Shyanne Phillips Honored For Sensational Rookie Season
Freshman F Shyanne Phillips (Leesville, La.) was named the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference First-Year Player-of-the-Year on Saturday, the league office announced at the 2025 SCAC Men's and Women's Basketball Championships.
IRVING, Texas – Freshman F Shyanne Phillips (Leesville, La.) was named the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference First-Year Player-of-the-Year on Saturday, the league office announced at the 2025 SCAC Men's and Women's Basketball Championships.
Phillips led all first-year players in both scoring (14.1 points per game) and rebounding (12.0 rebounds per game) during the regular season, finishing ninth and second, respectively, in the SCAC in each category. Her 12.0 rebounds per game established a new single-season program record and she recorded 13 double-doubles this season, which was good for third in the SCAC and the third-most for a first-year player during the regular season in all of Division III. Eleven of her 14 double-digit scoring performances came in conference play and 10 of her 14 double-digit rebounding games were in league contests.
Phillips had games of 18, 19, and 20 rebounds this season, which are all in the top 10 all-time in program history. She shot 43.6 percent from the field (14th in the SCAC) and 73.3 percent from the charity stripe (13th in the SCAC) and her 17 blocks were good for seventh in the conference. Phillips, the only freshman to earn a spot on the all-SCAC squad with a Third Team nod, becomes just the second Centenary player in program history to earn SCAC Women's Basketball First-Year Player-of-the-Year honors, joining Addy Tremie, who earned a share of the honor following the 2020-21 season.
Phillips received the lion's share of support in the First-Year Player-of-the-Year balloting, picking up 15 votes from the league's head coaches and sports information directors. First-year forward Zaria Solis of Texas Lutheran received three first-place votes and first-year guards Aaliyah Jones of University of Dallas, Alexa Romero of Southwestern and Katelyn Tietjen of Concordia (Texas) each picked up one vote.
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