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Nicholls' Swift named Jersey Mike's Southland Conference Women's Basketball Player of the Week

FRISCO, Texas — Nicholls' Tanita Swift has earned this week's Jersey Mike's Southland Conference Women's Basketball Player of the Week award, the conference office announced Monday.  

Women's Basketball Player of the Week: Tanita Swift, Nicholls – Jr. – G – Birmingham, Ala. (Center Pointe HS) 

Swift hit seven of nine field goals and shot 8-11 from the charity stripe to pour in a game-high 22 points in the Colonels 76-61 win over Grambling. The junior from Birmingham, Alabama, shot 78 percent from the field, tallied three rebounds and one assist.

2024 Southland Conference Women's Basketball Players of the Week
Date Player of the Week
Nov. 11 Paige Allen, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi
Nov. 18 Tanita Swift, Nicholls

Southland weekly award winners are nominated and voted upon by each school's sports information director. Voting for one's own athlete is not permitted. To earn honorable mention, a student-athlete must appear on 25 percent of ballots.