{"id":58852,"date":"2021-03-02T08:02:06","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T14:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=58852"},"modified":"2021-03-02T08:02:08","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T14:02:08","slug":"randall-named-miaa-athlete-of-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=58852","title":{"rendered":"Randall named MIAA athlete of week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By FHSU SPORTS INFORMATION<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> KANSAS CITY, Mo. &#8211; Fort Hays State senior <a href=\"https:\/\/linkprotect.cudasvc.com\/url?a=http%3a%2f%2ffhsuathletics.com%2fservices%2fgo.ashx%2f848d2331-ced9-4054-8404-3f86472549d2%3felinkdata%3d158147&amp;c=E,1,UdkGK_CQ15szMnatRZAIO93lhKti2E0TgmtdavZ6d4LXnyPl9yjwtFKZZJHYleV15uES_ZdedcopbX2USReA52VnIVaJjSc75X3ledQru9oUH1Cn7Gy93w,,&amp;typo=1\">Whitney Randall<\/a> has been named this week&#8217;s MIAA women&#8217;s basketball athlete of the week, announced Monday (March 1) by the league office.<br><br> Randall scored a career-high 29 points in Thursday&#8217;s win at Missouri Western, helping the Tigers lock up the regular season MIAA title with a 77-69 victory. The senior knocked down 9-of-16 from the floor (56.3 percent), 2-of-4 from behind the arc (50 percent) and 9-of-12 from the charity stripe (75 percent) while grabbing five rebounds and dishing out five assists in the win over the Griffons. Randall had already tallied a career-best 27 points before the end of the third quarter.<br><br> She then added eight points and a game-high nine rebounds in Saturday&#8217;s 70-47 win at Northwest Missouri State. The Alva, Okla. native averaged 18.5 points, 7.0 rebounds and 3.0 assists per game for the week.<br><br> This is the second weekly honor for a Tiger player this season after <a href=\"https:\/\/linkprotect.cudasvc.com\/url?a=http%3a%2f%2ffhsuathletics.com%2fservices%2fgo.ashx%2fa95ca881-6147-4d89-b506-a08b745ee838%3felinkdata%3d158147&amp;c=E,1,k538jWsHj677q7iWcXJ4jznz3N_B2Ut0OlxTZp8OsOyNhsJrOoqD3WyHcGlNiyxtN4AJo5LcDkzyMeQv58gdLInjT2Wfp5DL5nO7J7UG1TQ,&amp;typo=1\">Jaden Hobbs<\/a> was named athlete of the week in December.<br><br> Randall finished the regular season with 996 career points, just four points shy of becoming the 22nd 1,000-point scorer in FHSU history. She will look to eclipse the 1,000-point plateau at home on Wednesday (March 3) when the Tigers host Missouri Southern in the quarterfinal round of the 2021 MIAA Championship Tournament, presented by Citizens Bank beginning at 6 p.m. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By FHSU SPORTS INFORMATION KANSAS CITY, Mo. &#8211; Fort Hays State senior Whitney Randall has been named this week&#8217;s MIAA women&#8217;s basketball athlete of the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7349,3395],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","category-womens-basketball-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58853,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58852\/revisions\/58853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}