{"id":108699,"date":"2026-02-08T22:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T22:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/108699\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T22:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T22:14:09","slug":"epc-basketball-all-star-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/108699\/","title":{"rendered":"EPC basketball all-star teams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has become a tradition for the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference to release the league\u2019s boys and girls basketball all-star teams just before kickoff on Super Bowl Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The league\u2019s coaches have voted Pocono Mountain\u2019s West KJ Coles and Liberty\u2019s Ava Kopetskie as the league MVPs. They will be honored at the PPL Center in between games of the EPC finals at Allentown\u2019s PPL Center. Both are the all-time leading scorers at their respective schools, although both of their teams were eliminated from the league tournament with quarterfinal-round losses on Friday night:<\/p>\n<p>EPC Boys Basketball All Stars<\/p>\n<p>1st Team<\/p>\n<p>KJ Coles \u2013 Senior \u2013 Pocono Mountain West (MVP)<\/p>\n<p>Blake Nassry \u2013 Junior \u2013 Parkland<\/p>\n<p>Jake Pukszyn \u2013 Senior \u2013 Liberty<\/p>\n<p>Noah Walakovits \u2013 Senior \u2013 Northampton<\/p>\n<p>Tiheed Wise, Jr. \u2013 William Allen<\/p>\n<p>2nd Team<\/p>\n<p>Alphy Deris \u2013 Senior \u2013 Dieruff<\/p>\n<p>Yariel Gonzalez \u2013 Junior \u2013 Allentown CCHS<\/p>\n<p>Logan Hahn \u2013 Senior \u2013 Nazareth<\/p>\n<p>Seth Hoderewski \u2013 Senior \u2013 Whitehall<\/p>\n<p>Gavin Kershner \u2013 Senior \u2013 Nazareth<\/p>\n<p>3rd Team<\/p>\n<p>Tyler Beck \u2013 Senior \u2013 Parkland<\/p>\n<p>Tae El-Bassiouni \u2013 Sophomore \u2013 Stroudsburg<\/p>\n<p>Parker McClary \u2013 Senior \u2013 Bethlehem Catholic<\/p>\n<p>Jacob Ross \u2013 Junior \u2013 Emmaus<\/p>\n<p>Brady Simock \u2013 Senior \u2013 Northampton<\/p>\n<p>Teddy Stiehler \u2013 Sophomore \u2013 Pocono Mountain West<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Ava Kopetskie with her teammates and coaches after becoming Liberty's all-time leading scorer in girls basketball. (Photo courtesy of Derek Bast)\" width=\"4606\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/TMC-L-Liberty-1.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"11125606\" \/>Ava Kopetskie with her teammates and coaches after becoming Liberty\u2019s all-time leading scorer in girls basketball. (Photo courtesy of Derek Bast)<br \/>\nGirls Basketball All Stars<\/p>\n<p>1st Team<\/p>\n<p>Aliyah Brame \u2013 Senior \u2013 Bethlehem Catholic<\/p>\n<p>Alexa Davis \u2013 Senior \u2013 Nazareth<\/p>\n<p>Gabby DeVita \u2013 Senior \u2013 Emmaus<\/p>\n<p>Ava Kopetskie \u2013 Senior \u2013 Liberty (MVP)<\/p>\n<p>Jayla Rosario \u2013 Senior \u2013 Dieruff<\/p>\n<p>2nd Team<\/p>\n<p>Leah Ault \u2013 Senior \u2013 Bethlehem Catholic<\/p>\n<p>Kam Gallis \u2013 Freshman \u2013 Bethlehem Catholic<\/p>\n<p>Aniya Holder \u2013 Senior \u2013 Dieruff<\/p>\n<p>Karly Leszcynski \u2013 Sophomore \u2013 Nazareth<\/p>\n<p>Gabby Wismer \u2013 Junior \u2013 Easton<\/p>\n<p>3rd Team<\/p>\n<p>Natalie Amato \u2013 Senior \u2013 Easton<\/p>\n<p>Isabella Hallal \u2013 Senior \u2013 Parkland<\/p>\n<p>Sara Kokolus \u2013 Senior \u2013 Freedom<\/p>\n<p>Aneri McGalla \u2013 Senior \u2013 Parkland<\/p>\n<p>Olive Whitney \u2013 Senior \u2013 Emmaus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It has become a tradition for the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference to release the league\u2019s boys and girls basketball&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,29375,305,726,432],"class_list":["post-108699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-high-school-basketball","tag-high-school-sports","tag-sports","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}