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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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3/4/2019 Emmanuel Ansong Men's Basketball
2/25/2019 Liz Fleming Women's Track and Field
2/25/2019 Darius Berry Men's Track and Field
2/18/2019 Taliah Cashwell Women's Basketball
2/18/2019 Tariq Woody Men's Basketball
2/4/2019 Steve Cannady Men's Basketball
2/4/2019 Anna Massa Women's Track and Field
1/28/2019 Greg Brusco Wrestling
1/28/2019 Kelsey Chambers Women's Track and Field
1/22/2019 Emmanuel Ansong Men's Basketball
1/22/2019 Mariah Harmon Women's Track and Field
12/7/2018 Cole Laya Wrestling
12/7/2018 Chenelle Moore Women's Basketball
11/7/2018 Lindsay Scheffel Women's Cross Country
11/7/2018 Josh Zimmerman Men's Soccer
10/24/2018 Martin Minuzzi Men's Soccer
10/24/2018 Emily Hartley Women's Soccer
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