Augustus Is a Unanimous All-American

Seimone Augustus plays with dazzling skill, a crowd-pleasing flair and, according to her coach, plenty of smarts.

With that combination, it’s no wonder the Louisiana State star was a unanimous All-American.

Augustus led the Associated Press women’s basketball All-American team, which was announced Wednesday. She was the only player picked for the first team by all 45 members of the national media panel that also votes in the weekly AP poll.

“People marvel at her mid-range jumper. I marvel at the fact she’s always wide open when the opposition has practiced all week,” to stop her, LSU Coach Pokey Chatman said. “That’s because she’s cerebral. She understands what cuts to make and when to pick up the basketball.”

Augustus, a 6-foot-1 junior who averaged 20.1 points this season, received the maximum 225 points in the voting and was joined on the first team by Kansas State’s Kendra Wecker (192), Duke’s Monique Currie (180), Ohio State’s Jessica Davenport (163) and Texas Christian’s Sandora Irvin (153).

Wecker received 36 first-team votes, Currie 29, Davenport 22 and Irvin 20.

Stanford freshman Candice Wiggins earned second-team honors.

Among those earning honorable mention honors were UCLA’s Nikki Blue and UC Santa Barbara’s Kristen Mann.