SUNY Cortland senior forward Jessica Laing (Bloomville/South Kortright) has been named the 2009-10 State University of New York Athletic Conference (SUNYAC) Women's Basketball Player of the Year and 12th-year head coach Jeannette Mosher has been selected as the SUNYAC Coach of the Year in a vote of the league's coaches. Laing and Mosher won the same awards last season.

Cortland sophomore guard Micki Volpini (Newfield) joins Laing on the All-SUNYAC first team.

A four-time first team All-SUNYAC honoree, Laing is averaging 20.4 points and 12.6 rebounds per game this season. In 116 career games, all as a starter, Laing has 2,146 points and 1,296 rebounds. She is one of 10 players in the history of Division III women's basketball to reach the combination of 2,000 points and 1,000 rebounds, and the only player in that group to also hit at least 100 career three-pointers (currently 133). She ranks 24th in Division III in career scoring and 15th in career rebounding.

Laing has 23 points-rebounds “double-doubles” in 28 games this year and 77 for her career. She has scored in double figures in 111 of her 116 collegiate games.

Volpini is Cortland's second-leading scorer at 13.5 points per game. She also averages 3.8 rebounds per game and leads the squad with 2.8 steals per game and an 84.1 free throw percentage. Volpini has scored in double figures in 20 of 28 games.

Mosher was named the SUNYAC Coach of the Year for the fourth time in the last five years and the sixth time overall. She has guided the Red Dragons to at least 23 victories each of the last five seasons and currently has a career record at Cortland of 279-62 (.818).

Cortland brings a 25-3 record and a 20-game winning streak into its NCAA Division III tournament opener this Friday, March 5, at the University of Rochester. The Red Dragons won the SUNYAC tournament last weekend and also were the league's regular-season champion with a 17-1 record.