SCC Basketball Programs Honored

The Shoreline Community College men’s and women’s basketball teams were honored Tuesday by the NWAACC with individual awards for the 2009-10 season.

SCC Men’s Basketball Coach, Butch Estes, was named the NWAACC’s North Region Coach of the Year and he will coach the North Region All-Stars on March 14 at the NWAACC All-Star games at Pierce Community College. 

Coach Estes turned around the Shoreline men’s team in his second season, as the team went 19-5 in the 2009-10 season, 13-3 in the North Region and won the region for the first time since 2001-02. The team was 6-21 overall last year and 0-16 in the region for 2008-09. Shoreline opens play in the NWAACC Men's Basketball Championship starting on Saturday, March 6, at the Toyota Center in Kennewick, WA.

 Three SCC men’s basketball players were named All-League led by freshman forward Jesse Vaughan (left) who was put on the North Region’s First Team. Vaughan averaged 16.22 points per game and 6.48 rebounds, 2.09 steals.

Shawn West (below left) and Sean Jones (below right) were named second team members of the All-League team. Sophomore point guard West averaged 15.45 points per game and 3 assists per game. Freshman Sean Jones scored 13.69 points a game and 5.69 rebounds.
Shawn West will represent the SCC men’s team at the NWAACC All-Star basketball games on March 14th as well. The NWAACC All-Star games are limited to sophomore players only and 10 players from the North Region were named to the All-Star squad, to be coached by SCC Head Coach, Butch Estes.

Ana Haberman, (right) freshman transfer from Linfield College, was named to the NWAACC Women’s All-League team as a member of the First Team. Haberman was the second leading scorer in the NWAACC and led the North Region in scoring, with a 21.87 game average. She also averaged 7.87 rebounds a game and 3.43 steals. Ana scored 49% of the Lady Dolphins points in 2009-10.