Arizona women’s basketball players Davellyn Whyte and Ify Ibekwe joined their male counterparts Nic Wise and Derrick Williams Tuesday as Pacific 10 Conference postseason award winners.
Whyte, a freshman guard who led the Wildcats in scoring this season with 16.0 points per game, was awarded Pac-10 Freshman of the Year. She also managed to set a school record on Jan. 16 after scoring 39 points against the Oregon Ducks during a 119-112 Wildcat victory in McKale Center.
As Arizona women’s most prolific player over the last three seasons, junior forward Ibekwe was awarded the Pac-10 Defensive Player of the Year award after finishing the season as the only player in the conference to record double-double averages with 13.9 points and 11.3 rebounds per game.
Ibekwe’s shining accomplishment of the season came against the Washington Huskies on Feb. 6 when she became only the 16th player in Arizona women’s history to record 1,000 points on her career.
Both Ibekwe and Whyte also received All Pac-10 award honors.