Washington’s Plum leads her team, list

Kelsey Plum left quite the mark at Washington.

Now the senior guard, who became the NCAA’s all-time career leading scorer this season, is the first from the school to earn Associated Press AllAmerica honors.

“It is really special. I started out the season and remembered last year I was on the third team and I felt like I could have been better,” Plum said. “So going into the offseason, working out I felt I could step up my play to another level.”

She did just that, averaging 31.7 points for the Huskies while shooting 53 percent from the field.

Plum received all 33 votes from a national media panel Monday that chooses the Top 25 each week. She is joined on the All-America team by South Carolina’s A’ja Wilson, Maryland’s Brionna Jones and UConn’s Napheesa Collier and Katie Lou Samuelson. Voting was done before the NCAA Tournament.

It’s the second straight year that Wilson earned first-team honors. She averaged 17.6 points and 7.6 rebounds for the Gamecocks.

This marked the fourth consecutive year that UConn had at least one AllAmerican. Huskies junior Gabby Williams earned second team honors.

Joining Williams on the second team were Ohio State’s Kelsey Mitchell, Notre Dame’s Brianna Turner, Washington’s Chantel Osahor and Syracuse’s Alexis Peterson.

The third team includes Oregon State’s Sydney Wiese, Notre Dame’s Lindsay Allen, Maryland’s Shatori Walker-Kimbrough, Duke’s Lexie Brown and Mississippi State’s Victoria Vivians.