News & Notes Contact: Scott Rucker, SID GRUBBS NAMED MVP, MURILLO SELECTED MIP FOR WOMEN'S BASKETBALL The awards were presented at Sunday's (April 30th) Winter/Spring Lake Forest College Athletic Banquet. Grubbs, who received the Midwest Conference Player of the Year award this season, led the Foresters in scoring (18.4 points per game), assists (92), steals (76), free throw percentage (.864), and three-point percentage (.479). She was a First Team All-Conference and Second Team All-American (Division III Basketball Online) selection this season. Murillo, in her first season on the varsity squad at Lake Forest, appeared in 12 games and averaged 1.6 points per game while shooting 50% (6/12) from the field. The Foresters accumulated a 21-4 overall record and won the Midwest
Conference Championship in 1999-2000. It was the fourth MWC title for Lake
Forest. The team also advanced to the NCAA Division III Tournament for
the second time in school history.
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