Leedham Named NE-10 Freshman of the Week
Ellesmere Port, England, point guard collects second weekly award of the year
RINDGE, N.H. (February 27, 2006) - Franklin Pierce point guard Jennifer Leedham (Ellesmere Port, England/Cheshire Academy) was named the Northeast-10 Conference's women's basketball Freshman of the Week this afternoon.
Leedham, who collects the award for the second time this season, averaged 10.5 points and three rebounds in two games for Franklin Pierce last week. She shot 47.4-percent (9-for-19) from the field for the week. Leedham totaled 11 points and six rebounds in the Ravens 58-49 regular season ending setback to UMass Lowell on Tuesday. She rounded out the week with ten points, two assists and two steals as Franklin Pierce fell to ninth-seeded Assumption College in the first round of the NE-10 Tournament on Sunday.
Leedham played all 28 games in her freshman season for Franklin Pierce, starting 18. She ranked third on the team in scoring with 8.3 points to go with 3.1 rebounds, 3.1 assists (9th NE-10) and 1.2 steals in 25.8 minutes per game. She was also third on the team with 21 three-pointers and ranked tenth among Northeast-10 leaders in assist/turnover ratio (0.85).
Leedham, who reached double-figures in scoring 14 times in her first collegiate season, netted a season-high 14 points in back-to-back games at Minnesota State University-Moorhead (11/26) and Southern New Hampshire University (11/30). She registered a season-high nine rebounds in a win over Saint Thomas Aquinas College (12/9) and dished a season-best seven assists at MSU-Moorhead.
The Franklin Pierce women's basketball team (14-14, 11-11 NE-10) set a new program-high for Northeast-10 wins since joining the Conference in 2000 and hosted an NE-10 Tournament game for the first time as well. The Ravens appeared in the NCAA Division II Northeast Regional rankings five-straight weeks, marking their first appearance in the poll since its NCAA Tournament campaign of 1998-99.