Women's Basketball's Troy Patterson Leads SCAC Staff of the Year; Five Bulldogs Earn All-SCAC Honors

SEGUIN, Texas -- Five Texas Lutheran players earned spots on the 2023-24 All-SCAC Women's Basketball teams, the league office announced Saturday night. The official All-SCAC awards are selected by the league's head coaches and sports information directors, neither are allowed to vote for their institution's own players.

Kailee Mulkey (New Braunfels/New Braunfels) and Lauren Sansano (San Antonio/FEAST) earned All-SCAC First Team honors and Kayla Presley (Kyle/San Marcos) earned an All-SCAC Third Team selection. Davi'Yanna Jones (San Antonio/Stevens) and Tanyse Moehrig (Spring Branch/Smithson Valley), who was an All-SCAC player for volleyball in the fall, were named All-SCAC Honorable Mention. The TLU coaching staff, led by Head Coach Troy Patterson, was selected the conference staff of the year honoree.

Patterson earns his second Coach/Staff of the Year honor in his three seasons as head coach, also earning the honor in his first season (2021-22). Patterson becomes the second head coach in program history to win two SCAC Coach/Staff of the Year accolades, joining former head coach Mel Dixon. After replacing two starters from the 2022-23 team and facing numerous injuries throughout the season, Patterson has guided the Bulldogs to one of the best seasons in program history and the fourth 20-win season in program history. In three seasons in Seguin, Patterson has led the Bulldogs to a 50-26 record and two SCAC regular season runner-up finishes.

Mulkey ranked fifth in the conference in steals and seventh in rebounds - leading all conference guards with 5.7 rebounds per game. Mulkey, who is now a three-time All-SCAC honoree, leads the Bulldogs in scoring averaging 11.4 points per game. The New Braunfels product matched her 2022-23 output by recording three double-doubles so far this season. Mulkey also ranks fifth in the SCAC in steals averaging 2.0 per game. Mulkey has scored in double-figures in 15 games this season.

Sansano, an All-SCAC Third Team honoree as a freshman, has improved her game across the board as a sophomore. Sansano maintained a 10.2 points per game average while shooting 48.7 percent from the field, ranking second in the SCAC. Sansano was also one of the SCAC's best shooters from beyond the arc, finishing fourth overall at 40.3 percent while leading the SCAC in three point percentage in conference play at 46.5 percent. Sansano has also increased her averages in rebounds, assists, steals, blocks, and assist-to-turnover ratio. Sansano ranks seventh in the SCAC in assists (2.7) and tenth in steals (1.8). For her efforts, Sansano earned D3hoops.com National Team of the Week honors earlier this season following a 22 point effort against Colorado College.

Presley was one of the most improved players in the SCAC in her second season in Seguin. Presley stuffed the stat sheet throughout the 2023-24 season with a 7.8 points per game average, while shooting 37 percent from three-point range and 42.4 percent from beyond the arc in conference. For the season, Presley ranks fifth in the SCAC in assists with 2.9 per game and sixth in the SCAC in free throw percentage (78.1). Presley also ranked second in the conference with a 2.3 assist-to-turnover ratio. Presley more than doubled her scoring average from a year ago and has finished in double figures eight times this season.

Jones has played an important role in the success of the Bulldogs bench for the second consecutive season. Jones repeats as an All-SCAC Honorable Mention honoree averaging 6.5 points and 3.3 rebounds per game while being a versatile defender off the bench.

Moehrig, who missed the first six games of the season due to her volleyball commitments, was quickly thrust into a key role in the Bulldogs rotation. Moehrig ranks in the top 15 in the SCAC in rebounds (5.3) and blocks (0.7) while averaging 4.4 points per game and providing an inside presence on both ends for the Bulldogs.

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