ATLANTA - Illinois Wesleyan University senior women's basketball standout Ava Bardic (Lincolnshire, Ill.-Stevenson) will represent the Titans at the Women's Basketball Coaches All-Star Game Saturday, March 21. It is the second straight year IWU has seen a student-athlete compete in the event. 

The all-stars were chosen by a committee composed of head women's basketball coaches of NCAA Division III programs, all of whom are members of the WBCA. All players were nominated by WBCA member coaches.

Bardic put together an incredible season for the Green and White, topping the team with 19.3 points per game. A unanimous First Team All-College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin selection, she reeled in D3hoops.com First Team All-Region 8 honors and was a CCIW Player of the Week pick. She shot 45.6 percent from the floor and hit a team-high 58 three-pointers. Bardic added 74 assists, 71 steals, and 14 blocks.

The 20 all-stars are divided into two 10-member teams for the game. Anne Crutchfield, former head coach of Emory & Henry University in Emory, Virginia, and Adrienne Shibles, former head coach of Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, will coach the teams.

The 2026 Women's Collegiate All-Star Game presented by the WBCA will be played at 1 p.m. ET, Saturday, March 21, preceding the NCAA Division III women's basketball national championship game in the Cregger Center on the campus of Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia.

Team Crutchfield
Zoey Buchan, University of Wisconsin-River Falls
Bri Frongillo, Emerson College
Stephanie Jean-Baptiste, SUNY Brockport
Mckenzie Matheny, Randolph-Macon College
Liv Monturo, Messiah University
Makenna Mummert, Elizabethtown College
Keimarya Rivera, Oglethorpe University
Maija Rice, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
Mary Schleusner, Washington and Lee University
Abigail Snyder, Southern Virginia University

 Team Shibles
Ava Bardic, Illinois Wesleyan University
Helana Chadwick, McMurry University
Caleigh Edwards, Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Colleges
Anna Fernandez, Calvin University
Natalie Gricius, Carroll University
Riley Hevelow, Lebanon Valley College
Janna Holley, California Lutheran University
Kayla Mackel, Colorado College
Samaree Perkins, Capital University
Julia Roth, Susquehanna University