ST. LOUIS, Mo. – Senior forward Leti Lerma (Muscatine, Iowa/Muscatine) has been named the Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Week according to an announcement by the league office Monday afternoon.
Lerma earned MVC Player of the Week honors for the first time in her career after turning in a pair of double-doubles last week and averaging 18.5 points on 54 percent shooting in addition to collecting 14.0 rebounds and 2.0 steals per game.
She opened the week by making 5-of-8 from the field and tallying 13 points, 11 rebounds, one assist, one block and one steal Friday against Southern Illinois as she became the sixth player in program history to reach 700 career rebounds.