WB2K22: IG Faves

Let's have some fun on this one. Athletes are realizing the power of social media and here we will feature our favorite women's basketball players from Instagram. Some of them might be big time talents, others may be role players or even bench warmers but here they all get love. They are intelligent enough to use social media to bring more exposure to themselves, their team and the sport and that is nothing but a positive for women's basketball.

Kasey Kidwell @kidwell05

Kasey Kidwell is a 5-8 senior guard playing at Austin Peay. A native of Asheville, North Carolina, she is averaging 7.3 after her team's first four games. Her top scoring game of the season was a 12-point effort against Butler. In that game she also grabbed a season high four rebounds. So far she is shooting an impressive 55 percent overall including 40 percent from three-point land. This year she has made four out of 10 threes, which is better than last season when she made just four out 29 three-point attempts in 17 games.

Destiny Fields @des.nicol

Destiny Fields is a junior forward at West Virginia State. The 5-10 native of Reynoldsburg, Ohio has been a good scorer and rebounder during her career. She entered the season with career averages of 12.1 points and 6.9 boards per game. This season she got off to a slow start averaging 2.6 points in her first three games of the season. During the last two contests she is averaging 18 points per game. She scored a season high 22 points, shooting 2-4 from long distance in a 78-73 overtime road win over Elizabeth City State.

Lavender Briggs @lavbriggs

Lavender Briggs is back from a season ending injury from 2020-21. She is a very capable scoring threat for Florida. Last season she averaged 19.5 points in 18 games before her sophomore campaign ended abruptly. This year she is in the process of finding her groove, averaging 12.1 points and 5.6 rebounds per game. The 6-1 guard, who is a native of Provo, Utah, had a solid game against George Washington, when she scored 18 points with seven rebounds, four assists and three steals on Nov. 27. Her brightest moment so far was when she scored 41 points last season against Arkansas. Only three other players in school history has scored more points in one game.

KeKe McKinney @ke_mckinney

Once a forward for Kentucky, now competing for Charlotte, KeKe McKinney is averaging 9.5 points and 6.5 rebounds so far this season. On Nov. 27, she had her best game of the season so far in an 18-point win over St. John's. McKinney shot 6-7 scoring 15 points, while hauling down 10 rebounds and dishing out three assists. McKinney gets it done in the classroom as well. Last season she was named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll. The fifth year forward is a 6-1 native of Knoxville, Tennessee. She currently leads the team with eight blocked shots in the first six games of the year.

Fujika Nimmo @fujika_n

Fujika Nimmo is another transfer who competed for Florida International last year. Now she is at Cal State Fullerton where she is averaging 10 points per game after the first six games of her junior campaign. Nimmo is a 5-8 guard from Davenport, Florida, who has scored a season best 17 points against Utah State, Nov. 13. Last year she averaged 12.1 points, while leading Florida International to a post season run in the Women's Basketball Invitational. She had a strong offensive game in the tournament against Abilene Christian when she scored 28 points on 10-14 shooting. She also had six steals and four assists.