CONWAY, Ark. - On Saturday, Riley Brady was named both the 2025-26 SCAC Player of the Year and the SCAC Defensive Player of the Year by the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference.

Brady entered this weekend's SCAC Tournament among the league leaders in several statistical categories including first in total rebounds, rebounds per game, and free throws made and sits second in total points, points per game, and seventh in field goal percentage. Her 384 rebounds to date established a new SCAC record for rebounds in league history in her first season in the conference, including the top three performances of all time (31, 30, 29). Her current average of 18.3 rebounds per game would also set the new SCAC standard for rebounds per game in a single season.

Offensively, Brady reached the 20-point plateau in seven of her 21 games played, highlighted by a conference best 38 points on February 6th in a win over Centenary, which also tied the program's single-game mark. Her 20 double-doubles this season not only led the SCAC but is currently seventh in all of NCAA Division III. On the glass, Brady leads both the SCAC and all of NCAA Division III with 7.7 offensive rebounds per game. The Week 13 SCAC Offensive Player of the Week, Brady's selection as POTY represents the fourth time a Hendrix College student-athlete has won the award following Lauren Turnbow (1996-97; 1997-98) and Meg Frazier (2000-01).

Brady received 10 votes from the coaches and sports information directors in the Player-of-the-Year balloting.

She is also the 2025-26 recipient of the SCAC's Elite 19 award for women's basketball, the conference's highest honor that recognizes "the best of the best" within each conference-sponsored sport as it relates to both academic and athletic achievement.