Seimone named Female Athlete of the Decade

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From Jim Kleinpeter, The Times Picayune:


BATON ROUGE - Simply calling Seimone Augustus The Times-Picayune Female Athlete of the Decade doesn't do her justice.

Augustus is the best player in the 34-season history of the LSU women's basketball program and the early leader for Female Athlete of the Century for those forward thinkers.

The Baton Rouge native was a three-time All-American and a two-time consensus National Player of the Year, twice winning the Wade Trophy, and the Naismith, Wooden, Associated Press and Honda Awards for women's basketball.

Augustus is LSU's second-leading scorer all-time with 2,702 points, a 19.3 average per game.

But her contributions to LSU women's basketball went beyond personal honors. She was a terrific all-around player who made her teammates better, and helped LSU to three consecutive Final Four appearances, which started a run of five consecutive Final Fours for the program.

"I'm glad I made the choice to go to LSU, " she said. "A lot of people ask me if I could go back would I change it. I'm like 'No, I enjoyed being coached by Coach (Sue) Gunter, Coach (Pokey) Chatman and Coach (Bob) Starkey. I enjoyed the run we had. The four years I was there we made a lot of history.

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Posted by Bill Martin