Theresa Lisch Meacham

Theresa Lisch Meacham

Player Profile

Hometown:
Belleville, Ill.

Last College:
Saint Louis

Position:
Guard

Experience:
2006-09

Theresa Lisch Meacham is the most decorated player in Saint Louis women's basketball history

despite playing only three years. In her final campaign (2008-09), Meacham was named the A-10's female Scholar-Athlete of the Year and became the first SLU women's basketball student-athlete to be selected to the CoSIDA Academic All-America first team.

In addition, the summa cum laude graduate in communication sciences and disorders earned a place on the Division I-AAA Athletics Directors Association Scholar-Athlete list for a second consecutive year. Also an A-10 first-team honoree that season, the 5-9 guard led the league in scoring (19.1) and free throw percentage (.889) and ranked 25th and ninth, respectively, in the nation in those categories.

On the Billikens' career lists, Meacham is second in scoring average (17.0), fifth in 3-point field goals made (137), points (1,363) and 3-point field goal percentage (.364), and eighth in assists (270). She owns school records for points in a season (574), free throws made in a career (406) and season (169), career free throw percentage (.869) and points in a game (37), and she tied the school mark for single-game free throw shooting (12-for-12).

A native of Belleville, Ill., Meacham resides in Champaign, Ill., with her husband, Trent.