CORVALLIS, Ore. – Oregon State’s Raegan Beers was named to the Lisa Leslie Award Watch List ahead of the 2023-24 season, the WBCA announced Friday.
The award, which honors the nation’s best center at the end of the season, has a preseason watch list of 20 players. Beers is one of just two sophomores on the list.
The Coloradan is coming off a Pac-12 Freshman and Sixth Player of the Year campaign in her first season in Corvallis. She was also an All-Pac-12 and All-Freshman choice by the league’s coaches.
Beers closed the regular season leading qualifying league freshmen in ten traditional and advanced statistical categories. Her 14 double-doubles were the sixth-most for a Beaver in a single season, tying Beers with Tanja Kostic (1993-94) and Mikayla Pivec (2019-20). It also led freshmen nationally in the regular season and was the second-most by a Pac-12 freshman since 1999-00.
Fans are encouraged to participate in Fan Voting, presented by Dell Technologies, in each of the three rounds starting today, October 200. In late January, the watch list of 20 players for the 2024 Lisa Leslie Award will be narrowed to 10, and then in late February, to just five. In March, the five finalists will be presented to Leslie and the Hall of Fame’s selection committee, where a winner will be selected.
Beers and the Beavs open the 2023-24 season on November 6 against Arkansas-Pine Bluff. They play in a free preseason exhibition on October 29 against Western Washington. Fans can support Maui wildfire relief at the exhibition game with a donation to Hope Chapel
2023-24 Lisa Leslie Award Preseason Watch List
Ila Lane - Berkeley
Kamila Cardosa - South Carolina
Kennedy Brown - Duke
Cameron Brink - Stanford
Mackenzie Holmes - Indiana
Sedona Prince - TCU
Taiyanna Jackson - Kansas
Tamari Key - Tennessee
Ayoka Lee - Kansas State
Taylor Jones - Texas
Jessika Carter - Mississippi State
Lauren Betts UCLA
Alexis Markowski - Nebraska
Desi-Rae Young - UNLV
Maria Gakdeng - North Carolina
Rayah Marshall - USC
Liz Scott - Oklahoma
Elizabeth Kitley - Virginia Tech
Raegan Beers - Oregon State
Bella Murekatete - Washington State
The award, which honors the nation’s best center at the end of the season, has a preseason watch list of 20 players. Beers is one of just two sophomores on the list.
The Coloradan is coming off a Pac-12 Freshman and Sixth Player of the Year campaign in her first season in Corvallis. She was also an All-Pac-12 and All-Freshman choice by the league’s coaches.
Beers closed the regular season leading qualifying league freshmen in ten traditional and advanced statistical categories. Her 14 double-doubles were the sixth-most for a Beaver in a single season, tying Beers with Tanja Kostic (1993-94) and Mikayla Pivec (2019-20). It also led freshmen nationally in the regular season and was the second-most by a Pac-12 freshman since 1999-00.
Fans are encouraged to participate in Fan Voting, presented by Dell Technologies, in each of the three rounds starting today, October 200. In late January, the watch list of 20 players for the 2024 Lisa Leslie Award will be narrowed to 10, and then in late February, to just five. In March, the five finalists will be presented to Leslie and the Hall of Fame’s selection committee, where a winner will be selected.
Beers and the Beavs open the 2023-24 season on November 6 against Arkansas-Pine Bluff. They play in a free preseason exhibition on October 29 against Western Washington. Fans can support Maui wildfire relief at the exhibition game with a donation to Hope Chapel
2023-24 Lisa Leslie Award Preseason Watch List
Ila Lane - Berkeley
Kamila Cardosa - South Carolina
Kennedy Brown - Duke
Cameron Brink - Stanford
Mackenzie Holmes - Indiana
Sedona Prince - TCU
Taiyanna Jackson - Kansas
Tamari Key - Tennessee
Ayoka Lee - Kansas State
Taylor Jones - Texas
Jessika Carter - Mississippi State
Lauren Betts UCLA
Alexis Markowski - Nebraska
Desi-Rae Young - UNLV
Maria Gakdeng - North Carolina
Rayah Marshall - USC
Liz Scott - Oklahoma
Elizabeth Kitley - Virginia Tech
Raegan Beers - Oregon State
Bella Murekatete - Washington State
