Ahead of this week’s ACC Women’s Basketball Tournament at the Greensboro Coliseum, the league has announced its postseason awards as voted on by the league’s 15 head coaches. For the first time in program history, the Hokies have a First Team member and placed more than one student-athlete on the league’s teams.
Senior guard Taylor Emery, the conference’s third leading scorer at 17.9 points per game was included on the First Team, Virginia Tech’s first ever inclusion on the First Team.
The Tampa, Florida native became the fastest woman in program history to record 1,000 points earlier this season when she eclipsed the mark 55 games into her career, shattering former Hokie great Tere Williams’ previous record of 71. Emery, who is shooting 42 percent from the field has also averaged 5.5 rebounds per contest, tallying her second career double-double in a win over Georgia Southern.
Emery has led the Hokies in scoring 16 times, including tallying 27 points on three separate occasions.
Forward Regan Magarity, the league’s leader in rebounds at 12.9 per game earned Second Team honors her first postseason league accolade of her decorated career. Earlier in the season, Magarity became the first Hokies to ever record 1,000 rebounds and in the process became the first and only member of Virginia Tech’s 1,000-point and 1,000-rebound club.
A double-double machine, Magarity tallied 21 in the regular season extending her school record total to 52.
The Sweden native earned conference Player of the Week honors on Feb.4 following a week where she led the Hokies to their first two league wins of the season, both on the road at Pittsburgh and Boston College. She had two double-doubles including scoring a career best 30 points in a dominant performance against the Eagles.
Magarity, who ranks fourth all-time in scoring at Tech and third in blocks also raised the bar on her best single game rebounding total with 19 in an upset victory over then-No. 17 Miami.
Magarity is one of only 17 active players in Division I to record 1,000 rebounds.
Tech’s third postseason award recipient is freshman point guard Dara Mabrey who earned All-Freshman Team honors. Mabrey, who is second in the nation in 3-point field goal percentage at 47.7 percent has started all 29 of Tech’s games and averages 11.8 points per game.
The Belmar, New Jersey native has impressed all season long, pouring in a career best 26 points against Monmouth and also in a road victory at Boston College. She was named Freshman of the Week on Feb. 4 concurrently with Magarity’s Player of the Week Honor. Mabrey averaged 24 points and five triples per game that week, her most prolific so far in her freshman campaign.
–VT Athletics