FRISCO, Texas — Northwestern State's Mya Blake has earned 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: Mya Blake, Northwestern State – Sr. – G –Stockton, Calif. (Edison HS)
Blake helped lead Northwestern State to a pair of weekend wins and its third straight victory to go 3-1 in Southland Conference play, its best start in nearly a decade. She averaged 17.5 points per game and despite being 5-5, she hauled in nine rebounds in each game. As a point guard, she also distributed 4.5 assists per game. Blake scored four points and dishing out an assist in the 12-0 run to finish out a 12-point win against Nicholls after the game was tied at 44-44. Mya contributed playing tremendous defense on Swift, the conference leading scorer and two-time player of the week, holding her to six points the final 28 minutes of action.
2024-25 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 |
| Nov. 25 |
Tanita Swift, Nicholls |
| Dec. 2 |
Nora Francois, New Orleans |
| Dec. 9 |
Jorja Elliott, UIW |
| Dec. 16 |
Jacei Denley, Lamar |
| Dec. 30 |
Mireia Aguado, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi |
| Jan. 6 |
Mya Blake, Northwestern State |
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.