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Tina Charles Named AP Player of the Year

Junior Andrew Barbosa became the third straight USF pitcher to earn BIG EAST weekly baseball honors after a convincing performance against Cincinnati on April 2.

UConn senior center Tina Charles was named the winner of the 2010 Naismith Trophy given to the nation's top women's college player.

Six BIG EAST women's basketball players have been named to the State Farm Coaches' All-America Team, including two first-team selections. UConn senior center Tina Charles along with junior teammate Maya Moore, headline the First Team and earn the recognition for the second straight year.

 Maya Moore of UConn becomes just the third two-time winner of the Wade Trophy.

DePaul senior Becca Heteniak was selected as one of the 10 finalists for the Lowe's Senior CLASS Award for college softball. This is the fourth year that the award recognizes a softball player for outstanding athletic, academic, leadership and community-service achievements. Voting for prestigious honor is open now at www.seniorCLASSaward.com and continues through May 17.

 Charles and Connecticut teammate Maya Moore headline the USBWA Women's All-America Team.

 2009 winner Maya Moore along with teammate Tina Charles of UConn leads the list of team members, all of whom are invited to the April 9 Gala Presentation in Los Angeles.

 UConn's Maya Moore was honored as an All-American by The Associated Press on Tuesday, the third straight year she has made the team. Moore was joined on the squad by teammate Tina Charles, Nebraska's Kelsey Griffin, Virginia's Monica Wright and Ohio State's Jantel Lavender.

Cincinnati swimmer Josh Schneider followed up his record-setting BIG EAST Championships performance with another dominating effort at the NCAA Swimming & Diving Championships in Columbus, Ohio. Schneider, who is the two-time defending BIG EAST Swimmer of the Year, set a pool record of 18.93 seconds in the 50-yard freestyle to win his first NCAA individual title.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Two BIG EAST Conference standouts were among the 58 fall winners of NCAA Postgraduate Scholarships, which recognize student-athletes across all three NCAA divisions who excel academically and athletically.

Kentucky, Ohio State and Syracuse have all won NCAA Men's Basketball championships in their history, but never has a player from those schools claimed a Naismith Trophy as the men's college player of the year.

BIG EAST student-athletes competed at the 2010 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships in Fayetteville, Ark., March 12-13. BIG EAST results were highlighted by a record-setting and NCAA championship performance in the weight throw by Louisville junior D'Ana McCarty, as well as a top-10 finish by the West Virginia women's team.

 Eight members of the Academic All-America® women's basketball teams will play in the NCAA Championship.