BLOOMINGTON, Minn. -- The Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) announced its Athlete of the Week award winners for basketball and hockey on Monday. Student-athletes from Augsburg, Concordia, Macalester, Saint John's, Saint Mary's, and St. Olaf claimed the Conference's weekly honors.

The MIAC Athlete of the Week awards are nominated by the Conference's sports information directors and selected by MIAC staff. Throughout the winter season, team sports (basketball and hockey) Athletes of the Week will be recognized on Monday afternoons, with individual sports (swimming & diving) announced on Tuesday afternoons. The winners of the latest Athlete of the Week awards are listed below, along with details on their outstanding performances.

For this week of honors, the Saint Mary's women's hockey team (5-5-0, 2-4-0) swept the weekly conference honors with a pair earning their first conference honors of the season.

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MIAC Women's Hockey Offensive Player of the Week

Celia Midtbo

Saint Mary's University

Jr. | Defender

Minneapolis, Minn. / Minneapolis

Celia Midtbo scored her first three goals of the season in the second game of the Cardinals' sweep of UW-Stevens Point on 1/3. After recording two blocks and a +2 in the opening game of the weekend series on 1/2, Midtbo contributed all three goals in the team's 3-1 win on 1/3 while adding one more block to her stat line as well. The hat trick was the second of her collegiate career.

MIAC Women's Hockey Defensive Player of the Week 

Audrey Abeln

Saint Mary's University

So. | Goaltender

St. Charles, Mo. / Gilmour Academy

Audrey Abeln earned a victory in the first start of her collegiate career, stopping 28 of 29 shots in the Cardinals' 3-1 win over UW-Stevens Point on 1/3. Abeln played all 60 minutes between the pipes and was also credited with the first assist of her career on the Cardinals' second goal of the game.