Kelly, Ober receive all-conference honors

by: Kelly Prendergast

Senior basketball stars, Will Kelly and Kaitlyn Ober celebrated conference honors this year.

Kelly, from Williamsport, made first-team all-conference, earning his second straight all-conference honors.

Kelly enjoyed a solid senior season where he finished third in the conference in scoring, averaging 16.1 points a game and fifth in rebounding, averaging 7.1 rebounds a game. He also ranked among the leaders in several other categories such as free-throw percentage, three-point percentage, offensive rebounds and steals.
Kelly performed to even a higher level when competing in conference games. He averaged 17.8 points per game, which was second in the conference, and 7.9 rebounds per game which ranked him third in the conference. Kelly’s strong and consistent performance can clearly be seen in his impressive statistics.

Additionally, during the season Kelly became the 11th player in school history to reach 1,000 career points and 500 career rebounds.

He is only the fourth men's basketball player to achieve this honor within the past four years.

He also became the 11th player in school history to reach 100 career three pointers. In high school Kelly also achieve the 1,000-point mark.

“This is definitely a special accomplishment for me or for any other player because not many people reach it. It will be exciting in the future to go through the record books and see where I stand among the other guys who got it,” Kelly said.
Overall Kelly had a very strong career for the men’s basketball program here at Lycoming. In the spring Kelly will be graduating with a degree in finance and management and in the future he plans to find a job in the financial field.

Ober, a six-foot post from Lititz, was awarded the first all-conference honors of her career.

Ober achieve second-team all-conference honors. She had an outstanding senior season, in which she was the leading scorer for the conference, averaging 14.6 points per game.

Ober also placed among the conference leaders in other categories such as seventh in rebounding, seventh in field-goal percentage, 10 in assists, fifth in blocked shots, ninth in offensive rebounds and seventh in defensive rebounds. Ober is only the second player in school history to earn all Commonwealth Conference honors. The warriors join the conference in 2007-08.

Additionally, she scored in double figures 20 times this season and scored over 20 points six times, three of which were her last three games.

Ober also received the MAC Commonwealth player of the week honors twice this year, along with her third Lycoming Warrior of the Week award. She was named on the Lycoming Hoops for Hounds All Tournament Team this year, and her sophomore year she was named Most Valuable Player.

Ober not only exhibits excellence on the court, she also does so in the classroom. A corporate communication major ann Spanish minor graduating this spring, Ober is a member of the Communications Honor Society, Lambda Pi Eta, has received Dean’s list honors every semester and is a member of the and MAC Honor Roll.

“I accomplished more this year than I thought I would,” Ober said, “Senior year is big since you’re the oldest and most experienced.I feel I led our team on the court and and taught a lot to my teammates which was what was important. The awards were a blessing and I have been honored by them and thankful to all the people who helped me achieve them.”