The SEC’s top team took its two highest individual honors Tuesday.Auburn’s DeWanna Bonner was named SEC Player of the Year and Nell Fortner the conference Coach of the Year, just two days after the Tigers wrapped their first SEC regular season championship in 20 years.
Senior guard Whitney Boddie also made the All-SEC first team.
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Fortner led the Tigers to a 27-2 record in her fifth season on the Plains, claiming
Joe Ciampi is the only other
Boddie, the national leader in assists (8.1 per game), joined Bonner on the first team. She is third on the Tigers’ all-time assists list with 569, just 24 shy of the school record.
“She’s the head that makes the body go,” Fortner said. “I think it’s very obvious, especially if you followed us last year and saw us with and without her.”
It’s the first time
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