KANSAS CITY, Mo. - 3/3/2009 - Josephine Owino of Union (Tenn.) has been selected as the NAIA Division I Women’s Basketball Player of the Week for the week ending Sunday, March 1, 2009.
Owino, a senior center from Mombasa, Kenya, averaged 23.7 points and 9.3 rebounds in three wins for the Lady Bulldogs last week. She scored 24 points and cleared a 18 rebounds against No. 10 Trevecca Nazarene (Tenn.) and then added 23 points in 18 minutes against Blue Mountain (Miss.) and 24 points in 19 minutes against Mid-Continent (Ky.). Owino also passed 2,000 points for her career in the win against TNU. She shot 66.7 percent from the floor and 78.9 percent from the free-throw line during the week.
2008-09 Composite Award Winners:
January 6: Colleen Planeta, Point Loma Nazarene (Calif.)
January 13: Stacie Barker, Montana State-Northern
January 20: Colleen Planeta, Point Loma Nazarene (Calif.)
January 27: Dorchella James, San Diego Christian (Calif.)
February 3: Erin Hannemann, St. Xavier (Ill.)
February 10: Alex Moore-Porter, Azusa Pacific (Calif.)
February 17: Taujhnae Travis, Oklahoma Baptist
February 24: Viktoria Krell, Lindsey Wilson (Ky.)
March 3: Josephine Owino, Union (Tenn.)
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