STANFORD, Calif. – Cameron Brink, Hannah Jump and Talana Lepolo received preseason All-Pac-12 recognition on Monday in a vote of 27 media members who cover the league.
Both Brink and Jump landed on the 15-person Preseason All-Pac-12 Team, while Lepolo received votes from at least three media members to earn honorable mention accolades.
The two-time reigning Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Year, Brink is coming off a junior season in which she finished second nationally with a school-record 118 blocks and was third in the country in blocks per game (3.47). The 2023 WBCA Defensive Player of the Year was also one of just two players to average at least 15.0 points, 9.0 rebounds and 3.0 blocks per game last season (Taiyanna Jackson – Kansas) and recorded the program's first triple-double with blocks when she had 16 points, 11 rebounds and 10 rejections in a win over Oregon on Jan. 29. A WBCA All-American as both a sophomore and junior, Brink is one of three multiple-time WBCA All-Americans in the country this season (Caitlin Clark – Iowa; Elizabeth Kitley, Virginia Tech).
Jump was an All-Pac-12 pick a season ago, one in which she broke Stanford's single-season record for 3-point makes (100), ranked ninth nationally in 3-point field goals and eighth in 3-point percentage (44.1). Back for her fifth season on The Farm, the graduate student was one of only two players in 2022-23 to average better than 44.0 percent from deep while making at least 100 3-pointers (Kate Mager – Iona) and just the ninth major conference player to do that since 1999-2000. Jump heads into this season fourth among active players in career 3-point percentage (.421).
Lepolo made 31 starts as a freshman last season in collecting Pac-12 All-Freshman honorable mention accolades. She averaged 4.8 points, 1.8 rebounds and 3.7 assists in 25.6 minutes per game and handed out the sixth-most assists by a freshman in program history (125), the most for a first-year Cardinal since Nicole Powell in 2000-01 (142). Lepolo won a gold medal with the United States this summer at the 2023 FIBA U19 Women's World Cup in Madrid by averaging 3.1 points, 2.7 assists and 1.6 rebounds in 17.7 minutes over seven games.
Brink and Jump along with head coach Tara VanDerveer will represent Stanford at Tuesday's Pac-12 Women's Basketball Media Day in Las Vegas. Coverage will be available across Pac-12 Networks, Pac-12.com and the Pac-12 Now app, with the trio scheduled to join Ashley Adamson and Mary Murphy live on the main stage at 12:30 p.m. PT.
2023-24 Preseason All-Pac-12 Team
| Name | School |
|---|---|
| Raegan Beers | Oregon State |
| Cameron Brink | Stanford |
| Hannah Jump | Stanford |
| Gianna Kneepkens | Utah |
| Charlisse Leger-Walker | Washington State |
| Rayah Marshall | USC |
| Esmery Martinez | Arizona |
| Quay Miller | Colorado |
| Bella Murekatete | Washington State |
| Charisma Osborne | UCLA |
| Alissa Pili | Utah |
| Kiki Rice | UCLA |
| Jaylyn Sherrod | Colorado |
| Grace VanSlooten | Oregon |
| Talia von Oelhoffen | Oregon State |
HONORABLE MENTION (received votes from three-or-more members of the media): Helena Pueyo (ARIZ); Kemery Martín (CAL); Leilani McIntosh (CAL); Frida Formann (COLO); Aaronette Vonleh (COLO); Talana Lepolo (STAN); Emily Bessoir (UCLA); Lauren Betts (UCLA); JuJu Watkins (USC); Jenna Johnson (UTAH); Dalayah Daniels (WASH).