Seward County's Avery Marchino Wins KJCCC Women's Basketball MVP Award

Avery Marchino, a sophomore guard from Yukon, Oklahoma, has been named the Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference Division 1 Women's Basketball Most Valuable Player for the 2025-26 season, the KJCCC announced March 12. The honor caps a breakout year for the Seward County Community College standout that included three separate Player of the Week recognitions and multiple performances that rank among the best in program history.

Marchino led the KJCCC averaging 20.6 points per game while also ranking fourth in the league with a 79.8% free throw percentage and seventh with 7.3 rebounds per game. Those numbers actually represent a slight dip from her pre-conference pace: entering KJCCC play, she was averaging 22.8 points and 7.7 rebounds per game after scoring in double figures in all six of Seward's non-conference contests.

The peak of her season statistically came in a 91-52 home demolition of Independence, when Marchino poured in a career-high 38 points on 15-of-27 shooting (55.6%) to go with eight rebounds, four assists, and two steals. The 38 points are tied for the fifth most in a single game in Seward County history. That performance earned her the KJCCC Division 1 Player of the Week for the third time in 2025-26, having previously claimed the award in weeks three and 13.

She did not stop there. In a week that straddled a road loss at Barton and a home win over Cowley, Marchino averaged 27.5 points, 8.5 rebounds, and 4.0 assists across the two games. Against Cowley she was nearly unstoppable, recording 30 points, 10 rebounds, and eight assists in a 104-55 victory. The KJCCC recognized those back-to-back efforts by awarding her the weekly honor again in Week 16, making it her second straight weekly award to close the regular season.

Earlier in the year, Marchino announced herself to the conference with a 57-point performance across two games at the New Mexico Junior College Classic. She finished with a then-career-high 33 points, seven rebounds, and three assists in an overtime loss to 11th-ranked New Mexico Junior College before adding 24 points, five rebounds, three assists, and three steals in a 52-point rout of Dallas College Cedar Valley.

The sustained excellence made her the first Seward County women's basketball player to earn a KJCCC weekly award since Zayla Tinner took the honor in the opening week of the 2021-22 season. Marchino's recognition also gave Seward three KJCCC weekly award winners across sports in 2025-26, joining volleyball sophomore outside hitter Mariana Silva and women's soccer freshman goalkeeper Caroline Benck.