By LUCIA BARRANTES VEGA
Sports Reporter

On Tuesday Faith Simpson was named to the All-American First Team honors for the D2CCA.

With this she becomes the first Lady Rangers basketball player and also first Northwestern player to earn First Team All-American in the Division II era.

Simpson was one of two Great American Conference players to earn All-American as Hannah Giddey from Southern Nazarene earned honorable mention All-American.

In her last season she earned All-Central Region Player of the Year, Central Region First Team, GAC Player of the Year and GAC All-Conference First Team.

During the 2023-2024 season she also added 6x GAC player of the week, D2CIDA National Player of the Week, led the conference in scoring, top 3 in the nation in PPG, first in field goals made and top three in all of DI and DII.

Simpson also scored 1000 points in her two seasons at NWOSU.

Faith Simpson shooting a free throw during GAC Tournament. Photo by NWOSU Athletics.