ST. LOUIS, Mo. -- A day after receiving First Team Missouri Valley Conference Scholar-Athlete honors, senior Katie Yohn (Elgin, Ill./St. Edward) has been named a Second Team All-Valley selection according to an announcement by the league office Wednesday.
Yohn earned all-conference honors for the third time in her career, after garnering honorable mention all-league honors as both a freshman (2009-10) and sophomore (2010-11). She is the first Bradley individual to earn all-conference honors in three different seasons since Sara Bailey ended her career in 2002-03 and also joins Bradley Hall of Fame members Shelli Braud and Carrie Coffman as the only three-time all-conference honorees in program history.
In addition, Yohn is just the third player in school history to earn first or second team all-conference honors and First Team MVC Scholar-Athlete recognition in the same season. Bailey was the last player to accomplish the feat in 2001-02 and the duo is joined by Bradley Hall of Fame member Heather Best (1998-99) in the elite group.
One of only two players in the league to rank in the top 10 blocks and steals, she is 15th in Valley in scoring at 12.0 points per game and 11th in rebounding at 6.6 boards per game this season. She also ranks fifth in the league in steals, averaging 2.4 thefts per game and is shooting a team-best 34.2 percent from three-point range. In Missouri Valley Conference play, Yohn averaged 12.6 points and 6.4 boards per outing. She also dished out 2.8 assists per game against league foes and came away 2.8 steals per contest in Valley action.
The only player in MVC history with 1,300 points, 200 three-pointers, 450 rebounds, 250 assists, 80 blocks and 175 career steals, she holds the Bradley career record for three-point field goals (208) to rank 23rd in conference history in three-point makes. Yohn's 66 steals are the most by a Bradley player since 2008-09 and she is the first player in program history to tally 300 points, 175 rebounds, 70 assists, 25 blocks and 60 steals in a season.
Yohn ranks eighth in career scoring at Bradley with 1,349 career points and her 195 career steals is tied for seventh all-time on The Hilltop. Over the last six games, she has averaged 17.8 points, 7.7 rebounds, 2.7 assists and 4.0 steals, while shooting 53 percent from the field and 43 percent from beyond the arc.
Bradley will face #3 seed Illinois State Friday at 8:30 p.m. in the quarterfinals of the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament in St. Charles, Mo.
