RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. – SWOSU junior forward Landry Allen has been named the Great American Conference Defensive Player of the Week for the eighth time this season after breaking the league's single-game blocks record last Thursday against Northwestern.
 
Allen swatted 13 shots in the victory over the Rangers, setting a new GAC single-game record. The total is the most by any NCAA Division II player this season, surpassing the previous high of 11 blocks shared by Shaw University's Mahogany Collins and Northwest Missouri State's Sadie Maas. Her 13 blocks also match the NCAA single-game high across all divisions this year, tied with Division III's Savanna Lopez of Lyon College.
 
Against Northwestern, Allen finished with 18 points, 13 blocks, and eight rebounds — two boards shy of a triple-double — while adding three steals. Seven of her eight rebounds came on the defensive end. She followed that performance by grabbing five more defensive rebounds two days later against Southern Nazarene.
 
Allen now ranks second in Division II with 5.16 blocks per game. Within the GAC, she sits eighth in scoring (15.2 ppg), seventh in rebounding (6.8 rpg), and third in steals (2.1 spg).