Jessica McGinness Named Co-Commonwealth Conference Rookie of the Year
Annie McMahon earns First-Team All-Conference Honors
McGinness, Jacqueline Hardwick named to Second-Team

Reading, PA - Freshman guard Jessica McGinness (Norristown, PA/Kennedy Kenrick) was named the Commonwealth Conference co-Rookie of the Year on Thursday. She was also named to the All-Conference Second-Team. Junior guard Annie McMahon was named to the Commonwealth All-Conference First-Team after earning second-team honors as a freshman and sophomore, while senior Jacqueline Hardwick joined McGinness on the All-Conference Second-Team.

McGinness finished the season as the leading scorer for the Lady Lions, pouring in 13.5 points per game. That total ranked her fourth in the conference. McGinness was seventh in the conference in field goal percentage, shooting 43.4% from the field. She was honored as the Commonwealth Player of the Week on two occasions, the first coming on January 7 and the second on February 11. McGinness ins sharing the Rookie of the Year award with Lebanon Valley's Lori Lidlow.

McMahon earned First-Team All-Conference honors after putting together a tremendous all-around season. She finished in the top 10 in the conference in five different categories this winter. McMahon led the conference in the steals with 3.04 per game, was second in free throw percentage at 81.8%, finished sixth in scoring with 11.3 points per game, was eighth in rebounding, grabbing 5.9 boards per game, and finished 10th in field goal percentage, shooting 42.5% from the floor. Her 76 steals on the season are the fourth-highest single-season total in school history. McMahon tied her career high scoring output with 28 points February 13 at Elizabethtown.

McMahon adds this honor to a pair of Second-Team All-Conference nods in her freshman and sophomore years. She was also named the Commonwealth Rookie of the Year as a freshman in 2006.

 

Hardwick turned in another solid season for the Lady Lions, putting herself among the top of the conference ranks in a number of statistical categories. She collected a team-leading 6.8 rebounds per game to rank third in the conference while averaging 9.6 points per game. Hardwick was ninth in the conference in field goal percentage, knocking down 42.6% of her attempts from the field, and tied for 10th in the conference in blocked shots with 13. She recorded a team-best four double-doubles on the season, including a monster 17-point, 18-rebound effort December 15 against Gwynedd-Mercy that earned her Commonwealth Conference Player of the Week honors. Hardwick is 10th on Albright's all-time scoring list with 993 career points and fourth on the school's all-time rebounding list with 717. She was a First-Team All-Conference selection as a junior.