Senior Lindsay Shearer keeps reeling in awards and honors, even though the Kent State women’s basketball team’s season has been over for nearly a month.

Shearer, the Mid-American Conference Player of the Year, was named an honorable mention to the 2006 NCAA Division I Kodak/Women’s Basketball Coaches Association All-American Basketball Team Saturday, as well as the Women’s Basketball News Service All-America Third Team.

The awards were announced at the WBCA Nation Convention in Boston.

Shearer joins former Flash Dawn Zerman, who is a Varsity “K” Hall of Fame member and was named to the Kodak/WBCA team in 1999 and 2000.

Other MAC players were named as honorable mentions to the Kodak/WBCA All-America Team. Senior guard Ryan Coleman of Eastern Michigan and senior guard Casey Rost of Western Michigan were honored as well.

For WBNS All-America Third Team, Shearer joins the ranks of Zerman, who was honored in 2000, and Amy Sherry, who was honored in 1995.

Shearer has been honored with various awards throughout the season. She was named to the All-MAC First Team and was named as the MAC’s Most Valuable Player. She earned the title of the 2006 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-American of the Year and also was placed on the Academic All-America First Team.

This season, Shearer led the MAC in scoring with an average of 20.8 points per game and with 1,799 points in her career, she placed in the No. 4 spot in Kent State history.

— Kali Price