Women's Basketball

MAYNARD-MORRIS NAMED TO NE-10 25^TH ANNIVERSARY TEAM

PLEASANTVILLE, NY – Pace University graduate Wanda Maynard Morris was one of 10 women’s basketball players named to the Northeast-10 Conference Women’s Basketball 25^th Anniversary Team. Maynard-Morris played for the Setters from 1998 through the 2001-02 season. 

Maynard-Morris, considered one of the greatest players ever to wear the Setter Navy and Gold, is the only player in the history of Pace women’s basketball to finish her career ranked in the top 5 all-time in points scored, rebounds, steals and blocks.  Her 1,804 career points rank 2^nd, her 1,128 rebounds rank 3^rd, her 346 blocks rank 2^nd and her 220 blocks rank 2^nd all-time.  She also ranks 13^th all-time in assists with 322.  During the 2001-02 season, she totaled 571 points and in 2000-01 she finished with 536 points, good for 3^rd and 4^th, respectively, on the single-season points scored charts.  Her 116 steals in 2000-01 rank 2^nd all-time. 

During her time at Pace, Maynard-Morris led Head Coach Carrie Seymour’s Setters to the 2000-01 NCAA Division II Northeast Regional Title and advance to the Elite Eight, earning her Regional Tournament Most Valuable Player honors.  That season she was named Pace Athletics Female Athlete of the Year after earning Pace Athletics’ Athlete of the Month four times.  That season she was also honored as a Daktronics 1^st Team All American.  Following the 2001-02 season, Maynard-Morris was named the Pace Athletics Letterwinner of the Year, the highest award given by Pace Athletics, and was also the first player in Northeast-10 Conference history to be named Player and Defensive Player of the Year in the same season. That season she was named a WBCA Kodak All American as well as a Division II Bulletin All-American.  For her career, Maynard-Morris was named to the Northeast-10 Conference 1^st Team three times, the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference All Star Team three times and the Daktronics All Region Team three times.  In 2002, she was also named the MET Basketball Writers’ Association Player of the Year.