CLEVELAND, Ohio – After helping the Cleveland State women's basketball team to one of its best seasons in program history, junior Destiny Leo has been named a Mid-Major Honorable Mention All-American by World Exposure Report.
Leo adds the All-American honor to a list of achievements from the 2022-23 campaign that also includes Horizon League Player of the Year, First Team All-League and #HLWBB Tournament MVP. Leo becomes the second player in program history to earn All-American status.
During the 2022-23 season, Leo led the Vikings to a program-record 30-5 overall mark, including a Horizon League Tournament title and NCAA First Round appearance. Throughout the year, Cleveland State received votes in multiple USA Today/WBCA Coaches and Associated Press Top-25 polls, while also ranking in the top-five in the College Insider Mid-Major poll.
Leo led the Vikings and the Horizon League averaging 17.9 points per game, recording 628 total points on the year as one of just four Vikings all-time to eclipse the 600-point mark in a single season. Leo notched 14 20-point games throughout 2022-23, including a 25-point effort at Villanova in the NCAA Tournament, finishing the year ranked 11th on the CSU Scoring List with 1,433 career points.
A large part of Leo's offense on the season came from behind-the-arc, as she converted 90 three-pointers to tie the CSU Single-Season record and rank among the top-20 Division I players for the year. After her first three seasons in the Green & White, Leo currently sits at the top of the CSU Career Record Book with a .389 three-point field goal percentage, while ranking third with 214 total three-pointers on her career.
Leo was also one of the nation's top free throw shooters this season, finishing the year with a CSU Single-Season record clip of .911 from the stripe. This mark currently ranks her seventh among Division I players (with 60+ more attempts than all six players above her), while her 164 made free throws on the year also ranks among the top-20 individual performances. Following her third year at Cleveland State, Leo currently holds the CSU Career Record with a .903 free throw percentage.
Leo and the Vikings also set CSU Single-Season team records for Total Points (2,592), Total Rebounds (1,461), Blocked Shots (138), Wins (30), Winning Percentage (.857), and Consecutive Wins (16).
In her first three seasons at Cleveland State, Leo has helped the Vikings to a pair of 20-win campaigns, three straight postseason appearances, back-to-back #HLWBB Championship games, and the program's first-ever postseason title (2021 WBI).
Leo joins fellow Horizon League members Lindsey Duvall (Northern Kentucky) and Lilly Ritz (Youngstown State) on the honorable mention team.
