Paris a Senior CLASS Award Nominee

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Oklahoma's Courtney Paris was among the 30 senior women's basketball players announced today as candidates for the 2008-09 Lowe's Senior CLASS Award.

The Lowe's Senor CLASS Award is presented annually to an NCAA Division I student-athlete in nine sports. Based on criteria focusing on the "Four C's" of classroom, character, community and competition, the award winners will be selected by national balloting of head basketball coaches, national media and college basketball fans.

The CLASS, an acronym for Celebrating Loyalty and Achievement for Staying in School, award was launched during the 2001-02 season to honor the attributes of college basketball seniors who remain committed to their university and pursue the many rewards that a senior season and complete college education brings.

From the list of 30 nominees, a national media committee will select 10 finalists in February. Those 10 names will be placed on the official ballot for a nationwide vote. In addition to voting by Division I head basketball coaches and national media, college basketball fans will also be able to sumbit ballots by text voting or online at www.seniorclassaward.com.

Previous women's basketball recipients of the Senior CLASS Award include Sue Bird of Connecticut (2002), LaToya Thomas of Mississippi State (2003), Alana Beard of Duke (2004), Kendra Wecker of Kansas State (2005), Seimone Augustus of LSU (2006), Alison Bales of Duke (2007) and Candice Wiggins of Stanford (2008).

The Big 12 led all conferences in the number of both men's and women's basketball nominees.

2008-09 Lowe's Senior CLASS Award Women's Basketball Nominees

Name	School	Position	Conference
Demetress Adams	University of South Carolina	F	Southeastern Conference
Nnenna Akotaobi	University of Denver	F	Sun Belt Conference
Kristi Cirone	Illinois State University	G	Missouri Valley Conference
Dellena Criner	University of Nevada	G	Western Athletic Conference
Krystal Ellis	Marquette University	G	Big East Conference
Robyn Fairbanks	Utah Valley University	C	Independent
Megan Frazee	Liberty University	G/F	Big South Conference
Jada Frazier	University of New Orleans	G	Sun Belt Conference
Rachel Galligan	Eastern Illinois University	F	Ohio Valley Conference
Amber Guffey	Murray State University	G	Ohio Valley Conference
Taylor Hardeman	Oklahoma State University	G	Big 12 Conference
Brooke Johnson	Western Carolina University	C/F	Southern Conference
Kelly Krumwiede	Bradley University	F	Missouri Valley Conference
Shalee Lehning	Kansas State University	G	Big 12 Conference
Kristi Little	Duquesne University	G	Atlantic 10 Conference
Rashanda McCants	University of North Carolina	F/G	Atlantic Coast Conference
Renee Montgomery	University of Connecticut	G	Big East Conference
Amanda Nisleit	Iowa State University	F	Big 12 Conference
Courtney Paris	University of Oklahoma	C	Big 12 Conference
Jessica Pike	Oakland University	G	The Summit League
Amy Rosenkrantz	University of Vermont	G	America East Conference
Jami Schaefer	Gonzaga University	G	West Coast Conference
Lauren Schober	Bucknell University	G/F	Patriot League
Koren Schram	Dartmouth College	G	Ivy Group
Takia Starks	Texas A&M University	G	Big 12 Conference
Kristi Toliver	University of Maryland	G	Atlantic Coast Conference
Abby Waner	Duke University	G	Atlantic Coast Conference
Morgan Warburton	University of Utah	G	Mountain West Conference
Christina Wirth	Vanderbilt University	F	Southeastern Conference
Shavonte Zellous	University of Pittsburgh	G	Big East Conference

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