Barnes, Pacar set for NJCAA All-Star Weekend

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (July 25, 2014) – The NJCAA Women's Basketball Coaches Association will host its sixth annual NJCAA All-Star Weekend beginning Friday evening at Northwest Florida State College in Niceville, Fla. 

The highlight of the weekend will be a series of all-star games featuring 40 of the top women's basketball players in the country, representing all three divisions of the NJCAA. The all-star game participants include Tallahassee Community College's Karley Barnes and Marija Pacar. 

Barnes and Pacar were selected from a pool of more than 90 nominees. 

Barnes, a redshirt sophomore from Milwaukee, Wis., is making her second appearance in the all-star game. As a freshman with the Eagles in 2012-13, she averaged 6.3 points and 6.7 rebounds in 25 games. Prior to redshirting in 2013-14, she was rated the No. 4 post player and No. 18 overall prospect by Dan Olson's Collegiate Girls Basketball Report. 

Pacar, a rising sophomore from Podstrana, Croatia, averaged 9.1 points and 4.4 rebounds in 29 games during the 2013-14 season. She was named second-team All-Panhandle Conference. 

The first set of all-star games will begin at 2 p.m. eastern Saturday followed by another pair of games at 11 a.m. eastern Sunday. Other events scheduled for All-Star Weekend include a coaches clinic, business meeting and the NJCAA Women's Basketball Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony.