PERO
NAMED DAKTRONICS-NAIA SCHOLAR-ATHLETE
For Immediate Release
March 22, 2006
Senior guard/forward Kelly
Pero (Hobart H.S./Joliet JC/Crown Point,
IN) of the University of St. Francis
women’s basketball team has been
named to the Daktronics-NAIA All-America
Scholar-Athlete team for her accomplishments
both on the court and in the classroom.
Pero, a recreation
administration major, has a 3.73 cumulative
grade-point average (4.0 scale) and has
made USF’s Dean’s List each
of the last two semesters. Pero
earned a perfect 4.0 GPA in the Spring
of 2005 and followed that with a 3.80
this past Fall. She transferred into USF
in the Fall of 2004 after attending Joliet
Junior College for two years.
Pero led the Lady
Saints in scoring during both her junior
and senior seasons. She averaged 11.3
points per game this past year after topping
the club with a 12.3 average in 2004-05.
She earned Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic
Conference honorable mention recognition
as a senior and was USF’s lone first-team
all-CCAC pick one year ago as a junior.
Pero established
the USF single-season record for three-point
field goals made in 2004-05 with 70 and
added 65 more treys to her career stats
as a senior this season. With 135 career
three-pointers, she finished just 16 shy
of equaling the USF career record despite
playing just two seasons for the Lady
Saints.
Pero was the lone
Saint to start all 31 games this season.
She was the only senior in a starting
lineup that normally consisted of one
senior, one sophomore and three freshmen
and led the team to a 15-16 record and
a fourth-place finish in the CCAC.
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