Tori Jarosz & Paula Strautmane Earn Women's Basketball Weekly Awards
MAAC Sports
Player of the Week
Tori Jarosz, Marist
6Sr., C, 6-3, Cortlandt Manor, NY/Lakeland
The hot stretch continued for Tori Jarosz and the Marist Red Foxes as the team went 3-0 on the week and Jarosz reached two personal milestones. On Monday Tori Jarosz scored her 1,000th career point, as the Red Foxes beat the Saint Peter's Peacocks 69-46 for their fifth straight Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference win in a row. Jarosz finished the night with her 15th double-double of the year with 18 points on 5-for-13 shooting and 8-for-9 from the free throw line, 19 rebounds (two shy of the program single game record), six blocks, and two assists. Jarosz followed it up with another big performance to help the Red Foxes move into first place in the conference with a 66-37 win over Siena. Jarosz led the with 19 points on 6-for-13 shooting from the field and 7-for-8 from the free throw line along with 16 rebounds and six blocks. At 8:30 of the third quarter, Jarosz picked up her fifth block of the game and the 163rd of her career, breaking the all-time program record which was held by Diesa Siedel. To cap of the week Jarosz led Marist to another win, the team’s seventh in a row, as the Red Foxes downed Rider, 74-56. Jarosz secured her NCAA leading 17th double-double of the season putting up 13 points and pulling down 12 rebounds in just 19 minutes of play. For the week, Jarosz averaged 16.7 points per game, grabbed 15.7 rebounds per game, and swatted 4.7 shots per game averaging just 28 minutes of play.
Rookie of the Week
Paula Strautmane, Quinnipiac
Fr., F, 6-0, Mucenieki, Latvia/TTN Riga
Paula Strautmane averaged the most points and rebounds of any MAAC freshman last week as she led the Bobcats to a convincing 85-58 home win over Monmouth in the lone game for Quinnipiac on the week. Strautmane was a key piece in the 27-point victory as she recorded her first career double-double with 14 points and 10 rebounds while also chipping in two assists and one steal in 23 minutes of action. She was dominant in the first quarter, scoring 10 of her team-high 14 points in the first quarter alone. After not reaching double figures for the first 13 games of her career, Strautmane has scored 10+ points in two straight and four of the last six games overall. In those last six games, Strautmane is averaging 10.7 points and 7.8 rebounds in just 20.8 minutes per game.