Name Megan Herbert School Central Arkansas Sport Basketball Gender female Classification SR Home Town Rogers, Ark Head Coach Sandra Rushing G.P.A 3.0 Major Nutrition

On court accomplishments

• National Division I active career leader in double-doubles (72, tied for 7^th all time with Cheryl Miller & Duke’s Chris Moreland)
• National Division I active career leader in rebounds
• National Division I active career leader in rebound average
• 5^th – Active Division I career points
• 4^th – Active Division I career free throws made
• 1 of just 2 active Division I players with 2,000 points & 1,000 rebounds (Brittney Griner)
• Southland Conference & UCA Double-Doubles record holder
• UCA career rebound record holder
• Southland Conference career FTs made record holder
• 5^th in UCA history & 7^th in Southland history in career scoring
• Only player in Southland history to win Freshman of the Year & follow with back-to-back Player of the Year awards
• Only player in Southland history to lead league in both points & rebounds in the same season twice
• 2^nd player in Southland history to be both Player & Defensive Player of the Year in the same season
• Holds 2^nd longest double-double streak ever by a Division I player with 23 in a row during freshman season (trailing only Courtney Paris); and is one of just 3 Division I players to ever have two separate streaks of 10 or more consecutive double-doubles (Anne Donovan, Old Dominion; Jillian Robbins, Tulsa)
• Led team to first Southland Conference regular-season championship
• Led team to three straight 21-win seasons – only team in Southland Conference to do so during that time
• Led team to best Southland Conference record (36-12) over previous three seasons

Awards and honors

• 2-Time Southland Conference Player of the Year (2011, 12)
• Southland Conference Freshman of the Year (2010)
• Southland Conference Defensive Player of the Year (2012)
• 3x 1^st Team All-Southland Conference (2010-12)
• Preseason Mid-Major Player of the Year by College Sports Madness (2012)
• 15-time Southland Conference Player of the Week

Academic accomplishments

• Earned degree from University of Central Arkansas in 3.5 years
• Southland Conference Commissioner’s Honor Roll

Community involvement

Various team & athletics-wide community involvement activities such as Operation Christmas Child, Samaritan’s Feet, fundraisers for Bethlehem House & Conway Regional Women’s Center, visits to local nursing homes/senior citizen centers

Comments from his or her head coach

I have only had the pleasure of coaching Megan for this one season, but I didn’t need very long at all to realize what a special young woman she is. I’ve been a head coach for more than 20 years and can’t remember ever having a player more driven to succeed than Megan.

She is incredibly nice, polite and humble but at the same time an incredibly fierce competitor who has an intense desire for her team to be successful. And she takes every step possible to make sure that happens – in the locker room, the weight room, the classroom, the practice floor, the hours leading up to the game and of course what she’s accomplished in games throughout her career speaks for itself. And with all the hard work she’s put in to accomplish what she has on the floor, and still graduate early, speaks volumes about her attitude and how she approaches life beyond basketball.

She has been instrumental in building the program at UCA to one of the top mid-major programs in the nation, and I hate to say that anybody is impossible to replace – but she’s as close as I’ve ever seen and I sure don’t like to think about having to try

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