1991-92 TIMES ALL-COUNTY TEAM: GIRLS

JENNIFER ALLEY: Senior/Mt. Carmel

Could there be a connection between Alley running point for the Sundevils the past two years and Mt. Carmel nipping on the heels of the county’s best team? Probably. A three-sport athlete, smart and unselfish, she is her team’s court general. Alley is an excellent defensive player with sound fundamentals on offense. She shot 44% from the field this year and over her three-year career--all of which have included trips to the section finals--she averaged 48% from the field, mostly from the 12-15 foot range. The 5-9 guard averaged 10 points and four assists per game this year, but her season was cut short in the first game of the playoffs by a torn anterior cruciate ligament.

ALLISON BRADY: Senior/Poway

Brady is a two-time all-county selection and a two-time Palomar League player of the year. Poway has been the Section’s best team the past two years and Brady has been their center of attention. The 6-0 forward averaged 12.9 points and 6.6 rebounds per game despite playing about 2 1/2 quarters per outing because of Poway’s one-sided scores. Despite the limited action, she became Poway’s first 1,000-point scorer (1,028) and 50% field goal shooter (54%) for a career. Over a longer period, Brady has averaged 9.3 points during a four-year career in which the Titans were 93-21. A solid player offensively and defensively, she has shown she can take control of a game.

HOLLY GERDES: Junior/Carlsbad

A terrifying thought for seven Avocado League coaches: Carlsbad Coach John Duberville has Gerdes, Vanessa Nygaard and Renee Demirdjian back next season. All they did this year was lead the Lancers to a perfect record in 14 league games, a 24-3 overall mark, including the Section Division II title and a Southern California Regional semifinal loss, and The Times’ No. 2 final ranking. Not to be overshadowed by the multi-talented Nygaard, Gerdes averaged nearly 14 points and 12 rebounds this season as the Lancers’ 6-1 center. As it was this year and last, when the Lancers were the Division II runner-up, it’s going to be awfully tough to stop Carlsbad next season.

LISA GRIEGO: Senior/Point Loma

Only a team with a girls’ basketball tradition like Point Loma could finish 23-4 and feel empty because it didn’t get to the Sports Arena. The Pointers were in a transition year after the death of longtime Coach Lee Trepanier, but Griego kept intact the tradition of standout Pointers. Point Loma has won the City Eastern League the last 12 years, and Griego, “was a big part of winning it the last three,” Coach Shannon Anderson said of the league’s player of the year. A 4.0 student and 5-9 guard, Griego averaged 16 points, eight rebounds and four steals and provided leadership. “If she was flat, we seemed to be flat, as soon as she picked up the tempo, so did we,” Anderson said.

HEATHER HOLM: Senior/El Cajon Valley

Heather’s sister Heidi graduated a year ago along with three other ECV starters, but that didn’t stop three apparently confused coaches from placing Heidi Holm on their ballots. Who can blame them? With Heather Holm averaging a county-leading 30 points, 11 assists and 10 rebounds a game this year, it must have seemed like there were two Holms out on the court. Just Heather, a 5-11 point guard, who was to the Braves what Magic Johnson was to the Lakers. In Holms’ four years as a starter under Robert Holm, her coach and father, the Braves averaged 20 victories a season, won the section Division II title last year and made the semifinals this year.

VANESSA NYGAARD: Junior/Carlsbad

An All-County selection as a sophomore, Nygaard was an easy pick to repeat this season after leading Carlsbad to the Division II championship, and she might be the county’s best big player since Vista’s Chris Enger. A 6-0 center, Nygaard averaged 15.3 points and as many rebounds this season, but her main contribution to a talent-laden team was leadership and intensity. She is one of the best overall players in the county and proved as much with a 22-point, 28-rebound performance in the Lancers’ 73-68 overtime victory over defending champion El Cajon Valley in the semifinals. Said Vista Coach Pat Moramarco: “Great athlete, speed, aggression.”

CAROL PAJARILLO: Senior/Rancho Bernardo

Despite her size--5-feet-5--and the fact she played on a tremendously balanced and disciplined team, Pajarillo averaged 15.9 points per game, 10th best in the county. Along with junior guard Robin Blalock, Rancho Bernardo Coach Peggy Brose had one of the best backcourts in the county, not to mention one of the best teams. Despite being only a second-year school, Rancho Bernardo finished third in The Times’ final rankings and lost only four games this season, including two to Avocado League champion Carlsbad, and one to Mt. Carmel in the Division I semifinals. Said Brose of both Pajarillo and Blalock: “Both are strong in all aspects of the game.”

SHONDEL ROBINSON: Sophomore/Lincoln

Robinson showed promise as a 14-year-old point guard last season, and this year she began to fulfill that promise by taking leadership of the Hornets (22-4) after the graduation of All-County center Sheila Dixon. Robinson, a skinny 5-feet-5, averaged 21.5 points, five assists and 6.5 steals and led the Hornets to a City Central League title and into the regional semifinals. A three-point specialist and B-average student, Robinson is a slick ball-handler whose smoothness on the court is deceptive. She was also the catalyst in the section playoffs for the Hornets, who jumped out to 11-0 and 10-0 leads in back-to-back games, with Robinson scoring all the points.

JAMIE SHADIAN: Junior/Poway

Shadian is one of the section’s best ball-handlers and most dangerous players because she can create offense by taking the ball to the basket. A 5-7 guard who shared league player of the year honors with Brady, she averaged 12.2 points and three assists, though playing only 2 1/2 quarters per game because of Poway’s guard depth and dominance of its opponents. Blessed with speed and quickness, Shadian this year extended her shooting range beyond the three-point arc, as well. “She’s willing to put in the time and practice to get better,” Poway Coach Jay Trousdale said, “which means her best years are probably still ahead of her.” Ouch.

TIFFANY STUTZ: Senior/Christian

“As Tiffany goes, so goes the team,” was how Coach Mike Zazvrskey described the importance of Stutz to a team--whose entire offense was designed around her--that went to the Division V state title game in back-to-back years. Stutz, a 5-7 guard, was the second leading scorer in the county as a senior, the sixth as a junior, and moved into fourth on the San Diego Section career scoring list after chalking up more than 2,000 points. Stutz averaged 25 points, 10 rebounds and three assists during the regular season, then kicked up her scoring average to 28 during playoffs despite defenders using everything except heavy artillery to stop her.