Wykle joins exclusive group as WBCA All-American
ATLANTA – Becoming the second two-time All-American in Carson-Newman’s women’s basketball’s NCAA era, Braelyn Wykle was named honorable mention All-American by the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association announced on Friday.
ATLANTA – Becoming the second two-time All-American in Carson-Newman's women's basketball's NCAA era, Braelyn Wykle was named honorable mention All-American by the Women's Basketball Coaches Association announced on Friday.
After being named an honorable mention All-American during the 2020-21 season, the Greeneville, Tenn. native joins Haris Price to be a two-time All-American in the history of the program's NCAA era after Price did so in 2017-18 and 2018-19.
Overall she is the fifth player in the history of the school to be given the highest honors multiple times during her playing days in the Orange and Blue. Missy Brown was the first to achieve the plaudits in 1981 and 1982. Lisa Stogner is the lone three-time winner doing so in 1982, 1983 and 1984 and Karen Morton was named to the top clubs in the country in 1984 and 1985.
Earlier this week, Wykle was named a College Sports Communicators Academic All-American bringing her career All-American laurels to four joining Kayla Marosites in 2019-20 as the only two players in school history to an Academic All-American.
On March 9, the Greeneville, Tenn. native was named to the Division II Conference Commissioners Association first-team All-Southeast Region team. It was the fourth straight to be a D2CCA all-region pick and second year in a row as a first-team selection. In 2020-21, the organization lauded the guard as an honorable mention All-American.
Wykle brings her career hardware count to 33 joining Leah Jackson (1989-93) as the only players in program history to be a four-time first-team All-SAC selection. On Feb. 11, the junior scored a career-high 44 becoming the second player in school history and sixth in SAC history to score 2,000 points for a career. Burying seven triples, she passed Tatum Burstrom for the career record for three-pointers while finishing three points shy of the school and league record for points in a game. The guard has 2,131 points for her career and will enter her final campaign needing 203 points to become the school's all-time leading scorer. Among active Division II players, she is second with a career scoring average of 19.2 points per game, a mark that is No. 15 across all NCAA divisions, sixth in total points, fourth in career free-throw percentage with an 86.9 percent mark and seventh in made triples.
The Greeneville, Tenn. native has been in double figures 27 times with 13 20-point efforts and four games of at least 30 leading the club in scoring 19 times and in assists on eight occasions. She has three-plus assists on 12 occasions and three or more steals six times. In the second semester, the league's leading scorer averaged 23 points per game (370 total) with nine games of at least 20 in 16 outings.
Nationally, Wykle ranked fourth in the country making 92.1 percent of her foul shots, 12th in scoring average at 20.9, 11th in field goals with 215, 10th in three-point percentage with 43.5, and 24th in three-pointers made with 74. The junior made 26 consecutive foul shots between Feb. 11 and Feb. 25, the second-best by a player in school history with the school record of 29 in row set by Vickee Kazee during the 1981-82 season. Since Jan. 7, Wykle went 51-for-54, 94 percent, at the charity stripe.
The WBCA was founded in 1981 and is the professional association for coaches of women's and girls' basketball at all levels of competition. Wykle was one of the five players from the Southeast Region to be listed as an All-American.
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