INDIANAPOLIS- The UW-Parkside women's basketball team, fresh off of winning the 2012 Great Lakes Valley Conference Eastern Division championsip, was recognized with numerous post season awards the league announced on Tuesday.
 
Head coach Jenny Knight-Kenesie highlights the Ranger contingent as she was named the GLVC's Chuck Mallander Coach of the Year award winner after leading UW-Parkside to its second division championship and the most regular season wins in school history.
 
Seniors Jadee Rooney and Brittany Beyer were unanimous choices for the All-GLVC First Team. It's the third all-conference recognition for both players. Senior Amy Selk was named to the second team; her first career honor.
 
Senior Kaitlyn Bettiga and junior Jaleesa Trussell were voted to the GLVC All-Defensive Team. It's the first year the league has honored its top defenders.
 
Kenesie, in her tenth season as head coach, is the school's all-time wins leader with a career record of 172-113 (.604). She has guided the Rangers to three straight 20-win seasons and consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances. UW-Parkside is 69-19 (.784) since the beginning of the 2009 season.
 
Rooney is a first team choice for the second straight year after being named to the third team as a freshman. The Markesan native is one of the nation's top three-point shooters at 45.0% this year; the sixth-best percentage in the country. She is in the top five in the league in five statistical categories: scoring (fifth,16.3 ppg), assist-to-turnover ratio (second, 2.10), assists (third, 4.04 apg), three-point percentage (third, .450), and free throw percentage (fourth, .859).
 
Rooney is currently third on the school's all-time scoring list with 1,610 career points. She is also the program's most prolific three-point shooter with 243. She has been in double figures 23 times this year including eight 20-point efforts.
 
Beyer joins Rooney on the first team after being a second-teamer as a sophomore and third-teamer last year. She is fourth in the GLVC in scoring this season averaging 16.6 points per game. She is also ninth in the conference in field goal percentage shooting 49.9% on the year.
 
Beyer is second on the career scoring list as she enters the GLVC Tournament with 1,631 career points. She has scored in double digits in 24 of the 26 games including 16 straight. She opened the season with a career-high 37 points against the University of Tampa; the second-most points in a game in school history.  She has ten games with at least 20 points this season. Her 115th career start against Lewis marked the most in a career for a UW-Parkside women's basketball player.
 
Selk earned her way onto the second team with a blue collar approach as one of the league's top rebounders and power forwards. She averaged 6.9 boards per game in conference play, the eighth-most in the league. She also shot 50.5% from the floor; seventh-best in the GLVC. She has 13 games this year with at least seven rebounds to go with three double-doubles.
 
Bettiga and Trussell earned spots on the inaugural all-defensive team in spearheading a Rangers defense that was ranked second in the GLVC in points allowed giving up just 56.7 a contest. Their perimeter pressure has limited opponents to just 24.3% from behind the arc this season, the fifth-best percentage in the nation.

Bettiga averaged 2.00 steals per game in conference play, the sixth-best mark in the league. She averaged 1.85 for the season and now has 148 steals in her career. She also led the Rangers in blocked shots this year from the point guard position.
 
Trussell finished the season strong with seven steals in her last two games and was second on the team overall with 36. She has excelled in her second season as a Ranger guarding the opponent's top perimeter player.

Northern Kentucky's Casse Mogan was named the league's player of the year. Shelby Miller from Maryville was chosen as the freshman of the year.
 
UW-Parkside will be back in action on Thursday afternoon with a 2:30 p.m. tip-off in the GLVC Tournament Quarterfinals. The Rangers will take on Kentucky Wesleyan College at the Prairie Capital Convention Center in Springfield, Illinois.