19 of its last 21 games entering the Atlantic 10 Championship. A two-time All-Conference honoree, this is the first individual award for Hairston since earning the A-10's Most Improved Player Award in 2005.

Comfort is the Most Improved Player of the Year. Hailing from Pensacola, FL, the center returned after a solid sophomore campaign of averaging 7.4 points and 6.2 rebounds in 32 games to be the second leading scorer for Temple with a 13.0 points per game average. She is also second on the team in rebounds with 6.8 boards per game. The junior posted a career-high of 26 points versus Rhode Island (1/26), and grabbed a career-high tying 13 rebounds on three different occasions.

Eaddy is averaging 7.1 ppg and 2.7 rpg in 29 starts for the Owls. After becoming the first freshman to start in the Staley era, the Columbia, Md. native led Temple in assists (112) and finished third in the A-10 in helpers and assist to turnover ratio (1.60). Known mostly for her defensive skills, Eaddy also proved that she can score, leading the Owls to a win over Villanova with a career-high 20 points and five assists.

Temple finished the regular season with a 23-6 overall record and a 13-1 mark in the A-10. As the #2 seed, the Owls will face the winner of the St. Bonaventure/Massachusetts opening round game on Saturday, March 3 at 4 p.m.

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Hairston and Comfort Win Big in Atlantic 10 Women's Basketball All-Conference Awards

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