LILBURN, GA – UVA Wise sophomore Caroline Mullins has already had a big week, and now she can add something to her résumé that no one else in Highland Cavalier women's basketball history has done as she has been named the WBCA/D2CIDA NCAA Division II National Player of the Week. The announcement was released by the Women's Basketball Coaches Organization and the D2CIDA earlier today.

The Jasper, Georgia, native poured in 60 points in a pair of wins for the Cavaliers in their opening weekend of action in the Regional Crossover hosted by USC Beaufort, including a career-high 38 points in a 78-72 victory over the host school on Saturday. She connected on 13 of her 20 field goal attempts and went 12-of-15 at the free throw line in the process of recording her second double-double of the weekend. She had a career-best 15 boards in the USC Beaufort contest a day after a 22-point, 12-rebound effort in a 68-64 win over Georgia Southwestern.

Mullins was 21-of-32 from the field (65.6 percent) in the two games and went 17-of-23 at the free throw line (73.9 percent), while averaging 13.5 rebounds per game. She was also selected as the Player of the Week by the South Atlantic Conference.  

She becomes the first UVA Wise women's basketball student-athlete to be named national Player of the Week at the Division II level. Wanda Slone earned the honor at the NAIA level in 1991-92.

Mullins is the first SAC player to earn this honor since Diamond McDowell from Anderson earned it twice last season.

She will begin work on earning a repeat of the honor this evening as UVA Wise plays at King at 5:30 p.m.