Cawthorn, Grimes and Larry named to All-OVC second team, Cawthorn All-Newcomer
EVANSVILLE, Ind. – On the eve of the 2026 Ohio Valley Conference Basketball Championships, the league has announced its All-OVC teams with the Tennessee Tech women’s basketball team collecting four total spots among three players as Reghan Grimes, Chloe Larry and LaReesha Cawthorn all making the All-OVC Second-Team roster, while Cawthorn was named to the All-Newcomer Team.
By Thomas Corhern, TTU Athletics Media Relations
EVANSVILLE, Ind. – On the eve of the 2026 Ohio Valley Conference Basketball Championships, the league has announced its All-OVC teams with the Tennessee Tech women's basketball team collecting four total spots among three players as Reghan Grimes, Chloe Larry and LaReesha Cawthorn all making the All-OVC Second-Team roster, while Cawthorn was named to the All-Newcomer Team.
Grimes, a senior guard from Nashville, ended the season with 352 points scored – an average of 13.5 per game – and 169 rebounds (6.5 per game). She led the team with 73 assists, while also recording 12 blocks and 43 steals. Grimes had five double-doubles this season to finish her career with eight.
Grimes had a season-best 29 points at Eastern Illinois, while recording a career-high 13 rebounds in the Education Day game against Samford.
She finished 11th in the conference in scoring, 10th in rebounding, 11th in assists, sixth in free-throw percentage, 10th in steals, 11th in offensive rebounds and 10th in defensive rebounds.
Larry, a sophomore guard from Bossier City, La., completed the campaign with a team-high 368 points scored – a 13.6-point per game average. She also had 105 rebounds, 64 assists, six blocks and 38 steals.
She posted a career-high 28 points at Tennessee State and a season-best eight rebounds at Southern Indiana.
Larry ranked ninth in the conference in scoring, fifth in free-throw percentage and seventh in 3-pointers made.
Grimes and Larry were both named OVC Preseason Players to Watch.
Cawthorn, a freshman forward from Franklin, Ky., scored 285 points (9.8 ppg) and pulled down a team-best 291 rebounds (10.0 rpg). She led the team in blocks (39) and steals (54), while also dishing out 15 assists. Cawthorn recorded nine double-doubles this season – already putting her 21st in program history.
The freshman standout also broke the NCAA freshman single-game rebound record against Eastern Illinois, pulling down 27 boards on Feb. 7 – tying her with three eventual WNBA players in Aneesah Morrow (DePaul, 2021-22), Jillian Alleyne (Oregon, 2012-13) and Anriel Howard (Texas A&M, 2015-16). It was the fourth-most in a single game in program history and the most in 50 years since Pam Cassity collected the top eight rebound performances all in the 1975-76 season.
She was the top rebounder in the conference, edging out SIUE's Syanne Mohamed and OVC Player of the Year Mia Nicastro from Western Illinois – both of whom had 283 total rebounds. Cawthorn ranked first in the OVC in blocks, first in offensive rebounds and eighth in the conference in steals.
Cawthorn earned five OVC Freshman of the Week honors and two OVC Player of the Week accolades this season.
In addition to Nicastro as the Player of the Year, SIUE's Kiyoko Proctor was named the Freshman of the Year, WIU's Addi Brownfield and Morehead State's Laura Tofalli were named the co-Defensive Players of the Year and WIU head coach JD Gravina was named the OVC Coach of the Year.
Photo | Thomas Corhern, TTU Athletics Media Relations
