BIRMINGHAM – For the first time this season, junior center Jasmine Peeples has been recognized as the Southwestern Athletic Conference women’s basketball Player of the Week for her superlative performance during the second week of conference play.
Peeples led ASU to two consecutive wins that has positioned the Lady Hornets in the front running of the SWAC. Alabama State has a 7-7 record and is 3-1 in the conference. Both their wins this past week came over Arkansas Pine Bluff (64-53) and Mississippi Valley (62-45), which Peeples scored 15 points against UAPB. She amassed a career high of five double-doubles in the win against MVSU (12 pts, 10 rebounds), while also picking up her 47th block of the season.
“I am so proud and elated for Jasmine,” said head women’s basketball coach Freda Freeman-Jackson. “Both she and Britney Wright have been in the running for this nomination and for us to have two back-to-back players in two weeks is a great honor. This tells us that these ladies have been working hard and are committed to what we are trying to do and that is to be the best that they can be.”
