Bowling Green State University Athletics
Kelly Kapferer Named MAC Player Of The Week
February 25, 2002 | Women's Basketball
Feb. 25, 2002
CLEVELAND, Ohio - Bowling Green State University women's basketball sophomore Kelly Kapferer has been named the Mid-American Conference Player of the Week, the league office announced Monday (Feb. 25). Kapferer earns the honor for the first time in her Falcon career.
Kapferer, a native of Jefferson, Ohio, shares this week's East Division P-O-W honor with Kent State's Andrea Csaszar. A center, she averaged 15.5 points per game last week, helping the Falcons to a 2-0 week to close the regular season. Kapferer, who also averaged 3.0 rebounds and 1.0 blocks per game, connected on 68 percent of her shots from the field on the week.
Kapferer's week included a career-high 21 points in the Falcons' 78-62 win over visiting Eastern Michigan Saturday (Feb. 23). In that game, she made nine of her 14 shots from the field, setting career bests in each category, and also set a career standard for three-point field goals made, going 3-of-5 from long range. Kapferer had entered that game with a total of seven successful triples on the year.
In BGSU's first game last week, Kapferer had 10 points on 4-of-5 shooting, adding four rebounds and a pair of blocked shots in a 57-56 road win over Ohio Tuesday (Feb. 19).
The Falcons of first-year head coach Curt Miller open MAC Tournament action Saturday (March 2), returning to Athens to take on Ohio in first-round action. That game is scheduled to begin at 12:30 p.m. at "The Convo." The BGSU women ended the regular season with an overall record of 9-18 and a MAC mark of 6-10.
(NOTE: Saturday's game in Athens is the first half of a doubleheader, as the BGSU men will face Ohio in a 3:00 p.m. start to close the regular season.)
