GREENWOOD, Ind. - Kaci Britt Bell has been named the Great Midwest Athletic Conference Women’s Basketball Athlete of the Week as we head into the holiday break. In a week against some tough competition, Bell stood out with her overall performances against a pair of undefeated opponents.
Kaci Britt Bell
Trevecca University (@TNUsports)
Senior - Forward
Mt. Juliet, Tennessee - Mt. Juliet High School
Kaci Britt Bell has been named the G-MAC Women's Basketball Athlete of the Week for the first time this season. Despite only a 1-2 record on the week, Bell posted solid performances against top ranked opponents and then helped the team secure its only win of the season.
To start the week, Bell and the Lady Trojans faced a pair of undefeated opponents in No. 2 Lewis and Carson-Newman, a program receiving votes in the national poll. Against Lewis to begin the week, Bell went 5-11 for a team-high 14 points, while grabbing six rebounds and recording three steals in only 19 minutes of action. A couple nights later against Carson-Newman, she went 5-12 for 11 points and had a team-high seven rebounds. She added a pair of assists and a block.
In the team’s final game of the week against Cincinnati-Christian University, Bell scored in double-figures again with 12 points on 5-7 shooting. She had another team-high seven rebounds to go with two assists, a block and a steal.
On the season, Bell is averaging 12 points a game and 6.8 rebounds per game, which ranks fourth in the G-MAC. She is sixth in steals with 2.0 per game, and fifth in blocked shots with 0.8 a game.
G-MAC Q&A with Kaci Britt Bell
G-MAC: Trevecca faced two teams currently undefeated at 11-0 this past week. Do you guys enjoy the chance to play against top notch non-conference competition?
KBB: I love it and the girls do too. It's a great opportunity to get involved in the Division II region and the teams we'll be seeing later on. We've been thrown into the Division II atmosphere and we enjoy and want it. Our weaknesses might be more easily exposed, but it's a chance for us to work on them sooner to be ready for the conference schedule.
G-MAC: The holiday break is probably welcomed at this point in the year. When you guys come back, how refreshed and energized do you think the team will be?
KBB: I think that we will be ready to go. A week is a long time to go without any basketball. Our bodies will get a break and hopefully some of the bruises and ailments will be gone. We'll be ready to go full bore.
G-MAC: Now that you guys have played 12 games, what is something you guys have progressively learned about yourself as a group?
KBB: I think we've learned that every player needs to step up. No one is going to have a perfect game every time. Everyone has stepped up in their own and we continually will need that. Other teams might plan for one main scorer and try to stop them while someone from our team will step up and pick up those points. That's one of our strong points -- having a different player step up at different times to fit the different matchups.
G-MAC: Does the grind of the conference schedule start to wear on you by the end of Feburary or is that the point where you can really see the offseason training and conditioning pay off?
KBB: Training helps tremendously and the way the conference schedules the games. Bus trips do take their toll on you, but we're able to withstand and last through the conference schedule to get ready for the postseason.
View Kaci Britt Bell’s bio (from TNUTrojans.com)
http://www.tnutrojans.com/roster/17/7/2651.php