Huskies Place on All PAC-8 Teams

(San Jose, CA) -- Forward Brett Lawrence, defenseman Brian Smith and goaltender Scott Southard from the ice hockey team at the University of Washington receive First Team All PAC-8 Conference honors at the 2002 Intercollegiate Pac-8 Ice Hockey Conference Banquet. The Huskies take three out of the six spots on the First Team, as well as three out of the six spots for the All Pac-8 Honorable Mention list.

Sophomore Brett Lawrence was named to the First All Pac-8 Team as a forward with a record-breaking year of 17 goals, 10 assists for a total of 27 points in 17 Pac-8 games. He also tallied 4 penalty minutes. Senior Brian Smith was named to the First All Pac-8 Team defensive squad list with 1 goal, 7 assists, 8 points, 10 penalty minutes in 17 Pac-8 games. Also placing on the First All Pac-8 Team was senior goalie Scott Southard. He played 16 Pac-8 games with over 900 minutes of ice, and had a GAA of 1.933 and a Save Percentage of 93.14%.

Other Huskies winning awards were:
Senior, Marty Boyd – forward – Honorable Mention All Pac-8
Sophomore, Matt Carlson – forward – Honorable Mention All Pac-8
Sophomore, Sean O’Brien – defense – Honorable Mention All Pac-8

2002 First Team All Pac-8
1. Bobby Jaros – forward - Stanford
2. Brett Lawrence – forward - University of Washington
3. Eric Kahnert – forward – USC
4. Brian Smith – defense – University of Washington
5. Scott Sargent – defense – USC
6. Scott Southard – goalie – University of Washington

2002 Second Team All Pac-8
1. Mike Tornabene – forward - Oregon
2. Nick Nickson – forward – USC
3. Jason Katzen – forward – Cal
4. Mike Imahara – defense – USC
5. Rob Fowler – defense – Stanford
6. Jay Desai – goalie - Stanford

2002 Honorable Mention All Pac-8
1. Marty Boyd – forward – University of Washington
2. Raffie Kalajian – forward – USC
3. Matt Carlson – forward – University of Washington
4. Chris Dang – defense – Cal
5. Sean O’Brien – defense – University of Washington
6. Jeff Langille – goalie – USC

All Pac-8 awards are based on nominations and voting from each Pac-8 head coach. Each coach voted for twelve players from the list of 30 nominations.

© Husky Hockey, 2002