PORTLAND, Ore. --- For the second straight year, Portland Pilots senior forward Natalie Day landed on the All-West Coast Conference First Team, while guard Kari Luttinen was voted to the league’s all-freshman team. Day ranks second in the conference in scoring and has scored in double figures every game this season.
 
BYU’s Kristen Riley was named the WCC Player of the Year, Pepperdine senior Jazmine Jackson is the Defensive Player of the Year, and BYU freshman Lexi Eaton and Gonzaga redshirt-sophomore Haiden Palmer are the Co-Newcomers of the Year. San Diego’s Cindy Fisher is the Coach of the Year.
 
Day is averaging career bests of 18.0 points and 7.9 rebounds per game, has recorded six double-doubles and is shooting 50.5 percent from the floor. The native of Germantown, Md., became a 1,000-point career scorer earlier this year and she currently ranks 12th all-time at UP with 1,277 career points. She has season-highs of 28 points, which matches a career-high, and 19 rebounds. The 19 boards against Montana were the most by a Pilot in a single game since 1998. Day was the WCC Player of the Month for November, and she was named the league player of the week three times.
 
Luttinen has thrived since being inserted into Portland’s starting line-up against Saint Mary’s on Jan. 12. Since then, the Seattle, Wash., is averaging 8.8 points per game, reached double figures in points six times and scored a career-best 13 points three times. Luttinen also has three games with at least five rebounds, which includes a career-high six boards against San Francisco.
 
Next up for the Pilots is a trip to the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas, Nev., for the 2012 WCC Championships. Portland, which received a first-round bye and is the No. 7 seed, will face No. 6 seed Santa Clara on Thursday at approximately 2 p.m.
 
2012 ALL-WCC HONORS
Coach of the Year: Cindy Fisher, San Diego
Player of the Year: Kristen Riley, BYU
Defensive Player of the Year: Jazmine Jackson, Pepperdine
Co-Newcomers of the Year: Haiden Palmer, Gonzaga; Lexi Eaton, BYU
 
2012 ALL-CONFERENCE TEAM
Name, School, Hgt., Pos., Year, Hometown
Dominique Conners, San Diego, 5-8, G, Sr., Oceanside, Calif.
Alex Cowling LMU, 5-11, G/F, Rs-Jr., Benicia, Calif.
Natalie Day, Portland, 6-0, F, Sr., Germantown, Md.
Jazmine Jackson, Pepperdine, 5-9, G, Sr., Oakland, Calif.
Katelan Redmon Gonzaga, 6-1, G/F, Sr., Spokane, Wash.
Kristen Riley, BYU, 6-3, F, Sr., San Clemente, Calif.
Jasmine Smith, Saint Mary’s, 5-8, G, Sr., Pinole, Calif.
Kayla Standish, Gonzaga, 6-2, F, Sr., Ellensburg, Wash.
Haley Steed, BYU, 5-4, G, Sr., Syracuse, Utah
Morgan Woodrow, San Diego, 6-0, F, Sr., Fremont, Calif.
 
HONORABLE MENTION
Rheina Ale, USF; Lauren Bell, PEP; Alex Carbonel, SMC; Amy Kame, USD; Lindsay Leo, SCU; Jackie Nared, SMC; Haiden Palmer, GON; Alyssa Shoji, SCU
 
2012 ALL-FRESHMAN TEAM
Name, School, Hgt., Pos., Hometown
Lexi Eaton, BYU, 5-10, G, Mapleton, Utah
Carli Rosenthal, Saint Mary’s, 6-3, F, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho
Kari Luttinen, Portland, 5-10, G, Seattle, Wash.
Sunny Greinacher, Gonzaga, 6-4, F, Essen, Germany
Taj Winston, San Francisco, 5-10, G, Long Beach, Calif.