“Doing Pretty Good” – Nestor Earns Player Of The Year Award

Saint Lucian Megan Nestor has been named Sooner Athletic Conference (SAC) Player of the Year for the 2024-2025 season. The 6-4 third-year pivot improved further from her breakout season in 2024, when she was named SAC Defensive Player of the Year and made the SAC All-Sooner Athletic First Team.

Playing for the Wayland Baptist University Flying Queens, Nestor amassed a league-leading 599 points in 30 games this season, adding 402 rebounds.

Her rebounding is on par, as she tallied an all-time school record 417 rebounds in 31 games last year. But her scoring has taken a major leap. She had 493 points in her sophomore year, and she has improved her average by nearly five points to 19.9 per game in 2025.

“To be honest, I feel pretty good about this season,” Nestor, a former national netballer, told St Lucia Times. “There is always more work to be done, improvements to be made. But for this year being just my second year officially playing basketball, I think that I am on the right track, and I am doing pretty good.

“It’s pretty exciting. For someone who had no basketball background to break records, like two years in a row, that’s like really something to be proud of. You know, you don’t get people doing what I’m doing right now, so it’s really special, to be honest. And I’m definitely looking forward to breaking my record for last year. And that’s like easy work for me. I just haven’t been crashing the boards hard these last two games. But getting back to Nationals, I’m looking forward to just crashing the boards and getting at least 15 rebounds.”

Nestor led six Flying Queens when the All-SAC awards were announced on Wednesday. The junior from Canaries shot 63.1 per cent from the floor, best in the SAC.

Kaylee Edgemon was the most recent Flying Queen to win SAC Player of the Year in 2022. Nestor added a second All-SAC First Team and SAC All-Defensive Team to her CV.

Although the Flying Queens are expected to be invited to the NAIA Tournament later this month, Nestor is already setting out her stall for next season. She’s also begun thinking about her life after college, as the possibility of the girl from a tiny fishing village becoming a professional basketballer is beginning to look very realistic.

“My goal for next season would be to get better, work on my game, expand my game a little more,” Nestor told St Lucia Times. “Also, win the conference tournament and Nationals. Those would be some of my goals for myself and my team. I would say another goal I have for myself is to break my own records, average 20 points and 14 rebounds.

“I have thought about [turning pro], but I’m just allowing God to do what He wants to do with me, and just following His lead, because I know He has a plan for me. He brought me here for a reason, so I’m just playing the waiting game right now, to see where I’m going after my senior year. But I know it’s on the table.”