source: wbuathletics.com

Wayland Baptist senior Kaylee Edgemon repeated as Sooner Athletic Conference Player of the Year while teammates Jenna Cooper, Kaitlyn Edgemon and Angel Hayden also were honored on the All-SAC Women’s Basketball Team. Kaylee Edgemon and Cooper were voted to the First Team for the second year in a row, Kaitlyn Edgemon made the Third Team and Hayden was listed as Honorable Mention and on the All-Defensive Team after the eighth-ranked Flying Queens captured the SAC regular-season title.

Kaylee Edgemon is the third Flying Queen to be named SAC Player of the Year (Hazel Taylor in 1999 and Angeleigh Davis in 2014) and the first Queen to earn the honor twice. The 5-foot-11 forward from Littlefield also was SAC Newcomer of the Year in 2018-19, a season after being the Lone Star Conference Freshman of the Year while attending Eastern New Mexico.

In four seasons with the Flying Queens, Edgemon is a three-time NAIA All-American – a first-team honoree last season after twice earning honorable mention – and could become the first-ever Flying Queen to be a four-time NAIA All-American. This season she leads the Queens in scoring at 19.8 points per game, which ranks 14h in the NAIA, while her 241 field goals rank third in the nation. She has scored in double-figures in all but one game the last two seasons, and in her four-year career she has scored 1,746 points, placing her seventh on the Flying Queens’ all-time scoring list. Edgemon is shooting 54 percent from the field and averages 6.2 rebounds.

Edgemon also is an NAIA Scholar-Athlete and the conference’s current student-athlete of the year in women’s basketball. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Interdisciplinary Studies degree.

Cooper has earned all-conference honors all three of her seasons at Wayland, including First Team recognition the last two seasons. An NAIA Scholar-Athlete, she also was NAIA Honorable Mention All-American and SAC Newcomer of the Year in 2019-20. In 29 games this season, Cooper ranks third in the NAIA in total assists with 172 (5.9 per game). She is second on the team in scoring (18.2 ppg) and steals (1.7) and third in rebounds (6.9). Cooper’s 64 3-pointers lead the team, as does her 86 percent free throw percentage (91-of-106). She recorded a triple-double (11-11-11) on Dec. 7 against Panhandle State.

Kaitlyn Edgemon, a 5-foot-11 forward from Littlefield in her second season at WBU, was named All-SAC Third Team after being the SAC Freshman of the Year last season. She is third on the team in scoring (15.5) and second in rebounds (7.7) and steals (1.7). Edgemon has recorded six double-doubles this season.

A 5-foot-7 point-guard from Canyon, Hayden is in her first season with the Flying Queens after first playing at Texas Tech and Angelo State. In 27 games, Hayden leads the team in rebounds, averaging 7.8 per game, and steals (2.8), is second in assists (3.9) and fourth in scoring (9.9). She is shooting 62 percent from the field, which leads the team. Hayden has five double-doubles and is flirted with a triple-double on numerous occasions.

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