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Athletes of the Week

Haywood Highsmith

  • Award
    Athletes of the Week
  • Week Of
    2/22/2016
  • Sport
    Men's Basketball
  • Bio
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WHEELING, W.Va. – After leading the Cardinals men’s basketball team to its 20th and 21st consecutive victories, Haywood Highsmith has been named the WJU Male Athlete of the Week.

Haywood helped WJU past Glenville State last Thursday. The sophomore forward scored a game-high 27 points while securing 10 rebounds. Highsmith now has eight double-doubles on the season.

Haywood then scored 14 points and grabbed nine boards against West Virginia Wesleyan on Saturday.

On the season, Haywood is averaging 14.4 points and is fifth in the MEC in rebounding at 9.4 per game. Watch the video below of two monster dunks that Haywood had in the same game, Thursday against Glenville State.

Highsmith and the men’s basketball team travels to Notre Dame College on Thursday before taking on West Liberty on Saturday, February 27.




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Date Athlete Sport
10/14/2019 Lucas Fievet Men's Soccer
10/7/2019 Braedynn Porter Women's Soccer
10/7/2019 Devin Rich Men's Cross Country
9/30/2019 Ryan Gorman Football
9/30/2019 Emily Holzopfel Women's Golf
9/23/2019 Rich White III Football
9/23/2019 Breanna Kramer Volleyball
9/16/2019 Tyler Serman Men's Soccer
9/16/2019 Jordan Delaney Women's Cross Country
9/9/2019 James Reese III Football
9/9/2019 Allonda Watkins Volleyball
4/15/2019 Darius Berry Men's Track and Field
4/15/2019 Kelsey Chambers Women's Track and Field
4/2/2019 Ally Coggins Women's Lacrosse
4/2/2019 Jamison Smith Men's Lacrosse
3/25/2019 Payton Faris Baseball
3/25/2019 Liz Fleming Women's Track and Field
3/21/2019 Paige Orbell Women's Lacrosse
3/21/2019 Zach Blumling Baseball
3/13/2019 Anna Massa Women's Track and Field
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