ST. JOSEPH, Minn. – Senior Sophia Jonas, along with junior Megan Morgan and Kira Young of the College of Saint Benedict basketball team have earned honors as the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) released its end of the season basketball honors on Wednesday (March 3).

Morgan and Jonas were both named to the first team All-MIAC while Young was selected to the All-MIAC Playoff team. The trio led the Bennies squad to an overall record of 17-10 and 11-7 in the MIAC for the No.5 seed in the MIAC Playoffs. After a 68-64 MIAC playoff road win against Concordia, CSB advanced to the MIAC Playoff semifinals for the third straight year. The All-MIAC honor is the third-in-a-row for Jonas and first honor by Morgan. Young earned her first all-playoff recognition.
 
With Jonas and Morgan selection to the All-MIAC first team, St. Ben's has 82 honorees all-time in program history with Jonas becoming the 13^th three-time honoree.

In total, 18 players were named All-MIAC and eight received honorable mention distinction. All awards were nominated by and voted on by the 11 MIAC head women's basketball coaches and only statistics from MIAC contests were considered for conference honors. Jonas is among just 76 student-athletes in recorded MIAC history to be named to at least three all-conference teams. The MIAC also announced the All-Playoff Team for women's basketball, which included Young, who is one of nine players on the team as selected by playoff-participant head coaches.

 

Jonas averaged 11.2 points, 2.6 rebounds, 1.8 assists and a league-best 2.6 three pointers per game for first in the MIAC and 29^th in NCAA DIII. With 71 made three-pointers this season, she ranked first in the MIAC and 24^th in DIII. In 2024-25, she had 18 double-digit scoring games and has totaled 63 in her career. Twice, including a season-high 23 points on Feb. 12 against Macalester, Jonas scored 20 points in a game and finished her career with eight 20-point games in her career.

When she made five threes in the win over Macalester, Jonas became the MIAC's all-time career leader in made three-pointers. She finished her career with 264 career threes, passing the MIAC mark of 255 by Brooklyn Paulson of Saint Mary's during 2018-2023. Jonas also holds the MIAC season mark of 84 made threes in 2022-23 and her mark of 66 in league play that year is yet another three-point mark for the senior..

A senior accounting major from Hudson, Wis. (Hudson), Jonas finished with 1,154 career points (12th, all-time at CSB), became the 22^nd player in school history to reach 1,000 points. Against St. Catherine this year, Jonas had her career-first and only double double with 16 points and a career-best 11 rebounds. She recorded a career-high 26 points vs UW-River Falls on Nov. 16, 2023.

Against Saint Mary's on Dec. 10, 2024, Jonas recorded a career-best five steals. She has made six triples in a game four times in her career, including twice in 2023-24 (UW-River Falls, Minnesota Morris). Six times, she has had five assists in a game, including three times in the 2024-25 season. Jonas made three or more triples 12 times this year and 52 times in her career. Thirteen times, she made five or more threes in a game during her standout career. She started 92 games (103 played) and made 396-of-1,099 field goals for 36.0 percent, including the 264 threes on 762 attempts for 34.6 percent. She finished 98-of-129 from the foul line for 76 percent with 269 rebounds, 181 assists and 101 steals.

 

Morgan, an exercise, and health sciences major from Winona, Minn. (Cotter), averaged 11.9 points, 5.0 rebounds and 2.8 assists during the 2024-25 season. She scored in double-digits 17 times this season in 27 games and 30 times in her career.  This year Morgan, who had three games of 22 points,  made 101-of-251 field goals for 40.2 percent, which included 39-of-118 from three-point range for 33.5 percent. She knocked down 79-of-96 free throws for 82.3 percent, a mark that ranked second in the MIAC. In her career, Morgan, who has started 56 and played in 77 games, is 223-of-529 on field goals for 42.2 percent, which includes 78-of-229 for 34.1 percent from three-point range. She is 156-of-190 for 82.1 percent at the foul line.

Morgan has career marks of 680 points, 320 career rebounds, 150 assists, 21 blocks and 50 steals. Morgan, who has five career 20-point games, has scored 22 points three times this year including against Bethel on Jan. 8, St. Scholastica on Feb. 5 and Concordia-Moorhead on Feb. 8.  She also has career-high 26 points against St. Catherine on Feb. 17, 2024. Her career-high in rebounds is 10 three times and twice has double doubles. With seven assists against Carleton on Dec. 7, 2024, Morgan had her career best.

 

For the season Young averaged 7.1 points and 6.0 rebounds per game. In two playoff games, she had eight points and 14 rebounds in a 68-64 MIAC playoffs quarterfinal win over Concordia and 11 points and eight rebounds in a loss to Bethel in the MIAC semifinals.  

A junior from Hudson, Wis. (Hudson), Young has 444 points and 291 rebounds in her career. She recorded a career-best single game point total of 21 points against Bethel on Feb. 22, 2024. Against Concordia in the MIAC Playoffs on Feb. 25, 2025, she set a career-high with 14 rebounds, the most since the 2021-22 season (Carla Meyer, 14). Young, who has three career 20-point games, now has registered 20 career double-digit scoring games, including six of the final 10 games of the 2024-25 season. She recorded her only career double-double (10 points, 10 rebounds) against St. Olaf on Jan. 29. She has five double-digit rebound games this season.