Coupeville grad Makana Stone is impressing English basketball fans. (Photo property FocusHoops)
Two games, two awards.
Makana Stone’s hoops game is impressing the folks in England, as the former Wolf star continues to carve up the local competition.
The Coupeville High School grad, who is attending Loughborough University, has thrown down double-doubles in both of her games in a Riders uniform.
After an 18-point, 25-rebound debut, which earned her Player of the Week honors, Stone followed that up with a 17-point, 11-rebound performance in just 17 minutes of action against Worcester.
For that high-impact showing, FocusHoops named her Tuesday to its Women’s National Basketball League Team of the Week.
Stone joins Worcester’s Carolina Marques and Grace Brownell, as well as Sitota Gines Espinosa (Reading) and Isabel Bueriberi (Nottingham) on the squad.
In picking Stone, FocusHoops writer Darren Paul had the following to say:
“Her 17-11 double-double was highly impressive against the tough Worcester Wolves and on another day would have been enough to see her side victorious.
“The American continues to demonstrate the value of a star import and has brought an abundance of scoring and rebounding to the young Loughborough outfit, and we expect to see her leave her mark on the WNBL.”
Stone, who graduated from Whitman College in Walla Walla, where she finished as the #2 rebounder and #5 scorer in program history, is pursuing a Master’s in Exercise Physiology at Loughborough.
Through two games as a Rider, she’s collected 35 points, 36 rebounds, five assists, five steals, and a blocked shot.
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