GREENWOOD, Indiana – College Sports Communicators (CSC) announced the 2024-25 Academic All-America® women's basketball teams for NCAA Division I-II-III and NAIA, which included Gonzaga's senior forward
Yvonne Ejim. Ejim is one of four players in the country that was given CSC Academic All-America honors for the second consecutive year She is the first player in Gonzaga women's basketball history to earn the honors as she has earned a 3.6 GPA with a major in Human Physiology.
Ejim was just drafted by the Indiana Fever earlier this week to become the ninth player in GU women's basketball history to be drafted in the WNBA. The Olympian from Canada holds the record for most points scored (2,385), most rebounds (1,140) and most field goals (970) scored in Gonzaga history. She is the first player in WCC history to record 2,000 points and 1,000 rebounds. She is the back-to-back WCC Player and WCC Defensive Player of the Year after breaking the single season scoring record with 726 points this season. Last season, she was named GU's first women's basketball player to be named an Academic All-American and the Becky Hammon Player of the Year. She was also tabbed with AP All-American Honors for the second-straight season.
The Academic All-American team is selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America. To be nominated, the student-athlete must be a starter or important reserve with at least a 3.30 cumulative grade point average (on a 4.0 scale) for his/her career. No athlete is eligible until he/she has reached sophomore athletic and academic standing at his/her current institution (thus, true freshmen, red-shirt freshmen and ineligible transfers are not eligible). In the cases of transfers, graduate students and junior college graduates, the athlete must have completed one full academic year at the nominating institution to be eligible.
| FIRST TEAM |
| Name |
School |
Yr. |
GPA |
Major |
| Sarah Ashlee Barker |
University of Alabama |
Gr. |
3.63/3.75 |
Sport Management |
| Raegan Beers (2) |
University of Oklahoma |
So. |
3.51 |
Multidisciplinary Studies |
| Katie Dinnebier |
Drake University |
Sr. |
3.74 |
Pharmacy |
| Kiki Iriafen |
USC |
Sr. |
3.52/3.54 |
Entrepreneurship & Innovation (G) |
| Peyton McDaniel |
James Madison University |
R-Jr. |
3.96/4.00 |
Adult Education & Human Resource Development |
| Kiki Rice |
UCLA |
Jr. |
3.85 |
Education |
| SECOND TEAM |
| Name |
School |
Yr. |
GPA |
Major |
| Kelsey Rees |
Oregon State |
Gr. |
3.97/3.93 |
Bioengineering |
| Morgan Maly (3) |
Creighton University |
Sr. |
3.93 |
Exercise Science |
| Lauren Ross (6) |
Purdue Fort Wayne |
Gr. |
4.00/4.00 |
Organizational Leadership |
| Serena Sundell |
Kansas State |
Sr. |
3.84/3.83 |
Business Administration (G) |
| Haleigh Timmer |
South Dakota State University |
Jr. |
4.00 |
Mathematics & Data Science Specialization |
| THIRD TEAM |
| Name |
School |
Yr. |
GPA |
Major |
| Yvonne Ejim (2) |
Gonzaga University |
Sr. |
3.60 |
Human Physiology |
| Emily Ryan |
Iowa State University |
Sr. |
3.56 |
Kinesiology and Health |
| Addy Brown |
Iowa State University |
So. |
3.79 |
Business Management |
| Amaya Battle |
University of Minnesota |
Jr. |
3.73 |
Sociology |
(2) - 2nd team Academic All-America® in 2023-24
(3) - 3rd team Academic All-America® in 2023-24
(6) - 3rd team Academic All-America® in 2022-23
