The WAC women’s basketball season is quickly drawing to a close, so before the season ends, here’s a look at some of the top scorers in the conference.
No. 5: Kate Kevorken, Nevada — 14.3 PPG
Kevorken is a 6-foot senior guard and rounds out the top five scorers in the conference with 14.3 points per game. Despite her stellar performance, the Wolf Pack haven’t been able to put the pieces together this year and sit in last place.
Earlier in February, Kevorken became the second Nevada player named to the Capital One Academic All-District VIII Team.
Kevorken originally attended Northern Colorado where she played two seasons. In that time she was named the team Offensive Player of the Year as a freshman and received Big Sky All-Academic honors as a freshman and sophomore. Kevorken transferred to Nevada the next season.
No. 4: Alyssa Charlston, Idaho – 16.3 PPG
Charlston emerged as a leader for the Vandals in her sophomore season with 16.3 points per game. The 6-foot-1-inch post is also the No. 2 rebounder in the WAC with 10.9 per game.
Charlston said her success this season is about the people around her.
“I definitely didn’t expect it coming into this year,” Charlston said. “I just have more confidence. I’m getting a lot of great passes from my teammates and my teammates are having a lot of confidence in me and I think that’s huge.”
The Washington native played in all 31 games as a freshman and quickly established herself as an offensive threat. This year she found herself in a starting role and found her groove after a slow start to the season.
“It’s exciting,” Charlston said. “It definitely took me awhile to get there and get consistent.”
No. 3: Ki-Ki Moore, Fresno State – 17 PPG
Moore is red-hot and averages 17 points per game. The 5-foot-8-inch guard is from San Francisco, where she attended high school at Sacred Heart Cathedral Prep. In her four years there she led the team to a 125-6 record, which included a 61-game winning streak from 2007-2009.
Moore enrolled at Washington State in 2009 and was named to the first-team Pac-10 All-Freshman team. She started every game for the Cougars and led the Pac-10 in steals, but transferred to Fresno State the next season. She sat out a year, due to NCAA transfer rules, but is already making an impact in the WAC.
Moore also leads the WAC in steals this season with 3.5 per game and is a big reason for Fresno State’s perfect 10-0 WAC record this season.
No. 2 Devyn Christensen, Utah State — 20 PPG
The 5-foot-6-inch sophomore boasts 20 points per game and leads the conference in 3-pointers made. Christensen recently had a career-high 27 points against Fresno State. Utah State is No. 2 in the WAC.
Utah State coach Raegan Pebley attributed Christensen’s success to her work ethic.
“She plays with so much confidence,” Pebley said. “She works so hard in practice ,and through the season and she’s gotten better and not forcing shots.”
Christensen is from Caldwell, Idaho where she was a four-time all-district selection at Vallivue High School.
No. 1 Brittany Johnson, San Jose State — 20.1 PPG
The Spartans are off to one of their best starts in years under first-year coach Tim La Kose, and Johnson is a pivotal reason why. The 5-foot-10-inch senior leads the WAC in scoring with 20.1 points per game.
In high school, Johnson attended Edison Prep in Tulsa, Okla., where she was a four-year letter winner and led her team to a 113-35 record.
Johnson began her college career at Independence Community College in Kansas, where she played for two years before becoming a Spartan.
Johnson averaged just 8.3 points per game for the Spartans last season.