All-Conference Teams I History of All-Conference Selections

AUGUSTA, Ga. – Clayton State women's basketball has earned a pair of selections on the 2016-17 All-Peach Belt Conference Teams as announced by the league on Friday, March 3 and have made program history for a second straight season.
 
Redshirt-senior forward Andrea Benford (Madison, Ga.) has been named to the Second-Team while redshirt-senior guard Tierra Johnson (Edison, N.J.) earned a spot on the Third-Team. Those two selections tie for the second most of any team behind Lander's three and equals No. 4 Columbus State's two.
 
For Benford, it is the third time she has been named to a PBC All-Conference Team making her just the second individual to accomplish the feat in program history. Previously she was selected to the Third-Team in 2013-14 and 2015-16. She joins Tanisha Woodard (2008-12) who was named All-PBC three straight years from 2010-12, including a pair of First-Team selections.
 
This year she earned her highest league honor by averaging 13.5 points, 7.3 rebounds, 1.8 blocks, 1.5 steals and 1.0 assists in 26 games, 24 of which have been starts. She is also shooting .497 from the field, was named PBC Player of the Week on November 28 and is 56 points way from reaching 1,000 career points.
 
She also delivered some incredible single game performances, erupting for a career-high 25 points with 13 boards, five blocks and personal best five steals against Paine (11/23). That was one of 19 games in which she reached double-figures in scoring and seven double-digit rebounding efforts.
 
Additionally, Benford also had 24 points on 12-of-18 shooting at Georgia Southwestern (1/25) and flirted with a triple-double against Georgia College, finishing with 18 points, nine boards and career-high six blocks.
 
Johnson earns her first All-PBC honor in what has been both a tremendous season of individual accomplishment and personal challenge. The diminutive sparkplug's season may have come to an end prematurely on January 25 at Georgia Southwestern, but not before she became a player that every opponent had to plan for.
 
In 19 games, all but one of which were starts, she averaged a team-leading 16.8 points, 2.7 steals and 2.5 assists to go along with 3.7 rebounds, 31.7 minutes per game and a .504 mark from the field.
 
She scored in double-figures in all but three games and had the best game of her career at No. 11/12 Union (11/26). That day she played 44 minutes and dropped a career-high 31 points, five shy of a program record, along with five steals as the Lakers pulled off a 98-90 overtime victory.
 
The first of eight straight double-digit scoring efforts to start the season, she would follow that run by recording her first career double-double with 20 points and career-high 11 caroms at Armstrong State (1/14).
 
That game followed 21 points, six steals and five assists at Francis Marion (1/7) and 26 points on 12-of-19 shooting against Augusta (1/9). A constant threat throughout the year, Johnson also had only five games in which she didn't log at least 30 minutes, and two of those saw her play 29 minutes.
 
Both seniors have been a huge part of a season that has seen Clayton State compile a 24-5 overall record and appear in the national rankings a total of nine times. The 24 wins are tied for the seventh most in program history and is the 12^th time that the Lakers have reached the 20-win plateau. They have also knocked off a pair of nationally ranked opponents on the road.
 
This year's selections mark the 13^th consecutive year that Clayton State has had at least one player named to the All-Peach Belt Conference Team and the 15^th year out of the last 16. In their 22 years as a member of the league they have had a player so honored in 16 of those years.
 
2017 Peach Belt Conference Women's Basketball Regular Season Awards
All-Conference First-Team
Ashley Asouzu, Columbus State
Alexis Carter, Columbus State
Kelsey Hutchins, North Georgia
Breshay Johnson, Lander
Ty'hesha Reynolds, Lander
 
All-Conference Second-Team
Andrea  Benford, Clayton State
Kwajelin Farrar, USC Aiken
Shaunice Fulmore, Francis Marion
Alyah McGriff, Georgia College
Mylea McKenith, Lander
 
All-Conference Third-Team
Machala Raymonville, Armstrong State
Tierra  Johnson, Clayton State
Jonissa Monley, UNC Pembroke
Breonna O'Conner, Augusta
Meredith Tarver, Young Harris
 
Player of the Year
Breshay Johnson, Lander
 
Freshman of the Year
Kwajelin Farrar, USC Aiken
 
Co-Defensive Players of the Year
Alexis Carter, Columbus State
Mylea McKenith, Lander
 
Coach of the Year
Anita Howard, Columbus State
 
 
All-PBC Conference Selections - All-Time (31 selections/20 different individuals)
2016-17 (2)
Andrea Benford, Second-Team
Tierra Johnson, Third-Team
 
2015-16 (3)
DaQuenna Moore, Second-Team
Andrea Benford, Third-Team
Kenisha Jones-Barrett, Third-Team
 
2014-15 (1)
Yishica Sims, First-Team
 
2013-14 (2)
Shacamara Jackson, First-Team
Andrea Benford, Third-Team
 
2012-13 (3)
Drameka Griggs, First-Team
Kayla Mobley, Second-Team
Shacamra Jackson, Third-Team
 
2011-12 (3)
Tanisha Woodard, First-Team
Brittany Hall, Second-Team
Drameka Griggs, Third-Team
 
2010-11 (2)
Teshymia Tillman, First-Team
Tanisha Woodard, First-Team
 
2009-10 (2)
Teshymia Tillman, First-Team
Tanisha Woodard, Third-Team
 
2008-09 (1)
Nikkisha Pritchett, Second-Team
 
*2007-08 (1)
Shantel Ragin
 
*2006-07 (2)
Shantel Ragin
Sharon Wiles
 
*2005-06 (3)
Shelcey Harp
Jasmine Patterson
Sharon Wiles
 
2004-05 (3)
Jamika Hindsman, First-Team
Shelcey Harp, Second-Team
Jasmine Patterson, Second-Team
 
2002-03 (1)
Catreia Shaw, First-Team
 
2001-02 (1)
Catreia Shaw, Second-Team
 
1999-00 (1)
Joya Collier, Second-Team
*Indicates Only One Team