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Porath Named To Third WBCA All-America Team

Porath Named To Third WBCA All-America Team

UW-Oshkosh senior guard Leah Porath was named a NCAA Division III All-American from the Women's Basketball Coaches Association for the third consecutive year.

Porath, who last week collected her third straight All-America decoration from D3hoops.com, was among 40 players voted to the 2022 WBCA Division III All-America Team as an Honorable Mention selection.

Porath previously earned WBCA All-America recognition as a First Team member in 2021 and Honorable Mention representative in 2020. Porath and Taylor Schmidt are the only two Titans to harvest multiple WBCA All-America awards. Schmidt acquired three straight Honorable Mention accolades from 2015-17.

Porath, the fourth all-time leading scorer in UW-Oshkosh history, was voted to this year's All-Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference First Team for the third straight season after leading the Titans to the league tournament semifinals.

The Titans earned an at-large berth into the 2022 Division III Championship and defeated three nationally ranked opponents en route to reaching the quarterfinals for the first time since 1999. UW-Oshkosh outscored 18th-ranked Wisconsin Lutheran College in the first round, fourth-ranked Simpson College (Iowa) in the second and 10th-ranked Baldwin Wallace University (Ohio) in the third before falling at 12th-ranked and eventual national tournament runner-up UW-Whitewater in the Elite Eight. UW-Oshkosh ended the season with a 22-7 record.

Porath averaged 14.6 points and 5.9 rebounds per game this season while shooting 45.8% from the field and 42.1% from 3-point range. She also totaled 47 assists, 24 steals and 40 3-point baskets. She led the WIAC in 3-point field goal percentage and ranked fifth in the league in scoring, sixth in rebounding and ninth in field goal percentage.

Porath scored a season-best 28 points against Bethany Lutheran College (Minn.) on Nov. 12 and 27 during the Titans' upset victory over Baldwin Wallace University on March 11. She also had 20-point scoring performances in a pair of WIAC road contests at UW-River Falls on Jan. 22 and UW-Platteville on Feb. 2. Her season highs also included 13 rebounds versus Carthage College on Dec. 30, four assists on three occasions, and four 3-pointers at both UW-Whitewater in the WIAC Tournament semifinals Feb. 23 and Simpson College during the NCAA postseason on March 5.

In 2021, Porath was named the WIAC Player of the Year for the second straight season after averaging 18.7 points, 6.5 rebounds, 2.1 assists and 1.0 steals per game while ranking second in the conference with a .534 field goal percentage. She produced one of the best WIAC Tournament performances in history that season by leading the Titans to the title. During the span of three league postseason games in five days, Porath registered 82 points on 32 of 52 (61.5 percent) shooting from the field, 33 rebounds and 13 assists.

Porath began her tremendous conference tournament run with a career high-tying 30 points to go along with career bests of 14 rebounds and six assists during a win over UW-River Falls in the quarterfinals. Porath then had a career-high 35 points and 12 rebounds during a victory over UW-La Crosse in the semifinals before capping the tournament with 17 points, seven boards and five assists during a 74-58 win over UW-Whitewater in the championship game.

Porath picked her first WIAC Player of the Year award in 2020. She averaged 17.5 points, 6.7 rebounds, 1.7 assists and 1.1 steals per game with 49 3-pointers, a .489 field goal percentage and a .408 3-point percentage. Porath led the WIAC in both scoring and 3-point percentage while ranking second in the league in total rebounds (200) and 3-pointers, and third in both rebounds per game and field goal percentage.

Porath's 524 points in 2020 were the most by a Titan since Wendy Wangerin tallied 559 in 1996 en route to earning WBCA Division III Player of the Year honors after leading unbeaten UW-Oshkosh to the national title. Porath also became the first WIAC player with at least 500 points and 200 rebounds in a season since UW-Superior's Sally Linzmeier in 2014.

Porath scored more than 20 points in eight games during the 2020 campaign, including a career-high 30 with a season-best five 3-pointers against UW-Stout and 29 versus Alma College (Mich.). She also counted 26 points and a career-high 12 rebounds for her first double-double against Loras College (Iowa).

Porath, one of 11 finalists for the 2022 Jostens Trophy that recognizes the most outstanding NCAA Division III player of the year, concluded her standout career with 1,405 points, 559 rebounds, 179 assists, 115 3-pointers, 98 steals, four double-doubles. a .481 field goal percentage and a .381 3-point percentage in 115 games played.

Porath closed her five seasons at UW-Oshkosh by helping the Titans to 98 wins, two WIAC regular season titles, three WIAC Tournament championships and three NCAA regional titles in three consecutive trips to the Division III postseason. She scored at least eight points in 72 of her last 73 games played.

Kenedy Schoonveld from Hope College (Mich.) was named the WBCA's 2022 Division III Player of the Year. Joining Schoonveld on the 10-member All-America First Team were Abby Anderson from University of Scranton (Pa.), Tara Bieniewicz from Trine University (Ind.), Sondra Fan from Christopher Newport University (Va.), Hanna Geistfeld from Bethany Lutheran College (Minn.), Elyce Knudsen from Millikin University (Ill.), Diarra Oden Johns Hopkins University (Md.), Maggie Russell from Tufts University (Mass.), Dani Valdez from Amherst College (Mass.) and Jenny Walker from New York University.