Former Mt. SAC women’s basketball coach Laura Beeman, now heading the University of Hawaii program, has been named Big West Coach of the Year.
Beeman, a graduate of Cal State San Bernardino, just finished her third year at Hawaii and led the team to a regular season conference title. The team went 22-7 and heads into the postseason with a 14-game win streak, the longest of her tenure and the school’s longest since a 19-game during the 1997-98 season.
Rialto graduate Jenae Sharpe of Cal State Northridge earned Defensive Player of the Year honors for the second straight year.
UC Riverside’s Brittany Crain is the Player of the Year,