The Bishop Guilfoyle girls basketball team celebrated a PIAA Class A championship on March 21. It's April now and the honors are still pouring in from around the state.

On Tuesday, the Associated Press named Alli Williams the Class A player-of-the-year for helping lead the team to its fifth title in school history. Coach Mark Moschella was also honored for his efforts as he was named coach-of-the-year.

"I always look at this honor as a compliment to the coaching staff and how hard the team worked," Moschella said.

The 5-foot-11 Williams, who was a freshman when BG won the state title two years ago, averaged 19.1 points per game this season for the Lady Marauders. This is Moschella's third state title of his coaching career. He guided Guilfoyle to a 30-1 record this past season.

"I never expected to get such an award. It feels like a great accomplishment," Williams said.

Elsewhere, the biggest names in girls high school basketball have built such good reputations in different corners of the state that they'll be playing at major college programs in different parts of the country over the next few seasons.

But Stephanie Holzer, Markel Walker, Kerri Shields, Kayla McBride and Maggie Lucas are all in one place for now - the top of the AP girls all-state basketball teams.

Cardinal O'Hara's Holzer, a Vanderbilt recruit, and Schenley's Walker, a UCLA signee, head up the Class AAAA first team, while Archbishop Carroll's Shields (Boston College) is the Class AAA player of the year.

Erie Villa Maria's McBride and Germantown Academy's Lucas highlight the Class AA picks.

The teams were chosen by a vote of the state's high school sports writers.

Holzer edged Walker for player of the year in Class AAAA. The 6-foot-4 Holzer averaged 17.9 points, 11.5 rebounds, 3.2 blocked shots and 2.9 assists for the Lions.

Holzer also was recently named the state's Gatorade player of the year and selected for the McDonald's All-American Game. However, Holzer, who has endured leg injuries throughout her career, broke her right ankle in the second half of the state championship game against Mount Lebanon with her team leading and won't play in the national all-star game.

Walker, a 6-1 guard-forward, will compete in the McDonald's game after averaging 26.3 points for Schenley, which finished second in the Pittsburgh City League. This is her fourth time on the all-state team but her initial turn on the first team.

Joining Holzer and Walker on the Class AAAA first team are Butler's Olivia Bresnahan, Peters Township's Emily Correal, West Chester Henderson's Shante Evans and Central Dauphin's Alyssa Thomas, a junior who is a repeat selection. She has committed to Maryland.

Correal finished her career with more than 1,800 points and 1,200 rebounds and will play at William & Mary. A Hofstra recruit, Evans was one of the state's top scorers at 28.5 points per game. Bresnahan established herself as one of the top talents in the WPIAL as just a junior and is already seeing recruiting attention.

Leading the Class AAAA second team are returning all-state picks Carmen Tyson-Thomas of Conwell-Egan and Kristen Blye of Downingtown East, along with Emily Miller, who keyed Mount Lebanon's run to a PIAA title and an undefeated season.

Mount Lebanon's Dori Oldaker, who took a Blue Devil team that entered the year devoid of stars all the way to the state crown, is the coach of the year.

Shields averaged 11.8 points and made 66 3-pointers, 24 in the postseason, while leading Archbishop Carroll to a 30-1 record that included two wins over Cardinal O'Hara. Only two of the Patriots' nine postseason wins were by single digits. Two of her teammates, Villanova-bound point guard Jesse Carey and fast-improving junior Tory Thierolf, also made the team.

Mars' Lily Grenci (Siena), Northeastern's Autumn Lau (St. Francis, N.Y.), Mercyhurst Prep's Kirsten Olowinski (Miami, Ohio) and Archbishop Wood's Ashley Robinson (Saint Joseph's) - all seniors with Division I scholarships - round out the Class AAA first team, along with Camp Hill Trinity junior Laura Murray.

Lau is the all-time leading scorer in the York-Adams Athletic Association with more than 2,200 career points.

Shields' younger sister, Erin, is on the second team, while Lau's twin, Amber, is on the third.

Carroll's Chuck Creighton is the Class AAA coach of the year.

McBride, who led Villa Maria to the PIAA championship, was chosen over Lucas, the top scorer on a Germantown Academy team that went 31-0, for the Class AA player of the year.

The rest of the first team includes two Division I signees - Dunmore's Lauren Carra (Delaware) and Academy of Notre Dame's Devon Kane (Villanova) - plus York Catholic sophomore Kady Schrann, a likely future Division I player who has starred in two PIAA finals.

Locally, in the Class A field, Northern Cambria's Breanna Kochinsky and Tussey Mountain's Rachel Zimmerman were named third-team all-stars. Kochinsky, a 5-foot-6 junior, averaged 16.7 points per game this year, while Zimmerman, a 5-foot-3 junior, netted 16.5 points per game.