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Hunt Named to All-Patriot League Second-Team
AU sophomore lone Eagle representative on squad

March 5, 2003

Chanel Hunt was named to the All-Patriot League Second-Team.

WASHINGTON — Sophomore Chanel Hunt (Raleigh, N.C./Ravenscroft) was honored today by the Patriot League by earning a spot on the All-Patriot League Second-Team. The lone member of the squad off of American University’s women’s basketball team, Hunt adds this award to her All-Rookie honor from a year ago.

A 6-0 forward, Hunt led the Eagles in scoring with 14.4 points per game while also leading the squad in rebounding with 7.3 boards per contest. She also added six double-doubles and grabbed 79 steals on the season, good for fourth-most all-time at AU. Hunt earned AU Tip-Off Classic MVP honors after posting 19 points and grabbing 14 rebounds against Eastern Michigan and also scoring 16 points against Maryland-Eastern Shore.

Hunt was named Patriot League Player of the Week on Jan. 13 after helping to lead AU to a road win over Bucknell with 23 points and 11-of-12 shooting from the free-throw line. She had one of the best games of her career at Navy when she set a new Alumni Hall record with 34 points which is also third-most ever at AU. Hunt made 14 field goals in the game to tie the school record.

American University, which fields a 19-sport NCAA Division I athletics program featuring 10 women’s sports and nine for men, is in its second year of membership in the Patriot League. Since joining the Patriot League, the University has captured league championships in men’s cross country, women’s cross country, men’s soccer, women’s soccer, men’s tennis, women’s tennis and women’s volleyball, and regular-season titles in men’s basketball and women’s lacrosse.

Chartered by an Act of Congress in 1893, American University features students from all 50 states, the District of Columbia and more than 160 nations worldwide.