2015-2016 Lady Statesmen Women's Basketball Roster
Biography
2015-16 GSC Player of the Year
2015-16 GSC Tournament MOP
2015-16 First-Team All-GSC
2015-16 WBCA All-American
2015-16 D2CCA All-American
2015-16 D2CCA South Region Player of the Year
2015-15 First-Team D2CCA All-South Region
2015-16 GSC Winter All-Academic Team
2015-16 GSC Winter Academic Honor Roll
2015-16 D2 Bulletin Fourth-Team All-American
2014-15 Second-Team Daktronics All-South Region
2014-15 First-TeamAll-GSC
2014-15 All-GSC Tournament Team
2013-14 First-Team All-Gulf South Conference
2013-14 Preseason All-Gulf South selection
2013-14 All-GSC Tournament Team
2013-14 WBCA All-America Honorable Mention
2012-13 GSC Freshman of the Year
Career: Played in 116 games with 114 starts as a guard for the Green-and-White...Ranks sixth on the career scoring list with 1,802 points...206 made 3-pointers rank second in DSU history...616 3-point attempts rank second at DSU...Averaged 15.5 points per game for her career.
2015-2016 (Senior): Played and started all 29 games...led the GSC in scoring (20.8 ppg.6th NCAA), field goals made (197/34th NCAA), field goal attempts (516), and free throw pecentage (84.0/47th NCAA)...ranked second in the GSC in free throws made (152/12th NCAA), free throw attempts (181/29th NCAA), steals (71/38th NCAA), steals per game (2.45 spg./33 NCAA), and minutes played per game (37.1/13th NCAA)...2015-16 GSC Player of the Year...2015-16 GSC Tournament MOP...2015-16...First-Team All-GSC...2015-16 WBCA All-American...2015-16 D2CCA All-American...2015-16 D2CCA South Region Player of the Year...2015-15 First-Team D2CCA All-South Region...2015-16 GSC Winter All-Academic Team...2015-16 GSC Winter Academic Honor Roll...2015-16 D2 Bulletin Fourth-Team All-American..
2014-2015 (Junior): Started all 29 games at shooting guard for the Lady Statesmen...Led the Lady Statesmen to a 19-10 record and a berth in the GSC title game...Averaged a team and career-high 15.7 points per game...Scored 455 points, the fifth most in the GSC...Ranked sixth in the GSC in scoring...Ranked second in the GSC in free throw percentage (82.4) and was fourth in 3-point field goal percentage (36.5)...Her 58 made 3-pointers ranked fourth in the GSC as well...Scored a season-high 30 points versus Valdosta State (12.18.14) and dropped 27 points on Shorter (3.6.15) in the semifinals of the GSC Tournament...Made a season-high five 3-pointers at West Alabama (1.22)...Season-high six rebounds versus Christian Brothers (1.31)...Handed-out season-high six assists at Alabama-Huntsville (1.5)...Named to the All-GSC First Team...Selected to the Daktronics All-South Region Second Team...Named to the GSC Academic Honor Roll.
2013-2014 (Sophomore): Played and started in 27 games for the Green-and-White...Led the Lady Statesmen to a GSC Regular Season title and DSU's 25th appearance in the NCAA South Region tournament...Offensive leader for Delta State, averaging 14.3 points per game and finished the season ranked 7th in the league in scoring...Averaged 1.9 rebounds per game...Shot 42.6 percent from the field and 32.1 percent from downtown...Eclipsed 400, 500, 600, and 700-career points just this season...On the verge of joining the 1,000-career points club as she sits with 743 career points...Career-high 33 points in GSC Semifinal against North Alabama (3.8.14)...Brought down career-high six rebounds against West Florida in the GSC Championship game (3.9.14)...Finished the season with an 81.5 free throw percentage...Named to the All-GSC First Team...Named to the Preseason All-GSC...Named to the Gulf South Conference All-Tournament team...Selected as Honorable Mention to WBCA All-America.
2012-2013 (Freshman): Helped guide Delta State to a 21-10 record, a regular season GSC title and the NCAA Sweet 16...Played in 31 games with 29 starts at guard for the Lady Statesmen...Averaged 11.5 points and 2.1 rebounds per game...Scored a career-high 24 points versus Valdosta State (3.2.13)...Dished out a career-high four assists versus Selma University (11.12.12)...Career-high five rebounds at Ouachita Baptist (12.29.12)...Scored 358 points as a freshman, the most since three-time All-American Veronica Walker scored 427 in 2008-09 in 37 games...Scored in double figures 17 times...Shot 42 percent from the field and 36.6 percent from 3-point range...Her 45 made 3-pointers are the most by a freshman ever, breaking Amber Gean's previous record of 44 set during the 2001-2002 season...One of the top freshman in the nation, Rhodes was named the Gulf South Conference Freshman of the Year.
Prep: Prepped at Monticello High School under the direction of head coach Lucy Williams...Spent the majority of her time at shooting guard before being moved to point guard her senior season...One of the most decorated girls basketball players in the 2012 class in the state of Arkansas...Named to the Arkansas Activities Association's All-State Girls Basketball Team following her sophomore, junior and senior seasons...Had a stellar senior season in which she averaged 16 points, 3.8 rebounds, 2.8 steals and 2.4 assists per game...Helped lead the Lady Billies to the semi-finals of the 5A State Tournament...Selected to play in the Arkansas High School Coaches Association Girls Basketball All Star game along with her current Lady Statesman teammate Juquecia Cheney.
Personal: Chelsey Emone Rhodes...Born March 28, 1994...Daughter of Hardy and Veronica Rhodes...Has one sister, M'Leia...Major is Athletic Training
Statistics
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Historical Player Information
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2012-2013Freshman
Guard
5'6"
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2013-2014Sophomore
Guard
5'6"
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2014-2015Junior
Guard
5'7"
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2015-2016Senior
Guard
5'7"