STANFORD, Calif. – Stanford senior guard Brittany McPhee was selected to the 2017-18 CoSIDA Academic All-District Women's Basketball first team, as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) it was announced Thursday. McPhee now advances to the CoSIDA Academic All-America Team ballot, where first-, second- and third-team All-America honorees will be selected early next month.
The academic all-district women's basketball teams recognize the nation's top student-athletes for their combined performances athletically and in the classroom. The teams are divided into eight geographic districts across the United States and Canada with District 8 encompassing Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawai'i, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Canada.
A human biology major with a 3.71 cumulative GPA, McPhee is a late-season candidate for the Naismith Trophy and has been a two-time national player of the week this season. She has scored 20+ eight times and is averaging 18.2 points per game to go with 5.1 rebounds, one of nine Power 5 conference guards in the country averaging 18 and five.
McPhee, who missed nine nonconference games with a right foot injury, became Stanford's 39th 1,000-point scorer in its win over No. 25 Arizona State on Jan. 26 and leads the Pac-12 in scoring in the month of February, averaging 22.5 points and 5.8 rebounds. She will likely become the first Stanford guard in 10 years to average more than 15 points per game.
The senior was also honored at the 2017 Final Four as women's basketball's Elite 90 award winner, which is presented to the student-athlete with the highest grade point average participating at the finals site for each of the NCAA's 90 championships.
McPhee has participated in research at the Longaker Laboratory on campus, investigating stem cells and their ability to reduce scarring and is active in charitable causes throughout the community. Part of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, she's a spiritual care volunteer at Stanford Hospital, delivering communion to those unable to attend mass, and also visits Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, playing games, interacting and spending time with patients at one of the country's foremost pediatric care facilities.