Youngstown State senior women’s basketball player Brandi Brown is one of five players voted Preseason All-Horizon League for the 2012-13 season, the conference office announced at its media day near Chicago on Monday.

Brown, a forward from Pomona, Calif., averaged 15.9 points and 9.3 rebounds last season for the Penguins as a second-team all-conference pick. She ranked seventh in the league in scoring and was sixth in rebounding while shooting 40.3 percent from the field. If she duplicates the numbers from her junior year, Brown will finish second in YSU history in career points and rebounds.

Brown was a Horizon League All-Newcomer Team selection as a freshman as she averaged 11.4 points and 10.6 rebounds. She was a second-team all-conference honoree as a sophomore when she led the Horizon League with 19.9 points per game and ranked fourth in rebounding with 9.2 per contest. That led to her being named the Preseason Horizon League Player of the Year prior to the 2011-12 campaign.

The four players joining Brown in earning preseason first-team all-league mentioning are preseason player of the year Kim Demmings (Wright State), Shareta Brown (Detroit), Shalonda Winton (Cleveland State) and Adrian Ritchie (Green Bay). Simone Law (Loyola) Lydia Bauer (Green Bay), Tabitha Gerardot (Valparaiso), Sami Tucker (Milwaukee) and Patrice King (Loyola) were named to the preseason second team.

In the preseason team poll, Youngstown State was picked to finish eighth. Green Bay received 25 of a possible 27 first-place votes and was picked to finish first with 241 total points. Detroit received two first-place votes and finished second in the poll with 210 total points. Wright State was a close third with 191 points, and a sizeable gap separated the Raiders from Loyola (152) and Cleveland State (123).