COLUMBUS, Miss. – It was a good week for The W Athletics, and it only follows then that the Owls' teams would dominate the St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference's (SLIAC) Player of the Week honors for the period of January 5-11, 2026. MUW earned all six SLIAC awards possible for the sports in which it fields teams: women's basketball, men's basketball, men's track events, men's field events, women's track events, and women's field events.
For women's basketball, senior guard
Conley Langford (Calhoun City, Miss.) earned the recognition for the first time this season, after leading The W ladies to a 2-0 week and extending the team's SLIAC winning streak to three games. Langford averaged a double-double of 25.5 points and 14.5 rebounds per game, while also producing 2.5 assists and 2.5 steals per contest. Among her feats was a season-high 31 points versus Eureka College last Thursday and 20 points at Blackburn on Saturday, including tallying the first five of the Owls' seven overtime points in the win. Langford made good on seven three-point baskets on the week and hit 43 percent from the field (18-43), overall.
In picking up his third SLIAC Player of the Week award of 2025-26,
Tray Huguley (Saks, Ala.) propelled the MUW men's hoops squad to a 2-0 week – and its fifth-straight SLIAC victory – to keep the Owls in a tie for second in the league standings (one game out of first place). Huguley continued to entrench himself as one of the league's premier players by averaging a double-double of 26.0 points and 15.0 rebounds per game, all while hitting 74 percent from the floor (25-34), as well as 3.0 assists and 1.5 blocks per outing. It was also the sophomore sensation's 12th consecutive game in double-digit scoring and eighth double-double effort in the last nine MUW games.
The W's track and field opener at the University of Alabama-Birmingham Vulcan Invitational, run at the Birmingham CrossPlex, produced several efforts that entrenched Owl competitors among the SLIAC leaders. Chief among those was men's sophomore
Jarvis Sellers (Pascagoula, Miss.), who was picked as the track events Player of the Week. Sellars obliterated the school record in the 800-meter run, posting a SLIAC-leading time of 2:05.11 minutes. That was more than four full seconds faster than the previous time, set by Joshua Gonsalves in 2023 on the very same track.
Men's teammate, freshman
Malachi Morgan (Decatur, Ala.) was tabbed as the SLIAC men's field events Player of the Week. Morgan registered the SLIAC's best height, thus far, by hitting 1.86 meters at the UAB meet. He placed seventh in the event's standings. Morgan was also eighth in the finals of the 60-meter dash in a time of 7.10 seconds (after running a 7.11 in the preliminaries).
Women's track freshman
Re'Niyah Irving (Ripley, Miss.) had quite a collegiate debut for the Owls. Irving registered the fourth-fastest times among SLIAC competitors this season in both the 60 meters (8.39) and the 60-meter hurdles (10.49) to earn Player of the Week status for on-track events.
In women's field events, sophomore thrower
Brooklyn Kelley (Helena, Ala.) was the SLIAC's honoree. Kelley hit the No. 2 SLIAC mark in the shot put with a heave of 11.03 meters. In the weight throw, Kelley's effort of 11.82 meters was No. 3 on the SLIAC's season performance list.
