COLORADO SPRINGS — Coming off a pair of double-doubles during a road sweep last week, Olivia Reed Thyne was named the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Defensive Player of the Week on Monday.
It's the fifth weekly award of the season for the junior forward from Windsor, and the 12th of her career.
She was selected the RMAC Offensive Player of the Week twice earlier this season, and also has two previous Defensive Player of the Week nods from this season.
Reed Thyne averaged 11.5 rebounds a game in wins at Fort Lewis and New Mexico Highlands, playing all but roughly five minutes total. She and the other four starters played all 20 minutes of the second half in both games, which kept the Mavericks two games ahead of Western Colorado in the RMAC standings with four games remaining.
Against the Skyhawks, Reed Thyne had 11 rebounds, six on the defensive end, and scored 34 points, making 15 of 26 field goal attempts. She made four of her five free throws.
Saturday at New Mexico Highlands, she pulled down 12 rebounds, nine defensive, with three steals and one blocked shot. She again scored 34 points, going 13 of 21 from the field and 8 of 14 from the free throw line.
The reigning RMAC Player of the Year is second in the RMAC in scoring (22.8) and rebounding (11.0) and leads the conference in field goal percentage (58.3). She's scored in double figures in every game this season, with 15 double-doubles (36 in her career). Reed Thyne has scored 30 or more points in seven games this season, including a program-record 45 against Pittsburg State.
CMU (19-4, 14-2 RMAC), ranked No. 24 by the D2CSC (Conference Sports Communicators) and receiving votes in the Women's Basketball Coaches Association rankings, is the only women's team to have secured a spot in the upcoming RMAC Tournament. The Mavericks can lock up a first-round home playoff game with one more win, need two wins to clinch a tie for the RMAC title, with the magic number for an outright championship sitting at three, depending on the outcome of games involving Western Colorado and Black Hills State.
The Mavericks host South Dakota Mines at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday at Brownson Arena and Black Hills State at 1 p.m. on Saturday. Tickets are on sale at tickets.coloradomesa.edu.
