{"id":11320,"date":"2013-03-08T16:33:45","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T16:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baylorproud.wpengine.com\/?p=11320"},"modified":"2013-03-08T16:42:37","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T16:42:37","slug":"mulkey-griner-sweep-big-12-coachplayer-of-the-year-honors-for-third-straight-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2013\/03\/mulkey-griner-sweep-big-12-coachplayer-of-the-year-honors-for-third-straight-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Mulkey, Griner sweep Big 12 Coach\/Player of the Year honors for third straight year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"mulkey-griner-mar13\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/mulkey-griner-mar13.jpg\" alt=\"Kim Mulkey and Brittney Griner\" width=\"200\" \/>In the nearly 20-year history of the Big 12 Conference, no coach in any of the Big-Four sports (football, men&#8217;s basketball, women&#8217;s basketball, baseball) had ever won three straight Coach of the Year honors &#8212; until Thursday, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylorbears.com\/sports\/w-baskbl\/spec-rel\/030713aaa.html\" target=\"_blank\">when the Baylor Lady Bears&#8217; Kim Mulkey was so honored<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Only one player in that time, across all four sports, had ever been named Big 12 Player of the Year three times &#8212; Oklahoma women&#8217;s basketball&#8217;s Courtney Paris. That number is now two, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylorbears.com\/sports\/w-baskbl\/spec-rel\/030713aaa.html\" target=\"_blank\">the Lady Bears&#8217; Brittney Griner claimed her third straight trophy this week<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Griner was also named the league&#8217;s Defensive Player of the Year for the fourth straight year and was joined by junior guard Odyssey Sims on the All-Big 12 First Team (Sims&#8217; third straight first-team selection). Seniors Jordan Madden, Kimetria Hayden and Brooklyn Pope were each named All-Big 12 Honorable Mention. Griner and Sims also made the All-Defensive Team, while senior Destiny Williams received the Sixth Man Award and Alexis Prince made the All-Freshman Team.<\/p>\n<p>With their third straight Big 12 regular season title already in the bag, the Lady Bears will now look to extend their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.big12sports.com\/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=10410&amp;ATCLID=205717728\" target=\"_blank\">Big 12 tournament championship run<\/a> to three straight years as well. Baylor will face either Kansas State or Texas in the tournament quarterfinals Saturday at 1:30 p.m. on FSN.<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, Lady Bears!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the nearly 20-year history of the Big 12 Conference, no coach in any of the Big-Four sports (football, men&#8217;s basketball, women&#8217;s basketball, baseball) had ever won three straight Coach of the Year honors &#8212; until Thursday, when the Baylor Lady Bears&#8217; Kim Mulkey was so honored. Only one player in that time, across all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athletics","category-honors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}