Warfel Repeats as CL Player of the Week, Blount Earns Second Weekly Honor

CL Athletes of the Week Nov. 3-9 | TU Honors Page

JACKSON, Mich. – For the second week in a row, Taylor University's Kaycie Warfel has earned the Crossroads League Offensive Player of the Week honor, league headquarters announced this afternoon, while teammate Celina Blount was named the CL Defensive Player of the Week. TU has already claimed four of the six CL women's basketball player of the week awards – a new single-season high under head coach Cassie Wiseman.

Warfel, a freshman from Pendleton, Indiana, is off to an incredible start in her college career and leads the NAIA in scoring at 34.3 points per game. She led TU to a pair of victories last week with a 38-point outing in the Trojans' impressive 111-90 home win on Wednesday over RV Olivet Nazarene, and followed that up with 37 points during Saturday's 87-62 victory at IU Columbus which featured 18 points during a big third-quarter run. For the week, Warfel shot a combined 58.5 percent overall from the field and 7-of-10 (70%) shooting from three-point range, while going 20 for 23 (87%) at the free-throw line. Warfel is the first player in school history with 37 or more points in three consecutive games.

Blount, a sophomore from Liberty Township, Ohio, posted back-to-back double-doubles last week to help the Trojans remain undefeated while averaging 14.5 points, 14.0 rebounds and 5.5 blocks in the pair of victories. For the second time in four games, Blount tied the TU single-game record for blocks with eight against RV Olivet Nazarene, which nearly gave her a triple-double after posting 14 points with a career-high 16 rebounds. She continued her paint dominance with a career-best 15 points, 12 boards and three blocks in the road victory over IU Columbus. Blount has registered three double-doubles in four outings and leads the NAIA in blocks per game at 4.8 (among leaders that have played more than one game). Overall, through four contests, she's averaging a double-double with 13.0 points and 10.3 rebounds per night.

Blount and Warfel are the first Trojans named league player of the week twice in one season since Taylor Westgate in 2023-2024. Warfel is the first Trojan to win back-to-back CL weekly awards since Becca Buchs in 2019-2020.

Across all sports, the Trojans have now claimed 25 athlete-of-the-week awards during the 2025-2026 school year.

TU (4-0) will return to action on Saturday afternoon when it travels to Trinity Christian (0-3) for a 2 p.m. ET tipoff inside DeVos Gymnasium.