ATLANTA – Juniors Brionna Jones and Shatori Walker-Kimbrough of the Maryland women's basketball team were named All-Region nominees for the 2016 Women's Basketball Coaches Association's NCAA Division I Coaches' All-America Team. The selection committee will select the 10-member Coaches' All-America Team from these 52 candidates.
Jones and Walker-Kimbrough are two of 11 honorees from Region 4. Click here for the full list of honorees.
Head coach Brenda Frese was named Region 4 Coach of the Year, along with DePaul's Doug Bruno, and is one of 10 finalists for National Coach of the Year. This is Frese's fourth Regional Coach of the Year honor. She was honored in 2012, 2013 and 2015.
Jones and Walker-Kimbrough led the Terps in scoring and rebounding. Walker-Kimbrough averaged 19.5 points with 6.0 rebounds, while leading the NCAA with her three-point field goal percentage of 54.5 percent. Her 681 points scored this season were the second-highest season point total in program history.
Jones averaged 15.2 points with 9.8 boards per game. She led the nation with her field goal percentage of 66.5 percent. Her career field goal percentage of 63.0 is second in the Maryland record books, only to Crystal Langhorne.
The trio helped lead the Terrapins to a 31-4 record, reaching 30 wins for the sixth time in Frese's 14 seasons. They made their sixth straight NCAA Tournament appearance and won their second straight back-to-back Big Ten regular season and tournament titles.
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