Gardiner Named 6th Player; Trio Makes All-Pac-12

CORVALLIS, Ore – Oregon State's Timea Gardiner became the third Beaver in six years to be named Pac-12 6th Player of the Year and a trio of Beavers made the all-conference team for the first time since 2016.

Gardiner, Raegan Beers and Talia von Oelhoffen all made the All-Pac-12 squad. Donovyn Hunter was named all-freshman while Dominika Paurovà took home all-freshman honorable-mention honors. Beers, Hunter and von Oelhoffen were all named honorable mention all-defense.

Gardiner joined Beers and now-coach Aleah Goodman as Beavers who earned Sixth Player of the Year honors. The sophomore led Pac-12 non-starters with 10.8 points and 6.5 rebounds per game while shooting 41 percent from three – trailing only teammate Lily Hansford. In conference play, she scored 12.1 points with 5.9 rebounds per game and closed the regular season on a run of 10-straight games in double figures.

Beers earned all-conference honors for the second straight year. The star post led the Beavs with 17.5 points and 10.7 rebounds per game, one of 25 players nationally averaging a double-double. She was named to the Lisa Leslie Award Top 10 finalists and ranks second in the country in field goal percentage (66.5%). In addition to being All-Pac-12, Beers was the league's Freshman and Sixth Player of the Year last season.

Von Oelhoffen rejoins the all-league list after making the team as a freshman and battling injuries to be named honorable-mention as a sophomore. The junior paced Oregon State's offense all year, averaging a career-high five assists per game to go with 11.2 points per game. She is One of 9 players in the country to average at least 12 points, four assists and four rebounds per game against Top 25 teams this season and one of two Pac-12 players with five assists per game and an assist/turnover ratio over 2.1.

Hunter served as the point guard for a Top 25 team as a freshman. She was the point of attack defender for OSU's league-leading defense (35.4 Opponent FG%) and earned Freshman of the Week honors after having Oregon State's first points-assists double-double since 1994 with 17 points and 10 assists against Utah.

Paurova also made an immediate impact on the team. The freshman kickstarted a 17-point comeback win over Cal with 16 second-half points and her skillset saw her play minutes as a point guard at Stanford as well as in a small-ball center role against UCLA. She shot 47.5% in the regular season, which ranked second on the OSU team.

The Beavs head to Vegas, where they will battle the winner of fifth-seeded Colorado and 12th-seeded Oregon on Thursday at 12 p.m.

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Players Mentioned

Raegan Beers

Timea Gardiner

Lily Hansford

Donovyn Hunter

Talia von Oelhoffen

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