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Allison Hightower has been named the SEC Pre-Season Player of the Year! No player has worked as hard or is so deserving!

Allison Hightower was a unanimous choice on the All-SEC First Team, joining Georgia’s Ashley Houts and Angel Robinson, Mississippi State’s Alexis Rack and Tennessee’s Shekinna Stricklen. LaSondra Barrett earned a spot on the second team with Arkansas’ Ceira Ricketts, Ole Miss’ Bianca Thomas, Tennessee’s Angie Bjorklund and Vanderbilt’s Merideth Marsh.

Hightower, a native of Arlington, Texas, led the Lady Tigers in six categories a season ago and was fifth in the SEC in points per game with 14.9. She heads into her senior on watch lists for the Wade Trophy and John Wooden Award as a candidate for 2010 National Player of the Year.

Hightower is only the second player in school history to earn Preseason Player of the Year honors by the media and the first since Seimone Augustus. Augustus was tabbed as the league’s Preseason Player of the Year in 2004, ’05 and ’06. Augustus, like Hightower, earned 18 votes in the 2006 voting.

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Posted by Bill Martin