K-State’s Heal, Sides Earn All-Big 12 Honors
Mar 03, 2026 | Women's Basketball
MANHATTAN, Kansas – K-State women's basketball saw a pair of players named among the All-Big 12 squads, as the league office announced the 2025-26 Phillips 66 All-Big 12 Women's Basketball Awards on Tuesday.
Senior guard Tess Heal was named to the All-Big 12 Third Team, while junior guard Taryn Sides was an All-Big 12 Honorable Mention recipient.
This is the 11th straight season K-State has had two or more players earn All-Big 12 honors.
Heal collected all-conference honors for the third time in her career, as she was a two-time All-West Coast Conference First Team selection before earning All-Big 12 Third Team honors this season. Sides garnered her first All-Big 12 honor.
A guard from Melbourne, Australia, Heal led the Wildcats in scoring in Big 12 games as she averaged 15.5 points per game while shooting 53.1 percent from the field, 40.9 percent from beyond the arc and 87.5 percent from the free throw line. In league-only games, Heal ranks 13th in the Big 12 in scoring, fourth in field goal percentage and third in free throw percentage. She reached double figures in 13 of the 15 league games she played in.
At Houston, Heal registered her season-high with 31 points and set the single-game school record for points by an international player.
Overall, Heal is third on the team in scoring with 11.2 points per game on a 49.2 percent effort from the floor, including 36.4 percent from beyond the arc, and is shooting 86.1 percent from the foul line. She ranks second in the Big 12 in free throw percentage. Her free throw percentage ranks third in K-State history for a career.
Sides has paced K-State in scoring for the duration of the season at a career-best 12.2 points per game while shooting 42.9 percent from the field, including 40.1 percent from 3-point range, and 84.4 percent from the foul line. She is second on the team and 12th in the Big 12 in assists per game at 3.8. She leads the Wildcats and is ninth in the Big 12 for 3-point field goals made per game at 2.16.
She has established career season-highs for points (379) and assists (118). Her 118 assists are tied for eighth in program history for a junior season. Sides joins Kindred Wesemann (2015-16) as the only two players in a junior season to register 100 or more assists and 65 or more 3-point field goals made.
K-State, the 12-seed, is set to face 13-seed Cincinnati in the first round of the 2026 Phillips 66 Big 12 Tournament at 11 a.m., in T-Mobile Center in Kansas City, Missouri.
The game will air on ESPN+ and can be heard online at kstatesports.com, on the K-State Sports app and the flagship stations of K-State women's basketball in Manhattan, Sunny 102.5 and 1350 KMAN.
Senior guard Tess Heal was named to the All-Big 12 Third Team, while junior guard Taryn Sides was an All-Big 12 Honorable Mention recipient.
This is the 11th straight season K-State has had two or more players earn All-Big 12 honors.
Heal collected all-conference honors for the third time in her career, as she was a two-time All-West Coast Conference First Team selection before earning All-Big 12 Third Team honors this season. Sides garnered her first All-Big 12 honor.
A guard from Melbourne, Australia, Heal led the Wildcats in scoring in Big 12 games as she averaged 15.5 points per game while shooting 53.1 percent from the field, 40.9 percent from beyond the arc and 87.5 percent from the free throw line. In league-only games, Heal ranks 13th in the Big 12 in scoring, fourth in field goal percentage and third in free throw percentage. She reached double figures in 13 of the 15 league games she played in.
At Houston, Heal registered her season-high with 31 points and set the single-game school record for points by an international player.
Overall, Heal is third on the team in scoring with 11.2 points per game on a 49.2 percent effort from the floor, including 36.4 percent from beyond the arc, and is shooting 86.1 percent from the foul line. She ranks second in the Big 12 in free throw percentage. Her free throw percentage ranks third in K-State history for a career.
Sides has paced K-State in scoring for the duration of the season at a career-best 12.2 points per game while shooting 42.9 percent from the field, including 40.1 percent from 3-point range, and 84.4 percent from the foul line. She is second on the team and 12th in the Big 12 in assists per game at 3.8. She leads the Wildcats and is ninth in the Big 12 for 3-point field goals made per game at 2.16.
She has established career season-highs for points (379) and assists (118). Her 118 assists are tied for eighth in program history for a junior season. Sides joins Kindred Wesemann (2015-16) as the only two players in a junior season to register 100 or more assists and 65 or more 3-point field goals made.
K-State, the 12-seed, is set to face 13-seed Cincinnati in the first round of the 2026 Phillips 66 Big 12 Tournament at 11 a.m., in T-Mobile Center in Kansas City, Missouri.
The game will air on ESPN+ and can be heard online at kstatesports.com, on the K-State Sports app and the flagship stations of K-State women's basketball in Manhattan, Sunny 102.5 and 1350 KMAN.
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