Team
of
the Week Top player at each position last week
Jan. 14-20, 2001
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Nominations are due at 9:00 p.m. EST on
Mondays and should include games of the previous Monday through Sunday.
Only SIDs and coaches may nominate players.
Men
Pos.
Women
Kareem Brunson
Sophomore, Cabrini
G
Miriam Anthony
Senior, Lebanon Valley
Andy O'Brien
Sophomore, York (Pa.)
G
Rachel Horgen
Senior, Wheaton (Ill.)
Jeremy Veenstra
Sophomore, Calvin
F
Jennifer Olson
Junior, Benedictine (Ill.)
Robert Moore
Junior, Mary Hardin-Baylor
F
Alison Coleman
Freshman, Eastern Conn.
Derek Reich
Sophomore, Chicago
C
Vanessa Schley
Senior, UW-Eau Claire
Kareem Brunson
Brunson shot 21-for-26 from the floor for the week, including 14-for-15
from the field versus Eastern, setting a team record for single-game field
goal percentage. The sophomore also averaged nine rebounds.
Andy O'Brien
O’Brien led the Spartans to two wins
on the week. In the Spartans’ win against Goucher, O’Brien poured in 31
points, tying his career-high for the second time in three games. For
the week O’Brien tallied 56 points, shot 48.7% from the floor, and grabbed
22 rebounds.
Jeremy Veenstra
Veenstra scored a career-high 34 points along with 10 rebounds in Saturday's
95-85 victory against Hope, marking his 10th career double-double. Earlier
in the week, Veenstra scored 15 points and grabbed nine rebounds in a
77-68 loss to Albion.
Robert Moore
Moore stretched his streak 20-point
streak to 12 games, with a 29-point average and 64% shooting from the
floor. He leads the American Southwest Conference in scoring. Moore also
averaged 7.5 rebounds per game despite playing only 59 minutes in the
two games.
Derek Reich
Reich led No.
7 Chicago to a pair of UAA wins. In a 77-41 victory against NYU, Reich
scored 16 points in 18 minutes on 7-for-9 shooting from the field. He
then finished with 24 points, 14 rebounds, two steals, two assists, and
a blocked shot in an 81-68 win against Brandeis. He was 10-for-19 from
the floor in that win.
Miriam Anthony
Anthony had a career day against Albright,
with a career-high 10 steals and matching her season-best 19 points to help
setback the Lions 69-53. Anthony connected on 9-for-15 shooting and picked
up six rebounds and three assists. At Widener she dropped in 10 points on
4-for-8 shooting, and also picked up nine rebounds, five steals, and one
assist. For the week, she averaged 14.5 points, 7.5 rebounds and 7.5 steals.
Rachel Horgen
Horgen averaged 22.5 points and 5.5
rebounds per game in Wheaton's two CCIW wins last week, shooting 50% (16-for-32)
from the field and 40% (6-for-15) from three-point range. In a 50-47 win
against North Park Horgen scored 20 points with five rebounds, with three
three-pointers. She hit a three-pointer with a 1:32 left in the game to
break a 44-44 tie, giving her team the lead for good. On Wednesday she
helped paced the Thunder to a 61-49 win over North Central with 25 points,
including 15 points in the second half to help Wheaton overcome a 28-25
halftime deficit. She also grabbed six rebounds and hit three more three-pointers.
She held Cardinal standout Tracy Farrell to four points on 1-for-8 shooting.
Jennifer Olson
Olson led her team to a 1-1 record last week. In a non-conference win
against Concordia (Wis.) Olson had 31 points, 16 rebounds, 2 assists,
3 blocks and 5 steals. In a conference loss to Dominican she scored another
31 points, adding 13 rebounds, two assists, a block and two steals.
Alison Coleman
Coleman scored 30 points for the second time this year against Plymouth
State when ECSU avenged its only loss with a 97-74 win. Coleman had a
career-high 31 points and 12 rebounds -- one shy of her personal high
-- 6 assists, 6 steals, three blocked shots. She was 12-for-14 from the
foul line.
Vanessa Schley
Schley had a career night with 36
points and 12 rebounds in a road victory at No. 3-ranked UW-Oshkosh as
she hit 10 of 20 from the field and all 16 of her free throw attempts
to tie the conference records for free throws made and percentage in a
single game. She ran her string of consecutive free throws to 20 before
missing her first attempt against Whitewater on Saturday. Schley averaged
24.5 points and 7.5 rebounds for the nationally ranked Blugolds.
