Barton women's basketball lands four on post-season list #GoBarton

Four members of the Barton Community College women's basketball team were selected onto the 2024 Division I All-Jayhawk Conference/All-Region VI teams. 

Leading the Cougar selections was Vera Ojenuwa earning first-team honors. Sophomore Quezia Bertoni and freshman Vivian Onugha were named to the second team while Tatum Boettjer was named an honorable mention selection.

The four helped Barton to a 22-10 record, a fourth-place finish in the rugged Jayhawk Conference and a sixth straight semifinal appearance in the Region VI Tournament.

VERA OJENUWA – 1st Team
A freshman from Lagos, Nigeria, Ojenuwa was a consistent force all season long, ranking 15th in the KJCCC in scoring at 13.6 points per game and third in rebounding with 10.4 per game. 

Averaging a double-double per game, Ojenuwa reached double figure scoring in 24 of her 30 games played, including four games with at least 20 points or more. The freshman reached double-digit rebounds in 19 of her 30 games to finish with 311 rebounds for the program's eighth most in a single season while tallying a team high 16 double-doubles.

In conference play, the Arkansas University commit ranked 12th in league play at 14.0 points against Jayhawk opponents, with the sixth most 10.2 rebounds.

Tabbed as the week 10 KJCCC and NJCAA player of the week, Ojenuwa's career high performances helped Barton overcome an early season loss to Pratt scoring 28 points on 12-of-21 shooting while also corralling the program's fifth most single game rebound output of 23 boards.

QUEZIA BERTONI – 2nd Team
Bertoni, a sophomore from Sao Paulo, Brazil, was the Cougars court minder leading in assists and was the team's third-leading scorer on this season.

Bertoni led the Jayhawk conference in assists distributing 5.6 per contest while averaging 10.9 points, and 3.5 rebounds. The sophomore guard, shot a team-third best 41.5 percent from the field while adding 28 3-pointers, shooting at 28.3 percent from behind the arch. Bertoni was exceptional at the line finishing with the second-best free throw percentage in the KJCCC at 83.3 percent in rewriting the program's best single season charity stripe percentage. 

The guard finished with five-plus assists in 16 of her 32 games but none bigger than her record-breaking night against Labette Community College where Bertoni surpassed a 25-year program record dishing out 16 assists in 26 minutes.

VIVIAN ONUGHA – 2nd Team
A 6-foot-2, forward from Lagos, Nigeria, Onugha was Barton's second-leading scorer this season at 11.8 points per game. Overall, Onugha led the Cougars, shooting 50.3 percent from the field for the fifth best mark in the KJCCC and Region. Falling shy of averaging a double-double, the freshman ranked sixth in the league with 9.8 rebounds finishing second on the team to Ojenuwa's 10.4 boards per game.

Appearing in 32 games, Onugha accumulated the squads second most 13 double-doubles. A week 15 KJCCC player of the week recipient, Onugha posted double-figure scoring 20 times with double-digit rebounds in 18 games. 

Onugha had a career-high 29 points going 13-of-19 from the field on January 24th against Independence. She had seven games reaching 12 rebounds or more with a career-high 18 hauled in verse Cloud County.

TATUM BOETTJER – Honorable Mention
Boettjer, a sophomore from Derby, Kansas, was a constant outside nightmare for opponents.

Starting in 31 games, Boettjer was the fourth different Cougar to average double-figure scoring at 10.0 points per game.  

Boettjer recorded the program's third best single season output of 3-pointers made this year with 83. The 6-foot-2 forward finished 10th in the Jayhawk Conference in 3-point efficiency at 35 percent (83 of 237).

Knocking down four or more treys in nine different games this season, Boettjer's best outside performance came in her 21-point performance at Northwest Kansas Tech, hitting a career high seven 3-pointers on 7 of 14 shooting.