Green Bay women’s basketball players earn league honors
GREEN BAY – Earlier this week, the Horizon League announced the All-League Awards, and the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay women’s basketball team was represented in multiple categories.
Hailey Oskey was named All-League First Team, Bailey Butler was named the Freshman of the Year, Sixth Player of the Year and All-Freshman Team, while Maddy Schreiber was also named to the All-Freshman Team.
Oskey, a junior guard from Seymour, is the team’s leading scorer.
On the year, she’s averaging 13.1 points and 3.2 rebounds per game.
In 18 Horizon League games, Oskey scored in double figures 14 times and is averaging 14.2 points, 3.2 rebounds and 2.0 assists per game, while shooting 44.5% from the floor, 40.8% from beyond the 3-point arc, and 88.7% from the free-throw line.
In Green Bay’s season finale against Cleveland State, Oskey had a career-best 26 points and grabbed 5 steals, going 9-for-12 from the free-throw line.
Butler was named the Horizon League Freshman of the Week four times during the season, twice more than any other freshman in the league.
The South Wayne native averaged 5.9 points, 3.3 rebounds and 2.2 assists in 24.1 minutes per game.
Butler’s best game of the season came at Youngstown State Dec. 4 when she finished with 14 points, 6 rebounds, 2 assists and 2 steals.
Schreiber, a freshman forward from Appleton, played in all 24 games, starting 15.
She averaged 6.8 points, 4.2 rebounds and 1.3 assists per game.
Schreiber shot a team-high 49.6% from the field and was second on the team in 3-point field goal percentage at 38%.
Her best game came early in the season against Northern Kentucky when she nearly notched a double-double with 11 points and 9 rebounds.
The Horizon League Basketball Championships will begin March 1 and 3 at campus sites, with all 12 teams looking to advance to Indianapolis March 7-8 at the Indiana Farmers Coliseum.
Green Bay will host a quarterfinal game Thursday, March 3, at the Kress Events Center.
Every game of the tournament will be carried on ESPN networks, with the first three rounds of the women’s championship streamed on ESPN+ and the championship game broadcast on ESPNU.