Athlete Awards

Athletes of the Week

Kayla Beavers

Kayla Beavers

  • Award
    Athletes of the Week
  • Week Of
    1/6/2015
  • Sport
    Women's Basketball
  • Bio
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Kayla Beavers has been named Lee University's Female Athlete of the Week after hitting the game winner in the Lady Flames' incredible comeback victory over West Georgia last Saturday.

The junior from Bradley Central High School in Cleveland drained a 3-pointer at the buzzer to help complete an amazing 70-69 comeback victory for Lee over the Wolves.

The Lady Flames trailed for much of the contest and found themselves staring down a 66-59 deficit with just under a minute left in the contest. The comeback effort was jumped started by freshman Shelby Brown who scored six of her 10 points in the final moments. Senior point guard Alex Swope added a timely layup and the Wolves missed four foul shots to open the door for the game-winner by Beavers.

Lee pulled out the improbable victory while playing the final two minutes without any timeouts remaining.

"I thought we showed a lot of guts down the stretch," said head coach Marty Rowe. "Our players listened to the coaches and made several good decisions. Alex's layup was huge in the final minute and on the last play we told her to go right at them and if they guarded her to kick it to KB (Beavers) for the win and that's exactly what she did."

There was no doubt in Rowe's mind that the shot was going in, "The only thing I was worried about was if she was going to get it off in time. As soon as it left her hands on I knew it was in."

Beavers finished with 13 points, swiped three steals and canned three treys in the contest. The sharpshooting guard is averaging 6.9 ppg and is hitting a sizzling 40.4 percent from behind the arc.


 


Athlete Awards
Date Athlete Sport
3/10/2015 Shelby Brown Women's Basketball
3/10/2015 Ben Holland Baseball
3/4/2015 Shea Sylvester Men's Golf
3/4/2015 Erin Walsh Women's Basketball
2/25/2015 Stedmon Ford Men's Basketball
2/25/2015 Adrian Martin Women's Track and Field
2/17/2015 Emileigh Swafford Women's Basketball
2/10/2015 Trenton Hill Baseball
2/10/2015 Amanda Lynn Softball
2/3/2015 Elgrin Wilson Men's Basketball
2/3/2015 Emileigh Swafford Women's Basketball
1/27/2015 Emmanuel Kipchumba Men's Track and Field
1/27/2015 Christina Johnson Women's Basketball
1/20/2015 Camden Perez Men's Track and Field
1/20/2015 Jessica Gullette Women's Track and Field
1/14/2015 Christina Johnson Women's Basketball
1/14/2015 Jervon Johnson Men's Basketball
1/6/2015 Kayla Beavers Women's Basketball
12/16/2014 Cory Billingsley Men's Basketball
12/16/2014 Shelby Brown Women's Basketball
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