Leedham Earns Second-Straight
NE-10 Player of the Week Award
Ellesmere Port, England, native
collects honor for eighth time in career

RINDGE, N.H. (November 26, 2007) – Franklin Pierce University sophomore All-American Johannah Leedham (Ellesmere Port, England/Cheshire Academy) has earned her second-straight Northeast-10 Conference women’s basketball Player of the Week award today.

            Leedham, who earns Player of the Week honors for the eighth time in her short Franklin Pierce career, averaged 29 points, eight rebounds, six steals and 3.5 assists in a 2-0 week for the Ravens. She shot 53.8-percent (21-of-39) from the field and converted 15-of-17 (88.2%) free-throw attempts for the week.

Leedham nearly notched her first career triple double in Tuesday’s 64-46 home-opening win over Assumption College with 26 points, hitting 11-of-21 from the field, to go with 11 rebounds for her second-straight double-double (12^th career). She also posted nine steals, five assists and a blocked shot in the victory. Leedham netted a season-high 32 points in yesterday’s 65-54 win at Bryant University, shooting 10-for-18 from the field and converting 12-of-13 from the free-throw line, adding five rebounds, three steals and two assists.           

Leedham, who earned a program record six NE-10 Player of the Week awards as a freshman to go with a record 11 NE-10 Freshman of the Week honors, ranks among NE-10 leaders in nearly every statistical category through the first two weeks of the regular season. She is averaging 27.3 points (2^nd NE-10), 8.3 rebounds (8^th), 4.8 assists (7^th) and 5.3 steals (1^st) in 33.5 minutes per game. She has led Franklin Pierce in scoring in all four games and rebounding three times.

            Leedham has scored in double-figures in all 29 games of her collegiate career, netting 20 or more on 20 occasions and scoring 30-plus points nine times. She enters this week’s games just 13-points shy of 700 career points, averaging 23.7 points per game over her brief collegiate career, and her 121 career steals (4.2/gm) are just 32 short of cracking the program’s career top ten list.

Leedham became the first Daktronics All-American and Kodak/WBCA Honorable Mention All-American in program history as a freshman last winter, while also earning NE-10 Freshman of the Year, All-NE-10 first team and NE-10 All-Rookie team honors, while breaking no fewer than 19 program records at Franklin Pierce.

Leedham guided Great Britain to a bronze medal at the FIBA U-20 European Championships this summer. She led Great Britain in most statistical categories, averaging 22.1 points (3^rd overall among Championship leaders), 8.6 rebounds (6^th), 3.0 assists (6^th) and 2.9 steals (4^th) per contest. She shot 48.7-percent (56-of-115) from the field (5^th), including 14-for-30 (46.7%) from three-point range (2^nd). Leedham scored 20-plus points in all but two contests, posting a pair of double-doubles.

            Franklin Pierce (4-0, 2-0 NE-10), off to a 4-0 start for the first time since a 5-0 open in 1995-96, is back in action on Wednesday when it hosts Pace University at 5:30 p.m.