HELENA, Mont. – The 2025-26 Frontier Conference women's basketball All-Conference teams and individual award winners have been announced Thursday evening. The award recipients are selected by the twelve (12) head coaches in the conference, who are not permitted to vote for their own players.
Valley City's
Ellie Braaten was named to the 2
nd Team. Braaten, a junior from Westhope, North Dakota, led the Vikings in scoring (335 points/12.9ppg), assists (87), and steals (49). She was named to the Academic All-Conference team earlier this week.
Tabor Teel of Dakota State (S.D.) was selected as the 2025-26 Frontier Conference Women's Basketball Player-of-the-Year. She has posted numerous double-doubles this season, averaging 17.6 points and 10.6 rebounds per game prior to the postseason. She is also second in the league with 107 assists, the most assists by a post player in the conference.
Twenty (20) athletes are listed on the 2025-26 Frontier Conference Women's Basketball All-Conference teams – 10 recipients on the First Team and 10 recipients on the Second Team.
Isabelle Heggem of Rocky Mountain (Mont.) was voted the conference 's Defensive Player-of-the-Year. She leads the Frontier Conference with 75 total blocks and 11.7 rebounds per game (9.5 defensive rebounds per game). Four other players are also listed on the Frontier Conference All-Defense Team.
Carroll's (Mont.) Jillian Kanduch was selected as the Frontier Conference's Freshman-of-the-Year. Bailee Sayler of Montana Western was chosen as the Sixth Woman of the Year award.
CC's Kenzie Allen and Providence's (Mont.) Brooke Dial shared the league's Newcomer of the Year award.
Dakota State's David Moe picked up the Frontier Conference Women's Basketball Pepsi Coach-of-the-Year award after guiding the Trojans to their first-ever league title with a 19-3 record. DaSU also earned the league's first automatic bid to the NAIA National Tournament, which begins on March 13-14 with the First & Second Rounds.
The 2025-26 Frontier Conference Women's Basketball Postseason Tournament begins with a pair of quarterfinal rounds on Friday and Saturday, followed by the semifinal contests on Sunday, and the championship game on Monday evening at 5 p.m. (Mountain Time).
The first three days of the postseason tournament will be live streamed via Frontier Conference's YouTube page (all women's basketball sessions start at 12 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. Mountain time). The championship game on Monday evening will be live broadcast on SWX Local Sports.
Complete All-Conference List