The past week featured several outstanding performances, including a pair of buzzer-beating game winners, a triple-double with blocks, numerous double-doubles, an 8-for-10 shooting performance from deep and a freshman tearing up the scoreboard.
The nominees are Filipa Barros from California Baptist, Southern Utah’s Brooklyn Fely, Saniyah Glenn-Bello of Harvard, Northern Iowa’s Ryley Goebel, Nikola Priede of Vermont and Francesca Schiro from Siena.
Below is a snippet of what each did this week. Vote for whom you think is most deserving of being named women’s player of the week at the bottom.
Filipa Barros – California Baptist
Barros had the best offensive game of anyone in the WAC this season as she poured in a career-high 32 points in the Lancers’ 83-55 win over UT Arlington. She went 8-for-10 from downtown and finished 9-of-12 from the field as she registered the highest point total in a game this season by anyone in the conference. Her 80% shooting from deep tied for the best mark in the nation from 3-point land in a game with at least 10 attempts. The guard also posted eight rebounds, five steals and two assists. CBU sits in first in the conference at 8-1.
Brooklyn Fely – Southern Utah
Fely averaged a double-double last week in two SUU wins with 19 points and 11 rebounds. She had a monster double-double with 26 points and 17 rebounds to lead the Thunderbirds to a 71-68 win over Abilene Christian to avenge a loss from two weeks earlier. The transfer from Umpqua Community College transfer also tallied 12 points, five rebounds and four assists in a 77-68 win over UT Arlington earlier in the week. The junior is averaging 12.1 points and 8.4 rebounds a game this season.
Saniyah Glenn-Bello – Harvard
Harvard trailed Brown 58-55 with 20 seconds left Saturday night. Cue Glenn-Bello. The senior guard hit not one, but two 3-pointers to lift the Crimson to a stunning 61-58 win over the Bears. The game-tying triple came with 15 seconds left, and the game winner dropped through the net as the buzzer sounded.
The Staten Island, N.Y., native came one point short of her career-high with 19 points and finished 5-for-7 from 3-point land. She added six rebounds and two steals. The win kept Harvard one game ahead of Brown in the Ivy League standings. Glenn-Bello opened the week by going 7-of-8 for 16 points in just 17 minutes in a 72-44 win over Yale.
Ryley Goebel – Northern Iowa
Goebel recorded the second points-rebounds-blocks triple-double in Missouri Valley history. She had 18 points, 14 rebounds and a Valley-record-tying 10 blocks in a 66-56 win at Drake. The senior shot 7-of-12 from the field and registered three steals. The Urbana, Iowa, native opened the week with nine points and nine boards in a 59-55 loss at Illinois State. She shot 64.7% from the floor for the week as the Panthers sit tied for third in the MVC.
Nikola Priede – Vermont
Priede capped off a 26-point, 10-rebound, five-assist, two-block performance with the game-winning, buzzer-beating bucket to propel the Catamounts to a 63-61 win at NJIT Saturday.
The senior poured in 21 points, 21 rebounds and two assists in a 69-47 win at Bryant two days earlier. The Latvian averaged 23.5 points, 11 rebounds, 3.5 assists and 1.5 blocks per game for the week to extend UVM’s win streak to six and to keep it in first place in the America East.
Francesca Schiro – Siena
Schiro recorded her eighth and ninth 20-point outings during her rookie campaign in a pair of home wins. She capped off the week with 24 points, eight assists, six rebounds and two steals in the Saints’ 69-65 overtime win over Canisius. She scored or assisted on 11 of Siena’s 15 points in OT. The freshman from New Jersey began the week with 23 points on 7-for-10 shooting, eight rebounds and seven assists in an 84-64 rout of Niagara. She averaged 7.5 assists and seven rebounds for the week.
Schiro is among the top freshman scorers in the nation and sits fourth at 17.3 points per game. She leads all scorers in the MAAC with 19.2 points per game in conference play.
