Celebrating our Women: Saadia Doyle

Howard forward Saadia Doyle was named the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) Player of the Week on February 21st. That week, Doyle (Forward, 5-11, Sophomore) averaged 28.0 points, 1.5 rebounds and 2.5 steals to aid the Lady Bison to two winsagainst Norfolk State and Florida A&M. In the 66-49 win over Norfolk State, Doyle posted a career-high 38 points, 10 rebounds, and stole three passes. She followed that performance with a double-double of 18 points, 13 rebounds and two steals in against Florida A&M. For the week, Doyle shot 48.0 percent from the floor and 80.0 percent from the charity stripe. On February 26th, she was named the HSRN Player of the week.

And just recently, she was named the MEAC PLAYER OF THE YEAR!!! Doyle, the 2010 MEAC Rookie of the Year, averaged 18.2 points and 8.9 rebounds to aid the Lady Bison to a 9-6-conference record and a 13-16 overall mark. The Atlanta, GA native reached the 1,000 point mark against Maryland Eastern Shore on February 26 to become the second player in Howard history to score 1,000 points in only two years of competition. The sophomore currently leads the conference in scoring and ranks among the top five in free-throw percentage (76.0) and minutes played (34.9). She is also ranked 22nd in the nation with 13 double-double performances.

MARCH

It's a new month with brand new mercies!

March is Women's Month, and so the theme for this month is “Virtuous Women.” We will be exploring what it means to be a woman, and what it means to be virtuous. Send in articles about women who impacted your life, different experiences you’ve had, or stories about women who’ve overcome. If you would like to send in an entry, please email it to  nulife.blog@gmail.com. If you have any other questions/comments, please send it there as well.

Virtuous Woman Campaign – REVAMPED

Every spring semester, we have our Virtuous Woman Campaign. This semester,  we decided to attack the campaign from an alternate method. Instead of having a Virtuous Woman Week, we are launching a PR campaign to recognize and celebrate virtuous women as well as challenge people’s understanding of what it means to be virtuous. We won’t be having events. Instead, we will be doing the following:

· Handing out carnations to the women students during prayer at the flagpole

· Posting blogs and facebook messages/statuses examining the meaning of virtuousity, stories about real life virtuous women, tributes in song, verse, and visual art, etc.

· Posting tweets encouraging women to examine their own meaning of virtuous and remain virtuous

· Chalking the campus as well (see previous)

· Flyers, etc. at the prayer booth giving tribute to virtuous women

· Youtube videos

We will also be having the White Room at the end of March. Part of its mission is to shed light/give testimony to the individual different ways we walk out the process to becoming virtuous. The theme for the White Room is “Letting Go of My Ex,” moving on from different “ex-es” to become more and more whole, to become more and more virtuous.

Have a great month, and we hope the blogs will help you deeper your understanding of all things!