Drexel’s Keishana Washington is named CAA women’s player of the year

Drexel guard Keishana Washington was named the Colonial Athletic Association’s Player of the Year on Tuesday.

Additionally, Kylie Lavelle and Grace O’Neill were selected to the CAA’s All-Rookie Team.

Washington finished the regular season averaging 27.0 points, 8.6 more than the next closest player in the conference. Washington’s scoring average was tied for second in the nation with Iowa’s Caitlin Clark and only trailed Villanova’s Maddy Siegrist (28.9 ppg).

A graduate student from Pickering, Ontario, Washington has 2,288 career points, good for second all-time in Drexel history behind Gabriela Mărginean (2,581). On Saturday against North Carolina A&T, she broke the Drexel single-season scoring record of 769 and currently has 783 points. This season, Washington has eclipsed 40 points three times, most recently in a win over Delaware on Feb. 19.

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Washington is the third player in Drexel history to win CAA Player of the Year; Mărginean earned the award in 2009, and Bailey Greenberg claimed the honor in 2019.

Lavelle, a 6-foot-2 forward out of Moosic, Pa., was averaging 18.6 ppg through Drexel’s first five games but missed over a month because of injury. She posted a career-high 31 points in just her second college game and finished the season averaging 10.9 points and 3.6 rebounds.

O’Neill is a graduate of Archbishop Carroll where she was a First-Team All-Catholic League selection. She started every game this season except for Senior Night last Saturday and averaged 7.4 points and 5.1 rebounds.

Washington, Lavelle, and O’Neill will try to lead Drexel back to the NCAA Tournament as the Dragons begin CAA tournament play Friday against the winner of No. 7 seed Monmouth and No. 10 College of Charleston.

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