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Swarthmore's Larsen Named Player of the Week

Swarthmore's Larsen Named Player of the Week

Elle Larsen, Swarthmore
Senior, Forward, 6-0
Lancaster, Pa. / Hempfield

Larsen recorded a double-double by scoring a career-high 30 points and grabbing 14 rebounds at Ursinus on Tuesday. She ended the week leading the Conference in
scoring (21.6 ppg) and rebounding (9.8 pg) while also ranking among the league leaders in field goal percentage by shooting 51.0 percent from the floor.

 

Notebook:

Last week against Johns Hopkins, Franklin & Marshall’s Sarah Haddon posted a career-high 26 points to go along with nine rebounds in 38 minutes of action. She went 10-for-14 from the floor (71.4 percent) and was 6-for-7 from the free throw line.

Gettysburg junior Jessica Porter posted 18 points and a career-high 14 rebounds in Gettysburg's 49-41 win at Dickinson last Tuesday. Porter canned all eight of her free throw attempts and she pulled down nine offensive rebounds. It was Porter's second consecutive double-double after going without a double-double in her last 25 games.

 

Previous Weekly Award Winners:


November 24, 2014
Jacquelyne Pizzuto, Haverford
Senior, Guard, 5-3
Belle Mead, N.J. / Rutgers Preparatory School

As the Fords trailed the No. 8 Scranton Royals by 20 points with 12:46 remaining, Pizzuto scored 10 of her 16 points down the stretch as Haverford cut its deficit to five in the waning moments of a close loss. She finished the night with six assists, four rebounds and a steal while also becoming the program's all-time record holder in assists. In Haverford's Centennial Conference win over Dickinson, Pizzuto was all over the stat sheet. She registered 14 points, seven rebounds, five assists and three steals against the Red Devils.

 

November 17, 2014
Lindsey Nichols, McDaniel
Junior, Guard, 5-9
Wilmington, Del. / St. Mark's

Nichols led the Green Terror to the McDaniel Tipoff Tournament championship. She averaged 22.0 points per game and shot 45.5 percent from the field and 62.5 from beyond the arc. Nichols tallied a then-career best 19 points in Saturday's 79-47 win over Penn State-Harrisburg before bettering that total with 25 points in a 74-59 win over Mount St. Vincent on Sunday. She added 11 rebounds on Sunday for her first collegiate double-double.