Spear Named to First Team All-ACC
3/1/2022 9:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
The guard from The Colony, Texas is the first sophomore to lead the conference in scoring since 2011-12.
GREENSBORO, N.C. – Wake Forest women's basketball sophomore guard Jewel Spear was named a First Team All-ACC selection, as announced by the league office on Tuesday morning.
This comes on the heels of being named both to the ACC All-Freshman Team and the ACC All-Tournament Team a season ago.
Spear becomes just the fifth player in Wake Forest program history to earn first team honors, joining Ivana Raca (2020-21), Dearica Hamby (2013-14, 2014-15), Tracy Connor (1995-96) and Jen Hoover (Mitchell) (1989-90).
Additionally, this marks just the second time in program history the Demon Deacons have had First Team All-ACC members in back-to-back seasons.
Sophomore Jewel Spear heads into the ACC Tournament as the leading scorer in the conference by nearly a point. She is looking to become the first sophomore leading scorer in the conference since Alyssa Thomas did it a decade ago at Maryland in 2011-12.
Additionally, it would be just the third time in the last 20 seasons as the only other sophomore to lead the conference in scoring during that time was Alana Beard for Duke in 2001-02.
Each of those seasons, the men's leading scorer came from the same school. This could be just the fifth time in ACC history that players from the same school have led the ACC in scoring on both the men's and women's sides in the same season and the first time in 10 years and third in the last 20 years:
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2021-22 - Wake Forest (Jewel Spear and Alondes Williams)
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2011-12 - Maryland (Alyssa Thomas and Terrell Stoglin)
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2001-02 - Duke (Jay Williams and Alana Beard)
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1997-98 - UNC (Antwan Jameson and Tracy Reid)
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1990-91 - NC State (Andrea Stinson and Rodney Monroe)
Since stepping onto campus, sophomore guard Spear has been one of the best shooters in program history. She goes into Wednesday night tied for sixth in program history with 142 career three-point makes in just 54 career games. This season Spear could finish as the single-season record holder, trailing Cotelia Bond-Young (2004-05) by just 13 makes:
|
Rank |
Player |
Three-Point Makes |
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1. |
Cotelia Bond-Young (04-05) |
97 |
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2. |
Chelsea Douglas (13-14) |
86 |
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3. |
Cotelia Bond-Young (05-06) |
85 |
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4. |
Jewel Spear (21-22) |
84 |
