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Layla-J Cameron & Shorna Preston

Layla-J Cameron & Shorna Preston Earn NJCAA DI Women's Basketball All-American Honors

April 10, 2025

The awards continue to come in for the Dodge City women's basketball team after an historic season that saw the team finish 31-5 winning KJCCC and Region 6 titles along with making the Final Four of the NJCAA Division I National Tournament. 
 
Sophomores, Layla-J Cameron and Shorna Preston have both earned NJCAA DI All-American honors making them only the fourth and fifth Conquistador women's basketball players to earn the award. With both Cameron and Preston earning All-American honors it marks the first time in program history with multiple All-Americans in the same season. Cameron earned second-team honors and Preston earned honorable mention honors. 
 
Cameron averaged 14.1 points per game on 43.3% shooting and 33.5% from three-point range while leading the team in free throw shooting at 86.4%. She added five rebounds, 3.5 assists, and 1.7 steals per game. Cameron ranked fourth in the NJCAA in free throw percentage, along with ranking in the Top five in KJCCC in points per game, field goals made, free throw percentage, assists per game, total assists, and total points. The sophomore earned first-team KJCCC All-Conference honors this season after being named second-team as a freshman. Cameron holds the record for best three-point shooting goal percentage in a single season shooting 48.1% during her freshman year. She also caps her Conq career ranking Top 10 several stats in school history – second in career free throw percentage (83.5%); third in career field goals made (308), single-season three-pointers made (76), and career three-pointers made (139); fourth in single season free throw percentage (86.4%); fifth in career points (882), career assists (210), and career three-point field goal percentage (40.1%); ninth in single-season assists (125). 
 
Preston led the Conqs in scoring at 14.7 points per game shooting 52.1% from the field and 32.1% from three-point range. She added 10 rebounds per game to average a double-double and recorded 20 double-doubles on the season, adding 3.5 assists, 3.2 steals, and two blocks per game. Preston ranked fifth in blocks (71), sixth in steals (114), and eighth in the NJCAA in total rebounds (361). She led the KJCCC in blocks and blocks per game and ranked in the Top five in KJCCC in points per game, field goals made, field goal percentage, rebounds, assists, steals, along with rebounds, assists, steals, and blocks per game. The sophomore was selected first-team KJCCC All-Conference and earned Defensive Player of the Year in the conference while earning Region 6 and National Tournament All-Tournament teams. She caps her Conq career as the career blocks leader with 144 and record holder for single-season steals (114) in school history while ranking in the Top 10 in several other stats in school history – second in career rebounds (593) and career field goal percentage (51.4%); third in career steals (156), single-season rebounds (361), and single-season field goals made (203); fourth in single-season blocks (73) and career field goals made (299); sixth in single-season blocks (71), career assists (207); seventh in single-season points (529); eighth single-season assists (126); tenth in career points (770).
 
Cameron and Preston give the Conqs three NJCAA All-Americans under Head Coach, Landon Steele and give the program five overall, while giving Conq athletics 219 NJCAA All-Americans all-time.