Catawba press release

 Catawba College grad student guard Lyrik Thorne was named to the Division II Conference Commissioners Association All-America first team, the organization announced Tuesday morning. Thorne is the first in Catawba women’s basketball program history to receive first team All-America honors and the first in the SAC since Anderson’s Alexy Mollenhauer in 2020.

Thorne adds first team All-America honors to an impressive trophy case in her final season in a Catawba uniform, also earning D2CCA Southeast Region Player of the Year, South Atlantic Conference Player of the Year and the league’s Defensive Player of the Year this season.

Thorne scored a region-high 19.3 points per game en route to leading Catawba to a SAC regular season title and its second consecutive year hosting the NCAA Southeast Regional as the top-seeded team.

The High Point native wrapped up her Catawba career as the program’s all-time leading scorer with 2,169 career points, ranking her fifth all-time in league history. She is just the second player in program history to be named to an All-America team, joining Dana Hicks, a 2012 DII Bulletin Third Team All-American.

Thorne will graduate from Catawba’s sports management graduate program this spring.