On Dec. 17, players from the women’s and men’s basketball teams earned weekly MEAC honors.

After helping the North Carolina A&T State University women's basketball team to Saturday's 60-56 road win at Liberty, redshirt junior Amber Calvin earned MEAC Player of the Week honors on Monday.

Calvin ended the victory over Liberty University, the defending Big South champions, with a team-high 21 points, including 5-for-10 shooting from beyond the arc.  She also totaled a rebound, three assists and a team-best three steals in the contest.  Seventeen of her 21 came in the first half when she hit 5 of 6 threes, including four consecutive 3-pointers in the last four minutes of the first half.

Her five 3-pointers at Liberty matched a season-high as she collected her second 20-plus point performance of the season after scoring 28 at Siena on Nov. 20.

She is shooting an impressive .545 from 3-point range, which leads the MEAC and is third nationally. She is also averaging 12.1 points, 2.4 rebounds, 2.6 assists and 1.6 steals per game this season. This week's recognition marks her first career MEAC Player of the Week honor. She earned MEAC Rookie of the Week honors on February 8, 2010 as a freshman.  

Shy two blocks of breaking a former teammate’s single-game record, Austin Witter’s eight-block, 11-defensive rebound effort against the New Jersey Institute of Technology Highlanders earned him MEAC Defensive Player of the Week honors.

Witter also had two blocks in the Aggies 77-66 loss to Seton Hall. The single-game record for blocked shots is held by Thomas Coleman who had nine blocks against Coppin State on Jan. 14, 2008. Coleman and Witter played together for two seasons.

For the season, Witter is averaging 5.3 points, 6.7 rebounds, 2.6 blocks and 1.5 assists per game. He is third in the MEAC in blocks and seventh in rebounding. Witter and the Aggies return to action on Wednesday, Dec. 19, when Eastern Kentucky comes to Corbett Sports Center for a 7 p.m., contest.