NEW ORLEANS — Whitney Gathright's rousing start to the 2015-16 Xavier University of Louisiana women's basketball season has earned her Louisiana Co-Player of the Month for November from the Louisiana Sports Writers Association.
Gathright, a 5-foot-4 senior point guard from New Orleans and a graduate of John Curtis Christian School, shared the award with Northwestern State's Beatrice Attura and Louisiana-Lafayette's Kia Wilridge. Each received three votes from a 12-member LSWA panel.
Gathright averaged 14.3 points, five rebounds, 4.9 assists and 2.6 steals in leading the Gold Nuggets to six wins in their first eight games, including a 4-1 record against ranked NAIA opponents. She scored 33 points — the most by a Xavier player in a game since 1998 — in a 91-86 neutral-site victory Nov. 14 against NAIA No. 7 Our Lady of the Lake. She scored 16 points in the final 6 1/2 minutes of regulation after the Gold Nuggets trailed 64-47, and her 3-pointer at 1:22 of overtime put Xavier ahead to stay and gave her 1,002 career points. The comeback from 17 down was the biggest in Gold Nuggets history.
Gathright produced 18 points, a career-best 11 assists and zero turnovers this past Friday in a 68-57 home victory against NAIA No. 18 Langston.
Gathright is the first Gold Nugget to receive an LSWA honor during the season since Brittany Powell was Louisiana Player of the Week in January 2010. Ensuing LSWA awards in 2015-16 will be weekly.
The Gold Nuggets are in Montgomery, Ala., for games against Auburn Montgomery at 5:30 p.m. Friday and Faulkner at 4 p.m. Saturday. The next Nuggets home game will start at 3 p.m. Jan. 2 against LSU-Shreveport at the Convocation Center.
Ed Cassiere, Sports Information Director
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