DeKALB, IL – Redshirt-Senior forward Courtney Woods (Brisbane, Australia/St. Margaret's) of the Northern Illinois University women's basketball team was named to the All-MAC First Team Tuesday morning, as the Mid-American Conference announced its 2019-20 postseason awards.
 
Woods finished the season leading the Huskies with 18.5 points, 6.0 rebounds, and 3.0 assists per game. She is the first NIU women's basketball player since Ally Lehman in 2016-17 to lead NIU in points, rebounds, and assists per game. Woods averaged 19.4 points per game in MAC play, scoring at least 20 points 10 times with a pair of 30-point efforts in wins at Bowling Green on February 8 and at Toledo this past Saturday. She finished the regular season leading the MAC in free throw percentage at 85.3 percent, fifth in the MAC in scoring, ninth in three-pointers made per game with 2.14, and 10^th in field goal percentage at 43.3 percent.
 
The redshirt-senior was named MAC West Player of the Week three times this season, including on Monday after averaging 28 points per game in NIU's wins over Ball State and Toledo to close the regular season. She was also named the MAC Female Scholar Athlete of the Week twice. This is Woods' second postseason All-MAC honor. She was an All-MAC First Team selection in 2018 after leading the league in scoring at 22.1 points per game, the third-highest single-season scoring average in NIU women's basketball history.
 
Woods finishes her NIU career as the program's all-time leader in three-pointers made with 323, games played with 130, and three-pointers in a season with 105 in 2016-17. She is second on the NIU career scoring list with 2,216 points. Woods scored in double figures in 109 of her 130 games, including Monday night's MAC Tournament First Round game at Eastern Michigan where she had 18 points, seven rebounds and five assists.
 
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2019-20 MAC WOMEN'S BASKETBALL POST SEASON AWARDS
 
MAC Player of the Year 
Micaela Kelly, Central Michigan 
 
MAC Women's Basketball Coach of the Year
Heather Oesterle, Central Michigan 
 
MAC Women's Basketball Freshman of the Year
Dyaisha Fair, Buffalo
 
MAC Women's Basketball Sixth Player of the Year
Gabrielle Bird, Central Michigan 
 
MAC Women's Basketball Defensive Player of the Year
Cierra (Cece) Hooks, Ohio
 
Women's Basketball All-MAC First Team
Oshlynn Brown, Ball State
Micaela Kelly, Central Michigan
Courtney Woods, Northern Illinois 
Cierra (Cece) Hooks, Ohio
Erica Johnson, Ohio 
 
Women's Basketball All-MAC Second Team
Dyaisha Fair, Buffalo 
Molly Davis, Central Michigan
Areanna Combs, Eastern Michigan
Lauren Dickerson, Miami 
Breanna Mobley, Western Michigan
 
Women's Basketball All-MAC Third Team
Haliegh Reinoehl, Akron 
Theresa Onwuka, Buffalo 
Kyra Bussell, Central Michigan
Savannah Kluesner, Miami 
Jordan Walker, Western Michigan
 
Women's Basketball All-MAC Honorable Mention
Jordyn Dawson, Akron
Angela Perry, Bowling Green
Megan Carter, Kent State
Katie Shumate, Kent State
Amani Burke, Ohio 
 
Women's Basketball MAC All-Defensive Team
Theresa Onwuka, Buffalo 
Micaela Kelly, Central Michigan
Areanna Combs, Eastern Michigan
Lindsey Thall, Kent State
Cierra (Cece) Hooks, Ohio

Women's Basketball MAC All-Freshman Team
Sydney Freeman, Ball State
Dyaisha Fair, Buffalo
Molly Davis, Central Michigan
Katie Shumate, Kent State
Nila Blackford, Kent State 
Peyton Scott, Miami