FAMU’s Grizzle is POY in SWAC
Special to the Outlook
Ahriahna Grizzle has been the everything woman for FAMU’s basketball team, even down to the final game of the season when the Rattlers fell to Grambling State in the Southwestern Athletic Conference tournament. She scored 16 points as top scorer for the team of overachievers that she led all season.
Throughout the season, she averaged 18.5 points per game and she was rewarded last Tuesday by the SWAC as Player of the Year. The honor was announced on the same day that the conference also selected other top individual players and all-conference teams.
The selections were made by the league’s coaches and sports information directors.
As the No. 1 scorer in the league, Grizzle had a career-high 31 points against North Florida and tied she later tied that mark in games against Alabama A&M and Texas Southern. Grizzle was also the third most efficient scorers in the SWAC with a 43 percent field goal percentage.
A graduate student from Toronto, Canada, Grizzle became the sixth FAMU player to be named conference player of the year since the 1994-95 season. Others who set their marks when FAMU played in the MEAC were Natalie White, Cathy Robinson, Kim Watson, Antonia Bennett and Jasmine Grice.
Grizzle was the only FAMU player to make the all-conference first team. That squad also included, Miya Crump, Jackson State; Ti’lan Boler, Jackson State; Ryann Payne, Prairie View A&M; and Zaay Green, Arkansas-Pine Bluff.
The all-conference second team is made up of Coriah Beck, Arkansas-Pine Bluff; Amiah Simmons, Alabama A&M; Destiny Brown, Alcorn State; Angel Jackson, Jackson State; and Maya Peat, Arkansas-Pine Bluff.
