Zoe Kennedy earns WBCA All-America honors for 2025-26 season
As the 2025-26 NAIA basketball season comes near its end, national postseason honors have begun to be announced as Clarke University women's basketball junior Zoe Kennedy was named to the Women's Basketball Coaches' Association (WBCA) All-America list as an Honorable Mention selection.
ATLANTA, Ga. - As the 2025-26 NAIA basketball season comes near its end, national postseason honors have begun to be announced as Clarke University women's basketball junior Zoe Kennedy was named to the Women's Basketball Coaches' Association (WBCA) All-America list as an Honorable Mention selection.
Kennedy adds this WBCA honor for first time in her two seasons at CU after being named First Team All-Heart in each of those first two years after producing two of the most productive seasons in the history of Clarke women's basketball.
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The Cedar Rapids, Iowa native, finished the regular season as the eighth leading scorer in the NAIA with a final season points per game average of 20.9 and finished the regular season with the second-best mark in the Heart.
That scoring average was a 2.5 points per game improvement from her 2024-25 final mark and is the second-best season scoring average in Clarke women's basketball history, splitting the two best seasons from CU Hall of Famer and current Dean of Academic affairs Deann (Trapp) Petitgout with Petitgout's school record still safe at 22.4 from 1997-98 but Kennedy's 2025-26 surpasses Petitgout's 1998-99 average of 20.7.
Finishing this season with a career point total of 1,118 and scoring over 500 points in her first two seasons as a member of the Pride, Kennedy projects to finish her career as a top-five scorer in program history in just three seasons in Dubuque after a second season that not only improved in her scoring average, but also improved on essentially every stat including field goal percentage (48.3%), three point shooting percentage (36.5%), rebounds per game (7.6), assists per game (4.5), steals per game (1.7), and blocked shots per game (0.8).
Along with her All-Heart First team selection, Kennedy also earned four weekly honors from the Heart during the 2025-26 season, including three Offensive Player of the Week nods on Nov. 10, Jan. 19, and Feb. 2 along with also earning the Defensive Player of the Week honor on Jan. 19 to sweep the award week with her best game scoring game of the season finishing at 34 points against Waldorf on Nov. 6 that led to the Nov. 10 honor then she also recorded her second career triple-double at William Woods on Jan. 17, finishing with 20 points, 15 rebounds, and 10 assists helping her earn the double recognition on Jan. 19 as she added four blocked shots and four steals in that game for one of the best all around games in program history.
Along with her performance and accolades on the court, Kennedy was also named an NAIA Scholar-Athlete for this season, currently possession a cumulative GPA at Clarke of over 3.5 on a 4.0 scale, as well as being a student leader on campus as part of the leadership structure of various on-campus clubs and activities including but not limited to Clarke's Sport Management Club and the Clarke Association of Student Athletes.