Feb. 25, 2025
Ferris State basketball players Mia Riley, Kenzie Bowers earn GLIAC Player of the Week honors
Ferris State University women's basketball standouts Mia Riley and Kenzie Bowers earned Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Player of the Week honors following back-to-back home wins.
Junior Mia Riley, a Fowler resident in the Michigan College of Optometry, was named GLIAC Offensive Player of the Week while senior Kenzie Bowers, a Management major from Kent City, garnered the GLIAC Defensive Player of the Week nod.
It is the third time this year in which Riley has received the league weekly offensive honor while Bowers previously was the offensive honoree and picked up conference player of the week recognition for the second time this campaign.
Riley had a huge week for the Bulldogs as Ferris State went 2-0 and held onto second place in the GLIAC standings. She tallied 53 points, 16 assists, 10 steals and nine rebounds in the two games while helping Ferris State improve to 19-8 on the year.
Riley poured in a game-high and career-best 33 points with seven assists, six rebounds and five steals on Thursday as the Bulldogs scored a school-record 118 points in a decisive win over Purdue Northwest University. She came back with 20 points, nine assists, five steals and three boards on Saturday as the Bulldogs claimed a big 85-76 win over Parkside University in the regular-season home finale.
For the week, Riley averaged 26.5 points, 8.0 assists, 5.0 steals and 4.5 rebounds per contest while shooting better than 50% from the floor and 86 percent at the free throw stripe.
Bowers also had an impressive week in the home sweep. In her final collegiate regular-season home game, Bowers notched a rare triple-double on Saturday as Ferris State topped Parkside, becoming only the third player in school history to accomplish the feat with 13 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists while adding four steals and a block.
Bowers also had 18 points with 12 rebounds, six assists and three steals on Thursday in a double-double effort as Ferris State put up a school-record 118 points in a win over Purdue Northwest.
For the week, Bowers averaged 15.5 points, 11.0 rebounds, 8.0 assists and 3.5 steals a game. Bowers finished the week with 31 points, 22 rebounds, 16 assists, seven steals and a block overall.
The Bulldogs will visit Wayne State University on Thursday, Feb. 27 for a 5:30 p.m. league game in Detroit before facing Saginaw Valley State University on Saturday, March 1 in the regular-season finale starting at 1 p.m. in University Center.