Six Baylor WBB Players Collect Seven All-Big 12 Honors

IRVING, Texas – Baylor women’s basketball was listed with seven Big 12 honors, as announced by the conference office on Tuesday afternoon.

Darianna Littlepage-Buggs headlined the release for the Bears with a first-team recognition, and Yaya Felder was named Sixth Player of the Year, while Sarah Andrews and Aaronette Vonleh had a second-team placement. Bella Fontleroy and Jada Walker were given honorable mention, and Fontleroy received a second nod on the All-Defensive Team.

As the only player averaging double-figure rebounds in the Big 12 Conference, and one of 27 across Division I, Littlepage-Buggs was named to the All-Big 12 First Team for the first time in her career. The junior was named All-Big 12 Honorable Mention in her first two seasons of collegiate ball, with a spot on the 2023 All-Rookie Team as the unanimous Freshman of the Year.

Littlepage-Buggs contributed 14.3 points per game in 26 regular-season games with 11 double-doubles. The Oklahoma City, Okla., native posted 18 games with double-digit points, 17 with double-digit rebounds, and put together a 20-point, 20-rebound game against UNLV, the first for a Bear since 2022. This season, Littlepage-Buggs was named Big 12 Player of the Week once, scored her 1,000th career point at Houston in February and is one of two players across Power Four conferences with eligibility remaining to average a double-double.

Felder becomes Baylor’s seventh recipient of the Sixth Player Award, the first since Queen Egbo and DiJonai Carrington went back-to-back in 2020 and 2021. The Hartford, Conn., native is the only player in the Big 12 Conference to come off the bench with double-digit points and leads the Bears in 3-point percentage at .392 with 47 makes.

Heading the scoring efforts for BU in 18 games, 16 of those off the bench, Felder had a season-high 20 points in The Bahamas in Baylor’s loss to Indiana, sinking five threes, to put herself on the 2024 Battle4Atlantis All-Tournament Team. Across the three-game event, Felder shot 69.2% from behind the arc with 14 points per game.

Earning her fourth all-conference honor, Sarah Andrews got a nod to the Second Team for the second-straight and third overall season. The fifth-year senior set the Baylor program and Big 12 record for career games played and took the No. 1 spot in BU history for three-pointers made. This season, Andrews led the Bears with 74 made threes and averaged 10.8 points per game. Her 153 assists (4.94 per game) are second-most on the roster while crossing the 100-rebound mark for the third season in her career.

A transfer from Colorado, Vonleh’s first season in the Big 12 ended with an All-Conference Second Team distinction. Vonleh tabbed 22 games with 10 or more points and had four double-doubles, two coming in the last week of the regular season against a pair of top-15 foes. The West Linn, Ore., native’s 428 points off 186 field goals leads the BU roster for this campaign with a season-best outing at K-State, scoring 24 points with 12 boards, three blocks and a pair of steals.

Fontleroy picked up her second and third conference honors on Tuesday with a placement on the All-Big 12 Defensive team and an honorable mention nod. The junior leads the Bears with 36 blocks on the season and led the team in steals 12 times, with a two-time season high of five against Utah and Iowa State at Foster Pavilion. Fontleroy is one of five Bears with over 100 rebounds tallied and averaged 9.5 points per game. The Springfield, Mo., native had a career outing against Cincinnati with seven 3-pointers and 29 points, while playing in a career-most 39 minutes against the Utah Utes.

Walker, the playmaker for BU in 2024-25, led the team with 31 minutes per game, 174 assists and 46 steals, ranking third in the Big 12 and 10th in the nation in assists. In her second year as a Bear, Walker scored 339 points for 10.9 a game and had 85 makes from the charity stripe on 114 shots (.746). The Richmond, Va., native has the second-best assist-to-turnover ratio in the league at 2.60 and boasted a career-high 12 dimes against Utah while leading the roster 16 times in that category.

The Bears await their opponent in the Phillips 66 Big 12 Championship at the T-Mobile Center in Kansas City after earning the double-bye to advance straight into the quarterfinal round. Facing either Arizona State, Cincinnati or Iowa State, tipoff for BU’s championship opener is set for Friday evening at 5:30 p.m. with live coverage on ESPN+ and the Baylor Sports Media Network.

2025 Baylor All-Big 12 WBB Yearly Award Winners

Sixth Player of the Year

• Yaya Felder, Baylor

All-Big 12 First Team

• Darianna Littlepage-Buggs, Baylor

All-Big 12 Second Team

• Sarah Andrews, Baylor
• Aaronette Vonleh, Baylor

Honorable Mention:

• Bella Fontleroy, Baylor
• Jada Walker, Baylor

All-Big 12 Defensive Team

• Bella Fontleroy, Baylor