Youngstown, Ohio — After averaging 21.5 points and 18 rebounds while delivering a performance unmatched nationally in nine years, Sophia Gregory has been named the Under Armour Horizon League Women's Basketball Player of the Week.
The conference announced its weekly honors on Monday, and Gregory earned the award for the second time this season.
Gregory, a sophomore forward from Alliance, Ohio, led the Penguins to two road victories over teams that were tied for third place in the Horizon League standings entering the week. She totaled 43 points and 36 rebounds while shooting 19-for-26 from the field, and she added eight assists, five steals and three blocks. Gregory averaged nine more rebounds per game than any other player in the conference and ranked third in the league last week in scoring and field-goal percentage. Nationally, she tied for third in rebounding average for the week.
In Saturday's win at Purdue Fort Wayne, Gregory scored 37 points on 16-for-19 shooting and grabbed 19 rebounds. Only two Horizon League players scored more than 37 total points over two games last week. According to HerHoopStats.com, Gregory recorded the first 37-point, 19-rebound game by any Division I player since Columbia's Camille Zimmerman on Jan. 27, 2017. Gregory scored 14 points in the final 5:28 to help the Penguins secure the victory and clinch the No. 2 seed in the 2026 Barbasol Horizon League Women's Basketball Championship. She also contributed three assists, three steals and two blocks.
The last YSU player to score at least 37 points was Heidi Schlegel on Feb. 21, 2015, and Lilly Ritz was the most recent Penguin to grab at least 19 rebounds in a game on March 2, 2023.
Gregory began the week with 17 rebounds, which is tied for the second-most rebounds in a game by a Horizon League player this season, in a win at NKU. She added six points, five assists, two steals and a block.
Youngstown State will host Detroit Mercy in its regular-season finale at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday inside Zidian Family Arena at Beeghly Center.
