College Volleyball Players Honored Week 9: UC Santa Barbara’s Rebecca Saraceno Big West Player of the Week
Big West Player of the Week - Monday, October 26, 2009
2009 Big West Women’s Volleyball
Irvine, Calif. - For the second straight week and fourth time this season, UC Santa Barbara’s Rebecca Saraceno (Redondo Beach, Calif./Redondo
Union HS) has captured Big West Women’s Volleyball Player of the Week Accolades. She becomes just the sixth player to garner four or more
weekly accolades in one season with the most recent being Cal Poly’s Kylie Atherstone, who received a league-high six honors in 2007.
Saraceno guided the Gauchos to a 2-0 week with wins over then-No. 19 UC Irvine and UC Riverside, improving their conference mark to 6-3. In
the five-set marathon at UC Irvine, the senior outside hitter notched her 13th double-double of the season with 28 kills and 13 digs. Friday’s outing
marked the fourth consecutive match in which Saraceno recorded at least 27 kills.
She followed up that stellar performance with a 13-kill, seven-dig outing in UC Santa Barbara’s sweep over UC Riverside Saturday night. In three
sets, Saraceno tallied a .162 hitting percentage and also recorded one service ace and one block.
For the week, Saraceno averaged 5.23 kills and 2.50 digs per game while hitting a .184 clip.
Others nominated: Brittney Herzog (Long Beach State), Betsy Sedlak (UC Davis), Alexandra Hauser (UC Irvine), Dominique Cowling (UC Riverside)
