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Senior guard Hannah Tvrdy and freshman guard Grace Coalivalu of the Colorado State women’s basketball team have received yearly honors for the Mountain West for their play during the 2017-18 regular season. The conference announced its accolades on Monday.
Tvrdy earned All-Mountain West and Mountain West All-Defensive honors, while Colaivalu was selected to the Mountain West All-Freshman team. Tvrdy is the third Rams to be chosen All-Defensive since the accolade was first awarded in 2008-09 (Ellen Nystrom, Meghan Heimstra). Colaivalu is the first Mountain West All-Freshman selection from CSU since Elin Gustavsson and Ellen Nystrom in 2013-14.
Tvrdy finished the season as the Rams’ leading scorer and rebounder, averaging 13.2 points and 6.7 rebounds per game in conference play. The senior tallied 10 or more points in 17 games in 2017-18, including double-digit scoring efforts in nine of the last 10 games of the regular season and 20 or more points in three games. In conference play, the Seward, Neb., native ranked ninth in the Mountain West in scoring, as well as ninth in rebounding, 10th in three-point field goal percentage (.384), fourth in defensive rebounding (5.3/game) and second in minutes played (35.4/game).
Colaivalu finished the regular season as CSU’s No. 3 scorer (7.8 points per game during conference play), and ranked 13th in the Mountain West and third among conference freshmen in field goal percentage (.464). The freshman from Sacramento, Calif., averaged 22 points per game over the Rams’ first four Mountain West games this season, marking the highest average in any player’s first four conference games in the Ryun Williams era. Among the performances in that stretch was a 29-point effort in a win at San Diego State on Jan. 3, which included the game-winning layup in the final seconds.
The Colorado State women’s basketball team is the No. 5 seed at the 2018 Mountain West Women’s Basketball Championship and will open tournament play against the No. 4-seeded Fresno State Bulldogs in Las Vegas on Tuesday. Opening tip from the Thomas & Mack Center is scheduled for 3:30 p.m. MT/2:30 p.m. PT.
Featured Image Credit: Don Reichert, Colorado State