Barrow And Stokes Named All-SCAC
Senior G Amiyah Barrow (Baton Rouge, La.) and senior F Kyra Stokes (Shreveport, La.) were named to the 2026 All-SCAC Team, it was announced on Saturday.
CONWAY, Ark. – Senior G Amiyah Barrow (Baton Rouge, La.) and senior F Kyra Stokes (Shreveport, La.) were named to the 2026 All-SCAC Team, it was announced on Saturday.
Barrow and Stokes earned Honorable-Mention honors as Barrow was named All-SCAC for the third time in her career and Stokes for the second time.
In exclusive voting by the head coaches and sports information directors of the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC), junior forward Riley Brady of Hendrix College earned SCAC Women's Basketball Player-of-the-Year honors, while the staff at Colorado College, led by head coach Katherine Auguste, was named the league's Coaching Staff-of-the-Year. Complete Release
Brady was also awarded the league's Defensive Player-of-the-Year award, and first year center/forward Rayna Welsch of Colorado College was tabbed the league's First-Year Player-of-the-Year.
Hendrix's Brady enters the SCAC Tournament among the league leaders in several statistical categories including first in total rebounds (384), rebounds per game (18.3) and free throws made (152) and sits second in total points (379), points per game (18.0) and seventh in field goal percentage (47.3%). Her 384 rebounds to date established a new SCAC record for rebounds in a season, and the junior has posted six of the top 10 single game rebounding performances in league history in her first season in the conference, including the top three performances of all-time (31, 30, 29). Her current average of 18.3 rebounds per game would also set the new SCAC standard for rebounds per game in a single season. Offensively, Brady reached the 20-point plateau in seven of her 21 games played, highlighted by a conference best 38 points in February 6th in a win over Centenary. Her 20 double-doubles this season not only lead the SCAC but is currently seventh in all of NCAA Division III. On the glass, Brady leads both the SCAC and all of NCAA Division III with 7.7 offensive rebounds per game. The week 13 SCAC Offensive Player of the Week, Brady's selection as POTY represents the fourth time a Hendrix College student-athlete has won the award following Lauren Turnbow (1996-97; 1997-98) and Meg Fraizer (2000-01).
Brady received 10 votes from the coaches and sports information directors in the Player-of-the-Year balloting, while McMurry University senior guard Halana Chadwick and Texas Lutheran senior guard Lauren Sansano picked up five votes each. Colorado College senior guard Kayla Mackel secured four first-place nods to round out the voting..
In addition to her prowess on the boards which contributed to Hendrix's league-leading best rebounding margin (+6.6) and total rebounds per game (45.7), Brady was the anchor of a Warriors' defensive unit that held opponents to just 34.8 percent from the field, tied for third best in the SCAC coming into the tournament weekend. She paced the Warriors with 1.8 steals per game and leads the SCAC and is currently fourth nationally in defensive rebounds per game with 10.5. In conference play, Brady finished with 32 steals, fourth best in the SCAC. She was a four-time SCAC Defensive Player-of-the-Week over the course of the regular season, which was also tops in the conference and finished the regular season with 16, 15-plus rebounding performances, also best in the league. Brady's selection as Defensive Player-of-the-Year marks just the third time in conference history a women's player has earned both POTY and DPOTY in the same season, joining Colorado College's Zoë Tomlinson (2024-25) and former SCAC member Southwestern University's Chelsea Leeder (2012-13). Her honor also marks the first time in Hendrix program history an athlete has been selected as the SCAC DPOTY.
Brady received 13 votes in the balloting for the league's Defensive POTY award, edging out St. Thomas senior guard Amyia Bowie, who garnered seven votes. Senior guard Kylie Weeks of LeTourneau received two first-place votes, while McMurry senior forward Aryana Cleveland and Concordia (Tex.) senior post Samantha Ising each secured one vote.
Welsch of Colorado College leads all first-year players and ranks ninth in the league in both points (304) and points per game (12.7). She also paced first-year players in field goal percentage (53.3%) and free throw percentage (79.2%) – ranking fourth and tied for sixth overall, respectively, in the SCAC in those categories. Welsch also enters the weekend 11th in the SCAC and second among first-year players with 6.4 rebounds per game. Her 104 made field goals are currently tied for the ninth most in the SCAC and first among all rookies. This season Welsch has reached double figures in scoring in 17 of the 24 games she has played, highlighted by a stretch of nine straight contests in which she reached that mark from November 22nd to January 11th which includes a career-high to date 26 points in the Tigers' win at Ozarks on January 18th. Welsch becomes the fourth player in Colorado College history to earn SCAC Women's Basketball First-Year Player-of-the-Year. She joins former Tigers McKenzee Gertz (2017-18), Audrey Bayston (2020-21) and Andie Will (2022-23).
Welsch secured 15 first-place votes from coaches and SIDs to earn SCAC First-Year Player-of-the-Year. First-year guard Chloey-Rei Brown of Hendrix, who joins Welsch as the only other rookie to earn All-SCAC honors on the league's Second Team, finished second in the balloting with nine first-place votes.
In her 10th season at Colorado College, Katherine Auguste led the Tigers to a 20-5 regular season mark, which included a 15-1 conference mark, and the top seed out of the Gold Division as division champions. Coming into the SCAC Tournament, Auguste and the Tigers are riding a five-game winning streak and have won 15 of their last 16 contests coming into the weekend. The 15 conference wins are tied for the most in a single season in program history and this year marks the third-straight season the Tigers have secured 20 or more victories, the longest current streak in the SCAC. Historically, Auguste is just two SCAC wins shy of becoming the sixth women's basketball coach in league history to win 100 conference contests and her current .653 winning percentage in SCAC play ranks eighth all-time.
Auguste, Colorado College's all-time winningest women's basketball coach with 129 career wins to date, has the Tigers ranked first most recent NCAA Region X rankings heading into this weekend's SCAC Tournament. The Coaching Staff-of-the-Year honor is the second for Auguste and the CC Staff, previously taking home the honor following the 2022-23 season.
2025-26 SCAC PLAYER-OF-THE-YEAR
Riley Brady, Hendrix College, 5-10, Jr., Forward Little Rock, Ark.
2025-26 SCAC FIRST-YEAR PLAYER-OF-THE-YEAR
Rayna Welsch, Colorado College, 5-10, Fy., Center/Fwd, Eau Claire, Wis.
2025-26 SCAC DEFENSIVE PLAYER-OF-THE-YEAR
Riley Brady, Hendrix College, 5-10, Jr., Forward Little Rock, Ark.
2025-26 SCAC COACHING STAFF-OF-THE-YEAR
Colorado College, Katherine Auguste, Head Coach, 20-5 Overall / 15-1 SCAC / Gold Division No. 1 Seed
2025-26 ALL-SCAC FIRST TEAM
Riley Brady, Hendrix, 5-10, Jr., Forward, Little Rock, Arkansas
Helana Chadwick, McMurry, 5-6, Sr., Guard, La Vernia, Texas
Lauren Sansano, Tex. Lutheran, 5-4, Sr., Guard, San Antonio, Texas
Kayla Mackel, Colo. College, 5-11, Sr., Guard/Fwd, Houston, Texas
Aryana Cleveland, McMurry, 5-10, Sr., Forward, San Antonio, Texas
2025-26 ALL-SCAC SECOND TEAM
Rayna Welsch, Colo. College, 5-10, Fy., Center/Fwd, Eau Claire, Wisconsin
Amyia Bowie, St. Thomas, 5-6, Sr., Guard, Red Oak, Texas
Davi'Yanna Jones, Tex. Lutheran, 5-8, Jr., Guard/Fwd, San Antonio, Texas
Abby Beene, Ozarks, 5-8, Jr., Guardm, Benton, Arkansas
Chloey-Rei Brown, Hendrix, 5-7, Fy., Guard, Little Rock, Arkansas
2025-26 ALL-SCAC THIRD TEAM
Kylie Weeks, LeTourneau, 5-6, Sr., Guard, Houston, Texas
Sarahi Jones, Tex. Lutheran, 6-0, Sr., Forward, Los Fresnos, Texas
Jordan Bravo, McMurry, 5-9, Sr., Guard, McAllen, Texas
Avory Miller, Austin College, 5-8, Jr., Guard, McKinney, Texas
Brooklyn Matthews, Austin College, 6-2, Sr., Forward, Conroe, Texas
HONORABLE MENTION (players receiving votes)
Austin College – Maya Dodson (So., G), Lexi Martin (Jr., G), Trinity Williams (Sr., F); Centenary – Amiyah Barrow (Sr., G), Kyra Stokes (Sr., F); Colorado College – Andie Will (Sr., G); Concordia (Texas) – Aja Holmes (Sr., F), Katelyn Tietjen (So., G), Taysie Trejo (Jr., G); Dallas – Gabriella Barrera (Fy., G), Isabelle Chevalier (So., G); Hendrix – Natalie Edmonson (Jr., G), Brailey Forst (Jr., F); LeTourneau – Mariana Espinosa (Jr., G); McMurry – Jordan Gillespie (Sr., F); Ozarks – Lili Garcia (Sr., G), Kennedi Wight (So., F); Schreiner – Nevaeh Gray (So., G), Brie Sosa (Sr., G); St. Thomas – Kenna Gibson (Jr., G), Kameron Goodman (Sr., G), Laura Jones (Sr., G), Macie Whitfield (Jr., G)
Coaches and sports information directors voted for 15 places for All-SCAC with 15 points awarded for first-place votes, 14 points for second-place votes, 13 points for third-place votes, etc., down to one point for a 15th-place vote. All players not elected to the First, Second or Third Team, but who received at least one vote, were named Honorable Mention. Coaches and sports information directors could not vote for their own players.
2025-26 ALL-FRESHMAN TEAM
Rayna Welsch, Colo. College, 5-10, Fy., Center/Fwd, Eau Claire, Wisconsin
Chloey-Rei Brown, Hendrix, 5-7, Fy., Guard, Little Rock, Arkansas
Gabriella Barrera, Dallas, 5-4, Fy., Guard, Bandera, Texas
Yasmine Aly, St. Thomas, 5-7, Fy., Guard, Houston, Texas
Iliana Greene, Colo. College, 5-3, Fy., Guard, Denver, Colorado
Coaches and sports information directors voted for five places for All-Freshman with five points awarded for first-place votes, four points for second-place votes, three points for third-place votes, etc., down to one point for a fifth-place vote. There was no Honorable Mention, and coaches and sports information directors could not vote for their own players.
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