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Athlete Awards

Athlete of the Week

Alex Austin

  • Award
    Athlete of the Week
  • Week Of
    12/24/2012
  • Sport
    Men's Basketball
  • Bio
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Alex Austin and Sherman Blanford both from men's basketball have been named the EIU student-athletes of the week.

Austin was named the OVC Freshman of the Week for the second time this season following his games against Saint Louis and Drake.  Austin scored 17 points at SLU hitting 6-of-8 from the field and 3-of-3 from 3-point range.  He averaged 10.5 points for the week hitting 43 percent from 3-point range.

Blanford scored a career high 18 points at Drake on Saturday scoring 11 of EIU's first 14 points.  He was 8-of-10 from the floor in that game with seven rebounds.  For the week he averaged 12 points while shooting 58 percent from the floor.

EIU opens OVC play this Saturday at Tennessee State.


Athlete Awards
Date Athlete Sport
5/14/2019 Dustin Hatfield Men's Track
5/14/2019 Tadiwa Mhonde Men's Track
5/1/2019 McKenna Coffman Softball
5/1/2019 Jekeel Suber Men's Track
4/24/2019 Dustin Hatfield Men's Track
4/24/2019 Rachel Papavasilopoulos Women's Tennis
4/17/2019 Avani Flanagan Women's Track
4/17/2019 Trey Sweeney Baseball
4/10/2019 Joe Smith Men's Track
4/10/2019 Freddie O'Brien Men's Tennis
4/3/2019 Spenser Dexter Baseball
4/3/2019 Pedra Hicks Women's Track
3/27/2019 Makenna Wilson Women's Track
3/27/2019 Daphne Chang Women's Golf
3/20/2019 Kendyl McKeough Softball
3/20/2019 Foster Anshutz Baseball
3/13/2019 Marcello Verdolin Men's Golf
3/13/2019 Mia Davis Softball
2/27/2019 Spenser Dexter Baseball
2/27/2019 Nick Harkins Men's Swimming
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