March 3, 2004

DALLAS - Three Missouri women's basketball players are among the 41 student-athletes who have been named to the 2003 Women's Basketball Academic All-Big 12 Team, officials from the conference office announced today.

Here are Missouri's honorees:

2003 Women's Basketball Academic All-Big 12 Team
FIRST TEAM

Tracy Lozier Sr. Communications Leawood, Kan.
Megan Roney Jr. Business Admin. Independence, Mo.
Evan Unrau Sr. Psychology Fort Collins, Colo.

Only Kansas State and Iowa State, with four honorees apiece, had more players make the first team than Missouri.

Nominated by each institution's director of student-athlete support services and media relations offices, the women's basketball academic all-league squad consists of 32 first-team members and nine student-athletes on the second team. First-team members are those student-athletes who have maintained a 3.20 or better grade-point average, while the second team are those who have a 3.00 to 3.19 GPA.

Missouri's three honorees bring to 25 to the number of basketball student-athletes recognized by the Big 12 in Head Coach Cindy Stein's six-year tenure.