Purdue Northwest Women's Basketball senior Alyssa Cole (Nashville, Ill./Nashville Community) has earned this weeks RUSH Physical Therapy Athlete of the Week honors after her amazing weekend of play at the GLIAC/GLVC Crossover to open the 2025-26 campaign.

Cole helped lead the Pride offensively to open the season at the GLIAC/GLVC Crossover and propel them to a 1-1 start. She ended the weekend averaging 18.0 points per game, 8.5 rebounds per game, and finished with a phenomenal .632 shooting percentage.

Cole also finished going 8-of-10 from the free-throw line and .444 from three-point range to round out her tremendous weekend of play.

This is her second recognition this week after being named GLIAC Offensive Player of the Week for women's basketball

The RUSH Physical Therapy Athlete of the Week is a new Purdue Northwest Athletics honor to help celebrate our student-athletes each and every week. 

RUSH Physical Therapy is the official physical therapy and athletic training provider of Purdue Northwest Athletics and has locations in Indiana and Illinois as well as a location in the Purdue University Northwest Hammond Campus Fitness and Recreation Center. The athletic trainers and physical therapists from RUSH help keep our student-athletes healthy and have been working with athletes like Cole and her teammates for the past several years and they can help you, too. Schedule online at RUSHpt.com and experience the power of physical therapy today.

Continue too follow all PNW Athletics social medias and check pnwathletics.com for future RUSH Physical Therapy Player of the Week honorees.