STANFORD, Calif. – Five Cardinal received recognition from the league's coaches when the All-Pac-12, All-Defensive and All-Freshman teams were announced by the conference office on Tuesday morning.
Brittany McPhee and Alanna Smith were voted to the 15-person All-Pac-12 squad, Kiana Williams was named to the Pac-12 All-Freshman team in addition to earning an All-Pac-12 honorable mention nod and Kaylee Johnson and Marta Sniezek received Pac-12 All-Defensive honorable mention accolades.
McPhee was awarded All-Pac-12 honors for the second consecutive year after averaging career highs in points (18.5), rebounds (5.2), assists (2.5) and steals (1.3) this season. A two-time national player of the week, McPhee has scored 20+ nine times and is one of 10 Power 5 conference guards in the country averaging 18.0 points and 5.0 rebounds. She scored 31 of her career-high 33 in Stanford's 78-65 upset at No. 6 Oregon on Feb. 4, the first 30-point road performance for a Stanford player against a top-10 team since 2007.
The senior became Stanford's 39th 1,000-point scorer in its win over No. 25 Arizona State on Jan. 26 and is currently 30th on the Cardinal's all-time scoring list with 1,185. She led the Pac-12 in scoring in the month of February, averaging 22.9 per game, which was the 19th-best mark in the country.
A human biology major with a 3.71 cumulative GPA, McPhee was voted to the CoSIDA Academic All-District first team on Feb. 22 and is now eligible to earn academic All-America honors. She will become the first Stanford guard to average more than 15 points per game in a season since Candice Wiggins in 2007-08 (20.2).
Smith has also put together her best season yet and earned her first All-Pac-12 recognition as a result. The junior finished the regular season eighth in the Pac-12 in double-doubles (6), 17th in the league in scoring (12.9), ninth in rebounding (7.3) and third in blocks (1.83), all of which are career highs. Of her seven career games with 20+ points, four have come this season. She is also eighth in Stanford history with 138 career blocks, including 53 this year.
Smith was named Pac-12 Player of the Week for the first time on Nov. 27 following her three games at the Play4Kay Showcase in Las Vegas at which she averaged a double-double of 23.7 points and 11.7 rebounds. Her 33-point, 16-rebound performance against No. 9 Ohio State on Nov. 25 was the nation's first 30-point, 15-rebound double-double against an AP top-10 team since Stanford's Chiney Ogwumike went for 32 points and 20 boards against No. 3 Tennessee on Dec. 21, 2013.
Williams was named both All-Pac-12 honorable mention and a Pac-12 All-Freshman performer in her debut season at Stanford. Ten of the league's rookies received some sort of all-freshman recognition, but Williams is the only Pac-12 freshman to play her way onto either the All-Pac-12 or All-Pac-12 honorable mention teams.
A two-time Pac-12 Freshman of the Week, Williams has scored in double figures in 14 of her last 22 games and led Pac-12 freshmen in scoring in league games, averaging 11.0 points. In the last 22 games, she's scoring an average of 11.3 per outing on 40.2 percent shooting (88-of-219) and is hitting 50.0 percent of her two-point baskets (41-of-82).
Williams' 51 made 3-pointers are the third most for a Stanford freshman in program history behind Jamie Carey (81; 1999-2000) and Lindsey Yamasaki (65; 1998-99). She set or matched career highs against Cal on Feb. 15 with 26 points, four steals and five 3-pointers. The 26 points were the most for a Stanford freshman since Nneka Ogwumike had 27 in the NCAA Tournament against San Diego State on March 23, 2009.
Johnson earned her second Pac-12 All-Defensive honorable mention selection after also landing on the team in 2015-16. The senior has 10 double-digit rebound games already this season after just three last year and is one of five players in Stanford history in the top 10 in career rebounds and blocks along with Jayne Appel, Chiney Ogwumike, Val Whiting and Erica McCall.
Johnson is eighth in school history in rebounds (953) and sixth in blocks (158). She has pulled down 10 or more boards 42 times in 128 career games and her 7.4 career rebounds per game average would be eighth at Stanford all-time.
The defensive honor is the first of Sniezek's career and joins the 2015-16 Pac-12 All-Freshman honorable mention award she received two seasons ago. Twenty-four of the junior's 36 steals this year came in conference and she's had at least one in 10 of her last 11 games. Eleventh in the conference in assists per game (4.3) and 10th in assist-to-turnover ratio (1.9), Sniezek has 29 assists and just 11 turnovers in the last eight games (2.64 assist-to-turnover ratio).
Stanford, the No. 2 seed in the upcoming Pac-12 Tournament, has a bye into the quarterfinals and will play the winner of No. 7 USC and No. 10 Washington State on Friday, March 2 at 6 p.m.
