Rider’s Makayla Firebaugh Sweeps Hercules Tires MAAC Women’s Basketball Weekly Awards
Rider’s Makayla Firebaugh Sweeps Hercules Tires MAAC Women’s Basketball Weekly Awards
Player and Rookie of the Week
Makayla Firebaugh, Rider
Fr., Winchester VA/James Wood
Firebaugh averaged 16.0 points and 7.0 rebounds per game this weekend in the Broncs' sweep at hOURglass Rival Monmouth. She began the weekend with a career-high 26 points and nine rebounds on Saturday, hitting 7-of-10 attempts from the floor and 6-of-8 from long range. She was also a perfect 6-for-6 from the free-throw line. On Sunday, she added six points, five rebounds, two assists and two steals. For the year, Firebaugh is averaging a team-best 10.3 points per game to go along with 4.5 rebounds per game.
About the 2021 Hercules Tires MAAC Men’s and Women’s Basketball Championships:
The MAAC Men’s and Women’s Basketball Championships return to New Jersey on March 9-13, 2021 at Jim Whelan Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City. To stay up to date on MAAC basketball, visit
http://maacsports.com/basketball and follow
@MAACHoops on Twitter.
About Time Out for Black Lives
Time Out for Black Lives aims to inspire and educate youth, athletes, families and fans. The initiative has an interactive website where coaches and student-athletes from MAAC basketball programs contribute their time and resources to read children’s books in entertaining videos, all focusing on Black culture, history, music and myths. The program comes as part of the MAAC’s
United for Justice campaign that was announced over the summer. For more information, visit
timeoutforblacklives.com.
About the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference:
With 11 institutions strongly bound by the sound principles of quality and integrity in academics and excellence in athletics, the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) celebrates its 40
th year of competition during the 2020-21 academic year. Current conference members include: Canisius College, Fairfield University, Iona College, Manhattan College, Marist College, Monmouth University, Niagara University, Quinnipiac University, Rider University, Saint Peter’s University, and Siena College.