The Portland State women’s basketball team placed three players on the College Sports Communicators Academic All-District Team for the first time since the 1992-93 season, according to a March 24 announcement. Laynee Torres-Kahapea repeated as an All-District recipient, while Kyleigh Brown and Taylor Moffat received the honor for the first time in their careers.
This recognition highlights both academic achievement and athletic performance among student-athletes. The selection requires that recipients maintain at least a 3.50 cumulative grade point average and meet specific participation standards during the season.
Torres-Kahapea earned her second consecutive All-District honor with a 3.94 GPA in applied health and fitness. She led Portland State in assists, averaging 2.7 per game, ranking her fifteenth in the Big Sky Conference this past season. She started thirty of thirty-one games, recording career bests for points (7.2) and rebounds (3.6) per game, and scored in double figures nine times—including a career-high twenty-two points against Hawai’i.
Brown was named to the Academic All-District team after posting a 3.89 GPA in applied health and fitness. She led Portland State with sixteen point seven points per game—third highest in the Big Sky Conference—and scored double figures in thirty-four straight games dating back to her freshman year, which is the longest such streak by any Viking player over two decades. Brown also led her team with an .881 free throw percentage—the eighth-best single-season mark in program history—and averaged thirty-three point four minutes played per game.
Moffat returned from an ACL injury as a junior to start twenty-two of twenty-nine appearances this past season while maintaining a 3.93 GPA as a criminology and criminal justice major.
All three players met or exceeded both academic and athletic criteria required for selection to the Academic All-District Team.
