
LSU's Big-3 make first-team All-SEC
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (March 4, 2025) – The Southeastern Conference announced its 2025 women’s basketball postseason awards Tuesday.
Texas’ Madison Booker was named Player of the Year with Vanderbilt’s Mikayla Blakes named Freshman of the Year. Kentucky’s Georgia Amoore was named Newcomer of the Year while her teammate Clara Strack was voted as Defensive Player of the Year. South Carolina’s MiLaysia Fulwiley was named Sixth- Woman of the Year. Scholar-Athlete of the Year goes to Missouri’s Grace Slaughter.
Texas head coach Vic Schaefer was named Coach of the Year. This is Schaefer’s fourth SEC Coach of the Year honor after he was given the award in 2015, 2018 and 2019 while at Mississippi State.
First-team and second-team All-SEC honorees, All-Freshman team, All-Defensive team, along with Player, Coach, Newcomer, Freshman, Defensive Player, 6th Player and Scholar-Athlete of the Year were chosen by the league’s 16 coaches.
Coaches cannot vote for their own team or players and ties are not broken.
The complete 2025 SEC Women’s Basketball Postseason Awards follow.
First Team
Sarah Ashlee Barker - Alabama
Georgia Amoore - Kentucky
Flau'Jae Johnson - LSU
Aneesah Morrow - LSU
Mikaylah Williams - LSU
Raegan Beers - Oklahoma
Joyce Edwards - South Carolina
Madison Booker - Texas
Mikayla Blakes - Vanderbilt
Second Team
DeYona Gaston - Auburn
Clara Strack - Kentucky
Madison Scott - Ole Miss
Jerkaila Jordan - Mississippi State
Payton Verhulst – Oklahoma
MiLaysia Fulwiley - South Carolina
Te-Hina Paopao - South Carolina
Talaysia Cooper - Tennessee
All-Defensive
Clara Strack - Kentucky
Aneesah Morrow – LSU
Sania Feagin - South Carolina
Raven Johnson - South Carolina
Talaysia Cooper - Tennessee
Rori Harmon - Texas
All-Freshman
Yuting Deng - Auburn
Liv McGill - Florida
Trinity Turner - Georgia
Mia Woolfolk – Georgia
Sira Thienou - Ole Miss
Joyce Edwards - South Carolina
Jordan Lee - Texas
Mikayla Blakes - Vanderbilt
Scholar-Athlete of the Year – Grace Slaughter – Missouri
Player of the Year – Madison Booker – Texas
Freshman of the Year – Mikayla Blakes – Vanderbilt
Newcomer of the Year – Georgia Amoore – Kentucky
Defensive Player of the Year – Clara Strack – Kentucky
Sixth-Woman of the Year – MiLaysia Fulwiley – South Carolina
Coach of the Year – Vic Schaefer – Texas

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