Maggie Gibson has been accused by teammates at Washington & Jefferson College of padding her rebound totals.

"I'll get a rebound and then miss [the shot] and get the rebound again and miss and get the rebound and score, and they say I miss the first two times so I can get more rebounds," Gibson said with a laugh.

Naturally, that's not the case. But Gibson, a 6-foot senior forward and Greensburg Central Catholic graduate, does have a knack for pulling down stray shots ... her own or anybody else's.

It's that ability, along with her scoring prowess, that has put Gibson into the W&J record book as the first female player to grab 1,000 rebounds and score 1,000 points in her career.

She is the Presidents' all-time leading rebounder with 1,022 and is currently 10th on the scoring list with 1,047 points heading into today's Presidents' Athletic Conference game at Geneva.

Just above Gibson on the scoring list is Marybeth Armstrong at 1,081.

Never one to worry much about her statistics, Gibson, who is averaging a double-double of 11.8 points and 10.4 rebounds per game, started to get a little nervous as she closed in on the milestones. She scored more than 1,000 points in high school, so she had been down that road before. But getting 1,000 rebounds ...

"I tried not to think about it," she said. "I was not too worried about it. I kind of figured it would happen.

"In high school, I didn't pay much attention to rebounds. I never knew how many I had, but in college, they pay attention to things like that."

She scored her 1,000th point Jan. 7 in a 61-57 victory against Thomas More, then got her 1,000th rebound the next game in a 65-51 win against Westminster.

Gibson isn't the only W&J player reaching milestones these days. Teammate Kennan Killeen, a senior point guard from Mt. Lebanon, scored her 1,000th point in the Westminster victory and has 1,039 for her career. And senior guard Stephanie Smith from Grove City, Ohio, recently became the all-time leading 3-point shooter for the women's program.

The trio was honored before the Presidents' 47-37 home victory Wednesday night against Bethany.

Gibson has 167 rebounds this season and is most proud of her accomplishment in that area. She said being an outstanding rebounder is more about determination and hustle than raw ability.

"When you watch game film, you see how important rebounds can be, especially offensive rebounds," she said. "You see how an offensive rebound can change the way a game is going. You realize that and you just want to work harder [at rebounding]."

Gibson is glad her countdown to 1,000 in points and rebounds has ended. She is more concerned with helping W&J -- which is ranked No. 23 this week by D3hoops.com and No. 22 by the Women's Basketball Coaches Association USA Today ESPN poll -- to the PAC title than she is reaching milestones. The Presidents are tied with Thomas More for first place in the conference at 6-1. Both also are 14-2 overall.

"That's the No. 1 goal. To win the conference [title] and go to the [NCAA Division III] tournament," said Gibson, who has a double major in business and psychology. "As long as we keep winning, that's all I care about."

The Presidents defeated Chatham College, 53-50, Jan. 13 on a 3-point shot at the buzzer by Killeen. To see a video of the shot, go to www.washjeff.edu/athletics.aspx, then click on winter sports and then on women's basketball. There is a link to the video at the top of the women's basketball page.

College basketball officials often are looked at as the bad guys. But officials Jim Burns, Alan Thigpen and Mike Foote went above and beyond the call of duty recently. The trio was to officiate the Roberts Wesleyan at Point Park University men's game at Community College of Allegheny County South Campus.

But when the referees did not show for the women's game that preceded the men's contest, the refs were pressed into service. The women's game started about an hour late.

Speaking of Point Park, Gerald Warrick, a 6-foot-7 center from Penn Hills, is averaging 11.8 points and 8.2 rebounds per game through his first five contests this season with the Pioneers.

A transfer from Edinboro University, Warrick didn't start playing for the Pioneers this season until this semester. He scored a career-high 23 points in an 85-69 loss to Roberts Wesleyan.

Grove City College catcher Marcus Magister, a junior and a Hampton High School graduate, has been named a preseason second-team All-American by D3Baseball.com.

As a sophomore, Magister set Grove City records with 13 home runs and 52 RBIs. He led the team in hitting with a .443 average, total bases with 104, had a slugging percentage of .852 and an on-base percentage of .506. He scored 43 runs.

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