WB2k23: National Players of the Week

Maddy Siegrist - Villanova

In an 81-55 blowout win over visiting Lassalle, Maddy Siegrist continued her career season. Siegrist scored 31 points with 11 rebounds and one blocked shot in the Dec. 21 victory. The 6-1 forward is averaging 28 points, 9.1 rebounds and 1.5 steals, which are all career highs. She is also shooting career bests 52.7 overall from the field, 41.8 from three and 84.5 from the free-throw line. In 95 career games, Siegrist has scored 2,179 points and has grabbed 887 rebounds. She has scored at least 30 points five times this season and in each of the last three games. Villanova is now 10-3.

Grace VanSlooten - Oregon

A 6-3 freshman forward, Grace VanSlooten had her best week of the season at the San Diego Invitational. She started it with a 26-point effort against Arkansas. She shot 52.6 percent in the 85-78 win over the previously unbeaten Razorbacks on Dec. 20. Vanslooten followed that the next day with 29 points on 68.8 percent shooting in a loss to Ohio State. She had nine rebounds in the game, making it the fifth time she has collected as many boards in a game this season. She had five blocks in the two contests last week. VanSlooten is averaging 16.3 points, 6.8 rebounds and shooting 53.8 percent in her rookie season. No. 17 Oregon is 10-2 behind the play of the Toledo, Ohio native.

Antwainette Walker - Eastern Kentucky

In her first season at Eastern Kentucky, Antwainette Walker is having her best campaign yet. She is averaging career highs of 20.8 points and 10.7 rebounds, 2.8 steals and 2.5 assists per game. Last week Walker posted her eighth double-double of the season with 22 points and 13 rebounds against Union in a 103-48 win. Walker also posted a season best seven points in that win on Dec. 20. Previously she has competed at Arkansas-Little Rock and Marquette. She never averaged more than 4.7 points and three rebounds per game in a season and didn't start in any of her previous 68 games before the start of the season.

Taylor Robertson - Oklahoma

Taylor Robertson is an accomplished three-point shooter. In 121 career games she is shooting 43.6 percent from long range with 443 made triples. Robertson scored 18 points while shooting 6-7 from three in a 95-79 home win over Florida. Robertson is averaging a career low 10.1 points per game. Over her career she has averaged 16.1 points in 129 games. The 5-11 fifth-year guard from McPherson, Kansas has scored 2,081 points over her career.

Dulcy Fankam Mendjiadeu - South Florida

A 6-4 forward, Dulcy Fankam Mendjiadeu is having a career season with averages of 16.9 points and 11.9 rebounds per game. Prior to this season she never shot over 48.7 percent from the field and 66.4 percent from the free-throw line. She currently is shooting 60.8 percent from the field and 70.8 from the free-throw line in her fourth season. Last week she scored 34 points with 17 rebounds in a loss to No. 3 Ohio State at the San Diego Invitational. On Dec. 21, She led her team to an upset overtime 66-65 win over No. 17 Arkansas, where she scored 16 points with 12 rebounds.

Jaz Shelley - Nebraska

Jaz Shelley had her third game with at least 24 points in her last five efforts. She posted 24 points with six rebounds, six assists, a block and a steal in a triple overtime 85-79 victory over No. 20 Kansas. Shelley is averaging 15.5 and is 10th in the NCAA with an average of 6.5 assists per game. Shelley is shooting a career best 44.8 percent from the field including 41.5 percent from three. She is also knocking down a career best 88 percent of her free-throws.