HARRISONBURG, Va. - For the second straight season, Shanae Baker-Brice earned a spot on the first team All-Colonial Athletic Association squad. Baker-Brice becomes the first Tiger to earn first team honors two years in a row since Danielle Barry was a first team selection in the Big South during the 1992-93 and 1993-94 seasons.
Haliena Snowden earned CAA honorable mention all-academic honors to join Baker-Brice as the Tigers who were honored.
Baker-Brice closed out her regular season career in spectacular fashion. She averaged 17.9 points per game while scoring a career-high 520 points during the regular season. She scored a career-high 32 points at home against James Madison in January. In that game, Baker-Brice broke Barry's career scoring mark. She enters the CAA Championship with 1,786 career points. In addition she has grabbed a career-high 147 rebounds. Against Drexel Baker-Brice recorded her second career "double-double" with 12 points and 10 rebounds. She has made 135 free throws, dished out 124 assists and grabbed 65 steals. She ranks in the top five in the CAA in scoring (17.9 ppg), fifth in assists (4.3 apg), seventh in steals (2.2 spg) and fifth in minutes played (35.7 pg). She has 27 double figure scoring performances this season and 13 games in which she has scored 20+ points.
Snowden had a strong final season for the Tigers both on the court and in the classroom. She combined a strong GPA and volunteer experiences through PAWS. On the court, Snowden had a breakout season as a senior. She appeared in 29 games and started 28 of them. Snowden averaged a career-high 9.4 points per game during the regular season and upped that number to 11.4 points per game during conference play. She recorded the first four "double-doubles" of her career and scored in double figures in 12 of the CAA games. Snowden had a career-high 21 points against Drexel.
Baker-Brice, Snowden and the rest of the #7 Tigers return to action when the CAA tournament gets underway on March 11. Towson faces #10 UNC Wilmington at 5 p.m. in Harrisonburg in the first round.
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