GREEN BAY, Wis. (GreenBayPhoenix.com) – For the 10th-consecutive year, the Green Bay women's basketball team will enter the season as the Horizon League preseason favorite, as announced by the league office during its media day event on Friday. Receiving individual recognition for the Phoenix were seniors Jessica Lindstrom (First-Team All-Horizon League) and Allie LeClaire (Second-Team All-Horizon League).
 
Green Bay is fresh off its 19th-straight Horizon League Regular-Season Championship and is no stranger to high expectations, with Head coach Kevin Borseth's Phoenix squad receiving 21 of the 25 first-place votes in the poll and accumulating 246 points to lead the nearest school by 42 (Wright State).
 
Lindstrom receives the preseason first-team all-league honor after a dominant junior campaign a season ago, where she averaged 13.1 points per game and a team-high 9.8 rebounds per game. Lindstrom also enters the season having received second-team honors last season as well as all-defensive team recognition back-to-back seasons. Lindstrom was named Horizon League Tournament MVP after scoring 15 points and grabbing nine rebounds in the championship game. She averaged 16.7 PPG over the three tour wins, and 10.6 RPG.
 
LeClaire was also named to the all-league second team after averaging 11.0 points per game and a team-best 3.8 assists per game. The native of Green Bay, Wis., was also the 35^th player in program history to surpass the 1,000-points mark for Green Bay, doing so after a 19-point effort in last year's Horizon League Tournament Championship.
 
Green Bay will take the floor on Thursday, October 26 at 7 p.m. when the squad welcome UW-Whitewater to the Kress Center for an exhibition matchup.
 
Preseason Poll Listed Below (First-place votes)
 

1. Green Bay (21)           246
2. Wright State (4)          204
3. Oakland                      139
4. Milwaukee                  129
5. Detroit Mercy             126
6. Cleveland State           117
7. IUPUI                         106
8. Youngstown State      93
9. Northern Kentucky     59
10. UIC                             31

 
2017-18 Horizon League Women's Basketball All-Preseason Teams
 
Player of the Year
Chelsea Welch, Wright State
 
First Team
Ashanti Abshaw, Cleveland State
Brianne Cohen, Detroit Mercy
Jessica Lindstrom, Green Bay
Steph Kostowicz, Milwaukee
Chelsea Welch, Wright State
 
Second Team
Khayla Livingston, Cleveland State
Allie LeClaire, Green Bay
Danielle Lawrence, IUPUI
Taylor Jones, Oakland
Lexi Smith, Wright State
 
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