Ramirez-Tejeda Chosen to Play in Beyond Sports/WBCA Senior All-Star Game

ATLANTA, Ga. - Emmanuel College senior guard Yuleska Ramirez-Tejeda (Cambridge, Mass.) has been selected to play in the Beyond Sports Women's Collegiate All-Star Game presented by the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA), as announced by the organization this afternoon.

A total of 18 players from across the country have been chosen to play in the exhibition contest by a committee of NCAA Division III head women's basketball coaches/WBCA members. The second annual Beyond Sports Women's Collegiate All-Star Game will be played at the Capital Center Performance Arena on the campus of Capital University in Columbus, Ohio on March 21 immediately preceding the NCAA Division III women's basketball national championship game. Tipoff is set for 5:00 PM ET.

The final two participants will be selected by fans from a list of five nominees. Voting is now open. Click here to access your all-star ballot at BeyondSportsTours.com. Fan voting ends at noon ET, Sunday, March 15. The final two all-stars will be announced March 15.

Ramirez-Tejeda, who is one of just three players from the Northeast Region (Tufts senior guard Erica DeCandido and Amherst senior guard Hannah Fox are the others) on the all-star game roster, earns the nod after averaging 19.3 points, 12.0 rebounds, 2.1 assists and 1.8 steals per game while shooting 48.5% (238-491) from the field during her senior season. She ranks first in NCAA DIII Women's Basketball in double-doubles (23), fifth in rebounds (347) and offensive rebounds per game (5.4), and 15th in points (559).

During her senior season Ramirez-Tejeda moved into third all-time at EC in career points (1,596) and second in rebounds (935) in just three seasons with the Saints.

This winter, the three-time Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) First Team All-Conference selection established a new Emmanuel single-season rebounding standard at 347 boards. The 2020 GNAC Player of the Year also owns the EC single-season scoring record with 626 points from the 2018-19 campaign.

Ramirez-Tejeda capped her senior campaign with 56 career double-doubles over just three seasons to rank sixth all-time for players with only three playing seasons and 31^st all-time among NCAA Division III women's hoopsters.

Here are the 2020 All-Stars:

Jordan Barth, Misericordia University
Anna-Sophia Capizzi, Haverford College
Erica DeCandido, Tufts University*
Hannah Fox, Amherst College*
Sheridan Hopkins, University of St. Thomas
Sydney Kopp, Depauw University
Macenzie Kraemer, Loras College*
Taylor Lake, University of Chicago
Olivia LeBaron, Buffalo State College
Jaysea Morgan, Webster University
Alexis Nall, Hanover College
Caitlin Navratil, Nebraska Wesleyan University
Victoria Pena, University of Texas at Dallas
Rebecca Prociak, King's College
Yuleska Ramirez-Tejeda, Emmanuel College
Devan Rimmer, Widener University
Makana Stone, Whitman College*
Madison Van Pelt, SUNY New Paltz

*still competing in the NCAA Tournament

The five nominees for the remaining two positions to be chosen by fans are:

Nicolette Conkin, Utica College
Meghan Foley, Gordon College
Alex Goslin, Springfield College
Laura Hamilton, Luther College
Kelly Williams, Randolph-Macon College

About the WBCA

Founded in 1981, the Women's Basketball Coaches Association is the professional association for coaches of women's and girls' basketball at all levels of competition. The WBCA offers educational resources that coaches need to help make themselves better leaders, teachers and mentors to their players; provides opportunities for coaches to connect with peers in the profession; serves as the unifying voice of a diverse community of coaches to those organizations that control the game; and celebrates those coaches, players and other individuals who excel each year and contribute to the advancement of the sport. Visit www.WBCA.org for more details about the Association.

About Beyond Sports

Beyond Sports is a world leader in foreign tours, study abroad programs, and international internships for college athletes. Since 2010, they've hosted more than 2,700 college athletes representing more than 600 different colleges and universities across the US and currently offer programs in 7 different countries around the globe. The Beyond Sports team includes former college athletes and college coaches who are passionate about "Connecting the World Through Sports!" For more information about Beyond Sports, visit www.beyondsportstours.com.