{"id":63444,"date":"2025-11-24T22:24:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T22:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/63444\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T22:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T22:24:07","slug":"meekins-magic-lcu-freshman-torches-lsc-for-first-career-weekly-honor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/63444\/","title":{"rendered":"Meekins Magic: LCU Freshman Torches LSC for First Career Weekly Honor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                &#13;<br \/>\n                    Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                 RICHARDSON, Texas (November 24, 2025) \u2013 Lubbock Christian University freshman guard <a href=\"https:\/\/lcuchaps.com\/sports\/womens-basketball\/roster\/meg-meekins\/4856\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"4856\" target=\"_blank\">Meg Meekins<\/a> has been named the Lone Star Conference Women&#8217;s Basketball Offensive Player of the Week, announced by the league office. The honor is the first LSC weekly award of Meekins&#8217; career and continues the Lady Chaps&#8217; early-season trend of featuring one of the conference&#8217;s most dynamic backcourts.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Nocona, Texas native powered No.7 LCU to a 2\u20130 week, averaging 24.5 points, 5.5 made threes, 5.0 rebounds, 3.5 assists and 1.5 steals, while shooting an elite 58.1% from the field and 64.7% from three over wins against Southern Nazarene and Southern Arkansas. Meekins led all LSC players for the week in scoring (49 points), three-point field goals (11) and three-point percentage among high-volume shooters.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nMeekins delivered a breakout performance in her home debut Friday, pouring in 24 points on 6\u2013of\u20138 from three\u2014tied for the seventh-most threes in a game by an LCU player since 2008\u2014while adding six rebounds, five assists and three steals in a 72\u201349 win over Southern Nazarene. She followed with 25 points on 9\u2013of\u201316 shooting (5\u2013of\u20139 3FG) in a 73\u201361 victory over Southern Arkansas, marking her second straight home game opening 3-for-3 from deep in the first quarter.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThrough the week, Meekins rose to the top of the Lone Star Conference statistical leaderboard, finishing ranked No.1 in scoring (24.5 ppg), No.1 in three-point makes, No.2 in three-point percentage, No.8 in field-goal percentage (.581) and No.9 in minutes (33.2 mpg). Her 49-point week helped keep LCU unbeaten at 6\u20130 while extending the Lady Chaps&#8217; home winning streak to 21 consecutive games.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nMeekins joins Kennedy Chappel as LSC weekly award recipients this season, as Chappell was recognized with Offensive Player of the Week accolades Nov. 5. LCU returns to action Monday evening at Southwestern Oklahoma State with a nonconference contest inside Pioneer Cellular Events Center.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; RICHARDSON, Texas (November 24, 2025) \u2013 Lubbock Christian University freshman guard Meg Meekins has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":{"0":"post-63444","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-lubbock","9":"tag-lubbock-headlines","10":"tag-lubbock-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}