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COLLEGE PARK, Md. - The Maryland women's basketball program's all-time leading scorer and rebounder, senior Crystal Langhorne earned a spot on the ESPN The Magazine/CoSIDA Academic All-America team for the second-consecutive year. Langhorne was voted to the second team after being named to the third team last year.
Crystal Langhorne (Willingboro, N.J./Willingboro) is a communications major, boasts a 3.43 grade point average and is on track to graduate in May. The only player in Maryland men's or women's basketball history to collect 2,000 points and 1,000 rebounds, she has also been named to the ESPN The Magazine/CoSIDA Academic All-District 2 three times. Langhorne was a two-time Academic All-ACC honoree and was twice named to the ACC Honor Roll.
Langhorne is the Maryland women's basketball program's only two-time All-American and, in the regular-season home finale vs. Florida State, had her Number 1 honored by the university, on of only five Terrapin women to have their jersey hanging from the rafters. She holds the school and ACC record for field goal percentage, ranking in the top five in the NCAA all-time at 65.2 percent heading into the last regular season game of the season.
Leading the Terps to a 28-2 record and 12-1 in the ACC, Langhorne is averaging 16.3 points per game and a team-high 9.2 rebounds per game. Recording 11 double-doubles this season, she has been even better in ACC games, averaging 19.5 ppg and 10.5 rpg.
Langhorne is one of two players from the ACC to have been selected Academic All-Americans. Brittany Cook of Virginia Tech was named to the third team. Langhorne is also one of just two Maryland women's basketball players to garner Academic All-America recognition. Former Terrapin Shay Doron was the first to earn the honor in 2006.
Fifth-ranked Maryland ends the regular season traveling to NC State on Sunday, March 2. The game will be televised on the ACC's Regional Sports Network (Comcast SportsNet in the Baltimore/Washington, D.C. area). The Terps have clinched a two seed in the ACC Tournament which will be held at the Greensboro Coliseum, March 6-9.
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