2019-20 D3HOOPS.COM WOMEN'S BASKETBALL PRESEASON ALL-AMERICANS

MINNEAPOLIS -- Augsburg University women's basketball player Tamira McLemore (SR, Eagan, Minn./Eagan HS) was named to the D3hoops.com Preseason All-America Team as a fourth-team guard, it was announced on Monday.

McLemore is the first-ever Augsburg player to be named to the Preseason All-America Team by D3hoops.com, a national site that covers NCAA Division III basketball, since the teams were first named in the 2010-11 season. She is one of only two Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference players named to this year's preseason honor squad; St. Thomas junior forward Kaia Porter was also a fourth-team selection. A total of 25 players were named to five Preseason All-America teams.

McLemore has earned numerous honors throughout her career as one of the top players in Augsburg women's basketball history. One of just 50 players in conference history (and just two Auggies) to earn All-MIAC women's basketball honors three times, she could join an exclusive group of just 16 players who have earned four all-conference honors this season. She has earned All-West Region honors twice by D3hoops.com, as a second-team selection in 2019 and as a third-team honoree in 2017. She was also named the D3hoops.com West Region Rookie of the Year in 2017.

She has been a key part of a senior class that has turned around the Auggies' fortunes in recent years. The class enters the 2019-20 season with a 49-28 (.636 winning percentage) record in their careers, including a 32-22 (.593) record in MIAC play. Augsburg enters this season ranked No. 23 in the D3hoops.com preseason national poll, just the second time the Auggies have ever been nationally ranked in women's basketball.

Last season, the Auggies finished with their best record in varsity program history (since 1972-73), finishing 22-5 overall and 16-2 in MIAC play, the win totals both overall and MIAC school records. Augsburg finished second in the MIAC standings -- its best league finish ever -- and earned a spot in the six-team MIAC postseason playoffs for the third time in the past five seasons. Augsburg reached the MIAC playoff championship game for the first time in school history, and just missed out on a berth in the NCAA Division III national playoffs.

McLemore led the Auggies in scoring in 2018-19, averaging 16.3 points per-game, ranking fifth among MIAC players in overall statistics. McLemore set a single-season school record with an MIAC-leading 73 three-pointers. She ranked fourth among conference players in three-point field-goal percentage (.427) and seventh in free-throw percentage (.765). She also contributed 70 steals, fourth-most among MIAC players. She scored in double figures in 22 of her 27 games, including 20-plus points in eight contests. McLemore added her name to the Augsburg record books in seven single-season categories.

She also reached a career milestone last season, as she became the seventh women's basketball player in school history to reach the 1,000-point career scoring plateau -- and just the second to reach the milestone in her junior campaign. In 76 career games (75 starts), McLemore has now scored 1,129 points (14.9 per-game), now fourth-most in school history, and 470 behind the school record of 1,599, set by Stefanie Lodermeier '98 (1995-98). Her 14.9 career scoring average is currently second-best in school history, behind Lodermeier's 16.2 average.

In addition to her 1,129 career points, McLemore has 363 career rebounds (4.8 per-game), 211 assists (10th in school history), 192 steals (fourth in school history) and 31 blocked shots. Her 139 career three-pointers are third-most in school history, and her 252 free throws are sixth-most.

Led by fifth-year head coach Ted Riverso, Augsburg opens its 2019-20 campaign with a nonconference game at Wisconsin-Superior next Monday (11/11) at 7 p.m.