SAN FRANCISCO – In a vote of the the league's 12 head coaches, Utah's Alissa Pili has been chosen the 2022-23 Pac-12 Women's Basketball Player of the Year; Stanford's Cameron Brink was voted the Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Year for the second consecutive season; Oregon State's Raegan Beers was selected both the Pac-12 Freshman of the Year and the league's Sixth Player of the Year; Arizona's Shaina Pellington and Colorado's Aaronette Vonleh were picked as Pac-12 Co-Most Improved Players of the Year; and Utah's Lynne Roberts claimed John R. Wooden Pac-12 Coach of the Year accolades.

In addition to the major awards, the conference's All-Pac-12 team, which includes 16 this year due to a tie in the voting, and the league's five-member All-Defensive and All-Freshman teams were named in advance of the Pac-12 Women's Basketball Tournament, which begins Wednesday, March 1 at Mandalay Bay's Michelob ULTRA Arena in Las Vegas.

The first Pac-12 Player of the Year from Utah, Pili leads the league in both scoring (20.6) and field goal percentage (.599) and is one of two players in the country averaging those numbers this season (Mackenzie Holmes - Indiana). Also second in the Conference in 3-point field goal percentage, hitting 45.8 percent from behind the arc (27-of-59), Pili is tracking to become just the second NCAA women's basketball player since 1999-2000 to average 20.0 points, hit 60.0 percent from the floor and make at least 20 3-pointers in a single season (Napheesa Collier - UConn; 2016-17). She has scored in double figures in all but one game this season, including 16 20-point efforts. Utah is now the eighth Pac-12 program to boast a Conference Player of the Year and the first to have their initial winner since California's Devanei Hampton won the first of the Golden Bears' two in 2006-07.

The nation's second-leading shot blocker, Brink earned her second consecutive Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Year nod and Stanford's seventh overall following a regular season in which she swatted 109 shots, an average of 3.52 per game. Her 109 blocks are good for seventh in league history and the most for any player outside the state of Oregon. Ahead of her on the single-season list are Oregon State’s Ruth Hamblin (3x) and Patricia Bright, and Oregon’s Stefanie Kasperski (2x). Brink's 288 career blocks are fourth in the Pac-12 record book. Third on the list is USC’s Lisa Leslie who had 321 rejections from 1991-94. Also averaging 14.5 points and 9.4 rebounds, Brink is one of two players in the country averaging more than 14 points, nine rebounds and three blocks this season (Taiyanna Jackson - Kansas), something that has not been done in the Pac-12 in records dating back to 1999-2000.

Sixth in the league in rebounding (8.7) and second in field goal percentage (.578), Beers has come off the bench in all but four games in her debut season to collect both Pac-12 Freshman of the Year and Sixth Player of the Year accolades. She is the third Freshman of the Year from Oregon State, joining Kari Parriott (1987-88) and Tanja Kostic (1992-93) and the Beavers' second Sixth Player of the Year along with Aleah Goodman (2018-19). Beers has 14 double-doubles in her first 29 career games and is second among the country’s freshmen in that category (Gracie Merkle, Bellarmine - 18). Her double-double total is tied for the second most among Pac-12 freshmen since 1999-2000 (21 - Shawntinice Polk, ARIZ - 2002-03; 14 - Kristine Anigwe, CAL - 2015-16). Beers won a program record four Pac-12 Freshman of the Week awards this season.

One of two winners of the Pac-12 Most Improved Player of the Year award, Pellington is averaging personal bests in points (13.4), assists (3.7), steals (1.9) and field goal percentage (.542). She is sixth in the Conference in assists, third in assist-to-turnover ratio (2.17), third in in steals and fifth in field goal percentage. Pellington's field goal percentage is also 41st nationally, but fourth best among guards. In a defining performance, she scored a career-high 35 points on 13-of-18 shooting (.722) with eight rebounds and five steals in a win over then-No. 4 Utah on Feb. 17. One of two players nationally to have a 35-point, eight-rebound, five-steal performance this season (Aneesah Morrow, DePaul), Pellington became the first in the Pac-12 to do it since Washington's Kelsey Plum had 44 points, nine rebounds and five steals against Boise State on Dec. 11, 2016.

In her first season in Boulder, Vonleh nearly tripled her scoring output from her freshman season (4.1). The CU center has started 28 of Colorado's 29 games this season and is averaging 11.9 points on 57.7 percent shooting to go with 4.6 rebounds. She has scored in double figures 20 times, including a carer-high 25 on 11-of-14 shooting in Saturday's regular-season finale against California. Vonleh is 20th in the country in field goal percentage and sixth among all D1 underclassmen (minimum five made field goals per game).

Roberts was chosen by her peers as the John R. Wooden Coach of the Year for the first time after leading the Utes to a share of the Conference's regular-season title and the first Pac-12 championship in program history. Just 5-16 in 2020-21, she has engineered a stunning turnaround that included a 21-12 record last year and the Utes' first NCAA Tournament appearance since 2011. Receiving votes in the preseason AP poll, Utah entered the rankings on Nov. 14, steadily rose all year and are currently a program-best No. 3. The Utes are fourth nationally in scoring (84.4), fourth in field goal percentage (48.9), sixth in assists (18.9) and are one of two schools to score 100+ against major conference opponents three times this season (Iowa). Utah, 25-3 overall, has 25 wins in its first 28 games for just the fourth time in program history (2007-08; 2000-01; 1976-77) and Roberts is one of 15 candidates on the late-season watch list for Naismith Coach of the Year.

ALL-PAC-12

** two-time selection; *** three-time selection, **** four-time selection

Honorable Mention: Jayda Curry, CAL; Dalayah Daniels; WASH; Frida Formann, COLO; Jenna Johnson, UTAH; Esmery Martinez, ARIZ; Leilani McIntosh, CAL; Kennady McQueen, UTAH; Bella Murekatete, WSU; Te-Hina Paopao, ORE; Lauren Schwartz, WASH; Tyi Skinner, ASU; Haley Van Dyke, WASH; Grace VanSlooten, ORE; Aaronette Vonleh, COLO; Talia von Oelhoffen, OSU.

ALL-DEFENSIVE TEAM

** two-time selection

Honorable Mention: Okako Adika, USC; Chance Gray, ORE; Charlisse Leger-Walker, WSU; Jelena Mitrovic, OSU; Jayda Noble, WASH; Charisma Osborne, UCLA; Jaddan Simmons, ASU; Kayla Williams, USC.

ALL-FRESHMAN TEAM

Honorable Mention: Lauren Betts, STAN; Timea Gardiner, OSU; Elle Ladine, WASH; Talana Lepolo, STAN; Astera Tuhina, WSU.