BANNER ELK, N.C, - For the third straight season, Braelyn Wykle earned a regional or national honor being named to the 2021-22 Division II Conference Commissioners Association first-team All-Southeast Region club on Thursday.
It is the 21st honor of her career and seventh to date for her junior campaign including being a first-team All-South Atlantic Conference selection and to the SAC's All-Tournament team.
Wykle became just the second player in school history to be a three-time first-team All-SAC selection joining Leah Jackson who was a four-time pick from 1989-93.
Overall, the Volunteer State native has scored in double figures 28 times and has 14 games with at least 20 points on the year including a 30-point outburst. She has led the team in scoring 20 times tallying 19 games with at least three assists, 11 with at least three triples and eight with at least three steals.
With 1,485 career points, Wykle is fourth and is 11 points away from jumping into third on the all-time C-N ledger. She has made 183 triples for her career, good for fourth on the all-time list.
On the national scale, the guard is in the top 50 nationally in points per game (47th with 17.7), free-throw percentage (42nd with 84.9), made foul shots (49th with 107) and made field goals (41st with 190). With 61 three-pointers, she is fifth in the SAC and is third in the league and ninth with 86 assists.
On top of a pair of D2CCA all-region picks, the 2020-21 SAC Player of the Year was a consensus All-American as a sophomore and has garnered back-to-back CoSIDA Academic All-District teams.
On Jan. 5, Wykle scored a career-high 36 points going 12-for-21 from the field and 5-for-9 at the free-throw line in an 86-58 win over UVA Wise, the fifth time in her career she scored at least 30 points. In the outing, she added five steals, five rebounds and three assists.
The Greeneville, Tenn. native is one of two players from the SAC to be on the top unit joining Wingate's Bryanna Troutman. Anderson's Shameka McNeill and Limestone's Quin Byrd were on the second team.
Sports information directors from NCAA Division II Southeast Region schools and conferences selected the D2CCA all-region teams.The process concludes with All- American selections announced later in the month.
Wykle leads the 22nd-ranked Lady Eagles into the first round of the NCAA Tournament with a Friday night date against fourth-seeded Wingate at 7:30 p.m. Broadcast coverage airs on the Eagle Sports Network starting at 7:15 for "The Appalachian Electric Cooperative Countdown to Tip-Off" on Mountain Sports 106.3 (WPFT-FM, Sevierville) with an audio stream available on cneagles.com/live free of charge.
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