Allazia Blockton earns Marquette’s 73rd McCahill Award
11/21/2019 11:08:00 AM | General, Women's Basketball
MU’s all-time leading women’s basketball scorer honored for excellence in athletics, scholarship and service
MILWAUKEE – Former Marquette University women's basketball player Allazia Blockton is the recipient of the 73rd Robert L. and William P. McCahill Award, the highest honor bestowed upon a Marquette student-athlete.
She will be honored at the Marquette men's basketball game against Creighton at Fiserv Forum on Tuesday, Feb. 18 at 7:30 p.m. Central time.
"Allazia made a tremendous impact on Marquette University during her four years as a record-setting student-athlete," Marquette University vice president and director of athletics Bill Scholl said. "She led the women's basketball team to unparalleled success but perhaps more impressive was her ability to play a leading role off it.
"Allazia earned a great deal of respect from her peers and administrators while representing Marquette and the BIG EAST at the NCAA level and was looked to as a leader throughout her career. Her impact was also felt greatly in her home city of Milwaukee, where she helped forge a stronger connection between the community and the women's basketball program. I can think of no better representative of Marquette University and the McCahill Award."
The most decorated women's basketball player in Marquette history, Blockton was a three-time WBCA All-American and the program's all-time scorer with 2,204 career points. The Milwaukee native was the 2018 BIG EAST Player of the Year and earned the league's sixth-woman award in 2019 after returning from an injury that sidelined her for a portion of the BIG EAST slate.
Blockton was a two-time All-BIG EAST First Team selection and earned second team honors as a rookie in addition to the league's freshman of the year award. She burst onto the scene as a freshman, setting a first-year player MU record with 571 points, an average of 18.7 points per game, while also pacing the squad in rebounding.
The Golden Eagles returned to the NCAA tournament in her sophomore season for the first time in six years after claiming the 2017 BIG EAST Women's Basketball Tournament Championship for the first time in program history. MU followed that with league regular season crowns in both 2017-18 and 2018-19 and trips to the NCAA tournament second round both years. It total, MU won 68.2 percent (90-42) of its games during her tenure and was 52-20 (.722) in BIG EAST play.
She is the all-time leader in field goals made with 852 and is the only player in Marquette history to rank in the top 10 in scoring (first), rebounds (768, ninth) and assists (366, tenth). Blockton led MU in scoring three times in her career and set the Marquette single-season scoring record with 648 points as a junior in 2017-18.
She was a candidate for the NCAA Woman of the Year Award in 2019 and a finalist for the Senior CLASS Award, earning second team senior honors.
Following her MU career, Blockton has made the journey to Europe to begin her professional basketball career with Campus Promete in Spain after a training camp stint with the Chicago Sky over the summer.
In the classroom, Blockton graduated in May 2019 with a bachelor's degree in advertising and a minor in biological sciences with a 3.59 grade-point average. The two-time BIG EAST Women's Basketball Scholar-Athlete of the Year was a member of the Chi Alpha Sigma honor society and a four-time BIG EAST All-Academic Team selection. She also earned the BIG EAST Scholar-Athlete Sport Excellence Award for women's basketball as a junior.
Blockton was actively involved with numerous community service initiatives while at Marquette, including Brigg's and Al's Walk & Run for Children's Hospital of Wisconsin and the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure.
She has also volunteered at other organizations including Boys & Girls Club, Girl Scouts, Campus Kitchens, Hunger Clean Up, Stuff the Truck and at a number of elementary and middle schools in the Milwaukee area.
In addition to serving on the NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Oversight Committee, she attended NCAA Student-Athlete Advisory Committee meetings as the women's basketball SAAC representative for the BIG EAST Conference. She was also a mentor in Marquette's MAGIS Mentor program, helping high achieving freshman student-athletes transition to MU.
Blockton is the seventh women's basketball player to earn the award and the first since her former head coach Carolyn Kieger shared the honor with Steve Novak in 2006.
About the Robert L. and William P. McCahill Award:
The McCahill Award was named after Captain Robert L. McCahill, a former Marquette student-athlete who gave his life for his country at the Battle of Iwo Jima during World War II in 1945. Established by his brother, Colonel William P. McCahill, also an MU student-athlete, the award was first presented in 1946 and has been awarded annually as the highest honor bestowed upon a Marquette student-athlete.
After Colonel McCahill's death in 1999, Marquette University officially renamed the award to recognize the lifetime accomplishments of both Captain Robert and Colonel William McCahill.
The award is given annually to a student-athlete who has achieved in athletics, scholarship, and service to the university.
Past recipients of the award include Olympic silver medalist John Bennett (1954), two-time NBA All-Star Don Kojis (1961), Naismith Award-winner Butch Lee (1978), and NCAA 10,000-meter run champion Keith Hanson (1986).
She will be honored at the Marquette men's basketball game against Creighton at Fiserv Forum on Tuesday, Feb. 18 at 7:30 p.m. Central time.
"Allazia made a tremendous impact on Marquette University during her four years as a record-setting student-athlete," Marquette University vice president and director of athletics Bill Scholl said. "She led the women's basketball team to unparalleled success but perhaps more impressive was her ability to play a leading role off it.
"Allazia earned a great deal of respect from her peers and administrators while representing Marquette and the BIG EAST at the NCAA level and was looked to as a leader throughout her career. Her impact was also felt greatly in her home city of Milwaukee, where she helped forge a stronger connection between the community and the women's basketball program. I can think of no better representative of Marquette University and the McCahill Award."
The most decorated women's basketball player in Marquette history, Blockton was a three-time WBCA All-American and the program's all-time scorer with 2,204 career points. The Milwaukee native was the 2018 BIG EAST Player of the Year and earned the league's sixth-woman award in 2019 after returning from an injury that sidelined her for a portion of the BIG EAST slate.
Blockton was a two-time All-BIG EAST First Team selection and earned second team honors as a rookie in addition to the league's freshman of the year award. She burst onto the scene as a freshman, setting a first-year player MU record with 571 points, an average of 18.7 points per game, while also pacing the squad in rebounding.
The Golden Eagles returned to the NCAA tournament in her sophomore season for the first time in six years after claiming the 2017 BIG EAST Women's Basketball Tournament Championship for the first time in program history. MU followed that with league regular season crowns in both 2017-18 and 2018-19 and trips to the NCAA tournament second round both years. It total, MU won 68.2 percent (90-42) of its games during her tenure and was 52-20 (.722) in BIG EAST play.
She is the all-time leader in field goals made with 852 and is the only player in Marquette history to rank in the top 10 in scoring (first), rebounds (768, ninth) and assists (366, tenth). Blockton led MU in scoring three times in her career and set the Marquette single-season scoring record with 648 points as a junior in 2017-18.
She was a candidate for the NCAA Woman of the Year Award in 2019 and a finalist for the Senior CLASS Award, earning second team senior honors.
Following her MU career, Blockton has made the journey to Europe to begin her professional basketball career with Campus Promete in Spain after a training camp stint with the Chicago Sky over the summer.
In the classroom, Blockton graduated in May 2019 with a bachelor's degree in advertising and a minor in biological sciences with a 3.59 grade-point average. The two-time BIG EAST Women's Basketball Scholar-Athlete of the Year was a member of the Chi Alpha Sigma honor society and a four-time BIG EAST All-Academic Team selection. She also earned the BIG EAST Scholar-Athlete Sport Excellence Award for women's basketball as a junior.
Blockton was actively involved with numerous community service initiatives while at Marquette, including Brigg's and Al's Walk & Run for Children's Hospital of Wisconsin and the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure.
She has also volunteered at other organizations including Boys & Girls Club, Girl Scouts, Campus Kitchens, Hunger Clean Up, Stuff the Truck and at a number of elementary and middle schools in the Milwaukee area.
In addition to serving on the NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Oversight Committee, she attended NCAA Student-Athlete Advisory Committee meetings as the women's basketball SAAC representative for the BIG EAST Conference. She was also a mentor in Marquette's MAGIS Mentor program, helping high achieving freshman student-athletes transition to MU.
Blockton is the seventh women's basketball player to earn the award and the first since her former head coach Carolyn Kieger shared the honor with Steve Novak in 2006.
About the Robert L. and William P. McCahill Award:
The McCahill Award was named after Captain Robert L. McCahill, a former Marquette student-athlete who gave his life for his country at the Battle of Iwo Jima during World War II in 1945. Established by his brother, Colonel William P. McCahill, also an MU student-athlete, the award was first presented in 1946 and has been awarded annually as the highest honor bestowed upon a Marquette student-athlete.
After Colonel McCahill's death in 1999, Marquette University officially renamed the award to recognize the lifetime accomplishments of both Captain Robert and Colonel William McCahill.
The award is given annually to a student-athlete who has achieved in athletics, scholarship, and service to the university.
Past recipients of the award include Olympic silver medalist John Bennett (1954), two-time NBA All-Star Don Kojis (1961), Naismith Award-winner Butch Lee (1978), and NCAA 10,000-meter run champion Keith Hanson (1986).
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