MINNEAPOLIS- Paige Seckar (Oshkosh/Oshkosh West) represented the reigning WIAC regular season champion and NCAA Division III Championship semifinalist UW-Oshkosh women's basketball team on D3hoops.com's annual preseason All-America list as a first team selection.
A Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) All-America First Team selection, a D3hoops.com All-America Second Team honoree and D3hoops.com Region 9 and WIAC Player of the Year, Seckar helped lead the Titans to the Final Four by averaging 13.2 points and 7.1 rebounds. Along with her team-best scoring and rebounding averages, she also paced the Titans with 51 steals and 43 blocks.
Seckar scored double-digit points in 24 of 32 games and added a double-double eight times. She scored a career-high 24 points at UW-Eau Claire on Feb. 11 and a personal best 12 rebounds against Wisconsin Lutheran College in the second round of the Division III Championship.
Seckar, a junior forward and UW-Oshkosh's sixth selection as a preseason All-American since D3hoops.com began presenting award ahead of the 2010-11 season, was the only WIAC player on the teams.
UW-Oshkosh posted an overall record of 28-4 last season that included a 19-game winning streak to open the season, the WIAC regular season title for the third year in a row and a trip to the national tournament for the seventh consecutive season.
The Titans swept through the regional at Kolf Sports Center with wins over Webster University (Mo.) and Wisconsin Lutheran and hosted the sectional rounds at home for the first time since 1994. They defeated Washington University in St. Louis (Mo.) and University of Chicago (Ill.) on their way to the Final Four for the second straight year and the fourth time in program history where they fell to eventual national champion Denison University (Ohio).
The D3hoops.com preseason All-America selections feature five teams comprised of five players each.
Joining Seckar on the first team were guards Jacqueline Berry from Hardin-Simmons University (Texas) and Ada Taute from Denison, forward Macy Miller from Ohio Wesleyan University and center Lexy Harris from WashU.
The Titans, who rank sixth in the
D3hoops.com and fourth in the
WBCA preseason polls, open their 57th season against Carroll University in the UW-Eau Claire Tip-Off Tournament on Saturday (Nov. 7). The Pioneers are receiving votes in the D3hoops.com poll and are ranked 24th by the coaches. Oshkosh rounds out the tournament against Simpson College (Iowa) on Sunday (Nov. 8) and will play in two more neutral site tournaments before opening its home schedule against Buena Vista University (Iowa) on Wednesday, Dec. 2.
