.@mikaylablakes is the 2025-26 SEC Player of the Year
2️⃣7️⃣.1️⃣ ppg
3️⃣0️⃣.5️⃣ ppg in SEC
4️⃣.6️⃣ ast per game
2️⃣.9️⃣ stl per game
1️⃣2️⃣ 30-pt games
1️⃣3️⃣th Player to win both SEC POY & SEC FOY in their career
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For just the sixth time in League history and the first time since 2013-14, the same school has won SEC Coach of the Year, Player of the Year AND Freshman of the Year.
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No freshman in women’s college basketball had ever put together multiple 50-point games. That changed in 2024-25 when Vanderbilt guard Mikayla Blakes rewrote the record books. She finished ninth in the nation in scoring at (23.3) points per game, the highest average of any freshman in the country.
Blakes piled up 769 points in her first season — the ninth most ever by a freshman — putting herself on a path to not only become Vanderbilt’s all-time leading scorer but potentially the first player in program history to reach 3,000 career points.
She closed her freshman year playing her best basketball, averaging (28.1) points, (3.9) assists, and (1.9) steals over her final eight games. Heading into her sophomore season, Blakes is already among the top guards in the nation.