Sweeney Named Frontier Conference Player Of The Week After Standout Week

Lindsey Branch, UMW Sports Information

HELENA, Mont. – Jordan Sweeney from Montana Western has been selected as the final Erck Hotels Women's Basketball Player of the Week of the season. The award is her second of the season.

Sweeney led Montana Western to a pair of wins in the final week of the regular season. She averaged 33.0 points per game while shooting 57.9 percent from the field. In addition, Sweeney averaged 5.0 made threes per game on 62.5 percent from beyond the arc.

In the Bulldogs 73-63 win over Montana Tech, Sweeney scored 23 points while adding six rebounds and eight assists. The senior then scored a Frontier season-high 43 points by going 7 of 11 from three in an 86-73 win at Rocky Mountain. She also had four rebounds and four assists in the regular season finale.

Sweeney broke her previous career-high in the game as well as the Montana Western single-game scoring record after she scored 43 points in the game. The previous record of 40 points was set by Brianna King back in the 2017-18 season against Menlo College. With her total, she breaks 1,000 career points in the win, a total that she surpasses in just her second year with the Bulldogs.