FARMINGTON, Utah – After helping the Eagles to two victories last week, Eastern Washington University women's basketball player Aaliyah Alexander has been named the Big Sky Conference Player of the Week as announced by the conference office this morning (Jan. 11).
 
The freshman averaged 15.0 points, 11.0 rebounds and 5.0 assists per game and guided the Eagles to a sweep of Weber State.
 
Alexander earned the first double-double of her career in Eastern's 78-57 win on Jan. 7 with 15 points and a career-best 12 rebounds. She was also just three assists shy of a triple-double, dishing a career-high eight assists.
 
The Federal Way, Wash., native followed up her performance with another double-double in EWU's 71-59 win on Jan. 9, this time adding 15 points and 10 rebounds to go with two assists and two steals.
 
She was nearly perfect at the free throw line, going 13-for-14 (92.9%) over two games including making 6-of-6 on Saturday. Alexander also shot at a 42.9 percent clip (3-7) from three-point range during the series.
 
The honor is Alexander's first of her young career, and the first for the Eagles since the 2017-18 season when Delaney Hodgins won the award three times.
 
Currently, Alexander leads the team with 13.0 points per game and has started all 11 contests this season, scoring in double figures in nine of them. She has logged 385 total minutes this season which is 11^th in the nation, averaging 34.9 per game. Alexander is also 86^th in all of Division I with 38 total assists, averaging 3.5 per game to lead the team.
 
Eastern Washington is currently riding a four-game win streak and have a 4-2 mark in conference action (5-6 overall). EWU's games at Southern Utah, set for Jan. 14 and Jan. 15, have been canceled due to COVID-19 issues within the Eastern Washington program. Its next scheduled games are Jan. 21 and Jan. 23 against Northern Colorado at Reese Court.