LORETTO, PA- For the third consecutive season, rising senior guard Jessica Kovatch (Phillipsburg, N.J./Phillipsburg) has been named to the Nancy Lieberman Award Watch List, an award given annually to the Nation's top point guard.
 
The will-be senior guard is coming off an impressive junior season where she earned the Northeast Conference Player of the Year, Northeast Conference Tournament MVP and the ECAC Player of the Year. She averaged 24.4 points per game, second in the nation and scored 831 total points, second in the nation. Her 141 made three-point field goals were not only tops in the country but set a new NCAA Division-I record for threes in a season. That campaign placed Kovatch as one of the final 10 for the Lieberman Award last season.
 
Kovatch will start her senior season as the Nation's leading returning scorer and three-point shooter. Her 2,158 career points and 349 career made three-point field goals are tops amongst the Division-I active career list. Her 349 made threes are already a Northeast Conference record and her 2,158 career points are just 180 points behind Jess Zinoble who set the NEC and Saint Francis career scoring mark with 2,338 points.
 
This season, Kovatch finds herself once again in elite company on the Lieberman Watch List with 17 of the 20 players on the list coming from either a Power-5 conference or an established National program. You can view the entire list below. 
 
Kovatch and the Red Flash start their defense of their NEC regular season and conference titles on October 31^st when they welcome in Pitt-Johnstown for an exhibition. Tip-off is set for 7 p.m. from DeGol Arena.
 
Laia Raventos Charlotte
Kennedy Leonard Colorado
Crystal Dangerfield Connecticut
Kelly Campbell DePaul
Kyra Lambert Duke
Taja Cole Georgia
Kayla Goth Kansas St.
Channise Lewis Maryland
Kenisha Bell Minnesota
Paris Kea North Carolina
Marina Mabrey Notre Dame
Chastadie Barrs Lamar
Carmen Grande Ohio St.
Sabrina Ionescu Oregon
Destiny Slocum Oregon St.
Jessica Kovatch (Phillipsburg, N.J./Phillipsburg) Saint Francis
Tyasha Harris South Carolina
Tiana Mangakahia Syracuse
Evina Westbrook Tennessee
Chennedy Carter Texas A&M