[2022-2023 MIAA Women's Basketball Athletes of the Week: Week 1, Week 2, Week 3, Week 4, Week 5, Week 6, Week 7]

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association announced its eighth MIAA Women’s Basketball Athlete of the Week, presented by Shift Group, for the 2022-23 season.
 
MIAA Women’s Basketball Athlete of the Week – Brooke Littrell – Central Missouri       
Brooke Littrell has been named the Women’s Basketball Athlete of the Week for the third consecutive week. The redshirt sophomore helped No. 7-ranked Central Missouri up its winning streak to 13 straight games as the Jennies moved to 13-0 overall and 9-0 in the MIAA with wins at Washburn and at Emporia State. On the week, Littrell averaged a team-high 22.5 points per game with .520 percent shooting from the field and .570 percent from three-point range. She also went a perfect 13-of-13 at the free-throw line in UCM’s two games and averaged 5.5 rebounds and 2.0 assists per game. In the Jennies 67-53 win at Washburn, Littrell scored a game-high 27 points, going 9-of-15 from the field (60 percent) and 7-of-7 at the foul line while pulling down five rebounds and dishing out four assists. In UCM’s 80-64 victory at ESU, Littrell netted a team-best 18 points on 5-of-12 shooting and a 6-of-6 showing at the charity stripe. She also had six boards against the Hornets.
 
NOTABLE PERFORMANCES
Tre’Zure Jobe – Emporia State    
Tre’Zure Jobe averaged 23.0 points and 5.5 steals per game on .500 percent shooting from the field and .538 percent shooting from the three-point line last week. She totaled 16 points and eight steals with four rebounds and four assists in the Lady Hornets loss to Lincoln. She came back with 30 points, four rebounds and three steals in ESU’s loss to the seventh ranked Jennies. It was Jobe’s second 30-point game this season and with it she became just the seventh Lady Hornet to pass the 1,800-point mark in her career.
 
Britney Ho – Newman      
Britney Ho continued her impressive season of play last week, earning her third double-double this season, coming against her former school Northeastern State. The senior center scored 21 points and grabbed 11 rebounds in the 66-61 win over the Riverhawks. On the week, Ho averaged 20 points and seven rebounds over two games last week against Rogers State and NSU to bump her total points per game average to 17.6 and rebounds to 6.4 per game. Ho now ranks third in the MIAA in scoring, seventh in field goal percentage and 11th in rebounds.
 
Jaylee Kindred – Northeastern State     
Jaylee Kindred scored all six of the RiverHawks’ final points and had the go-ahead layup with six seconds remaining to beat Central Oklahoma 60-59 at home. The sophomore averaged 16.5 points in the two contests last week which included a career-best 21-point performance at home against Newman. Kindred had six blocks in the two games and averaged eight rebounds.
 
ALSO NOMINATED
Bailey Kliewer (Rogers State), Brionna Budgetts (Missouri Western), Natalia Figueroa (Washburn), Olivia Hollenbeck (Fort Hays State), Klaire Kirsch (Nebraska Kearney), Lacy Stokes (Missouri Southern), Karley Wadsworth (Central Oklahoma), Kelsey Mitchell (Lincoln)

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