Yellowjackets Kautzmann Earns GNAC POW Honors

SPOKANE, Wash. – Montana State Billings women’s basketball forward, Callie Kautzmann, has been selected as this week’s Great Northwest Athletic Conference Player of the Week, the conference office announced Monday. This is the first weekly honor for Kautzmann and the women’s basketball team this season.

“This is a very deserving award for Callie,” said head coach Kevin Woodin. “She’s playing great basketball right now and it’s good to see all of her offseason work paying off. She’s a complete basketball player and a great teammate.”

Kautzmann, a 5-10 sophomore, scored 63 points and also had 21 rebounds, five assists and seven steals as the Yellowjackets won three games in seven days to start the season 3-0, all by double-digit margins.

The Nampa, ID native shot 56.1 percent from the floor (23-41), 43.8 percent from the three-point line (7-16) and 90.9 percent from the free throw line (10-11) in wins over UC-Colorado Springs, University of Mary and Chadron State College.

Against UCCS, Kautzmann scored 24 points to help lead MSUB to a 91-57 rout of the Mountain Lions. In the win over Mary, she scored a career-high 26 points and five boards. Against Chadron State, Kautzmann set another career-high, this time in rebounds, with 11.