Region V announced today that Temple's Makayla Gatewood has been named the North Texas Junior College Athletic Conference Player of the Week for the week of February 3-9.

Gatewood, a sophomore forward from Killeen, averaged 28.5 points per game and 14 rebounds per game last week in the Lady Leopards games against Grayson (31 points, 14 rebounds) and Weatherford (26 points, 14 rebounds). For the full story on the Region V website please click here. 

Gatewood has had nine double-double games on the year, two of which were in last week's performances. This is also Gatewood's third Player of the Week Honor this season. She also received Player of the Week for October 28-November 3 after starting the season with back to back double-doubles. Her other Player of the Week honor was for the week of December 30 – January 5 in which she averaged 17 points and 11.3 rebounds in a three-game stretch and recorded two double-doubles.

Gatewood and the Lady Leopards will be in action tomorrow at 5:30 p.m. against Collin County on the road in Plano.