June 18, 2008

CANYON, Texas - Lady Buff basketball guard Emily Brister was selected as the 2008 Lone Star Conference Female Athlete of the Year. The award was announced Wednesday following a vote of the league's sports information directors.

For the third straight year, Brister, a senior from Amarillo, Texas, earned the title of top female athlete in the league after leading the Lady Buffs to a LSC championship. Brister grabbed the women's award ahead of UCO volleyball star Lacie Allen and Tarleton State golf sensation Shraddhanjali Singh.

Brister, a 5-9 junior guard from Amarillo, Texas, continued her remarkable career at WTAMU. She guided the Lady Buffs to a 26-5 record, LSC championship and the NCAA Division II South Central regional quarterfinals.

Brister led the LSC in scoring (21.8) and steals (95), while pacing WTAMU in just about every category. She became the Lady Buffs all-time leading scorer this year and also the first WTAMU basketball player, male or female, to score 2,000 career points in a season. She now has 2,106 career points - 664 shy of all-time LSC leading scorer Claudia Schleyer of ACU.

In 2007-08, she was named the LSC South Division Player of the Year for the third straight time, Academic Player of the Year for the second consecutive season and LSC Championship MVP. Additionally, Brister was tabbed the Daktronics South Central Region Player of the Year for the second straight season, Daktronics first team All-America and honorable mention All-America by the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA), and first team Academic All-America by ESPN The Magazine/CoSIDA.