Porath Receives Preseason All-America Basketball Honors

Senior guard Leah Porath was named a 2021-22 D3hoops.com Preseason First Team All-American for the nationally ranked and defending Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference champion UW-Oshkosh women's basketball program.

Joining Porath on the five-member Preseason All-America First Team were guards Kiera Downey from Rhodes College (Tenn.) and Kenedy Schoonveld from Hope College (Mich.), and forwards Nicole Heffington from John Carroll University (Ohio) and Jenna Taylor from Simpson College (Iowa).

Porath, the two-time reigning WIAC Player of the Year, was tabbed a 2020-21 D3hoops.com First Team All-American after averaging 18.7 points, 6.5 rebounds, 2.1 assists and 1.0 steals per game last season while shooting 53.4% from the field to lead UW-Oshkosh to conference regular season and postseason championships.

Porath has scored in double figures 42 times in UW-Oshkosh's last 45 games and enters the 2021-22 campaign with 1,010 points to rank 22nd in program history. Porath, who was also named a 2019-20 D3hoops.com Third Team All-American, is one of three Titans to garner D3hoops.com Preseason All-American recognition, joining Katelyn Kuehl (2015 Honorable Mention) and Taylor Schmidt (2016 Third Team, 2017 Fourth Team) since the online organization began the honors in 2011.

UW-Oshkosh, ranked 17th in the NCAA Division III by D3hoops.com, plays a second and final exhibition contest at Division II member Michigan Technological University on Thursday (Nov. 4) before opening the regular season at Finlandia University (Mich.) on Friday (Nov. 5). The Titans commenced the 2021-22 campaign with an 81-47 exhibition setback at NCAA Division I member University of Wisconsin on Sunday (Oct. 31).

The Titans, who boast a 194-49 record during the previous nine seasons under head coach Brad Fischer, have made trips to six of the past seven Division III Championships, advancing to the third round in 2014, 2017, 2019 and 2020, and to the second round in 2015 and 2016. UW-Oshkosh's league titles last season were its WIAC record extending 14th during the regular season and record tying seventh in the postseason.

2021-22 D3hoops.com NCAA Division III Preseason All-America Team