McIntyre Named Commonwealth Player Of The Week
Junior Earns The Third Weekly Award For Alvernia
2/1/2010 2:34:19 PM
Reading, Pa. (Feb. 1, 2010) - Junior guard
Kelli McIntyre (Orwigsburg, Pa./Blue Mountain) was named the Commomwealth Conference Player of the Week as announced by the conference on Monday afternoon. This is the third weekly conference award for Women's Basketball after sophomore
Angela Altemose (Pottsville, Pa./Nativity) earned the award twice (12/1, 1/4).
McIntyre returned to action for the Crusaders on Jan. 2 after joining the Army and sitting out the fall portion of the season. Since Jan. 2nd McIntyre has started every game except for one and averaged 15 points. This past week she averaged 21 points per game, while scoring her 1,000th career point at Neumann (1/28). She had three steals in each of the three games this week and added three blocks at Moravian (1/26).
Alvernia posts a 9-7 record, 5-3 in the Commonwealth Conference and will return to action when they travel to Arcadia for a conference game Wednesday evening at 6:00 p.m.