MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Six members of the West Virginia women’s basketball team were named to the Academic All-Big 12 teams, as announced by the conference on Wednesday.
Senior forward De’Janae Boykin, redshirt senior guard Tynice Martin, senior guard Lucky Rudd, sophomore forward Kari Niblack and redshirt freshman center Rochelle Norris garnered first-team honors, while sophomore guard Madisen Smith was named to the second team.
This year marks the second consecutive season that Martin and Rudd have been named to the Academic All-Big 12 First Team, while Boykin, Niblack and Norris earned first-team honors for the first time in their careers. Boykin was one of four student-athletes in the Big 12 to post a 4.0 grade-point average (GPA).
This year’s six selections are the second-most in the Big 12 and are tied for the most Academic All-Big 12 selections for the Mountaineers in program history, after WVU also placed six student-athletes on last year’s team.
