RIO GRANDE VALLEY – The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) Vaqueros women's basketball team learned on Tuesday that Charlotte O'Keefe, Jalayah Ingram, Erin Maguire and Kayla Lorenz were named to the 2025-26 College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District Women's Basketball Team.  
 
Academic All-District selections are part of the Academic All-America program, which is the longest running and premier award for athletic and academic success across many levels of college sports. To be eligible, student-athletes must be at least a sophomore athletically and academically with a 3.50 cumulative GPA or better. Requirements to earn Academic All-District for women's basketball also include competing in 90% of the team's games or starting in at least 66% of contests. Select student-athletes who earn Academic All-District will advance to the national ballot for consideration to the Academic All-America teams, selected by CSC. 
 
O'Keefe, a senior forward studying finance from Overland Park, Kansas, is advancing to the Academic All-America ballot. She earned Southland All-Conference First Team and All-Defensive Team honors this season and was a three-time SLC Women's Basketball Player of the Week. O'Keefe was the only SLC women's basketball player to average a double-double this season – for the second consecutive year – as she produced 12.4 points and 13.8 rebounds per game to go with shooting 48% from the field, 83 assists, 44 blocks and 37 steals. 
 
O'Keefe led the conference in all rebounding categories and was ranked in the top 15 nationally in all four – second in rebounds per game (13.8), third in defensive RPG (9.7), sixth in total rebounds (399) and 13^th in offensive RPG (4.0). She was also first in double-doubles (17) and minutes per game (35.93), ranking 14^th and 20^th in the nation, respectively. 
 
O'Keefe leaves UTRGV as the program record holder in career rebounds (1,207), career blocks (146), single-season rebounds (400), and single-game rebounds (24) while ranking in the top 10 in career points (1,106), single-season blocks (44, twice), career field goals made (425), career field goal percentage (.437), career assists (240), career free throws made (194), and career games played (118). She is fourth in SLC history in career double-doubles (39) and fifth in career rebounds with two of the top 10 rebounding seasons in conference history. 
 
Ingram, a junior guard and marketing student from Pearland, Texas, is the SLC Newcomer of the Year and an All-Conference First Team selection. She led the team and was second in the SLC scoring 16.9 PPG. She was third in the conference with a team-best 137 assists (4.2 APG) and with 7.1 RPG. Ingram ranked fourth in the nation with 241 free throw attempts and fifth with 193 made free throws, which is a new single-season program record. Ingram scored 558 points in 2025-26, which is third-most in a season in program history, and she dished out the third-most assists in a season of any UTRGV women's basketball player. She shot 80% from the free throw line and 40% from the field while snatching 49 steals and recording 32 blocks in a stellar debut year with the Vaqueros. 
 
Maguire, a redshirt junior guard from Belfast, Ireland, transferred to UTRGV and made an immediate impact. She played and started in 33 contests, averaging 8.2 points and 3.2 assists per game. She shot 81% from the free throw line and 35% from the field as the team's No. 4 scorer and used her speed to help anchor UTRGV's tough defense. She had 34 steals and seven blocks and averaged 2.8 RPG. 
 
Lorenz led UTRGV in three-point shooting for the second consecutive season. The sophomore guard from Seattle made 49 threes in 2025-26 and shot 40.5% from behind the arc, which is the fourth-best single-season percentage in program history. She scored 5.8 PPG and was 18-for-19 from the free throw line this season. In just two seasons, Lorenz has already made two entries into the program record books with 105 career three-pointers, ranking 10^th, and a .363 career three-point percentage (105-289), which is tied for fifth all-time. 
 
The women's basketball team led the department with a 3.75 GPA in the fall 2025 semester. 

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