GREENVILLE, S.C. – The National Christian College Athletic Association (NCCAA) announced its 2023-24 Division I Women's Basketball All-Americans on Thursday and for the first time in program history, the MACU women's basketball team had two players selected to the First Team with junior guard Shy Christopher and senior guard Jaci Calavan collecting the esteemed accolade.

The backcourt tandem helped guide MACU to its seventh-straight 20-win season (excluding the COVID-19 impacted 2020-21 season where the Evangels played just 12 games) as Mid-America Christian wrapped up the year with a 22-9 overall record and qualified for its fourth consecutive NAIA Tournament.

Earning First Team honors for the second year in a row, Christopher wrapped up one of the best offensive seasons in program history for the Evangels as she closed out the campaign with 604 points (19.5 ppg) while shooting 226-for-456 (49.6 percent) from the field and went 131-of-180 (72.8 percent) from the charity stripe. Overall, the Jacksonville, Arkansas native finished second in the NCCAA in total points and sixth in scoring average to go with the second-most made field goals and the sixth-most made free throws.

Christopher also provided a stellar floor game for the Evangels, turning in 173 rebounds (5.6 rpg), 77 assists (2.5 apg) as well as 40 steals (1.3 spg).

On the whole, Christopher set multiple NAIA Era (2007-present) single season marks, including the fourth-most points, the fourth-best scoring average, the fourth-most made field goals, eighth-most attempted field goals, the fifth-best field goal percentage, the fourth-most made free throws and the fifth-most attempted free throws.

In only two years, Christopher is quickly approaching multiple NAIA Era career program records, currently owning marks in points (1112, 2^nd), points per game (18.8, 1^st), rebounding average (5.5, 7^th), made field goals (416, 2^nd), field goal attempts (843, 3^rd), field goal percentage (49.3, 3^rd), made free throws (248, 4^th) and free throw attempts (345, 3^rd).

It was a banner year for Christopher, earning the NCCAA Central Region Player of the Year honor while also being tabbed to the All-Sooner Athletic Conference First Team.

Receiving her second NCCAA All-American accolade after earning Third Team honors last season, Calavan also put together an incredible offensive season the Evangels.

The Stillwater, Oklahoma product wrapped up her final campaign with 526 points (17.0 ppg), while shooting 170-for-422 (40.3 percent) from the floor, 75-of-196 (38.3 percent) from three and 111-for-121 (91.7 percent) from the charity stripe. Calavan also wrapped up the year with 181 boards (5.8 rpg), 60 assists (1.9 apg) and 31 steals (1.0 spg).

On the whole, Calavan finished eighth in the NCCAA in points, 16^th in scoring average, made the third-most threes, the 10^th-most free throw makes and converted the 13^th-best three-point percentage to go with the second-best free throw percentage.

Calavan also made her mark in MACU's NAIA Era single season record book, turning in the eighth-most points, the 10^th-best scoring average, the 10^th-most made field goals, the 10^th-most field goal attempts, the seventh-most made three-pointers, the seventh-most three-point attempts, all the while finishing with the program record for single season free throw percentage.

Over the course of her two-year MACU career, Calavan wrapped up her tenure with the NAIA Era program marks in points (963, 8^th), scoring average (16.6, 4^th), rebounding average (4.7, 10^th), made field goals (292, 10^th), field goal attempts (736, 9^th), made three-pointers (140, 5^th), three-point attempts (362, 6^th), three-point percentage (38.7, 3^rd), made free throws (225, 6^th) as well as set the record for free throw percentage (88.2).