BATON ROUGE — LSU’s Seimone Augustus, a freshman on the Lady Tigers’ basketball team, was named third-team All-America by the Associate Press, it was announced on Thursday.
Junior point guard Temeka Johnson also earned All-America Honorable Mention by the AP.
Augustus, a 6-1 guard/forward from Baton Rouge, led LSU as she averaged a team-high 14.8 points per game, grabbed 5.5 rebounds, and hit 54.9 percent of her field goals and a school record 88.8 percent of her free throws.
The Lady Tigers advanced to the Elite Eight as the top seed in the West Region with a 30-4 final record. The 30 victories by the team were the most by the program since the 1977-78 team posted a 37-3 mark.
Augustus led the Lady Tigers in scoring in 12 games this past season and scored 504 points, the fifth-most points scored by a freshman at LSU. Her field goal percentage was also the 10th best by a Lady Tiger in a single-season and the second best by a freshman in school history.
The National Freshman of the Year was the only freshman named by the AP to their three All-America teams. UConn’s Diana Taurasi, Duke’s Alana Beard, Mississippi State’s LaToya Thomas, Kansas State’s Nicole Ohlde and Penn State’s Kelly Mazzante were selected to the first-team, while Vanderbilt’s Chantelle Anderson, Stanford’s Nicole Powell, Tennessee’s Kara Lawson, South Carolina’s Jocelyn Penn and Minnesota’s Lindsay Whalen were selected to the second-team.
Augustus was joined by Texas’ Stacy Stephen’s Purdue’s Shereka Wright, Kansas State’s Kendra Wecker and Texas Tech’s Plenette Pierson on the third-team.
Johnson, a 5-3 guard from New Orleans, ranked third in the SEC in assists (5.9), second in assist-to-turnover ratio (2.58), and ninth in field goal percentage (50.6) and steals (2.0). She averaged 10.0 points and 3.5 rebounds per game.
Also earning Honorable Mention were: Jenni Benningfield, Vanderbilt; Jennifer Butler, Massachusetts; Coretta Brown, North Carolina; Molly Creamer, Bucknell, Allison Curtin, Tulsa; Cheryl Ford, Louisiana Tech; Vanessa Hayden, Florida; Gwen Jackson, Tennessee; Tamara James, Miami, Fla.; Chandi Jones, Houston; Trish Juhline, Villanova; Giuliana Mendiola, Washington, Jia Perkins, Texas Tech; Shawntinice Polk, Arizona; Cappie Pondexter, Rutgers; Lindsay Taylor, UC Santa Barbara; Iciss Tillis, Duke; Tan White, Mississippi State; Tanisha Wright, Penn State.