LORETTO, PA- Rising senior guard Jessica Kovatch (Phillipsburg, N.J./Phillipsburg) has garnered the attention of a second major award, as she has been named to the Ann Meyers Drysdale Award Watch List.
 
Named for the first college basketball player male or female to be a four-time All-American, the Drysdale Award honors the Nation's top shooting guard.
 
This is second major award watch list this season for Kovatch as she was named to the Lieberman Award watch list for the third-consecutive year on Monday for the Nation's Top Point Guard. This is the first time that Kovatch has been named to the Drysdale Award watch list. Only Kovatch and Chennedy Carter of Texas A and M were named to both lists. You can view the entire watch list below.
 
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.
 
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.
 
 
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.
 
Chloe Jackson Baylor
Darby Maggard Belmont
Katie Lou Samuelson Connecticut
Candice White Fresno St.
Dionna White Georgetown
Shakyla Hill Grambling St.
Mikayla Ferenz Idaho
Maci Morris Kentucky
Asia Durr Louisville
Allazia Blockton Marquette
Destiny Pitts Minnesota
Arike Ogunbowale Notre Dame
Teniya Page Penn St.
Jovana Nogic Providence
Kitija Laksa South Florida
Jessica Kovatch (Phillipsburg, N.J./Phillipsburg) Saint Francis
Kiana Williams Stanford
Chennedy Carter Texas A&M
Kennedy Burke UCLA
Aliyah Mazyck USC
Amber Melgoza Washington