NATCHITOCHES—A tremendous week for Vernell Atamah finished out on a great note.

Following a week in which she averaged nearly 26 points and 11 rebounds per game in three victories, Atamah took home the final Southland Conference Player of the Week award.

This is the third conference weekly award this season.

She is the first player to earn three weekly awards in the Anna Nimz era.

In the regular season finale, she scored 31 points and grabbed 14 rebounds in an 81-65 win over New Orleans, eclipsing the 1,000-point mark in the process. She is the second youngest and fourth fastest player in program history to accomplish it.

It was her second game with at least 30 points this season, also doing so when playing UIW.

Atamah broke into the 1,000-point club with a driving layup early in the second quarter.

To start the week, she scored 26 points and grabbed eight rebounds in a monster road overtime victory against UTRGV. She scored 11 points in the final 16 minutes to help lead the Demons to the comeback victory, including scoring the final three points of the game.

She buried a pair of free throws with 15 seconds left to put the Demons in front by two possessions late.

In the middle game on the road against Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, she scored 12 of her 20 points in the third quarter, including making back-to-back-to-back 3-pointers to finish the third quarter and bust the game wide open.

Atamah's 579 points are already tied for the sixth most in program history and her 19.3 overall points and 19.0 points per game during SLC play both lead the league.

She has made 87 3-pointers this season, which is second in program history for a single season, only one behind Beatrice Attura's total of 88 in 2016-17.

The sophomore has scored at least 20 points on 17 occasions and has scored at least 15 on 23 occasions.

In addition to her scoring prowess, she also cleans up the glass, hauling down eight rebounds per game during league play, which ranks third in the league.

Next up for Atamah and her teammates is the SLC Tournament, which begins for NSU on Monday, as the fifth-seeded Demons take on eighth-seeded East Texas A&M at 11 a.m.