Women's Basketball

Hurley Named as NEWBA & GNAC Player of the Week

Posted: Nov 14, 2023

STANDISH, Maine – The first women's basketball weekly accolades of the 2023-24 season have been announced and Saint Joseph's College senior guard Angelica Hurley (Groveland, Mass.) has earned New England Women's Basketball Association (NEWBA) and Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) Player of the Week honors.

Hurley earns the accolades after leading the Monks to a Castleton Classic Championship and claiming tournament MVP honors after averaging 27.5 points, 7.5 rebounds, 3.0 assists, 2.5 steals, and 0.5 blocks while shooting 52.6% (20-38) from the floor in a pair of victories last weekend. In a 73-48 win over New England College on Friday, the senior guard netted 25 points – a career-high at the time - with seven boards, two assists, and four steals. In the tourney championship on Saturday, Hurley set a new career-high with 30 points and was 10-for-13 from the FT line with eight rebounds and four dimes in a 69-62 win over Vermont State Castleton.

For Hurley, the GNAC weekly honor is the second of her career and the NEWBA award is a career-first. She last collected GNAC Player of the Week acclaim on January 23rd, 2023.

Hurley is the first SJC player to garner NEWBA weekly honors since current assistant coach Kelsi McNamara '19 earned the same award exactly five years ago. Aside from Hurley and McNamara, Morgan Cahill '16 and Emily Benway '19 are the only other Monks to claim NEWBA weekly accolades.

Saint Joseph's will play at University of New England on Wednesday at 5:30 PM.

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Founded in 1912 by the Sisters of Mercy in Portland, Maine, Saint Joseph’s College is Maine’s Catholic liberal arts college in the Mercy tradition. We are inclusive of all faiths, including no faith. The 474-acre campus, located on the shore of Sebago Lake in Standish, Maine offers more than 40 undergraduate programs and a Division III athletic program to a population of approximately 1,000 on-campus students. A pioneer of distance education since the 1970s, the College also provides online certificates and undergraduate and graduate degrees for thousands more working adults who reside in more than 20 other countries. In 2015 the College was selected by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching to receive its Community Engagement Classification, highlighting the College’s focus on community service throughout its mission and daily interactions within local, regional, and global communities. In 2018, Princeton Review recognized SJC as one of its “Green Colleges” for its sustainability initiatives. Learn more at www.sjcme.edu.