Arkansas State’s Aundrea Gamble was named the Sun Belt conference’s player of the year while Head Coach Brian Boyer was named the Sun Belt’s Coach of the year, as announced by the league office today. Gamble was also named to the First-Team All-Conference squad, alongside fellow Red Wolf Khadija Brown-Haywood, while Brittney Gill was named to the Third-Team All-Conference squad.

This is the third straight year Gamble has won the the Sun Belt Conference Player of the Year award, something no one in the history of A-State women’s basketball can claim. Gamble finished the regular season averaging 18.4 points per game on 50.8 percent shooting from the field, and 33.7 percent from beyond the arc.

Gamble is 52nd in points per game, 57th in Field Goals Made with 202, and 66th in field goal percentage among active Division one players. Gamble is just the 15th player in program history to score over 1,000 points and haul in 500 rebounds for a career.

Gamble ranks fourth in points for a career at Arkansas State with 1,845. Gamble passed Julie Hagood (1,840) for fourth after scoring 16 in the season finale at Appalachian State. Gamble ranks fourth in assists with 450, just 23 off Crystal Service (473) for third. Gamble leads the field in free throws made for a career by a wide margin. Gamble is in first with 423, while the next closest is Amber Abraham with 243.

Boyer has now been honored as the Sun Belt Conference Coach of the Year for the fourth time during his illustrious career at Arkansas State. Boyer is the all-time wins leader in the SBC, and has guided the Red Wolves to a record 71-27 over the last three seasons, and back-to-back appearances in the WNIT. Boyer has now coached the Lady Red Wolves to three regular-season Sun Belt Conference championships.

Boyer helped to guide this years team to 19 SBC wins, something no other team in the history of the Sun Belt conference has ever done. Boyer has a career record of 296-227 at Arkansas State.

This is the second straight season Brown-Haywood has been named to a All-Conference team, but it is the first time she has been named to the All-Conference First-Team. Brown-Haywood was named to the All-Conference Third-Team last year.

After losing Jasmine Hunt, the team’s leading rebounder last year, to graduation Brown-Haywood stepped up in a big way. She complied her best season in the scarlet and black this year, finishing the season with 12 double-doubles. She hauled in a career high 18 rebounds in a win over ULL on 1/9/16, and scored a career high 31 points on 11-18 field goals in the season’s final game at Appalachian State.

Brown-Haywood finished the season as the team’s second leading scorer, averaging 17.7 points per game on 47.2 percent shooting from the field, and 39.2 percent shooting from three. She led the team in rebounds, averaging 9.3 rebounds per game.

Gill was named to an All-Conference team for the first time during her A-State career. Gill averaged 7.4 points per game on 40.3 percent shooting, and was a lockdown defender. She complied a total of 53 steals this season, which ranked third on the A-State team. Gill recorded three or more steals eight times this season. She also dished out 54 assists this season.

A-State will enter into this week’s Sun Belt Conference tournament as the one seed, after compiling a 19-1 record in league play. The Red Wolves will begin post-season play on Wednesday at 11:30 a.m. with a match-up against the eight seed Appalachian State. All Sun Belt tournament games can be found on WatchESPN.