Faith Academy girls basketball announces all-district selections

CAPTION: Faith Academy girls basketball coach Harvey Vaughn’s squad had several players named to the all-district team. Staff photo by Jennifer Fierro

Several Faith Academy of Marble Falls girls basketball players were named to the All-District 4-3A teams for the 2025-26 season.

Faith competes in the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools.

First-team members are junior point guard Lilly Koziel and sophomore forward Layla Terrell. Koziel averaged 7.1 points, 5.1 assists and 1.8 steals per game and Terrell averaged 8.7 points and 10 rebounds per district contest.

Head coach Harvey Vaughn noted Koziel’s value to the team.

“I thought she did a good job as one of our two captains this season,” he said. “She did a really good job of leading the team and stepping up and taking a lot of the responsibility of getting the ball down the court and playing better and shooting better. She started to limit her turnovers as well. So that was huge.”

Terrell was at the top of the defense and put massive pressure on opponents to find ways around her.

“She just an extremely hard worker,” Vaughn said. “She probably is one of the hardest working players on our team day in and day out, game in and game out. Just has a lot of athleticism and is just really coachable, listens, wants to do well and really is improving at a rapid pace. Last year she didn’t play much at the end of the year because she was injured. She really worked hard in the spring and in the summer and all season long.”

Named to the second team is sophomore guard Olivia Kraenzel and junior post Megan Burrows. Kraenzel averaged 8.4 points, 4.1 rebounds, 2.8 assists and 2.1 steals per game, while Burrows averaged 4.6 points and 5.5 rebounds per contest.

Kraenzel had a reputation among the district members, the coach said.

“She also has a lot of responsibility on her as far as getting the ball down the court and creating an offense,” he said. “Teams really keyed on her more this year, made it a little more difficult for her to do what she wanted to do and made it more difficult for her to do what she does. But she fights through it, she’s got a lot of fire and passion, plays with a lot of passion and is just a great player for us.”

Vaughn called Burrows “another extremely hard worker.”

“A great young lady, just a pleasure to coach,” he said. “Like Layla, she really didn’t get to play last year because she had an injury. Those two are probably the two hardest workers on the team. They just stuck with it, I told them last year that if they keep doing what they’re doing, they’re going to be really good players for us, and they were. Megan is another example of just a good positive attitude matched up with hard work.”

Honorable mention went to sophomore guards Selby Sanchez and Cuyleigh Zimmerman. Sanchez averaged 2.9 points, 1.6 rebounds and 1.3 steals per game, while Zimmerman averaged 4.6 points, 3.4 rebounds,1.1 assists and 2.4 steals per game.

Sanchez could catch the ball from 10 or 12 feet, dribble, pull up and make that shot, which was helpful, Vaughn said.

“Selby progressed throughout the year,” he said. “She’s very coachable, very good player, team oriented. She works hard at practice, too. She started getting it on track in district. She started to play stronger for us, played really good defense for us, and took a starting role when district came about just mainly due to her deep defensive ability and just playing more aggressively on offense. She’s definitely making progress.”

Zimmerman’s speed was a weapon, the coach said.

“She’s probably our fastest player on the court, really aggressive at going for steals and taking the ball to the basket,” he said. “She was out in the front of our fastbreaks a lot of times, took the ball to the basket and converted. We’re just looking for her to continue to improve and get better for us next year.”