Women's Basketball | 3/10/2026 7:00:00 PM

Utah Tech landed two players on the 2025-26 Western Athletic Conference women's basketball postseason awards list, which was announced by the league office on Tuesday.
 
Redshirt senior guard Kaylee Borden was named First Team all-WAC, while fellow redshirt senior guard Brie Crittendon was voted onto the conference's all-Defensive Team.
 
Borden put an exclamation mark on her lone season as a Trailblazer with her first team all-conference selection. The three-time WAC Newcomer of the week honoree has led, or co-led, the team in scoring 12 times, and has scored in double figures in 24 of her 28 starts with nine 20-point outings.
 
Borden earned her third WAC Newcomer award this past Monday after she poured in a game-high 24 points with a career-best six 3-pointers and nine rebounds at UVU last Saturday. 
 
Borden season was also highlighted by a career-high 29 points in the UT Arlington home win back on Feb. 18.
 
In fact, Borden has averaged 23.6 points in her three starts vs. the Lady Mavs, including games of 23 (1/15) and 19 points (2/5) in two road games in Arlington.  
 
Borden, who averaged just 3.5 points and 1.5 rebounds over her first four collegiate seasons at Nevada (2021-25), heads into Wednesday's WAC tourney game as the conference's second-leading scorer (15.93 ppg) and 19th-leading rebounder (4.43 rpg). 
 
In addition, she is ranked currently ranked fourth in the WAC in made 3-pointers (1.82 3fgm/g), fifth in FG% (5.408), and eighth in assists (2.64 apg). 
 
Borden's current run, which includes 18 points in the SUU win on Feb. 28, also features a pair of 25-point outings, the last of which came in the Westminster win on Nov. 29. 
 
Borden, who scored 19 of her then career-high tying 25 points after halftime, went 8-of-12 from the floor with five rebounds and two assists in nearly 33 minutes of action in that victory. 
 
 "Keke" announced her presence with authority with a then-collegiate career high 21 points in the season opener vs. Northern Arizona (11/8). 
 
In fact, Borden became just the seventh different Trailblazer to score 20 or more points in a season opener in the program's four-year era. Meanwhile, the NAU win marked the fourth-straight opener that a Trailblazer had tallied at least 20 points.
 
Borden, who drained four 3-pointers as part of a 14-point day in the Chicago State win (12/17), followed that up with a team-high 13 points in the Omaha victory (11/12). She chased that effort with her first collegiate double-double with 21 points and a career-best 11 rebounds at Weber State (11/15).
 
She then went off for 25 points in the Portland State win (11/22), which helped her earn the first of her three WAC Newcomer of the Week honors (11/24).
 
Crittendon's all-WAC defensive team honor capped a solid campaign for the senior guard.
 
Crittendon has averaged 12.1 ppg in her last 21 starts, including a 16.2 ppg clip over her last nine games with three 20-point outings, highlighted by her third career double-double with a career-high tying 23 points with 10 rebounds in the Tarleton State home win back on Feb. 21.
 
Crittendon, who tallied 16 points on 6-of-9 shooting in the SUU on Senior Day (2/28), has reached double figures in points 13 times this season, which includes her first 23-point night last month at UT Arlington (2/5). 
 
The redshirt senior guard followed that up with a game high 18 points on 6-of-9 shooting and season-high tying four 3-pointers at Utah Valley (2/12). She then poured in a co-game high 20 points, thanks to a 10-of-11 effort at the foul line, and pulled down nine rebounds at CBU (2/14).  
 
Crittendon's 23 points at UTA eclipsed her previous career high of 19 points she recorded during her sophomore year at Eastern Kentucky (vs. Miami [OH] 12/6/23). 
 
Crittendon notched her second career double-double with game highs of 15 points and 10 rebounds in the McNeese loss (12/2), against which she knocked down four 3-pointers (4-of-8 3FG), and scored 12 of her 15 points in the first half.
 
Crittendon, who is currently 14th in the WAC in scoring (10.89 ppg), seventh in defensive rebounding (5.07 rpg), and 11th in total rebounding (6.41 rpg), has grabbed 10 or more rebounds in five of her 27 starts this season, including a career-high 13 boards to go with six points and three assists in Utah Tech's home win over Westminster (11/29).
 
Crittendon flirted with another double-double at Arizona State (11/25), finishing with seven points and 10 more caroms. Crittendon's 10 boards were one off of her then-career high of 11 set last year vs. Seattle U (1/16/25), in a game in which she posted her first career double-double with 13 points.
 
WAC regular season champion California Baptist was well represented on the conference's postseason list, collecting a league-high 11 awards. CBU forward Emma Johannson was named WAC Defensive Player of the Year, while teammates Lauren Olsen and Khloe Lemon were tabbed as Freshman and Sixth Player of the Year, respectively.
 
In addition, CBU head coach Jarrod Olson was voted Coach of the Year, and Abilene Christian guard Payton Hull was named Player of the Year.
 
Utah Tech (9-19) enters this week's Air Force Reserve WAC Women's Basketball Tournament as the No. 7 seed and will face No. 6 seed UT Arlington in the tourney's opening round game, which will be played at Orleans Arena in Las Vegas this Wednesday afternoon at 4 p.m. (MT).