Trio Honored, Ladies’s Basketball Picked to Repeat

LAS VEGAS – Oregon State positioned three returners on the Preseason All-WCC Team and convention coaches picked the Beavers to win the league, the WCC introduced on Thursday morning.

Nine of 12 league coaches awarded the Beavers with their first-place vote and the staff completed eight factors forward of Gonzaga, who acquired the opposite three votes for the highest spot. Kennedie Shuler, Catarina Ferreira and Tiara Bolden earned three of 10 complete preseason all-league spots, essentially the most of any staff.

Ferreira, the reigning WCC Tournament MVP, led the Beavers to the convention match title final season in Las Vegas. The senior wing scored 15+ factors in all three WCC Tournament video games. She averaged 9.9 factors and seven.3 rebounds per recreation final season, one in all six Beavs within the final 25 years to common greater than six rebounds per recreation whereas standing 6-foot or smaller.

The Beavers went as Shuler did in 2024-25 with the purpose guard averaging an assist-to-turnover ratio of 4.25 over the common season’s last 10 video games. The Gresham, Ore. native had a knack for heroics, making three game-winning photographs with three seconds or much less remaining on the clock. Shuler averaged 7.9 factors, 3.8 rebounds and three.7 assists per recreation over the total season.

Bolden, Ferreira’s one-time junior faculty teammate, scored in double figures 10 occasions in 2024-25. The senior guard from Eugene, Ore. was additionally one of many league’s finest rebounding guards with 3.9 boards supplementing the 8.1 factors per recreation. The Beavers went 8-2 when Bolden scored in double figures final season.

Shuler and Bolden joined head coach Scott Rueck at WCC Media Days. Fans can tune into the ESPN+ live show at 11:30 a.m. to look at the Beavs.

The Beavers formally open the season at house on November 7 towards Corban. Tip is slated for 3 p.m. on ESPN+. OSU additionally performs Alaska-Fairbanks in a free exhibition recreation at 7 p.m. on Sunday, November 2. The exhibition won’t be streamed and stay stats won’t be obtainable.

2025-26 West Coast Conference Women’s Basketball Preseason Coaches Poll

RANK	TEAM (1st Place Votes)	POINTS
1	Oregon State (9)	119
2	Gonzaga (3)	111
3	Washington State	94
4	Portland	91
5	Santa Clara	84
6	San Francisco	70
7	Saint Mary’s	55
8	Pacific	52
9	LMU	38
10	Pepperdine	36
11	San Diego	31
12	Seattle U	11

 
 
 
2025-26 West Coast Conference Women’s Basketball Preseason Team

Name	Yr.	Pos.	School
Dyani Ananiev	So.	G	Portland
Zeryhia Aokuso	Jr.	G	Gonzaga
Tiara Bolden	Sr.	G	Oregon State
Catarina Ferreira	Sr.	G	Oregon State
Sophie Glancey	Gr.	F	Santa Clara
Maya Hernandez	Jr.	F	LMU
Maia Jones	Jr.	G	Santa Clara
Kennedie Shuler	Jr.	G	Oregon State
Allie Turner	So.	G	Gonzaga
Eleonora Villa	Jr.	G	Washington State

 

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