Stanford raked in a bevy of high-level awards in the coaches’ vote of the Pac-12 Conference postseason awards, announced Tuesday afternoon.
Highlighting the awards for the Cardinal were Haley Jones, named the Player of the Year, Cameron Brink, the Defensive Player of the Year and Tara VanDerveer, the Coach of the Year. Jones, Brink and Lexie all were each named to the 15-player All-Pac-12 list; Brink, Hull and Anna Wilson were named to the All-Defensive Team and Kiki Iriafen was an honorable mention selection for the All-Freshman Team.
Jones is Stanford’s 19th Pac-12 Player of the Year of all-time, but the first since Chiney Ogwumike in 2014. Stanford owns more Player of the Year honors from the conference than the rest of the league combined.
Brink is the sixth Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Year for Stanford since the award began in 2008 and second straight after Wilson earned the honor last season.
The Cardinal has placed at least two players on the All-Pac-12 team since the conference changed the format to a 15-player list in 2010. Stanford’s 87 All-Pac-12 selections all-time lead the league. This marks the first time in conference history that three players from the same school earned a spot on the All-Defensive Team, while Stanford has had at least one player on the squad in 13 of the award’s 15 years.
The winningest coach in women’s college basketball history, Tara VanDerveer was chosen by her peers as the John R. Wooden Coach of the Year for the 17th time in 36 seasons of Pac-12 women’s basketball and second year in a row. Ranked No. 2 nationally for 11 straight weeks, Stanford currently owns the nation’s longest active win streak of 17 games, along with a 31-game Pac-12 win streak, including the postseason. The Cardinal’s regular season championship was its second straight and 25th all-time as Stanford earned its eighth perfect Pac-12 season and first since 2012. She enters the postseason with an all-time record of 1,150-258 and 998-207 at Stanford.
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