SOUTH BEND – Junior guard Jewell Loyd was chosen as the recipient of both the Notre Dame Monogram Club Most Valuable Player and Woody Miller Player of the Year awards, it was announced Tuesday night during the 2014-15 Notre Dame Women’s Basketball Awards Banquet in the Joyce Center Fieldhouse.

In addition, four other Fighting Irish players received individual honors as part of the year-end celebration.

Other honorees at Tuesday night’s banquet (as chosen by a vote of their teammates) included: freshman forward Brianna Turner, who garnered the team’s Defensive Player of the Year honor; sophomore forward Taya Reimer, who was tapped as the team’s Most Improved Player; and senior guard/tri-captain Whitney Holloway, who took home the Spirit Award for the third time in her four seasons. In addition, junior guard Hannah Huffman was a repeat choice as the Rockne Student-Athlete Award from the Notre Dame Club of St. Joseph Valley.

The departing members of the senior class — Holloway and fellow tri-captain Markisha Wright — along with student manager Giuliana Figliomeni,  delivered poignant speeches about their careers at Notre Dame. Each played a key role in the most successful four-year run in program history, compiling a school-best 143-10 (.935) record and an average of 35.8 wins per season. In fact, prior to the arrival of the 2014-15 senior class, the school record for wins in one season had been 34 in 2000-01, a mark this year’s group topped all four seasons it wore a Fighting Irish uniform.

In addition, Notre Dame’s departing seniors helped the program post a 62-2 (.969) record in regular-season conference play (75-4, .949, against league opponents when counting conference and NCAA tournaments), while leading the Fighting Irish to three NCAA national championship game appearances, four NCAA Women’s Final Four berths, four conference regular-season titles (two in the BIG EAST, two in the Atlantic Coast Conference), and three conference tournament crowns (one in the BIG EAST, two in the ACC).

A senior video tribute and the always-popular season highlight video rounded out the evening’s festivities.

An enthusiastic crowd of approximately 700 fans was in attendance, as Notre Dame celebrated another successful season in what easily has become the golden age of Fighting Irish women’s basketball. Notre Dame amassed a 36-3 record this year, highlighted by a 22-game winning streak during the final three months of the season (tying the fourth-longest success string in school history). The Fighting Irish went on to earn their fifth consecutive NCAA Women’s Final Four appearance (seventh overall), becoming only the fourth program ever to make five Final Fours in succession. Notre Dame then defeated No. 3/4 South Carolina, 66-65 to advance to the NCAA championship game for the fourth time in five seasons (fifth all-time), becoming just the fourth program in NCAA Championship history to pull off that feat, and the third to play in four title games during a five-year period.

In addition, the Fighting Irish claimed their fourth consecutive outright conference regular-season title (second in as many seasons as a member of the ACC) with a 15-1 record, stringing together four outright league championships in a row for the first time in the program’s 38-year history. What’s more, Notre Dame was the first ACC women’s basketball program to earn consecutive outright regular-season titles since Duke in 2011-12 and 2012-13, and the first school from outside the North Carolina “Triangle” (Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill metropolitan area) to collect back-to-back outright ACC regular-season championships since 1995-96, when Virginia won the last of six in a row.