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Awards and Honors
Naismath Award Finalist (2002)
ESPN the Magazine Award finalist (2001, 02)
Senior CLASS Award finalist (2002)
Associated Press All-American, second team (2002)
GBallMag.com All-American, second team (2002)
womenscollegehoops.com All-American, second team (2002)
WBCA Kodak, District 5 All-American (2002)
Associated Press All-American, third team (2001)
Basketball Times All-American, third team (2001)
Real Sports Magazine All-American, second team (2001)
USBWA All-American (2001)
WBCA Kodak, District 5 All-American (2001)
Women’s Basketball News Service All-American, second team (2001)
Women’s Basketball Journal All-American, third team (2001)
Associated Press All-American, honorable mention (2000)
All-Big 12 Conference (1999, 2000, 01, 02)
Verizon/CoSIDA Academic All-American, second team (2002)
WBCA All-Star Challenge Participant (2002)
WBCA All-Star Team (2002)
Women’s Basketball News Service Preseason All-American, first team (2001, 02)
Lindy’s Preseason All-American, second team (2001, 02)
Athlon Sports Preseason All-American, third team (2001, 02)
Big 12 Tournament MVP (2001)
Big 12 All-Tournament Team (2000, 01, 02)
Women’s Basketball News Service Big 12 Player of the Year (2001)
Academic All-Big 12 (1999, 2000, 01, 02)
Big 12 Commissioner’s Honor Roll (Every semester)
Big 12 Player of the Week (Four times)
Women’s Basketball News Service, All-Freshman second team (1999)
2001-02
Finished Iowa State all-time leader in scoring (2,149), rebounding (1,209), blocked shots (155), free throws made (557) and free throw attempts (768)...she is the only Cyclone to gather over 1,000 rebounds in her career...earned All-America honors from nine publications during her career...scored in double figures in 55 consecutive games...concluded final ISU campaign avergaing a double-double (20.2 ppg, 11.1 rpg)...led ISU squad into the NCAA Second Round, dropping to Brigham Young 75-69...she scored 22 points and grabbed 13 rebounds in the affair...finished the year with a streak of five-straight double-doubles...dropped 36 points against Baylor (Feb. 27)...recorded 24 points and 23 rebounds against Colorado (Feb. 9), tying the school record for rebounds...hit on 10-of-11 field goal attemps against No. 3 Oklahoma, finishing with 28 pounts, nine rebounds, three assists and two blocks...had 26 points and 15 boards vs. No. 15 Texas Tech, adding three blocks...posted 20 points and 14 rebounds at No. 9 Kansas State (Feb. 2)...named Cyclone Classic MVP, averaging 25 points and 13 rebounds in two games...collected 24 points and 17 rebounds vs. Iowa, along with three steals and two blocks...sank 13-of-17 shots in the first two games of the season combined.
2000-01
USBWA All-America...AP All-America third team...WBCA Kodak District 5 All-American...Big 12 Tournament MVP...Big 12 Conference Player of the Year (WBNS)...WBNS All-America second team...all-Big 12 first team...academic all-Big 12 first ream...toured Europe with 2001 Big 12 Conference all-star team...joined ISU’s 1,000 point club with her second bucket vs. San Francisco (Dec. 17)...her career-high 20 rebounds vs. Missouri (Jan. 17) rank second all-time at ISU...show below .500 in just three games...averaged a double-double (18.3 ppg, 10.0 rpg)...recorded 17 double-doubles...scored 20+ points 13 times...averaged 24.5 points and 11.5 rebounds in 28 mpg in the NCAA First and Second Rounds...Big 12 Tournament MVP, notching two double-doubles over three games...collected 24 points in 22 minutes vs. DePaul (Dec. 2), sinking 10-of-15 charity shots...scored 19 of her game-high 23 points in the second half at Nebraska (Feb. 4)...pulled down a career-best 20 rebounds against Missouri (Jan. 17), adding 18 points and four blocks...matched career highs with 28 points, five assists and 12-of-16 shooting vs. Colorado (Jan. 27)...scored 22 points in 19 minutes against Nebraska (Jan. 13)...named Cyclone Classic MVP after posted 34 points and 20 rebounds in two games...turned in a double-double at Iowa (Nov. 22) with 27 points and 15 rebounds...missed only one shot in the game (12-of-13), a three-point attempt as the shot clock wound down.
1999-2000
Associated Press honorable mention All-American...All-Big 12 second team...Big 12 Conference All-Tournament Team...Academic All-Big 12 second team...Big 12 Conference Player of the Week (Jan. 17, Feb. 28)...ranked first nationally in field goal percentage (64.7)...set a school and conference record, sinking 10-of-10 shots from the field vs. Baylor (Feb. 26) for a career-high 28 points...tallied double-doubles in seven Big 12 contests...had 10 double-doubles total...scored 20+ points six times...collected 37 points and 22 rebounds in ISU’s first and second round games in the NCAA Tournament...averaged 13.3 points, 8.0 rebounds and 23.0 minutes in the three Big 12 Tournament games, posting her 10th double-double of the season (17 points, 10 rebound) in the championship game...had 24 points vs. Nebraska (Jan. 15), tallying 20 points in the second half while hitting 8-of-9 shots...scored 24 points in 26 minutes at Texas A&M (Feb. 23), sinking 10-of-11 shots...had 18 points and 11 rebounds at Missouri (Jan. 5), while adding three blocked shots...tallied 18 points and 13 rebounds vs. Texas Tech (Jan. 2)...collected 13 points and 11 rebounds at KSU (Feb. 13)...swatted a season-high five blocked shots vs. Oklahoma (Feb. 8)...poured in 23 points at Creighton (Nov. 19), while adding seven boards...hit 8-of-10 shots in that game was 7-of-7 from the charity stripe...had a game-high 21 points and 11 rebounds vs. Iowa (Dec. 11)...tallied 20 points and a career-high 17 rebounds vs. Western Michigan (Dec. 20)...her 17 boards tied for sixth on ISU’s all-time single-game chart.
1998-99
Tops on the team in shooting percentage (.580)...named Big 12 Conference Rookie of the Week (Jan. 11) after averaging 13 points and eight rebounds in two Cyclone wins...hit 71.4 percent of her shots and 75 percent of her free throws in that two-game span...notched a season-high three blocked shots in four different games...started all but one game...led the squad to a second-round NCAA Tournament win over Oregon (March 14) with her sixth double-double of the season...scored 21 points and pulled down 10 rebounds in the win...posted a double-double with 13 points and 10 rebounds vs. Texas Tech in the Big 12 Tournament championship game (March 6)...logged her second-straight double-double with 16 points and 11 rebounds vs. OSU (Feb. 3)...tallied 16 points and 12 rebounds, including five offensive boards, at Missouri (Jan. 30)...turned in her second-straight double-digit rebounding game at Clemson (Jan. 24) with 11 boards...pulled down six of her game-high 10 rebounds in the first five minutes at Texas Tech (Jan. 20)...tallied 12 points and 11 rebounds vs. Kansas (Jan. 9)...scored 14 points on 6-of-8 shooting vs. Texas (Jan. 5), while collecting five rebounds and three blocks...shot a flawless 3-of-3 from the field at Oklahoma (Jan. 2) en route to nine points and six boards...scored 22 points vs. Sam Houston State (Dec. 6), while collecting five assists...blocked three shots and collected 14 rebounds vs. Creighton (Nov. 24).
High School
North Dakota’s 1997 Class A Player of the Year...Midwest Sports high school girls player of the year...three-time state tournament MVP...four-time all-state selection...four-time all-Eastern Dakota Conference pick...led her 1997 AAU team to a national title...owns the school record for most points in a game (45)...the school’s all-time leading career scorer (2,015), rebounder (1,244) and shot blocker (316)...started every game in her four-year career...led her squad to state and conference crowns her junior and senior seasons, compiling a 45-5 record over the two-year span...averaged 25.5 points and 15.6 rebounds as a senior...averaged double-double scoring and rebounding her sophomore, junior and senior seasons...Miss Volleyball candidate...a four-time all-conference volleyball performer...earned volleyball all-state honors three-times...lettered four times in tennis...member of the National Honor Society...member of the Key Club and French Club...participated in the DARE program...high school basketball coach was Rick Fletcher.
Personal
Member of Vortex, a student-athlete leadership group at ISU...elementary education major...ISU scholar-athlete...born Nov. 11, 1979...parents are Jean and Wayne Welle...has one sister, Carrie, and one brother, Matt...Carrie was the 1997 Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Year for Creighton...attended same high school as Roger Maris.