Clayton State’s Ragin selected
All-Peach Belt Conference for women’s basketball
Laker senior forward becomes fourth two-time All-Conference selection at Clayton State

MORROW, Ga. – March 4, 2008 – The Peach Belt Conference released its 2007-08 All-Conference team for women’s basketball team on Tuesday, and Clayton State’s Shantel Ragin was selected to the All-Peach Belt Conference squad.

It’s the second straight season that Ragin, a senior forward from Pembroke Pines, Fla., has been selected All-Peach Belt Conference. She joins former Clayton State greats Sharon Wiles (2006, 2007), Jasmine Patterson (2005, 2006) and Catreria Shaw (2002, 2003) as two-time All-Conference selections at Clayton State.

This has been a tremendous season for the 5-foot-10 Ragin in leading Clayton State to an 18-9 overall mark and a share of its third Peach Belt Conference regular season championship in the last four seasons. She leads the Lakers in scoring, rebounding and assists, averaging 13 points, seven rebounds and four assists a game. In addition, she’s also shooting 50 percent from the field and 35 percent from 3-point range.

Defensively, Ragin has recorded 76 steals.

Throughout the season, Ragin had 19 games in which she reached double-figures in scoring, including four double-doubles. She scored a career-high 28 points in her last regular season home game against Lander on Feb. 23, plus 24 points against USC-Aiken, 22 points each against Lenoir-Rhyne and Georgia Southwestern and 20 points against North Georgia.

Down the final stretch of the regular season is when Ragin has played her best basketball. In the last eight games of the season, Ragin averaged 19 points and seven rebounds a game with three straight games of scoring 20 or more points. For the season, Ragin ranked fourth in the Peach Belt Conference in steals, fifth in assists, eighth in blocked shots, ninth in rebounding and 10th in field goal percentage.

For her career, Ragin is ranked fifth all-time at Clayton State in steals with 169 and seventh all-time in assists.

Clayton State will be seeded second in the upcoming Peach Belt Conference Tournament this week at USC-Aiken. The Lakers will play the winner of the first round game between UNC-Pembroke and Armstrong Atlantic on Thursday at 1 p.m. in the quarterfinals.

Clayton State is gunning for its second straight Peach Belt Conference Tournament championship and its third in the last four seasons.