Story by Wyatt Ebersole

After a huge week on the hardwood that saw her average 27.5 points per game and 7 rebounds, Freddie Wallace has been named this week's NJCAA Women's Basketball National Player of the Week.

Freddie Wallace, the Butler Grizzlies 6'3 freshman forward from Lincoln, Nebraska, continued her recent stretch of dominance this past week in the Grizzlies wins over rivals Coffeyville and Hutchinson. Against Coffeyville on Wednesday, Freddie scored a new collegiate career best of 31 points while also pulling seven rebounds in the Grizzlies victory over the Red Ravens. Against Hutchinson on Saturday, Wallace again put up another impressive scoring effort, scoring 24 points including 12 in the first quarter that gave the Grizzlies an early lead that they would never relinquish. Freddie posted her best of the season so far averaging 27.5 points and 7 rebounds while shooting over 60% from the field. Wallace is Grizzlies leading scorer and rebounder on the year and the Butler Women have now won ten straight games.

Freddie is the first Grizzly Women's Basketball to earn this honor since March 13th, 2019 when Kyla Callins earned the honor after she posted a week of 16.5 points per game and 9 rebounds. Freddie is the first Grizzly Athlete to receive National Player of the Week honors since Butler Volleyball's Kennedy Kelly won the award on November 3rd, 2022.