STANFORD, Calif. – Senior guard Brittany McPhee was named to the 2017-18 Academic All-American Division I second team as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) it was announced Monday.
McPhee is the ninth academic All-American in program history, joining Erica McCall, Chiney Ogwumike, Kristin Folkl, Kate Starbird, Chris MacMurdo, Julie Zeilstra, Jeanne Ruark Hoff and Louise Smith, and her award is the 217th for a Stanford student-athlete all-time.
A human biology major with a 3.71 cumulative GPA, McPhee was named the Pac-12 Scholar-Athlete of the Year two weeks ago and 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, a two-time All-Pac-12 selection, is averaging career highs in points (17.0), rebounds (5.0), assists (2.4) and steals (1.2) this season. A two-time national player of the week, she has scored 20+ nine times and is one of 11 Power 5 conference guards in the country averaging 17.0 points and 5.0 rebounds. McPhee 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 1,207. 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. McPhee 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).
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.
With a roster that returned just two starters and lost half of its scoring from a season ago, Stanford played five top-10 teams during the nonconference portion of its schedule and stumbled to a 6-6 mark, its worst heading into league play since 1998-99. Those tough lessons were learned without McPhee, who missed nine games in November and December recovering from a foot injury.
Once McPhee returned and the calendar switched to 2018, the Cardinal regrouped, finished second in the Pac-12 with a 14-3 record and secured the program's 17th consecutive 20-win season. After falling out of the AP poll for the first time since 2001 in mid-December, Stanford is back up to No. 15 and appeared among first and second-round hosts in the final top-16 tournament bracket reveal by the NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Committee on Feb. 20.
