Women’s Basketball coaches, players earn USCAA awards
BUFFALO, N.Y. --- For the first time in school history, the Carlow University women’s basketball coaches earned United States Collegiate Athletic Association Coaching Staff of the Year honors, the association announced at its awards banquet March 10.
BUFFALO, N.Y. --- For the first time in school history, the Carlow University women's basketball coaches earned United States Collegiate Athletic Association Coaching Staff of the Year honors, the association announced at its awards banquet March 10.
Head Coach Dave Gordon and his assistants Daryl Harrington and Dre Gordon took a team that won just five games in 2022-23 and turned it into a program with over 10 wins per season in 2023-24 and now in 2024-25. Gordon's passion and knowledge of the game is evident, and his enthusiasm for coaching the women's team is infectious.
He stepped up as the head coach for the 2022-23 season after the previous head coach's abrupt retirement, coming from the men's program where he was a long-time associate head coach, and turned the women's program around. Gordon has coached two, 1,000-point scorers (Megan Ost and Sydney Carr), and five USCAA All-Americans (two-time All-Americans Carr and Emma Aubrey, First Team Ost and Nina Cano, and Second Team Emiley Hillgartner).
In addition to the Coaching Staff of the Year award, several Celtics earned All-American and All-Academic honors.
Carr and Cano were both named to the All-American First Team, and Aubrey earned All-American Second Team honors.
Carr, a two-time USCAA Player of the Week this season, led the team and ranked first in the USCAA with a three-point field goal percentage of 43.3. She hit her 1,000th career point early in the fall (Nov. 16) and led the team with an average 15.2 points per game this season. She led the team and ranked eighth in the USCAA with an average 2.9 steals per game and ranked ninth with an average 3.9 assists per game. Carr earned a spot on the USCAA All-American First Team last season.
Cano, a graduate student from Greenville, Pa., led the team and ranked sixth in the USCAA with an average 10.8 rebounds per game this season. She led the team with 27 blocks and ranked 10th in the USCAA with an average 1.1 blocks per game. She is second on the team with an average 12.4 points per game.
Aubrey, a senior from Bristol, Tenn., ranked second in USCAA with 55 three-pointers this season. She is second on the team behind Carr and ranked 12th in the USCAA with a three-point field goal percentage of 33.1. Aubrey earned a spot on the USCAA All-American Second Team last season.
Additionally, the Celtics saw the most student-athletes named to the Women's Basketball Division I All-Academic team with eight total. To be named to the All-Academic team, student-athletes must be sophomores or above with at least a 3.5 overall GPA or higher.
Below are the Carlow athletes who made the All-Academic team: