Wilt

Penn State Altoona women’s basketball’s senior forward Avana Sayles and freshman guard Lanie Wilt were both voted to the All-Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference first team on Tuesday.

Wilt was also named the AMCC Newcomer of the Year.

Sayles started all 28 games for the Lions in her senior season, during which she became the program’s all-time leading scorer (1,700 career points) and rebounder (1,001 career rebounds). She led the AMCC this year in field goals made (195) while also ranking second in defensive rebounds (211), total rebounds (298), rebounds per game (10.6), and points (437), third in blocks (39) and blocks per game (1.4), fifth in points per game (15.6), sixth in offensive rebounds (87), steals (66), and steals per game (2.4), seventh in points per 40 minutes (19.0), 11th in field goal percentage (40.0), 15th in assists (51), 18th in free throws made (47), and 20th in assists per game (1.8).

She also earned three AMCC Player of the Week awards this season.

Wilt played in 26 games as a freshman this season, including making 25 starts. Among all players in the AMCC, she ranked second in assists (93), assists per game (3.6), and free throws made (94), third in assist-to-turnover ratio (1.8), fourth in points per game (16.1), fifth in points (419) and points per 40 minutes (20.0).

She was also sixth in field goals made (143), seventh in three-pointers made (39), three-point percentage (29.5), and free throw percentage (74.0) and ninth in steals (56) and steals per game (2.2).

Men get two

Penn State Altoona men’s basketball had a pair of players voted to the All-Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference team on Tuesday.

Senior guard Kaden Claar was a second-team All-AMCC selection, while sophomore guard Rasheed Daniels was voted to the third team.

Claar started all 26 games during his senior campaign with the Lions. He led the AMCC in free throw percentage (86.9) while also ranking second in steals (65) and steals per game (2.5) and seventh in three-pointers made (51).

Daniels played in 19 games as a sophomore with Penn State Altoona, his first season with the team, and made 11 starts.

Among all players in the AMCC, he was third in points per 40 minutes (24.1) and 13th in points per game (14.8).