Taylor Adams Award Player of the Week Week Of 3/1/2016 Sport Women's Basketball School Shorter Year Junior Position Hometown Scottsboro, Ala. High School Gadsden State Community College Shorter forward Taylor Adams (Scottsboro, Ala.) earns her league-best fourth GSC Player of the Week honor of the season. She also earned the honor Dec. 15, Dec. 22 and Jan. 26. Adams helped Shorter to a 57-46 win over Lee University last Thursday to secure the No. 3 seed and a quarterfinal home game in the VisitSpaceCoast.com Gulf South Conference Women’s Basketball Championships. Adams scored 23 and grabbed 16 rebounds for her GSC-best 13th double-double of the season. She added three steals and a blocked shot in the win. Adams finished the season as the only GSC player to average a double-double for the regular season with a GSC-best 10.6 rebounds and 16-points per game. She ranked fourth in the GSC for scoring. Adams also led the GSC in total steals (70) and steals per game (2.7). Her 40 blocks (1.5 per game) were second in the conference. Shorter (19-7, 16-6 GSC) will host No. 6 seed Alabama Huntsville in the GSC quarterfinals tonight at 7 p.m. ET. The winner will meet either Delta State or Christian Brothers in the GSC semifinals Friday in Birmingham. NAME SCHOOL Yr. G MIN FGM-FGA 3FGM-3FGA FTM-FTA REB AST BLK STL PTS Taylor Adams Shorter Jr. 1 37 9-17 0-0 5-7 16 0 1 3 23