Former Maryland women\u2019s basketball star Alyssa Thomas was named the WNBA\u2019s western conference player of the week, the league announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Thomas, who plays for the Phoenix Mercury, put together back-to-back impressive performances against the Minnesota Lynx and Golden State Valkyries. She posted a season-high 29 points to go along with eight rebounds against the Lynx before recording a 17-point double-double against the Valkyries.<\/p>\n
She also recorded the league\u2019s first-ever 15-point and 15-assist triple-double against the Dallas Wings on July 3.<\/p>\n
Thomas was a three-time ACC player of the year winner for Maryland, from 2012 through 2014.<\/p>\n
In other news<\/strong><\/p>\n Maryland track and field announced the signing of freshman sprinter Katherine Hulsey.<\/p>\n Former Maryland baseball star Brandon Lowe participated in his second-career MLB All-Star Game.<\/p>\n Maryland field hockey\u2019s freshman class arrived on campus.<\/p>\n Shell Shock TBT will take on Virginia\u2019s alumni team Friday in the first round of the James Madison Regional.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Maryland women\u2019s basketball star Alyssa Thomas was named the WNBA\u2019s western conference player of the week, the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":67036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[4545,1339,2074,47449,19625,204,564,47451,47452,47448,1539,9323,196,62,581,47450,448,4546,637,67,132,68,2452,45747,232,16966],"class_list":{"0":"post-67035","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-alyssa","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-conference","11":"tag-earns","12":"tag-former","13":"tag-front-page","14":"tag-maryland","15":"tag-maryland-news","16":"tag-maryland-terps-womens-basketball","17":"tag-mm","18":"tag-of","19":"tag-player","20":"tag-s","21":"tag-sports","22":"tag-star","23":"tag-testudo","24":"tag-the","25":"tag-thomas","26":"tag-times","27":"tag-united-states","28":"tag-unitedstates","29":"tag-us","30":"tag-week","31":"tag-western","32":"tag-wnba","33":"tag-women"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114862585717867719","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}