Jami Tham and Shanika Peterkin of Barton Named Women’s Basketball Weekly Award Winners
GREENVILLE, S.C. – Jami Tham and Shanika Peterkin of Barton have earned the weekly honors in Conference Carolinas women’s basketball for the week ending Jan. 30.
Tham was selected as the Player of the Week, while Peterkin earned Defensive Player of the Week accolades.
A senior center from Arlington, Virginia, Tham averaged 13.7 points and 9.3 rebounds per game last week in leading the Bulldogs to a 3-0 mark with three league wins. She opened the week with 12 points and five rebounds with two assists, one steal and one block in a win over Erskine and followed that with 11 points and eight rebounds with four assists and two blocks in a win over North Greenville. Tham finished the week with an 18-point, 15-rebound performance against Belmont Abbey in a 68-67 road victory. She shot 49 percent (17-of-35) from the field and went 1-for-4 from the 3-point arc while converting on all six of her free throw attempts. This is her third weekly honor and her second Player of the Week award.
Peterkin, a senior center from Virginia Beach, Virginia, averaged 12.3 points and 6.7 rebounds on the week to go with six total blocks, seven steals and eight assists. In the win over Erskine she blocked two shots, had two steals, dished out four assists and have three rebounds to go with 10 points. Against NGU she scored 17 points with 13 rebounds (eight defensive) with one block and two steals. She ended the week with 10 points and four rebounds (three defensive), three blocks, three steals and four assists against Belmont Abbey. This is her fifth weekly award (fourth Defensive Player of the Week).
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2021-22 Conference Carolinas Women’s Basketball Weekly Awards
Week 1 (Nov. 15, 2021)
Player of the Week: Jazmin Allen, Emmanuel
Defensive Player of the Week: Keyanna Spivey, Belmont Abbey
Week 2 (Nov. 22, 2021)
Player of the Week: Shanika Peterkin, Barton
Defensive Player of the Week: Jami Tham, Barton
Week 3 (Nov. 29, 2021)
Player of the Week: Jami Tham, Barton
Defensive Player of the Week: Shanika Peterkin, Barton
Week 4 (Dec. 6, 2021)
Player of the Week: Trinity Lee, King
Defensive Player of the Week: Shanika Peterkin, Barton
Week 5 (Dec. 13, 2021)
Player of the Week: Jazmin Allen, Emmanuel
Defensive Player of the Week: Tolisha Walker, North Greenville
Week 6 (Dec. 20, 2021)
Player of the Week: Destiny Robinson, Chowan
Defensive Player of the Week: Jada Richards, Francis Marion
Week 7 (Jan. 3, 2022)
Player of the Week: Ivanda Hudjakova, Mount Olive
Defensive Player of the Week: Shanika Peterkin, Barton
Week 8 (Jan. 10, 2022)
Player of the Week: Demetria Bland, Chowan
Defensive Player of the Week: Shanika Peterkin, Barton
Week 9 (Jan. 17, 2022)
Player of the Week: Brittany Autry, Belmont Abbey
Defensive Player of the Week: Destiny Johnson, Lees-McRae
Week 10 (Jan. 24, 2022)
Player of the Week: Brittany Autry, Belmont Abbey
Defensive Player of the Week: Courtney Smith, UNC Pembroke
Week 11 (Jan. 31, 2022)
Player of the Week: Jami Tham, Barton
Defensive Player of the Week: Shanika Peterkin, Barton