Limestone's Lester Named Conference Carolinas Women's Basketball Player of the Week

Limestone's Lester Named Conference Carolinas Women's Basketball Player of the Week

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Limestone's Lester Named Conference Carolinas Women's Basketball Player of the Week

HIGH POINT, N.C. – Limestone College guard Maurissa Lester has been named the Conference Carolinas Women's Basketball Player of the Week for games played from Jan. 25-31, the conference announced today.

A senior from Marietta, Ga., Lester picks up her second Conference Carolinas weekly award after leading the No. 5 Limestone Saints to a 3-0 week. She averaged 20 points, 3.7 rebounds and four steals while shooting 63.4 percent from the field.

Lester started the week with 17 points and five steals in a 101-52 win against Southern Wesleyan, shooting 8-for-13 from the field. She would follow that performance up with 16 points on 7-for-9 shooting and five more steals in a 74-65 win over Barton. Her biggest showing came on national television in a 90-64 rout of Mount Olive. Lester would poured in 27 points on 11-for-19 shooting, including 3-for-5 from beyond the arc, and add two steals.

Lester ranks sixth in the conference with a 15.1 points per game average and second in total steals with 47.

Also nominated for Women's Basketball Player of the Week: Amy Van Deventer (King), Kianna Wynn (Barton), Brianna James (Converse), Myranda Parham (Erskine), Larisa Bishop (Belmont Abbey) and Arieal Johnson (Mount Olive).

 

2015-16 Women's Basketball Players of the Week
Nov. 16 – Jasmine Kearse (Limestone)
Nov. 23 – Kianna Wynn (Barton)
Nov. 30 – Maurissa Lester (Limestone)
Dec. 7 – Jasmine Kearse (Limestone)
Dec. 14 – Whitney Mitchell (King)
Dec. 21 – Ashley Albertson (King)
Jan. 11 – Jasmine Kearse (Limestone)
Jan. 19 – Gabrielle Bethel (Belmont Abbey)
Jan. 25 – Jasmine Kearse (Limestone)
Feb. 1 – Maurissa Lester (Limestone)