WASHINGTON, D.C. - Tiara Filbert (Batavia, N.Y.), Caroline White (Fairport, N.Y.), Katie Titus (Penfield, N.Y.) and Jordan Heinold (Hamburg, N.Y.) of the Daemen College women's basketball team have earned All-East Coast Conference honors for the 2019-20 season. Filbert and White were both first-team selections. Titus was a second-team honoree, while Heinold earned a spot on the third team. The announcement of All-ECC teams was made this evening at the ECC Men's and Women's Basketball Championships banquet on the campus of the University of the District of Columbia.
Daemen, which shared the ECC regular-season title with St. Thomas Aquinas College, finished tied with New York Tech for the most all-conference selections (4).
Filbert, a 5-foot-9 redshirt junior guard, is an all-league selection for the second-straight season after earning second-team honors last year. A two-time ECC Player of the Week selection, she has scored in double figures 19 times and is averaging a team-high 14.2 points this year. She also leads the team in minutes per game (34.9) and assists per game (3.6) and ranks third in rebounds per game (5.0). Among the ECC leaders she ranks third in points per game, third in minutes per game, fifth in free throw percentage (.773), sixth in assists per game (3.6) and 13th in field goal percentage (.421).
White, a 5-foot-11 junior forward, collects all-conference honors for the first time in her three-year career. A two-time ECC Player of the Week and one-time ECC Defensive Player of the Week selection, White is producing career-high numbers for the Wildcats this season. She ranks second on the team in points per game (13.3), rebounds per game (6.7), field goal percentage (.444) and minutes per game (33.6). Among the ECC leaders she ranks sixth in points per game, third in offensive rebounds per game (3.3), ninth in field goal percentage and eighth in total rebounds per game.
Filbert and White are joined on the All-ECC first-team by Ruth Adams of STAC, Kadijah Dickson of Molloy College, Emily Miller of Roberts Wesleyan College and Melissa Sadler of STAC.
Conference honors are nothing new for Titus, who earned first-team all-conference and ECC Rookie of the Year honors as a freshman last year. A 6-foot forward, Titus is averaging 12.6 points and a team-high 7.9 rebounds per game this year. She also leads the team in field goal percentage (.456) and ranks second in three-pointers made (37). A two-time ECC Defensive Player of the Week selection, she also leads the team and ranks third among the ECC leaders in blocks (42). Last year she became the first women's basketball player from Daemen to garner a major award from the ECC since the Wildcats joined the conference. She also became the first freshman to earn first-team All-ECC honors since Madison Rowland of Queens College in 2013-14.
Titus is joined on the All-ECC second-team by Gabriella Aspuru of Molloy, Ketsia Athias of New York Tech, Raiana Brown of Queens College and Meg Knollmeyer of New York Tech.
Heinold is a 6-foot senior guard/forward who has enjoyed the finest season of her career. After averaging 7.5 points a game over her first three seasons, she is averaging 12.1 points with a team-high 66 three-pointers this year. She has scored in double figures 18 times and ranks third among the ECC leaders in three-point field goals made and second in three-point field goal percentage (.400). A contributor at both ends of the court, she also ranks third on the team in rebounds per game (5.0) and has collected a team-high 48 steals—which ranks eighth among the ECC leaders. She will enter the post-season with a streak of 18-straight games with at least one three-pointer and is just four triples shy of becoming the fifth player in program history to make 70 or more three-pointers in a season—and the first since Raeann Stilwell made a school-record 77 in 2013-14. Heinold, who has earned ECC Player of the Week and ECC Defensive Player of the Week honors this year, has totaled 174 three-pointers in 93 career games and ranks third among the program's all-time leaders.
Heinold is joined on the All-ECC third-team by Zoe Amalbert of New York Tech, Shalie Frierson of New York Tech, Sara Nady of Roberts Wesleyan and Zaria Thomas of STAC.
In addition, the conference also announced that Ruth Adams of STAC was voted the league's Player of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year. Raiana Brown of Queens was selected Rookie of the Year, while Kim Lusk of STAC was named the Coach of the Year for the second-straight season.
Daemen (21-5) will open play at the ECC Championship Tournament this weekend. The Wildcats earned the tournament's No. 2 seed, and will face third-seeded New York Tech in tomorrow's semifinal round. Tip-off is slated for 2:30 p.m. at the UDC Sports Complex.
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