Senior Christen McLee of the women’s basketball team is the 19th Taco Bell Athlete of the Week for the 2011-12 academic year after stringing together several career outings and leading the Tornados to a perfect 3-0 week. She is earning the honor for the first time in her career.
McLee averaged 11.3 points, 7.0 rebounds and 3.8 steals while shooting 42.3 percent from the field and 85.7 percent from the line to keep the program in first place in the ASC West Division standings with a 10-1 conference mark. She set single-game career highs for points twice as well as rebounds and steals. McLee entered the week averaging 4.1 points, 2.3 rebounds and 1.4 steals per game.
The senior first recorded a team-leading 12 points, which was a career high at the time, by shooting 4-for-7 from the field and 4-for-4 from the stripe while also providing four rebounds and three steals in a 64-51 come-from-behind win over Mary Hardin-Baylor. She then fell just shy of her first career double-double by contributing nine points and nine rebounds as well as a career-best six steals in a 64-59 victory over Texas Lutheran. McLee ended the week by accumulating a team-leading and new career-best 13 points, a team-best eight rebounds, three assists, which matched a team high, two steals and one blocked shot in a 52-41 win over Schreiner.
“Christen performed extremely well and really stepped up her game this week,” said head coach Rusty Rainbolt, whose program is off to its best start in school history with a 12-2 ledger.
McLee, a behavioral science major from San Antonio, is the daughter of Rochelle and Chris McLee. She has two sisters, Channell Rodgers and Ciara McLee.
