Saint Lucian Megan Nestor was Player of the Year and also named First Team All-Region when the National Christian College Athletic Association (NCCAA) announced its 2025 Women’s Basketball All-Central Region Team on Wednesday.
Nestor, a junior pivot from the village of Canaries, adds the NCCAA nod to her Sooner Athletic Conference (SAC) Player of the Year title. She averaged 19.9 points per game and 13.4 rebounds per game while shooting 63.1 per cent from the floor this season. Nestor led the SAC in points per game and field goal percentage and was second in rebounds per game.
Also from Nestor’s Wayland Baptist University Flying Queens, Kaitlyn Jerden was named First Team All-Region and coach Jason Cooper was named Co-Coach of the Year.
Jerden, a graduate student from Littlefield, TX, averaged 17.1 points per game, shooting 46.5 per cent from the field and 38.8 per cent from the three-point line along with grabbing an average of 4.7 rebounds per game. She was 4th in the SAC in points per game (17.1) and 3rd in field goal percentage (.465). Jerden was also selected First Team All-SAC this season.
Cooper led the Flying Queens to 25-4 regular season record and a conference mark of 21-3, good for a second place finish in the Sooner Athletic Conference.
The Queens are in Ashland, Oregon for the first round of the NAIA National Tournament, presented by Ballogy. The seventh-seeded Flying Queens will face 10-seed Carroll on Friday in Ashland, Oregon.
The NCCAA is an association of Christian universities, colleges, and Bible colleges in the United States and Canada whose mission is “the promotion and enhancement of intercollegiate athletic competition with a Christian perspective.”
