Braelyn Wykle/Women's Basketball | Carson-Newman University
Braelyn Wykle/Women's Basketball | Carson-Newman University
Tallying the ninth laurel of the season, Braelyn Wykle was named a second-team College Sports Communicators Academic All-American announced by the organization on Wednesday as one of the two players in the Southeast Region to earn recognition.
The laurel is the third time in the illustrious career that Wykle was named an All-American being honorable mention as a play by two publications in 2020-21.
The guard earned CSC Academic All-District honors for the third year in a row touting a 3.59 GPA in nursing being one of the six players in school history to earn the laurel in her career and the only player to do so three times. She joins Kayla Marosites from 2019-20 as the only two players in program history to be an Academic All-American.
On March 9, the Greeneville, Tenn. native was named to the Division II Conference Commissioners Association first-team All-Southeast Region team. It was the fourth straight to be a D2CCA all-region pick and second year in a row as a first-team selection. In 2020-21, the organization lauded the guard as an honorable mention All-American.
Wykle brings her career hardware count to 32 joining Leah Jackson (1989-93) as the only players in program history to be a four-time first-team All-SAC selection. On Feb. 11, the junior scored a career-high 44 becoming the second player in school history and sixth in SAC history to score 2,000 points for a career. Burying seven triples, she passed Tatum Burstrom for the career record for three-pointers while finishing three points shy of the school and league record for points in a game. The guard has 2,131 points for her career and will enter her final campaign needing 203 points to become the school's all-time leading scorer. Among active Division II players, she is second with a career scoring average of 19.2 points per game, a mark that is No. 15 across all NCAA divisions, sixth in total points, fourth in career free-throw percentage with an 86.9 percent mark and seventh in made triples.
The Greeneville, Tenn. native has been in double figures 27 times with 13 20-point efforts and four games of at least 30 leading the club in scoring 19 times and in assists on eight occasions. She has three-plus assists on 12 occasions and three or more steals six times. In the second semester, the league's leading scorer averaged 23 points per game (370 total) with nine games of at least 20 in 16 outings.
Nationally, Wykle ranked fourth in the country making 92.1 percent of her foul shots, 12th in scoring average at 20.9, 11th in field goals with 215, 10th in three-point percentage with 43.5, and 24th in three-pointers made with 74. The junior made 26 consecutive foul shots between Feb. 11 and Feb. 25, the second-best by a player in school history with the school record of 29 in row set by Vickee Kazee during the 1981-82 season. Since Jan. 7, Wykle went 51-for-54, 94 percent, at the charity stripe.
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