BURNSVILLE, Minn. – For the second straight season, junior guards Kaely Hummel and Mariah Szymanski have been named to the All-Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference squad, according to an announcement by the league office Thursday (Feb. 28).

For the fourth time in their seven-year membership of the NSIC, USF has had two players named All-NSIC. This year, Hummel was named to the 12-member first team after earning second team honors a year ago. Szymanski was named to the 12-member second-team for the second straight year. The league MVP was Carrie Askvig of U-Mary and Karla Nelson of MSU Moorhead was league coach of the year.
 

Hummel of Cherokee, Iowa, and Szymanski of Pulaski, Wis., have led USF to a 22-7 record and into the NSIC Sanford Health Postseason Tournament quarterfinals where the Cougars will face Wayne State at 2:30 pm Saturday (March 2) at the Sanford Pentagon. The USF duo led the Cougars to a 16-6 regular season record and second place in the NSIC South. Additionally, they have played lead roles as the Cougars have tied an all-tie best nine-game winning streak.

Hummel ranks in the top seven in the NSIC in four statistical categories. She is sixth in the league in scoring at 15.6 points per game, fourth in free throw shooting at 85.5 percent, third with 2.4 threes per game and seventh in three-point percentage at 40.4 percent. Hummel has 63 career double-digit scoring games and 14 contests with at least 20 points. Fourteen times this season she has hit three or more threes in a game and has five on three occasions. She has 38 career games with at least three made treys and seven games with five or more triples. She set a career high with six treys against Augustana on Dec. 31, 2016. 

In USF's DII era, Hummel ranks second with 190 made three-pointers, which is fourth all-time overall at USF. She is third in the program's DII era in points and 16^th all-time at USF with 1,155 points. With 87 starts she is third in the DII era with 88 games played for eighth. Hummel has the second (462, 2017-18) and third (452, 2018-19) best scoring seasons in the DII era at USF.   

Mariah Szymanski has put together another standout season at USF. With her 23 points and six rebounds in the opening round of the conference tourney on Wednesday, Szymanski is averaging 9.9 points, 3.4 rebounds along with 2.8 assists per game.

 Szymanski, who averaged 10.7 points in the 22 league games, has registered 14 double-digit scoring games this year and has run her career total to 32. Szymanski, who has 765 career points, has 10 career games of 20 points or more with three in 2018-19. She had a season-high of 33 vs. Northern State on Feb. 8 in Aberdeen. With 21 games this season with a made three, she now has 57 career games with a three and 32 or more (10 this season) with two or more triples. In addition, she had her first career double double with 11 points and 10 rebounds in a 76-62 road win over Augustana on Feb. 22.