STANDISH, Maine – Saint Joseph's College women's basketball senior Morgan Cahill (Yarmouth, Maine) has earned New England Women's Basketball Coaches Association (NEWBA) Second Team and D3Hoops.com Third Team All-New England honors.
Cahill, who claimed First Team All-Conference and First Team All-State honors earlier this month, becomes the first Saint Joseph's player to garner accolades from either NEWBA or D3Hoops.com after averaging 15.2 points and 8.2 rebounds per game while shooting 48% (182-379) from the field and 70.4% (76-108) from the free throw line in 29 games this season.
The senior center paced the Royal Blue in scoring, rebounding, blocked shots (64), field goals made (182), field goal percentage, and free throws made during the 2015-16 campaign. Cahill also established herself as the preeminent shot blocker in program history this winter, as the two-year team captain broke the Monks' career and single-season rejection records this season.
In 110 career games, Cahill ranks among the Monks' all-time leaders in points (1,651, 2nd), rebounds (876, 5th), field goals made (662, 2nd), field goals attempted (1,414, 2nd), free throws made (327, 4th), free throws attempted (479, 5th), blocked shots (222, 1st), rebounding average (8.0, 7th), and scoring average (15.0, 7th). She posted a 46.8% field goal percentage with a 68.3% free-throw rate while registering 124 assists and 103 steals during her career.
Cahill recorded 35 double-doubles over four seasons, including nine her senior year. Perhaps the most impressive fact of her career is Cahill is the only player in program history to lead the Monks in scoring and rebounding for four consecutive years.
Over her four years, Cahill helped the Monks post a 78-33 (.703) overall record, including a 35-10 (.778) mark in Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) play, with four GNAC tourney appearances and a pair of conference championships. The pair of regional honors brings her career accolades total to 64, including four All-Conference honors as well as 2013 GNAC and Maine Women's Basketball Coaches Association (MWBCA) Rookie of the Year awards.
As the top seed in the 2016 GNAC Tournament, Saint Joseph's topped #8 Rivier University, 72-62, in the quarterfinal round and defeated #4 Suffolk University, 74-58, in semifinal action to advance to the GNAC championship tilt. Led by 23rd-year Head Coach Mike McDevitt '83, the Monks defeated perennial powerhouse Emmanuel College, 66-62, in the GNAC Championship at the Harold Alfond Center on Saturday, February 27th in Standish to claim an automatic qualifier into the NCAA Tournament, the program's second in the last three seasons.
Saint Joseph's faced Christopher Newport University, ranked 23rd nationally, in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament at Muhlenberg College on Friday, March 4th. The Monks and Captains battled to a tie score at the end of two quarters, but CNU powered past SJC in the third and fourth stanzas to claim a 65-47 victory and effectively end the Monks' 2015-16 campaign.
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Saint Joseph's College is Maine's only Catholic liberal arts college, providing a supportive, personalized and career-focused education for more than 100 years. From its 474-acre campus on the shores of Sebago Lake, the College offers more than 40 undergraduate programs to a population of approximately 1,000 students. Saint Joseph's College Online provides certificates, undergraduate and advanced degrees for working adults through an online learning program. For more, visit www.sjcme.edu.
