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Beverly Kelley Named Sun Belt Student-Athlete of the Week
1/4/2016 2:17:00 PM | Basketball (W)
TROY, Alabama – Troy women's basketball senior Ashley Beverly Kelley has been named the Sun Belt Student-Athlete of the Week, the league office announced on Monday.
The award period includes games played since Dec. 15, a span of five games for the Trojans in which Beverly Kelley averaged 20.6 points per game.
Her biggest effort came in Troy's most recent game, a 78-71 win over reigning Sun Belt champion Little Rock, in which she scored 30 points with eight rebounds, seven assists and three steals.
Always known as an all-around player, Beverly Kelley has continued to stuff the stat sheet as, in addition to the scoring, she also averaged 6.2 rebounds, 4.8 assists and 4.0 steals per game over the five-game span.
The Mid-Major All-American now leads the Sun Belt in scoring at 19.1 points per game. She also ranks third in the league in assists (4.4/g) and second in steals (3.3/g), making her the only player in even the top-5 in scoring, assists and steals.
The Adamsville, Ala., native ranks 12th in the NCAA in steals and is the leader of a scoring offense that ranks seventh in the NCAA at 84.5 points per game.
Beverly Kelley has climbed to seventh on Troy's all-time scoring list with 1,526 points, the most among all active Sun Belt players. She has also become Troy's all-time leader in career steals with 218, also the most among all active Sun Belt players.
The student-athlete of the week award is the second of Beverly Kelley's career. She won the award last season after a week that included a 46-point game at Georgia Southern and a home win over Little Rock. Beverly Kelley joins Joanna Harden and Ronita Garrett as the only Trojans to win multiple Sun Belt weekly awards in a career.
She and the Trojans return to the court on Thursday when they travel to take on Georgia State at 4 p.m. CT in Atlanta.
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