DWU's Avery Broughton, Emma Yost honored as NAIA women's basketball All-Americans
Mar. 30—KANSAS CITY, Mo. — For the first time in six seasons, the Dakota Wesleyan University women's basketball team boasted two All-America-caliber players, as junior standouts Avery Broughton and Emma Yost received recognition from the NAIA on Monday.
Broughton, a 6-foot-1 guard/forward from Corsica, was named to the NAIA women's basketball All-America first team, while Yost, a 6-foot forward from Wagner, was an All-America second-team selection. Broughton led the Tigers in field goal percentage (52. 1%), rebounds per game (8.
4), and a school record 77 blocks, which ranked fifth in the nation. That defensive ability made Broughton the GPAC defensive player of the year. Offensively, she averaged 14.
6 points per game and scored in double figures in 30 of her final 32 games this season. Broughton has 865 career points in two seasons in a DWU uniform after transferring to the Tigers after one season at the University of South Dakota. It is the sixth first-team NAIA All-America season in DWU women's basketball history, joining Randi Morgan (2002 and 2004), Ashley Bray (2018) and Kynedi Cheeseman (2019 and 2020).
Yost led DWU in scoring at 15. 1 points per game and was among DWU's most efficient scorers. She shot a career-best 50.