Katelyn Haralamos Named To National Team Of The Week
After earning Zimmerman Classic MVP honors, Katelyn Haralamos was named to the d3hoops.com Team of the Week.
Springfield, Ohio – After leading the Wittenberg women's basketball team to its first upset of a nationally ranked team in more than eight years and its first back-to-back holiday tournament championship in 20 years, sophomore Katelyn Haralamos (Maineville, Ohio/Kings) has been selected to the d3hoops.com Team of the Week.
Haralamos, who plays four different positions while standing 5-foot-8, was named Most Valuable Player of Wittenberg's Charles B. Zimmerman Memorial Classic Dec. 28-29. She started out the weekend with nine points, five rebounds and five assists in a 62-44 first-round win over Defiance, and then she topped herself in the championship game the next day in a thrilling 61-60 win over second-ranked Mount Union.
Haralamos scored a game-high 21 points and pulled down a team-best six rebounds in the win, and her lay-up with 3:15 remaining jumpstarted the Tigers' game-ending 7-2 run that turned a four-point deficit into a most unlikely victory. She hit 9-of-13 shots from the field – while missing just one of eight attempts from two-point range – as Wittenberg earned its second straight tourney title for the first time since winning five in a row between 1988 and 1992.
The win was Wittenberg's first against a nationally ranked team since the second round of the 2004 NCAA Division III Tournament, when the Tigers beat 15th-ranked Messiah on the Falcons' home floor.
The tournament title provides Wittenberg with much-needed momentum heading into the second half of the 2012-13 season, which starts with a key weekend against a pair of North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) opponents, Hiram and Allegheny, on Friday, Jan. 4, and Saturday, Jan. 5. The Tigers currently stand 5-6 overall and 1-1 in the NCAC.
An honorable mention All-NCAC selection a year ago, Haralamos leads the Tigers with 10.3 points per game so far in 2012-13. Also named NCAC Player of the Week, Haralamos leads the squad in assists and ranks third in steals and rebounds.
Written By: Ryan Maurer
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