NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- First-year guard Kiley Capstraw (West Orange, N.J.), who led the Yale women's basketball team with 18 points in Sunday's 60-58 overtime win vs. Drexel, has been named Ivy League Rookie of the Week. The league announced the award on Monday.
 
Capstraw has emerged as Yale's leading scorer, averaging 11.3 points per game, after totaling 28 points in two games last week. She shot 9-for-17 from the field (.529), including three three-pointers, and hit all seven of her free throw attempts. She totaled eight rebounds, two assists and two steals. 
 
Capstraw has scored in double digits in five of Yale's last six games. She leads all Ivy League first years in scoring, and is the only first year in the league who is leading her team in scoring. 
 
Capstraw is a graduate of West Orange High, where she led her team to its first Essex County Championship (2019) and was a member of the National Honor Society. She is the first Bulldog to earn Ivy League Rookie of the Week this season. Last year Yale had three different honorees.
 
Yale (5-6, 0-0 Ivy League) hosts BU Tuesday at 4:00 p.m.
 

First-Year Scoring Leaders for Each Ivy League Team
Team	First Name	Last Name	Points per game	Rank on team
Brown	Grace	Arnolie	10.4	3rd
Columbia	Susie	Rafiu	3.6	7th
Cornell	Emily	Pape	8.9	4th
Dartmouth	Olivia	Lawlor	9.3	2nd
Harvard	Saniyah	Glenn-Bello	5.3	5th
Penn	Simone	Sawyer	9.6	3rd
Princeton	Madison	St. Rose	5.7	5th
Yale	Kiley	Capstraw	11.3	1st

 

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