NMSU Women run away with All-WAC honors

It has been a season to remember for the NMSU women on the hardwood. The team not only made history by finishing the regular season with a perfect record in conference play (14-0), but earned seven accolades at the All-WAC honors.

“It’s definitely humbling and although it is an individual award I wouldn’t have been able to get it without my teammates,” Moriah Mack, the WAC player of the year said. “But I am definitely humbled and honored to have received such an award.”

Guard Moriah Mack earned the WAC Player of the Year for the first time in her career. At season’s end, the senior was in the top-10 in nine different statistical categories in conference play. Mack averaged 15.1 points per game on .500 shooting from the field, to go along with 3.1 assists and a WAC-leading 2.2 steals.

While Head Coach Mark Trakh was named the WAC coach of the year for the third straight season.

“I am humbled by it, but I think that is the indication that we have recruited some really really good players and we have a great coaching staff,” Trakh said. “That award is really for my assistant coaches and my players and just representing everything they have done this year, so I am proud of them, all of them.”

It is well deserved considering Trakh and the Aggies finished the season on a 15-game winning streak, for the second straight year, which ties the program record set by Joe McKeown in 1987-88.

Mack also added First Team All-WAC and All-Defensive Team alongside Tamera William while Brooke Salas earned First Team All-WAC honors for the first time in her career.