KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Fort Hays State junior receiver Monterio Burchfield earned MIAA Offensive Athlete of the Week honors for his efforts in the 31-24 win at Central Oklahoma this past Saturday. This is the second time in three weeks a player from FHSU earns the Offensive Athlete of the Week honor and is the fourth Athlete of the Week honor for FHSU in football so far this year.

Burchfield had 217 receiving yards on eight catches and the game-winning touchdown with 42 seconds remaining to lift Fort Hays State to a 31-24 win at Central Oklahoma. The game-winner was a 64-yard score as he stiff-armed his defender to the ground, then scampered from midfield to the endzone outrunning the rest of the defense. He also had the key reception on Fort Hays State’s game-tying drive moments earlier, rising over his defender for a 40-yard reception on 3rd-and-12 to put FHSU in field goal range. FHSU converted a 24-yard field goal to tie the game with 3:44 remaining. Burchfield averaged 27.1 yards per catch and helped push quarterback Jacob Mezera past the 400-yard passing mark for the game. Mezera was 27-of-37 for 401 yards.

Burchfield joins Logan Thompson (Defensive Athlete of the Week) from Emporia State and Juante Baldwin of Pittsburg State (Special Teams Athlete of the Week) from Pittsburg State as the weekly conference honorees.