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Poppens Wins Final Big 12 Freshman-of-the-Week Honor
03.08.2010 | Women's Basketball
AMES, Iowa ? Chelsea Poppens became the third different Iowa State women's basketball player to be named Big 12 Freshman of the Week this season, the conference announced Monday.
Poppens earned Freshman-of-the-Week accolades for the final week of the season after she averaged 10.5 points and 13 rebounds in the Cyclones' games against Oklahoma State and Colorado last week. She went 9-for-11 from the charity stripe and nine of her 26 rebounds came off the offensive glass.
In the game at OSU, Poppens recorded 11 points and a career-high 17 rebounds. The Aplington, Iowa, native was one rebound shy of a double-double in just 27 minutes versus Colorado, tallying 10 points, nine rebounds and a career-high three steals.
“I think that Chelsea Poppens getting Freshman of the Week the last week of the season speaks for her continued development as a player,” ISU head coach Bill Fennelly said. “Certainly I think that she is someone who has not just impacted our team this past week, but someone who has shown signs of potentially emerging as a really outstanding player in our league. Again, that's a reflection, not just of a one-week performance, but an entire season of work ethic. It's nice that it happened, and it's appropriate that it happened the last week of the regular season.”
The Cyclones opened and closed the 2009-10 campaign with Big 12 Freshman-of-the-Week honors. Anna Prins won the same accolades in the first week of the season after posting 20 points and five rebounds in the season opener vs. Florida Atlantic. She was the first Cyclone to ever win the award in the first week of her career.
Fellow freshman post player Amanda Zimmerman earned the same accolade for the week of Jan. 18-24, after posting 14 points in the ISU's overtime win at then-No. 20 Texas on Jan. 23. She pulled down the offensive rebound and assisted on Alison Lacey's game-tying three-pointer to send the contest into an extra period.
This season marks the first time the Cyclones have had three different players earn Rookie/Freshman-of-the-Week honors since the 2006-07 season when Lacey, Toccara Ross and Rachel Pierson each won the award once.
Iowa State opens Big 12 Championship play at 5 p.m. Friday at Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Mo., against the winner of the first-round game between No. 20 Oklahoma State and Kansas.
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