GORHAM, Maine – Junior forward Stacey Kent (Northwood, N.H./Coe-Brown Academy) of the University of Southern Maine Huskies women’s basketball team has been named to the D3hoops.com Women’s All-Northeast Second Team. The announcement was made Wednesday evening by D3hoops.com after a vote by the region’s Division III sports information directors.

Kent led the Huskies in scoring and rebounding averaging 14.6 points and 5.9 rebounds per game earning numerous honors in her third season with Southern Maine. Earning D3hoops.com all-region honors for the first time in her career, Kent was recently named the Maine Women’s Basketball Coaches Association (MWBCA) Player of the Year. Kent was also selected to the All-Little East Conference First Team and MWBCA First Team. The 5-foot-9 forward was also named to the 2008 ESPN the Magazine Academic All-District One third team as voted upon by member fo the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).

Kent shot an outstanding 4.8.6 percent (136-for-280) from the field, including an outstanding 44.2 percent (46-for-104) from three-point range. Kent also led the Huskies in steals (48) and is second on the team in assists (68).

In her first three seasons, Kent has collected 813 points, 382 rebounds and 154 assists in 81 career games. She is currently sventh all time in USM career records with 112 three-pointers made and holds the school record for career three-point field goal percentage at 44.4 percent (112-for-252). In February 2007, Kent set a USM single game record sinking eight three-pointers against University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.

Southern Maine concluded its season with a 25-4 overall record, marking its NCAA Division III record 28th consecutive season with at least 20 wins. The Huskies captured the 2008 Little East Conference regular season championship finishing with a 13-1 mark in the LEC and earned its 14th straight and 22nd overall berth into the NCAA Division III Women’s Basketball National Championship tournament. Southern Maine has participated in the NCAA tournament every year since 1995, and 22 of the last 23 years since moving from the NAIA into the NCAA in 1985.