Michelle Pellichero, William Paterson University
Senior, Guard
Milltown, NJ/Bishop Ahr

Pellichero earns NJAC Women’s Basketball Player of the Week honors after averaging 17.5 points and 3.0 rebounds per game in a pair of victories during the week for the Pioneers. She first tallied 10 points, two rebounds, and two assists in WPU’s 83-74 non-conference victory over FDU-Florham. Three days later, she opened conference play by registering 25 points, four rebounds, and three assists in an 82-79 road win at Kean in a rematch of last season’s NJAC Championship Game. In the win over the previously unbeaten Cougars, she tallied William Paterson’s final 11 points on the game and finished the contest shooting 8-of-19 from the field and 6-of-11 from three-point range. Pellichero currently leads the NJAC in three-point field goals made per game (3.00).

Karima Blackwell, Rutgers University-Camden
Freshman, Forward
Somerdale, NJ/Sterling

Blackwell earns NJAC Women’s Basketball Rookie of the Week honors after helping to lead the Scarlet Raptors to a victory in their first conference contest of the year. In the first NJAC game of her career, she tallied a double-double 15 points and 11 rebounds in Camden’s 66-56 road win at Ramapo. She added one block and two steals in the victory in which she shot 6-of-11 from the field. Blackwell, who has notched three double-doubles in the first seven games of her collegiate career, currently ranks sixth in the NJAC in rebounding with an average of 9.4 boards per game.