SAINT PAUL, Minn.: Following a season where the UW-Superior women's basketball team won its fourth consecutive regular-season conference championship and advanced to the tournament title game, the Yellowjackets were rewarded with five individuals on the Upper Midwest Athletic Conference all-conference teams, the league announced Monday.
 
Heading the list, senior forward Hannah Norlin (Litchfield, Minn./Litchfield) captured UMAC Player of the Year and second-year head coach Zach Otto-Fisher picked up Co-UMAC Coach of the Year accolades. Norlin and junior guard Eva Reinertsen (Duluth, Minn./Homeschooled) were named first team all-conference, while Emily Carpenter (St. Peter, Minn./St. Peter) earned a place on the second team.
 
Senior forward Taylor Kane (Grand Rapids, Minn./Grand Rapids) and Norlin also were named to the UMAC All-Defensive Team, with Kane being the Yellowjackets' recipient of the Sportsmanship Award.
 
Norlin had a monster season in which she led the conference in no fewer than five statistical categories. She was tops in rebounds per game and total rebounds (9.4 and 244), defensive rebounds per game (7.0), made field goals (188) and double-doubles (12).
 
Norlin was named UMAC Player of the Week five times, USBWA Division III Player of the Week once and was twice placed on the d3hoops.com Team of the Week. The UMAC First Team honor is the third of her career. 
 
Reinertsen averaged 14.9 points and 6.1 rebounds per game while leading the conference in free-throw percentage (85.2). She tallied two double-doubles on the season and was picked as UMAC Player of the Week three times.

The 'Jackets' floor general, Carpenter was third on the team in scoring at 9.6 points per game, led the conference in assists and assists per game (142 and 5.3) and had an assist-to-turnover ratio of 2.41 to also lead the league.
 
Kane was a presence in the middle all year. Starting all 24 games she played, she averaged 5.9 points and 5.4 rebounds per game. She tied for team lead with 1.8 steals per game and blocked nine shots on the season.
 
Otto-Fisher's Yellowjackets outscored the opposition by 17.2 points per game while limiting teams to 56.9 points per game. As a team, the 'Jackets shot a conference-best 44.5 percent for the year and held opponents to just 28 percent. 
 
Otto-Fisher helped his team appear in the Division III West Regional Rankings for the first time in program history, reaching as high as the No. 6 this season.
 
Superior finished the season at 24-3, reaching the 20-win milestone for the fourth consecutive season.