Five members of the VC women's basketball team earned All-Western State Conference honors for the 2021-22 season, as selected by conference coaches last month. Leading the honors is Kenya Edelhart who was voted the WSC Most Valuable Player for the co-champion Pirates. Kylie Gallick, Alyssandra Lacanilao, Sofia Torres-Reyes and Mya Victor were also named first team all-conference.
Edelhart returned from injury to lead the Pirates to a share of the program's 32nd conference title. She led the team with a scoring average of 13.4 points per game with 2.8 assists. She made 48.5 percent of her shots from the floor in conference and shot 74.2 percent from the free throw line. The Lancaster High School product was also a standout on defense handling opponent's primary ball handlers leading the Pirates to 11 consecutive wins to close the regular season. Edelhart becomes the 20th player in program history, the sixth freshman, to earn the WSC MVP award.
Gallick, a Buena High School graduate, averaged a double-double in WSC play with 10.3 points and 10.6 rebounds per game. She shot 54.2 percent from the floor and made 70.8 percent of her free throws in WSC play, pulling down double-figures in rebounds seven games producing four double-doubles.
Lacanilao, the Pirates only returning sophomore in 2021-22, provided solid leadership while putting up 10.2 points per game. The Newbury Park High School product made 23 3-pointers in 11 conference games and shot an outstanding 11-12 from the foul line in 11 WSC outings.
Torres-Reyes was the Pirates leading 3-point shooter in WSC play, averaging 10.8 points while shooting nearly 33 percent from beyond the 3-point line. The Buena High graduate also pulled in 3.8 boards per game while handing out 2.0 assists and recording a team-high 1.8 steals.
Victor, a transfer sophomore, anchored a VC defense that yielded a remarkable 42.9 points per game. She averaged a league-leading 2.7 blocked shots per game, over twice as many as all but two players in the WSC. She also averaged 1.5 steals defensively while scoring 10.1 points with 8.9 rebounds.
After a conference-opening setback to Moorpark in which the Pirates overcame a 24-point deficit to come back to within eight points before falling, VC recorded 11 straight wins, including a 66-61 victory on the road against the Raiders to earn a share of the program's 32nd WSC title in the past 38 seasons.
