Hoisington Named GNAC Player of Week
Senior Forward is Second Straight Falcon to Collect Conference Hoops Honor
Megan Hoisington is the GNAC women's basketball Player of the Week.
2/8/2010 1:12:45 PM
SEATTLE – Senior forward Megan Hoisington, who tied her career scoring high and set a career high for blocked shots to help 19th-ranked Seattle Pacific beat Northwest Nazarene last Saturday, has been named the Great Northwest Athletic Conference women’s basketball Player of the Week.
Hoisington (Bremerton, Wash./Central Kitsap HS) pumped in 17 points in the come-from-behind 63-62 victory against the Crusaders in Brougham Pavilion. That matched her total from a 74-62 victory against Humboldt State in November.
She also had six blocked shots on Saturday, beating her previous total of five that she set just last month when the Falcons beat Saint Martin’s, 80-54. In addition, Hoisington grabbed 15 rebounds against NNU, one shy of her career best.
Hoisington finished the week with 30 points (she had 13 in last Thursday’s 60-43 win at Central Washington), 22 rebounds and seven blocked shots.
This is the second straight time a Falcon has been named Player of the Week. Senior forward Sydney Benson was honored last week.
While this is Hoisington’s first Player of the Week award, she already has been named to three all-tournament teams this winter. She picked up those honors in the season-opening Sodexo Tip-Off Classic at SPU in November, in the GNAC-Pac West Classic in early December at Nampa, Idaho, and in the GNAC-CCAA Challenge in late December at Bellingham.
The Falcons (17-3, 8-1 GNAC) have just one game this week, playing host to Western Oregon on Saturday at 2 p.m. Seattle Pacific beat the Wolves in the conference opener on Jan. 9 at Monmouth, Ore., 75-62.