IRVING, Texas – A pair of standouts from the American Athletic Conference landed on the 2022 All-America honorable mention team of the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association, as announced by the WBCA on Thursday night. UCF senior guard Diamond Battles became the first Knights player to claim All-America honors in program history, and Temple graduate forward Mia Davis earned a third straight All-America award (2020 and 2021 USBWA All-America honorable mention).
 
Battles, the 2022 American Player of the Year, joined Chariya Davis (1998-99) and Kristy Burns (1995-96) as UCF recipients of a conference player of the year award, with the first two winners playing for the Knights during the program’s time in the Atlantic Sun. Battles also added the first league defensive player of the year honors for UCF since Celeste Hudson was tabbed the ASUN’s top defender in 2004-05. Battles averaged 13.9 points, 3.4 assists and 2.1 steals per game in 30 starts for American champion UCF this season, helping guide the nation's best scoring defense (47.8 PPG allowed).
 
Battles was a unanimous all-conference first team selection, the first all-conference nod of her career, in recognition of a stellar league season. Kay Kay Wright (2020) and Battles are the only two UCF players to earn a unanimous all-conference first team trophy in The American.
 
Davis secured a fourth straight all-conference first team award, the only player in the history of The American to accomplish the feat, after leading the league with 18.8 points per game and a 48.5 percent field goal percentage in 28 starts. Davis tallied six double-doubles during the campaign and led Temple to the fourth seed in the American Women’s Basketball Championship.
 
Davis ended her standout Temple career second all-time on the conference career scoring list with 2,376 points.
 
2022 American Athletic Conference
Women’s Basketball All-America Teams
 
Diamond Battles, Sr., G, UCF (WBCA Honorable Mention)
Mia Davis, Grad, F, Temple (WBCA Honorable Mention)