NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- First-year guard
Kiley Capstraw (West Orange, N.J.), who shot .500 while totaling 20 points and nine rebounds as the Yale women's basketball team earned two Ivy League road wins last weekend, has been named Ivy League Rookie of the Week. The league announced the award on Monday.
This is the fourth time this season Capstraw has earned the award; all of those selections have come in the last five weeks.
In Yale's 57-47 win at Dartmouth Friday Capstraw scored 11 points, second on the team, while hitting five of her 10 shots. She also had seven rebounds, one away from her season high. In the Bulldogs' 71-70 overtime win at Harvard Saturday she had nine points, including a critical three-pointer in overtime. She finished the Harvard game with zero turnovers, the second time this season she has played 29 or more turnover-free minutes in a game.
Capstraw is Yale's leading scorer and is 12th in the league, averaging 11.6 points per game. 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. She and Brown's Grace Arnolie are the only players who have earned more than one Ivy League Rookie of the Week honor this season. Arnolie has won the award twice.
The Yale record for Ivy League Rookie of the Week honors in a season is six, held by four players:
- Katy Grubbs '99 (1996)
- Melissa Colborne '10 (2007)
- Sarah Halejian '15 (2012)
- Camilla Emsbo '23 (2019)
The Ivy League record is 10, held by three players.
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.
Yale (8-8, 0-0 Ivy League) hosts Cornell Saturday at 3:00 p.m.
