GALESBURG – The historic season for Knox College women's basketball continued on Thursday when the Midwest Conference released its all-conference first and second teams for the 2025-26.
Prairie Fire junior Bria Medina earned an honor never before achieved by a Knox women's basketball player, earning the conference's Player of the Year.
Medina led the league in scoring (24.2 points per game), free throw percentage (86.7 percent), made free throws (196), minutes (910), and minutes per game (36.4). She was also second in field goal percentage (47.5 percent), steals (69), steals per game (2.8), and total assists (103), third in assists per game (4.1), and fourth in assist-to-turnover ratio (1.1). Medina also set the Knox women's program all-time scoring mark this season and is 10th all-time in MWC scoring.
Medina was not the lone Prairie Fire to earn league honors.
Both Kylee Callahan and Nayeli Nidez Acuña were named to the league's second team.
Callahan was second in minutes (830), third in steals (63), and steals per game (2.5), fifth in field goals (132), field goal percentage (42.4 percent), assists (94), assists per game (3.8), and assist to turnover ratio (.9). She was eighth in points per game (11.8), defensive rebounds (115), defensive rebounds per game (4.6) and 10th in rebounds per game (6.3), offensive rebounds (46), and total rebounds (163).
Nidez Acuña led the league in field goal percentage (51.3 percent), was third in minutes (788), defensive rebounds (133), and defensive rebounds per game (5.3). She was also fourth in field goals (137), fifth in points per game (14.0), sixth in total rebounds (175), free throw percentage (74.7 percent), steals (50), and steals per game (2.5), seventh in rebounds per game (7.0) and free throws (71), and eighth in blocks (23).
The Knox women have a chance to add to those numbers Friday night when they play in the MWC Tournament semifinals, taking on Lawrence University at 7 p.m. If the Prairie Fire win, they advance to Saturday's 3 p.m. title game against the winner of Ripon and Cornell.
