DENVER - Seattle U's Kamira Sanders has been named Western Athletic Conference Women's Basketball Player of the Week for Nov. 13 through Nov. 19.
Sanders, a sophomore guard from Redding, Calif. (Enterprise HS), helped lead Seattle U to a pair of road wins over the weekend. On Friday night at UC Santa Barbara, she scored 13 of her 21 points in the fourth quarter as the Redhawks erased a 21-point deficit to post a 77-71 win. She also tied her career high in rebounds with nine and set a new career-high in assists with six. Sanders followed up that performance with 15 points and five assists in a 65-62 win at Pepperdine on Sunday afternoon. Two weeks into the season, she leads the WAC in steals at 3.5 per game, three-point shooting percentage at .500 and assist-to-turnover ratio at 1.2.
Other nominees included: Chicago State's Ines Mata Boix nearly averaged a double-double on the week, scoring 12.5 ppg and bring down 9.0 rpg in a pair of losses … Grand Canyon's August Touchard scored in double-digits twice on the week, posting 18 points at Cal Poly and 10 points at UNLV … NM State's Gia Pack recorded a pair of 18-point performances in games against UT Permian Basin and New Mexico, adding 15 rebounds against rival UNM … Utah Valley's Taylor Christensen averaged 15.5 points per game in losses at Portland and Oregon State.