2010-2011 Season Recap
Junior center Carol Cayo (Lake Mills, Wis./Lake Mills) has been selected First Team All-Northern Athletics Conference for her play during the 2010-11 season. Cayo was named First Team All-NAC last season and NAC Freshman of the Year during the 2008-09 season. She owns the all-time NAC record for career rebounds and blocked shots and led the NAC in rebounding and blocks during this season. Freshman forward Shannon Larson (Naperville, Ill./Neuqua Valley) was picked for the All-Freshman Team and junior guard Kathleen Collingbourne (East Dundee, Ill./Dundee-Crown) was named to the All-Sportsmanship Team.
Cayo was recently named to the Capital One Women's Basketball College Division Academic All-America Second Team. Cayo is an industrial engineering major and holds a 3.97 grade point average. Last season, Cayo was selected to the CoSIDA Academic All-District First Team. She recently broke the MSOE record for rebounds in a career as she surpassed the mark set by Catherine Chappell. She has 872 rebounds in her three years as a Raider. Cayo owns the school record for blocks in a career (239) as well. Also this season, Cayo became the seventh player in the history of the MSOE women's basketball program to hit the 1,000-point plateau.
Cayo completed the season leading the Raiders in scoring (16.7 PPG), rebounding (11.2 RPG), field goals (152), field-goal percentage (46.6%), free throws (128), steals (52) and blocks (74). She recorded 13 double-doubles during the 2010-11 season for third straight year.
Larson was second on the team in field goals (100), rebounding (5.2 RPG) and field goal percentage (44.8%) and finished third in scoring (9.5 PPG) and free throws (46). Collingbourne led MSOE with 72 assists and was second with 21 three-pointers made.
In the quarterfinals of the NAC Tournament, the Raiders lost to top seed Wisconsin Lutheran 76-55. MSOE completed the season 5-12 in the Northern Athletic Conference South Division and 8-18 overall.
