CORVALLIS, Ore Oregon State's Timea Gardiner became the third Beaver in six years to be named Pac-12 6th Player of the Year and a trio of Beavers made the all-conference team for the first time since 2016.

Gardiner, Raegan Beers and Talia von Oelhoffen all made the All-Pac-12 squad. Donovyn Hunter was named all-freshman while Dominika Paurovà took home all-freshman honorable-mention honors. Beers, Hunter and von Oelhoffen were all named honorable mention all-defense.

Gardiner joined Beers and now-coach Aleah Goodman as Beavers who earned Sixth Player of the Year honors. The sophomore led Pac-12 non-starters with 10.8 points and 6.5 rebounds per game while shooting 41 percent from three trailing only teammate Lily Hansford. In conference play, she scored 12.1 points with 5.9 rebounds per game and closed the regular season on a run of 10-straight games in double figures.

Beers earned all-conference honors for the second straight year. The star post led the Beavs with 17.5 points and 10.7 rebounds per game, one of 25 players nationally averaging a double-double. She was named to the Lisa Leslie Award Top 10 finalists and ranks second in the country in field goal percentage (66.5%). In addition to being All-Pac-12, Beers was the league's Freshman and Sixth Player of the Year last season.

Von Oelhoffen rejoins the all-league list after making the team as a freshman and battling injuries to be named honorable-mention as a sophomore. The junior paced Oregon State's offense all year, averaging a career-high five assists per game to go with 11.2 points per game. She is One of 9 players in the country to average at least 12 points, four assists and four rebounds per game against Top 25 teams this season and one of two Pac-12 players with five assists per game and an assist/turnover ratio over 2.1.

Hunter served as the point guard for a Top 25 team as a freshman. She was the point of attack defender for OSU's league-leading defense (35.4 Opponent FG%) and earned Freshman of the Week honors after having Oregon State's first points-assists double-double since 1994 with 17 points and 10 assists against Utah.

Paurova also made an immediate impact on the team. The freshman kickstarted a 17-point comeback win over Cal with 16 second-half points and her skillset saw her play minutes as a point guard at Stanford as well as in a small-ball center role against UCLA. She shot 47.5% in the regular season, which ranked second on the OSU team.

The Beavs head to Vegas, where they will battle the winner of fifth-seeded Colorado and 12th-seeded Oregon on Thursday at 12 p.m.

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