IUP junior Jahzinga Tracey has been named the first PSAC West Player of the Week for women’s basketball for the 2007-08 season.  The award covers all games played through November 18.

Tracey averaged 18.8 points, 10.6 rebounds, 3.2 assists, 2.2 steals and 1.2 blocked shots per game to lead IUP to a 5-0 start.  She hit 38 of 77 shots from the field (49.4 percent), including three 3-pointers, and 15 of 21 from the free throw line (71.4 percent).

The Crimson Hawks defeated Assumption, Lander and Upper Iowa to win the championship at Disney’s Division II Tip-Off Classic November 2-4 and then beat Charleston and Salem International at the Holiday Inn Tip-Off Classic at California last weekend.

Tracey, the reigning PSAC West Player of the Year, was named the Most Outstanding Player at the Disney tournament.  She had 25 points, 13 rebounds and four assists in the 76-65 win over Assumption and 31 points, 11 boards and four assists in a 94-91 victory over Lander.

She was also named to the all-tournament team at California, opening play with 18 points, 18 rebounds and five assists against Charleston.  Tracey only played 18 minutes against Salem International and scored eight points to go along with eight rebounds.

With 94 points in five games this season, Tracey is just 21 shy of becoming the 16^th player in IUP history to score 1,000 career points, and she will be the fastest to ever reach that milestone.  Tracey set a school single season record last year with 612 points.

IUP, ranked 16^th in the USA Today ESPN Division II Coaches Poll, is off until December 1 and 2 when the Crimson Hawks host Bloomsburg and Mansfield in a pair of PSAC crossover games at Memorial Field House.  Both of those games get under way at 1 p.m.

IUP will then host the 3^rd Annual Susan G. Komen for the Cure “Shoot for the Cure” Classic on December 8 when the Crimson Hawks play Wheeling Jesuit at 1 p.m.

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