FREELAND, MICH.-- Trine's Kayla Dunn has been named MIAA Women's Basketball Player of the Week, the conference announced Monday.
Dunn (Columbia City, Ind./Columbia City) averaged 16.5 points, five rebounds and three steals in leading the Thunder to a pair of MIAA victories last week. The senior scored a career-high 18 points, grabbed five rebounds, and came away with three steals in the MIAA-opening 77-59 victory over Kalamazoo. She followed that up with a 15-point, five-rebound, three-steal effort in a 97-66 victory over St. Mary's. Dunn shot 45 percent from the field (10-of-22), and hit 12-of-14 (86 percent) of her free throw attempts in the two games. She is being honored as MIAA Player of the Week for the first time in her career.
Dunn ranks third in the MIAA in made free throws per game, and is sixth in the league in knocking down 80.6 percent of her free throw attempts. She ranks third in the conference in averaging 2.7 steals per contest. Dunn averages a team-best 13.8 points per game. The senior is averaging career-best numbers in nearly every statistical category this season.
Trine is rolling of late, having won five-straight by an average margin of 24 points. The Thunder have topped 90 points twice this season, the first time a Trine team has done that since the 2004-05 campaign. The 31-point victory over St. Mary's was Trine's largest-ever margin of victory in an MIAA game.
The Thunder will host Heidelberg in non-conference action Wednesday night at 7 p.m. A win would give Trine a six-game winning-streak for the first time since 2011-12.