Lincoln – Emily Cady and Rachel Theriot earned second-team All-Big Ten honors, while Tear’a Laudermill added honorable-mention recognition when the Big Ten Conference announced its postseason awards live on BTN on Monday.
Cady, a 6-2 senior forward from Seward, Neb., averaged a double-double with 12.5 points and 10.4 rebounds per game to help the Huskers record their fourth consecutive 20-win season in 2014-15. A four-year starter who has made 129 straight starts since the first game of her freshman season, Cady owns 1,415 points while ranking third in school history with 1,089 rebounds. She enters the Big Ten Tournament needing just five rebounds to join the conference’s all-time top 10 in that category. Cady also ranks No. 5 in Husker history in blocked shots (111), while recording more assists (302) than any other post player in Nebraska history.
Cady, who earned second-team All-Big Ten honors as a junior, was also an honorable-mention All-Big Ten choice as a freshman and sophomore. She was also a Big Ten All-Freshman selection in 2012.
Theriot, a 6-0 junior point guard from Middleburg Heights, Ohio, joined Cady with second-team All-Big Ten honors despite missing Nebraska’s final eight Big Ten games with an ankle injury that required season-ending surgery on Feb. 19. A first-team All-Big Ten choice as a sophomore when she led the Huskers to the Big Ten Tournament title as the tournament’s MVP, Theriot averaged 16.5 points, 4.2 rebounds and 5.2 assists before her injury as a junior.
An honorable-mention All-American as a sophomore, Theriot was a preseason candidate for the Wade, Naismith, Wooden and Lieberman awards, while earning preseason first-team All-Big Ten recognition.
Laudermill, a 5-9 senior guard from Moreno Valley, Calif., added 13.7 points and 3.6 rebounds as a junior while joining Cady in the Husker starting five for all 29 games. It marked the second straight season for Laudermill to earn postseason honors, after claiming a second-team All-Big Ten award in 2014.
Senior Hailie Sample rounded out Nebraska’s All-Big Ten honorees as the school’s Sportsmanship Award winner. The 6-1 forward from Flower Mound, Texas, has produced 7.4 points and 6.9 rebounds per game as a senior. Last season, Sample was a member of the Big Ten All-Defensive Team.
No. 7 seed Nebraska returns to action on Thursday at the Big Ten Tournament to take on No. 10 seed Illinois. Tip-off between the Huskers and Fighting Illini at Sears Centre Arena in Hoffman Estates, Ill., is set for 6 p.m., with live TV coverage by BTN.
It will be the third meeting of the season between Nebraska and Illinois, with the Huskers coming from behind in the closing minutes to win a pair of possession games in the first two meetings.