Three Hokies, Taylor Emery, Regan Magarity and Dara Mabrey were included on the ACC's All-Academic Team the league office announce Friday morning. For Mabrey, a freshman it is her first inclusion while Emery is a two-time selection and Magarity earns the accolade for the third consecutive season.
Minimum academic requirements for selection to the All-ACC Academic Team are a 3.0 grade point average for the previous semester and a 3.0 cumulative average during one's academic career. Athletic achievements during the most recent season are also considered in selecting the All-ACC Academic Team.
The ACC Honor Roll, which recognizes all conference student-athletes with a grade point average of 3.0 for the current academic year, will be released in July.
Emery, a senior from Tampa, Florida became the program's first player to make the league's First Team earlier this week. She is third in the conference in scoring, averaging 18.7 points per game.
She set a new career best last night with her 35-point performance at the ACC tournament, nearly willing the Hokies to victory against Clemson, who took the game in overtime by a single point. In four career ACC tournament games, Emery has racked up 116 points, for an average of 29 per contest.
The shooting guard, who was accepted into the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine in Blacksburg is also the recipient of an ACC Postgraduate Scholarship.
In her two seasons with the Hokies, she has claimed earned All-Conference honors twice as well as All-Academic in both seasons. A season ago she was also included in the WNIT's All-Tournament Team. On the court, she has several school records, scoring 667 points in a single season in 2017-18 and becoming the fastest player to reach 1,000 career points, doing so in 55 contests.
The 35 points scored last night was the most for a Hokie in the competition, breaking her own record set last year and was the fourth-highest tally by any player in a game.
Magarity, a Second Team All-ACC selection in 2019, makes her third straight appearance on the Academic Team. The redshirt senior led the conference in rebounds at 12.9 per contest. Already the program's all-time leader in that category, she eclipsed the 1,000-rebound mark early in the season during the non-conference portion of the schedule. Her 399 total boards this season is a new program record, breaking her own mark from a season ago when she pulled down 357.
The Sweden native has tallied 21 double-doubles this season, second in the conference.
Earlier in the season she was honored as the league's Player of the Week for two fantastic performance leading the Hokies to two road wins, including dropping a career best 30 points at Boston College.
Mabrey, a freshman from Belmar, New Jersey has averaged 11.3 points for the Hokies, starting all 31 games. She earned All-Freshman Team accolades earlier this week for her play which includes shooting 45 percent from beyond the arc, the second-best mark in the conference.
She was named the ACC Freshman of the Week on Feb. 4 for her role in the Hokies' road victories at Pitt and Boston College where she averaged 24 points and knocked down 10 3-pointers.