DENVER ? Hawai?i point guard Keisha Kanekoa has been named the Western Athletic Conference Women’s Basketball Player of the Week for Dec. 1-7. This is the first WAC Player of the Week honor of the season for Kanekoa.
The sophomore from Honoka?a, Hawai?i, led the Rainbow Wahine to their first wins of the season and a 2-1 record after averaging 18.0 points, 8.3 rebounds, 5.7 assists and 3.7 steals last week. She was 19-of-20 (95 percent) from the free throw line and 17-of-30 (57 percent) from the field over the three games. Kanekoa started the week with 16 points, seven rebounds, seven assists and five steals in a win over Utah Valley. In a 61-58 loss to Northern Arizona, she finished with 19 points, seven rebounds, five steals and four assists. She closed out the week with her first career double-double ? 19 points and 11 rebounds ? in a win against UC Irvine. She also added six assists. Kanekoa was named to the Arizona State Classic all-tournament team after averaging 19.0 points, 9.0 rebounds and 5.0 assists over the two games.
Other nominees included: Marisa Stotler of Boise State averaged 12.7 points and 5.3 rebounds on the week ... Fresno State’s Hayley Munro led the team to a win over No. 22 TCU with a career-high 23 points to go along with eight rebounds ... Yinka Olorunnife of Idaho had 20 points, 16 rebounds and two blocks in a one-point loss to Long Beach State ... Louisiana Tech’s Brietta Thomas averaged 11.5 points while leading Tech to a 1-1 record on the week ... Danisha Corbett of New Mexico State averaged 19.0 points, 6.0 rebounds and 3.5 assists as the Aggies went 1-1 last week ... Lydia Whitehead of Utah State led the Aggies with 21 points, six rebounds and three blocks in an overtime win over Eastern Washington.