A Trio Of MIAC Player Of The Week Winners

MOORHEAD, Minn. (2/04/13)—Concordia had three winter sports athletes earn MIAC Player of the Week honors it was announced on Monday. Men’s basketball senior Andrew Martinson, women’s basketball senior Emily Thesing and women’s hockey freshman Anna Westmark all earned the conference weekly award.  

The trio gives the Cobbers nine MIAC Player of the Week award winners in the winter season alone. Martinson becomes the second men’s basketball player to earn the award. Thesing wins the honor for the second time this year and she is the second straight Cobber player to win the award. Senior teammate Tricia Sorensen was named the MIAC Player of the Week last week. Westmark is the second Concordia women’s hockey player to earn the weekly award. Madison Gendreau was named the MIAC Women’s Hockey Player of the Week on Nov. 12.

Martinson earns the honor after becoming the school’s all-time leading 3-point scorer last week. In addition to his record, he also averaged 19.3 points per game while shooting 56.7 percent from the floor, 55.0 percent from behind the arc and was a perfect 13-for-13 from the free throw line. He broke the 3-point record on Saturday in the team’s win at Macalester when made five shots from long range. Martinson now has 136 3-point baskets which breaks the old record of 133 set by Brett Inniger set from 1993-95. Martinson’s big game n the team’s 3-0 week came against St. Olaf when he scored a career-high 31 points and became one of just a handful of Cobber players to ever top the 30-point plateau.       

Thesing has been one of the catalysts behind the Cobber women’s basketball team’s eight-game winning streak. She averaged 17.0 points, 6.7 rebounds, 2.3 assists and 1.7 steals per game in the team’s three wins last week. One of Thesing’s biggest contributions came on the defensive end where she helped Concordia hold their three opponents last week to a mere 52.3 points per game. CC has not allowed an opponent to score more than 60 points in five straight games. Thesing is seventh in the MIAC in scoring at 12.7 points per game. Her 72 assists rank third and she is fifth in 3-point field goals.

Westmark scored three goals and added an assist in the Cobber women’s hockey team’s sweep over St. Kate’s. She was one of the big reasons Concordia was able to post back-to-back five goal games for the first time since the 2010-11 season. Westmark also had a team-high 13 shots on goal during the weekend sweep and finished with a plus/minus rating of plus-5. She now has seven goals and three assists this season and is second on the team in goals scored and fourth in total points. Westmark, who has at least one point in four of the last five games,  is also one of eight CC players that has a plus rating for the entire season.