MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. - Centre College junior guard and Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Player of the Year Maggie Prewitt highlighted the SCAC's six selections on the D3hoops.com Women's All-Region teams the website announced today. Three other SCAC student-athletes were named second team with two more being named third team all-region. Complete Release

Prewitt (pictured right), who was the only SCAC first-team all-region honoree, led the SCAC in assists with 112 (4.31 per game) and was also in the top 10 in the league in scoring (18.9 points per game - second), free throw percentage (80.9 percent - fifth), three-point field goal percentage (43.1 percent - second) and three-point field goals made (59 – fifth). Just a junior, her 1,277 career points already constitute the second-highest total by any Centre player in the SCAC era – behind former teammate Chelsea Goodman (1,365).

Prewitt is the first Centre women's basketball player to earn POTY honors since current head coach Wendie Austin-Robinson won back-to-back conference Player-of-the-Year awards in 1992-1993 and 1993-1994.

Rhodes College junior Sharwill Bell (pictured left) was named to the All-South second team. Bell, the SCAC Newcomer-of-the-Year last season, picked up where she left a year ago, leading the conference in scoring during the season by averaging 19.2 points per game. She became the first woman's player from Rhodes to win an SCAC scoring title since Taylor Cook did it in 2003-04.

She recorded 10 double-doubles during the season and also grabbed 8.8 rebounds per game (tied for second in the SCAC) and averaged 2.4 steals per game (second in the SCAC).

Hendrix College senior Christina Byler (pictured right) joined Bell on the All-South second team. Byler, a four-time all-SCAC performer (twice Second Team; twice First Team), averaged 15.9 points (fifth in the SCAC) and 6.4 rebounds (tied for 15th in the SCAC) per game during the season. The senior also made 61 three-pointers (tied for third in the SCAC) and 38.4 percent (sixth in the SCAC) from three-point range.

Byler became just the second player in league history to score 1,700+ career points and grab 700+ career rebounds. A D3hoops All-Region selection last season, Byler played on USA Division III National Team in Brazil this past summer. 

DePauw senior guard Katie Mathews (pictured left) was named second-team All-Great Lakes. The league's two-time Defensive Player-of-the-Year, Mathews drew the toughest defensive assignments for DePauw and helped lead the Tigers to their lowest opponent scoring average in school history during the regular season (50.1 ppg). Mathew's honor marks the fifth time in six years that a DePauw player has won the league's top defender award.

A three-year starter, Mathews averaged 5.0 rebounds and 1.5 steals per game and raised her game offensively this season. She averaged 12.2 points (15th in the SCAC) and 3.7 assists (tied for third in the SCAC) while shooting 49.8 percent from the field. Her 2.72 assist-to-turnover ratio led the SCAC and is currently third-best in the nation. Mathews was also selected First Team All-SCAC.

Colorado College's Becky Luetjen (pictured right) was a third-team All-South region honoree. The junior guard ranked in the top 10 in SCAC during the season in scoring (17.3 points per game – third), rebounding (8.7 rebounds per game – fifth), free-throw percentage (80.1 percent – seventh), steals (2.0 steals per game – tied for seventh) and field goal percentage (45.7 percent – ninth). She was also among the league leaders in assists and blocks. Leutjen led the team in scoring 16 times and rebounding 17 times.

Trinity University junior forward Abby Dietert (pictured left) rounded out the SCAC selections as she earned third-team All-South honors. She ranked in the top 10 in the SCAC in scoring (16.6 - fourth), field goal percentage (48.3 - sixth) and offensive rebounding average (2.9 - sixth). Dietert was a second-team All-SCAC selection in 2010-11 and helped the Tigers advance to the SCAC semifinals, before losing to eventual league champion DePauw.

Players were nominated for these awards by the Sports Information Directors at the various schools, who were contacted multiple times as the season wound down to remind them to make their players eligible. There were 680 players nominated nationwide, a new high. The ballot was then made available to SIDs, who voted for a predetermined number of players in their region.