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Athlete Awards

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.




Athlete Awards
Date Athlete Sport
2/6/2017 Mariah Callen Women's Basketball
2/6/2017 Tyler Zahnow Men's Track and Field
1/30/2017 Natasha Trott Women's Track and Field
1/30/2017 Kelsey Chambers Women's Track and Field
1/23/2017 Monica Burns Women's Basketball
1/23/2017 Preston Boswell Men's Basketball
1/16/2017 Anna Davis Women's Swimming
1/16/2017 Maxwell Lacey Wrestling
1/9/2017 Jaana Motton Women's Basketball
1/9/2017 Jacob Donahue Wrestling
11/21/2016 Dylan Taylor Wrestling
11/21/2016 Breanna Kramer Volleyball
11/8/2016 Tomas Caixeta Men's Swimming
11/8/2016 Kaitlyn Workman Women's Cross Country
10/10/2016 Hugh McAllister Rugby
10/10/2016 Kelsey Chambers Women's Cross Country
9/26/2016 Haley Kindall Volleyball
9/26/2016 Allan Hanson Rugby
9/20/2016 Teavon Spencer Men's Soccer
9/20/2016 Kenaida Mills Women's Golf
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