To the victor go the spoils.

After claiming the Pacific League championship, the Raymond Seagulls took home some top awards as league officials announced her All-League girls basketball team for the 2021 season.

After a spectacular junior season, Raymond guard Kyra Gardner was named the league’s co-MVP along with Ilwaco’s Erika Glenn.

Gardner averaged 23 points, 7.5 rebounds, 7.1 steals and 4.8 assists per game to win her second consecutive league MVP honor.

“As I think all who follow sports, primarily high school girls basketball, know how special of a player Kyra really is,” Raymond head coach Jason Koski said of Gardner, who was a first team all-state guard last season. “Since she was a little kid she has prepared herself basketball-wise to get to the level she is at. Natural athleticism helps, don’t get me wrong. She just genuinely has a highly committed competitive desire to excel at the game, which she does.”

Gardner scored 38 points in a season-opening thrashing of Ocosta and 34 in a triple-double performance against Forks on May 11. She was one steal away from recording three triple doubles in 12 games this season.

“As a coach at our level, she is a once in a career type of player to be around,” Koski said. “We have had other good players and MVPs, but she is truly the most skilled we have had so it has been a blessing to have her be in our program.”

Koski was honored as the league’s co-Coach of the Year with Ilwaco’s Ned Bittner. Koski guided the Seagulls to the league championship with a 10-1 league mark.

“I am honored that the coaches in our league have shown respect to myself and Coach Bittner as co-Coach of the Year,” Koski said. “Knowing Ned for many years he would probably say the same thing. As a coach, your results are only as good as the process your players are willing to work at. If they aren’t willing to do the work, hopefully more so in the offseason, it doesn’t matter how much the coach knows because they won’t have the skills to execute any plan.

“I tell our team each season that any postseason awards are actually team awards, because we all sacrifice something for others to shine. That is what being a part of a team has to do to be successful.”

In addition to Gardner, Raymond had one other player named to the league’s first team. After emerging as a consistent secondary scorer for the Seagulls this season, Raymond’s Karsyn Freeman was named to the league’s top squad as an eighth grader.

PHOTO BY LARRY BALE After emerging as one of the Pacific League’s top scorers this season, Raymond eighth grader Karsyn Freeman (24) was named to the league’s First Team on Friday.

Freeman scored in double-digits in 10 of Raymond’s 13 games this season, scoring a season-high 19 points against Northwest Christian on May 15.

Raymond freshman Kyndal Koski (6.6 ppg., 3.5 rpg., 2.5 apg.) and senior Hannah Miller (5.7 ppg, 6.4 rpg.) were named to the league’s second team, while North Beach junior Mady Eang was named to the Pacific League third team.

First Team

Kyra Gardner, jr., Raymond (MVP); Erika Glenn, sr., Ilwaco (MVP); Chloe Leverington, sr., Forks; Mylina Pluff, jr., Chief Leschi; Karsyn Freeman, 8th, Raymond

Second Team

Keira Johnson, fr., Forks; Tiana Ramsey, sr., Ilwaco; Grace Lee, 8th, Northwest Christian; Kyndal Koski, fr., Raymond; Hannah Miller, sr., Raymond

Third Team

Olivia McKinstry, soph., Ilwaco; Mady Eang, jr., North Beach; Juliana Fleming, soph., Ilwaco; Kadie Wood, soph., Forks; Ramona Gallegos, jr., Chief Leschi

Honorable Mention

Davina Anderson, jr., Ocosta; Elli Capps, soph., South Bend; Skyler Langston, jr., North Beach; Alexia Bradley, fr., Ocosta; Hannah Jewell, jr., South Bend; Annika Hollingsworth, fr., Ocosta; Adreyanna Butler, sr., North Beach; Kyra Neel, soph., Forks; Reece Williams, jr., South Bend; Mikayla Ness, soph., Ocosta

Coach of the Year — Jason Koski, Raymond; Ned Bittner, Ilwaco

Sportsmanship Award — North Beach

All-Academic Team

Forks — Chloe Leverington, Kyra Neel, Keira Johnson, Casadie Whorton

Ilwaco — Erika Glenn, Olina Dalton-Gilbertson, Julianna Fleming, Emily Hernandez-Ortega, Olivia McKinstry, Ione Sheldon, Zoey Zuern

NW Christian — Gretchen Stottlymyre, Becca Sowers, Mikayla Lanham

North Beach — Malia Cox, Kaci Osborne-Hansen

Ocosta — Ronni Graham

Raymond — Maddie Silvernail, Izzy Silvernail, Alia Enlow, Olivia Stigar, Kyndal Koski, Grace Busenius

South Bend — Makaylee Kuiken, Elli Capps, Blakeli Jerles, Hannah Jewell, Reece Williams, Mackenzie Kuiken, Dayna Estle