Keiera Ray and Alyssa Baron take home Big 5 honors

The accolades keep coming for Keiera Ray and Alyssa Baron.

Ray was announced as the third consecutive Penn player to receive Big 5 Rookie of the Year, while Baron took home first-team All-Big 5 honors for the third time.

Mike McLaughlin’s recruiting classes have produced for the Red and Blue recently, as Ray was following in the footsteps of Baron and sophomore forward Kara Bonenberger, who received the Rookie of the Year award the last two years.

To begin her freshman campaign, Ray was the Quakers’ backup point guard but started 27 games at the point after Meghan McCullough went down with a torn ACL. In 31 games, the freshman put up 10.6 points and 2.1 assists per contest, second on the team in both categories.

Baron, meanwhile, took over as captain at the start of the 2012-13 season and continued her success from her first two seasons. The junior guard led the Red and Blue with 14.1 points, 6.4 rebounds and 3.8 assists per game.

The duo combined to help Penn to an 18-win season, which included the Quakers’ first two postseason victories in program history.