Feb. 19, 2008

Staten Island, NY - Wagner women's basketball senior guard Chelsey Bunyer (Shannon, IL / Eastland) was named to the PrestoSports/Metropolitan Basketball Writers Association Honor Roll, announced Monday, Feb. 18.

Bunyer led Wagner to a sweep on the week, averaging a team-best 17.5 ppg, on 50.0 percent shooting (14-28), with 3.0 apg, 2.0 rpg and 1.0 spg. She paced Wagner in scoring for the 11th time this year with a game-high 18 points, on 7-13 shooting, with two assists in win at Mount St. Mary's. Bunyer followed that up with 17 points, on 7-15 shooting, with four assists vs. Monmouth (2/16) in helping Wagner to its sixth win of the year, doubling last year's total. With 13 points last night vs. Sacred Heart she passed former teammate Joy Gallagher (1,158 points) for 14th place on the all-time Seahawk scoring list and now has 1,170 points for her career. Bunyer is averaging a team-best 10.6 ppg, which is 15th in the NEC, and has also paced Wagner in scoring in five of its six wins.

Founded for the 2004-05 season, the Player of the Week Award is granted on a weekly basis by the New York Area Metropolitan Basketball Writers Association. Each week, each of the nearly 75 schools that play college basketball in the Tri-state area have the ability to nominate one male and one female student-athlete, based upon their on-court accomplishments over the previous seven days. An esteemed panel of eight media members votes to select from the nominations the most outstanding player. Any player who receives any votes, but are not named the Player of the Week, are then named to the Honor Roll.

Wagner will next play at Robert Morris on Saturday, Feb. 23 at 4:30 pm.