{"id":71997,"date":"2022-03-09T03:00:19","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T07:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?p=71997"},"modified":"2022-03-10T09:03:36","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T13:03:36","slug":"tricia-cullop-named-mac-coach-of-the-year-quinesha-lockett-earns-first-team-all-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/03_09_2022\/tricia-cullop-named-mac-coach-of-the-year-quinesha-lockett-earns-first-team-all-mac","title":{"rendered":"Rockets Earn MAC Coach of the Year Award; Five Players Receive Postseason Honors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five members of the Toledo women&#8217;s basketball team and head coach\u00a0Tricia Cullop\u00a0were recognized with postseason distinctions by the Mid-American Conference, the league announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>For the fourth time in her career, Cullop was named MAC Coach of the Year after leading the Rockets to a 25-4 record (19-1 MAC) and a MAC regular-season title.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/MAC-Coach-and-Players-AWARDS-side.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-71999\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/MAC-Coach-and-Players-AWARDS-side.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/MAC-Coach-and-Players-AWARDS-side.jpg 748w, https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/MAC-Coach-and-Players-AWARDS-side-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>Juniors\u00a0Quinesha Lockett\u00a0and\u00a0Sophia Wiard\u00a0both earned All-MAC honors, with Lockett being named to the First Team and Wiard to the Second Team. Junior\u00a0Hannah Noveroske\u00a0was named the league&#8217;s Sixth Player of the Year while freshman\u00a0Jessica Cook\u00a0and sophomore\u00a0Khera Goss\u00a0were named to the MAC&#8217;s All-Freshman Team and All-Defensive Team, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Five players earning postseason MAC honors is a\u00a0school record. Multiple Toledo teams have placed four players on the postseason award list, most recently the 2015-16 squad (Brenae Harris, Janice Monakana, Kaayla McIntyre, Jay-Ann Bravo-Harriott).<\/p>\n<p>Toledo enters the MAC Tournament as the No. 1 seed and will play No. 8 Ohio at 11 a.m. on ESPN+ on Wednesday, March 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the fourth time in her career, Tricia Cullop was named MAC Coach of the Year after leading the Rockets to a 25-4 record (19-1 MAC) and a MAC regular-season title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":836,"featured_media":71999,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,56,1,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71997"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/836"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71997"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72046,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71997\/revisions\/72046"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}