Former UConn stars Swin Cash and Tina Charles were named the WNBA's Western and Eastern Conference Players of the Week.

For the week, Cash led the Seattle Storm to a 1-1 record while finishing first in the Western Conference in scoring, averaging 22 points in games against Connecticut and Washington, and fourth with an average of 8 rebounds per game.

It is the first honor of the season for Cash but fifth of her career.

Charles, who won the award for the second time this season and third time in her two years in the league, led the Eastern Conference by averaging 16.5 rebounds in leading the Connecticut Sun to wins over Los Angeles and Seattle and was sixth in points (averaging 21 per game). She also tied a WNBA record with 16 rebounds in the second half against Los Angeles. Janell Burse set the mark with 16 rebounds in a half in a 2007 game.

Since the team went from honoring one player per week to handing out Eastern Conference and Western Conference awards in 2007, this is just the four time players from the school school swept the awards. Not surprisingly, UConn grads have accomplished the feat three of the four times.


UCONN SWEEPS
6/30/2008: Asjha Jones (Connecticut)/Diana Taurasi (Phoenix)
7/27/2009: Asjha Jones (Connecticut)/Sue Bird (Seattle)
7/5/2011: Tina Charles (Connecticut)/Swin Cash (Seattle)

RUTGERS SWEEP
7/6/2009: Tammy Sutton-Brown (Indiana)/Cappie Pondexter (Phoenix)