Haleigh Lankster was named to the All-Missouri Valley Conference Second Team as well as the All-Defensive Team while BreAnna Dawkins was named to the All-Freshman team, the conference office announced Wednesday.  

Lankster is the first Shocker to earn second team honors since Antoinette Wells in 2006-07.  She is also the first Shocker since Wells in that same season to earn all -defensive team recognition.   It is the fifth time a WSU student-athlete has been named to the second team and the seventh time all-defensive.

Dawkins is the seventh WSU player to earn all-freshman honors.  

The only Shocker to have played all three years under head coach Jody Adams, Lankster is enjoying career highs in nearly every statistical category.  She leads the team in scoring (12.9), while pulling down 4.2 rebounds and dishing out 1.7 assists.  She has been among the MVC leaders all year in steals per game (1.9) and has also blocked 10 shots. 

At Southern Illinois-Edwardsville in November, Lankster recorded a career-high eight steals.  The junior has produced 22 double figure scoring games and five 20+ point games. 

She recently reached the 900-point plateau and currently ranks sixth the WSU career three-point field goal list.  Her 157 career steals ranks eighth in Shockers history. 

Dawkins has started all but the first four games of the year and delivered solid numbers across the board.  She is the third-leading rebounder on the team (4.3 rebounds per game), second-leading assist-maker (2.9), second in steals (1.8), and also contributes 6.1 points per game. 

The Dallas, Texas (Cedar Hill HS) native began her Shocker career with 10 points off the bench against Arizona.  She led WSU with 15 points against Wyoming and pulled down a career-high 11 rebounds vs. UC-Davis.  In an overtime loss at Creighton, Dawkins led the Shockers with 10 points and nine rebounds, narrowly missing her first career double-double.