The No. 12 Anderson Lady Trojans are one victory away from claiming the Conference Carolinas Basketball tournament championship, and when they square off with Mount Olive today they’ll do so boasting the league’s player and coach of the year.

The conference’s head coaches have named Nikki Anthony CCAA Player of the Year, while his peers tapped Dow as the league’s top coach. The league office made the news official Friday.

Anthony, a 6-foot-2 center from Pickens, is the 11th Anderson athlete to be named the league player of the year.

The graduate student guided the Lady Trojans to their third regular-season crown in the last four years and a regular-season record of 25-2 overall and 19-1 in Conference Carolinas.

Anthony is averaging a double-double and recorded 14 double-doubles in Anderson’s 27 regular-season games. She averaged just 27 minutes per game in those 27 games. In two CCAA tourney games, she has also come through with a double-double.

During Thursday’s semifinal victory over Belmont Abbey, Anthony had a double-double by halftime and finished the contest with 15 points and 14 rebounds. She is joined on the CCAA first team by Keana Boyd, a junior who eclipsed the 1,000-point plateau Thursday.

A 5-foot-7 guard from Newberry, Boyd was the top 3-point shooter in the league.

Dow, whose Anderson record is 78-15 with only one home loss, has led the team to its highest national ranking in history. His resume with the Lady Trojans includes two conference regular-season titles, one conference tournament title and two trips to the NCAA tournament.

On the men’s side, freshman Brandon Young earned honorable mention on the All-Conference Carolinas team.

Young, a 6-foot-2 guard, set the Anderson freshman scoring record in 2007-08 with 459 points for an average of 16.4 points per game. He scored in double figures in 26 of 28 games and scored 20 or more points eight times.

Young’s 459 points is the most scored by an Anderson player since Robbie Seabrook set the school record of 526 during the 2002-03 season.