Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Year. Ann Meyers Drysdale Award. All-Pac-12. Second-team AP All-American. Those were among the many honors Aari McDonald earned as a junior. As a senior, she’s picking up where she left off.
After being named to the Ann Meyers Drysdale Award Watch List earlier this week, McDonald was named to the five-player AP Preseason All-America list on Thursday. It’s the first such honor for any Wildcat in program history, but it’s not something that McDonald is heavily focused on.
“It’s a humbling honor,” she said. “I’m blessed to be named an All-American and I will just continue to do my thing.