Ashley Joens

AMES — Ashley Joens made it 3-for-3 on making the major women’s basketball All-America teams for a second straight season, as the Iowa State star senior was named to the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) All-America Team on Thursday.

Joens made the 10-person team for the second-straight season, becoming the first player in ISU history to make the WBCA All-America squad multiple times. She earned four All-America nods from the WBCA in her career, adding honorable mention honors in 2019-20 and 2020-21 in addition to the past two seasons.

These honors are in addition to the previously announced honors from two weeks ago of being a USBWA Second Team All-American and an Associated Press Third Team All-American.

The Iowa State record books were rewritten by Joens, who will leave ISU as the career record holder for points (3,060), rebounds (1,391), games played and started (158), field goals (988), 3-pointers (344), free throws (740), double-doubles (65) and points per game (19.4). Her career points total ranks ninth in NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball history, while games played and started are both Big 12 records.

Her final season in Ames saw Joens, the 2022-23 Big 12 Player of the Year, lead the Big 12 and rank ninth nationally averaging 21.6 points per game. She scored in double figures in 31 of 32 games for the Cyclones this season, going over 20 on 20 occasions, including each of Iowa State’s final 10 games. She also had 16 double-doubles on the season.

Joens helped lead the Cyclones to the Phillips 66 Big 12 Women’s Basketball Championship title two weeks ago with an all-time legendary weekend, being the unanimous selection as Tournament Most Outstanding Player after averaging 26.7 points and 11.0 rebounds per contest, helping the Cyclones claim a first Big 12 trophy in 22 years.