Hyde Named Summit League Player of the Year

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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -- Amanda Hyde was named The Summit League Player of the Year in a vote of the league's nine head coaches, sports information directors and select media members as announced by the league office on Thursday, March 7.

Amanda Hyde also earns the honor of being named First Team All-Summit League. Teammate Erin Murphy was an all-league honorable mention selection.

Hyde is the first IPFW women's basketball player to earn Summit League Player of the Year honors. The Summit League came into existence during the 1992-93 basketball season and the Mastodons joined in 2007-08 after playing as an independent for four years. The last Mastodon to earn Player of the Year accolades was Lindy Jones who earned the award in the Great Lakes Valley Conference during the 1995-96 season.

A day after being named Player of the Year by the Summit League, College Sports Madness came out with a press release that also named Hyde as the the Summit League Player of the Year.

Hyde led the Summit League in scoring by averaging 18.7 points per game. She reached a double figure scoring total in 25 of IPFW's 28 games which included scoring 20 or more points 12 times.

The junior from Findlay, Ohio scored a career-high 43 points in a 78-65 win over Southern Illinois this year. 43 points placed Hyde in a tie for second all-time in Summit League history, and it also tied the IPFW school record for most points in a single game.

Hyde was selected as the Summit League Player of the Week on Dec. 3 after high-level performances at Indiana and at Southern Illinois. She averaged 27 points, six rebounds, 3.5 assists, and two steals per game during that week of competition.

Her second Player of the Week award was received on Dec. 31 when she averaged 27.5 points, 5.5 rebounds, four assists, and 2.5 steals in games against IUPUI and Western Illinois to start the Summit League schedule.

Hyde most recently earned College Sports Madness Summit League Women's Basketball Player of the Week honors on Feb. 18 by averaging 18 points per game in wins over Kansas City and South Dakota.

Hyde averaged 36.2 minutes of playing time per game which placed her fourth overall in the Summit League. She ended the regular season in the top 10 of many statistical categories including seventh in field goal percentage (44.7), sixth in 3-point percentage (37.0) and second in free throw percentage (87.2).

The junior could do more than just score as she also ranked eighth in assists (3.1), sixth in steals (1.8), and 17th in the league in rebounds (4.8).

Hyde is nationally ranked in four categories. She enters the weekend 18th in free throw percentage, 34th in scoring, 100th in field goal percentage, and 207th in assist to turnover ratio.

Erin Murphy has been a key contributor to the IPFW women's basketball team by averaging 12.3 points per game. Murphy jumped into the starting lineup at the beginning of the Summit League season and kept that role for the last 15 games of the year.

Murphy scored in double figures in 14 of IPFW's 16 Summit League contests. She was a consistent scorer by recording double figures in 19 of IPFW's 28 games. Her season-high scoring total was 22 points at Kansas City on Jan. 19. She scored 21 points vs. Western Illinois earlier in the year and poured in 20 points vs. South Dakota State.

Murphy finished the regular season in a tie for 11th in the Summit League by averaging 12.3 points per game. She was also listed 10th in field goal percentage and ninth in free throw percentage (77.9).

All-League First Team
Ashley Eide, South Dakota State
Paige Frauendorfer, Omaha
Amanda Hyde, Fort Wayne
Kerah Nelson, IUPUI
Eilise O'Connor, Kansas City
Megan Waytashek, South Dakota State

All-League Second Team
Katie Birkel, North Dakota State
Dani DeGagne, North Dakota State
DeAirra Goss, IUPUI
Ashley Luke, Western Illinois
Tempestt Wilson, South Dakota

All-League Honorable Mention
Carolyn Blair-Mobley, Omaha
Erin Murphy, Fort Wayne
Jamie Nash, Omaha
Elena Popkey, Oakland
Nicole Seekamp, South Dakota

All-Newcomer Team
Carolyn Blair-Mobley, Omaha
DeAirra Goss, IUPUI
Ashley Luke, Western Illinois
Elena Popkey, Oakland
Nicole Seekamp, South Dakota

Player of the Year: Amanda Hyde, Fort Wayne

Defensive Player of the Year: Dee-Dee Bellamy, IUPUI

Sixth Woman of the Year: Katie Lingle, South Dakota State

Newcomer of the Year: Ashley Luke, Western Illinois

Coach of the Year: Austin Parkinson, IUPUI

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