Sarah Hansen

Sarah Hansen added several more honors to a long list Tuesday when she was named the Atlantic Sun Conference Player of the Year and she claimed the A-Sun’s Scholar Athlete of the Year award for the second straight year.

She can also reach a major milestone today.

Hansen, a General McLane graduate, has a chance to break the Florida Gulf Coast University career scoring record tonight when the No. 1-seeded Eagles face No. 8-seeded Kennesaw State in the Atlantic Sun Tournament at Mercer’s Hawkins Arena in Macon, Ga.

The 5-foot 10-inch redshirt junior guard ranks second in Florida Gulf Coast career scoring with 1,395 points, just 20 points shy of the record of 1,415. She leads the A-Sun in scoring at 17 points per game. In addition to being named player of the year Tuesday, she earned a spot on the all-conference first team for the second straight year. She made the second team as a freshman.

A chemistry major, she has compiled a 3.94 cumulative grade-point average. She also earned a spot on the A-Sun’s academic all-conference team Tuesday after earlier earning a second-team spot on the Capital One Academic All-America team.

Hansen has led the Florida Gulf Coast women’s basketball team in scoring and rebounding the past three years while helping the Eagles win three straight A-Sun regular-season titles.

She also ranks in the top-15 in the A-Sun points, rebounds, field goal percentage, assists, free-throw percentage, steals and blocks.

Check out the Atlantic Sun Conference video:

Sarah Hansen

The Associated Press recently circulated a story about the success of the Florida Gulf Coast University women’s basketball team. General McLane graduate Sarah Hansen has been a major part of that success during the past three seasons.

Check out the Florida Gulf Coast story, which was published in Sunday’s Erie Times-News. Included with the story is a note about two recent conference awards that Hansen received — two of many this season.

Sarah Hansen

General McLane graduate Sarah Hansen, a redshirt junior at Florida Gulf Coast University, earned a spot on the Capital One Academic All-District 4 women’s basketball first team.

The District 4 team is made up of student-athletes from Division I schools in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Puerto Rico and South Carolina.

Hansen is a chemistry major who has a 3.94 cumulative grape-point average. She leads the team in scoring (16.8 ppg) and rebounding (8.2 rpg).

The 5-foot 10-inch guard had 18 points and a career-high six steals in just 23 minutes of FGCU’s 80-49 rout of Jacksonville Saturday.

General McLane graduate Sarah Hansen was rewarded Tuesday after a tremendous start to her season at Florida Gulf Coast. The basketball standout was named the Atlantic Sun Player of the Week for the first time in her career. She had 43 points, 17 rebounds, 5 assists and 3 steals in the Eagles’ two games this past week. She shot 51.7% from the field and 85.7% at the free throw line.

Florida Gulf Coast will start a three-game schedule in the U.S. Virgin Islands Paradise Jam tournament on Thursday against DePaul.

–Tom Reisenweber

General McLane graduate Sarah Hansen continued her impressive basketball career at Florida Gulf Coast with 24 points and 11 rebounds in a 69-45 win over Florida International on Wednesday. She connected on 10-of-16 in 35 minutes and also had two steals. Hansen scored 13 points and pulled down eight rebounds in the Eagles’ season-opening 100-31 win over Warner. Florida Gulf Coast is 2-0 this season and is ranked No. 8 in the mid-major Top 25 rankings.

–Tom Reisenweber