Female Volleyball Players Of The Week And All-Tournament Volleyball Teams Named This Weekend Nov 14 (Week 12)
Big Ten Volleyball Players of the Week
The Big Ten Conference announced its volleyball players of the week on Monday. Below are this week’s honorees:
Volleyball Player of the Week:
Blair Brown, Penn State
Sr., Opp., Purcellville, Va./Loudoun Valley
Brown claims Big Ten Player of the Week for the second time this season after leading Penn State into a tie for first-place in the Big Ten with weekend sweeps of No. 9 Illinois and Wisconsin. The senior led the Nittany Lions with 14 kills to go along with five digs and five blocks against the Badgers on Friday, then recorded a team-high 13 kills and seven digs in a three-set win over the ninth-ranked Illini to pull even in the conference race. Brown averaged 4.5 kills on .463 hitting, 2.0 digs and 1.2 blocks on the week, taking home her third career weekly honor.
Last Penn State Player of the Week: Blair Brown (Nov. 1, 2010)
Defensive Volleyball Player of the Week:
Jessica Granquist, Minnesota
Jr., LIB, Blaine, Minn./Blaine
Granquist is honored with her third Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week award after finishing with back-to-back 22-dig performances in the Gophers’ weekend wins over No. 16 Michigan and Michigan State. The junior was part of the Minnesota defense which held opponents to .143 hitting on the weekend, while her 22 digs in each match, a three-setter versus Michigan and a five-set contest against Michigan State, are tied for the third-most in the conference this season. She averaged 5.5 digs on the weekend and also received 42 of 43 service attempts.
Last Minnesota Defensive Player of the Week: Jessica Granquist (Oct. 4, 2010)
Freshman of the Week:
Deja McClendon, Penn State
OH, Louisville, Ky./DuPont Manual Magnet
McClendon wins Big Ten Freshman of the Week honors for the fourth time this season, earning the honor this week after averaging 3.7 kills on .553 hitting and 1.7 digs in Penn State’s weekend sweeps of No. 9 Illinois and Wisconsin. The freshman recorded back-to-back double-digit kill matches, finishing with 10 against the Badgers and 12 versus the Illini. She added three digs and three blocks against Wisconsin, while her seven digs against Illinois gave her 10 for the week.
Last Penn State Freshman of the Week: Katie Slay (Nov. 11, 2010)
Nov. 15 Conference USA Volleyball Players of the Week
A trio of players earn C-USA weekly honors.
Elizabeth Fleming, Marshall
IRVING, Texas - Conference USA has named Kathryn Wilkerson of SMU, Jessica Adams of Tulsa and Marshall's Elizabeth Fleming its weekly volleyball award winners. Wilkerson was named C-USA Offensive Player of the Week, while leading the Mustangs to a pair of C-USA victories. She averaged a double-double as well as 4.22 kills, 3.33 digs and 0.78 blocks per set, plus produced a .263 hitting efficiency.
Adams collects her third C-USA Defensive Player of the Week honor for the season and seventh of her career as No. 25 Tulsa swept UCF and UTEP last weekend. The Oklahoma City, Okla. native accounted for 5.67 digs per set.
Fleming averaged 11.88 assists per set and surpassed the 5,000 assist plateau in a three-set sweep of Rice to become the third player in program history and eighth in C-USA history to do so. She currently sits at No. 8 all-time in C-USA in career assists with 5,067. This is Fleming's ninth career Setter of the Week honor but first for this season.
Complete Release: http://conferenceusa.cstv.com/sports/w-volley/spec-rel/111510aab.html
Mountain West Conference Announces New Mexico's Lisa Meeter Volleyball Player of the Week
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – University of New Mexico outside hitter Lisa Meeter has been named Mountain West Conference Volleyball Player of the Week. It is the third league weekly honor for Meeter this season and for her career.
Meeter, a 5-11 senior from Colorado Springs, Colo., led the Lobos to 3-0 wins over No. 13 Colorado State and Wyoming last week. Meeter recorded double-doubles in each match, starting with a team-leading 15 kills and 15 digs in UNM’s first win over a ranked opponent since Oct. 6, 2007 on Thursday night. Against Wyoming on Saturday, she recorded 12 kills and 10 digs to go along with three blocks.
For the week, Meeter averaged 4.50 kills, 4.17 digs and 4.17 points per set, while hitting .344 (27-6-61) over six sets. She also had four assists and three blocks.
2010 MWC Volleyball Players of the WeekAug. 30 Paije Pearson, Jr., OH, San Diego State
Sept. 7 Karolina Bartkowiak, Sr., OPP, Utah
Sept. 13 Irene Hester, Sr., OH, TCU
Sept. 20 Lisa Meeter, Sr., OH, New Mexico
Sept. 27 Megan Plourde, So., MB, Colorado State
Andrea Hannasch, So., MB, San Diego State
Oct. 4 Jodi Purdy, So., OH, Wyoming
Oct. 11 Stephanie Snow, Sr., MB, BYU
Oct. 18 Danielle Minch, Sr., OH, Colorado State
Oct. 25 Caroline Kurtz, Sr., OH, Air Force
Lisa Meeter, Sr., OH, New Mexico
Nov. 1 Karolina Bartkowiak, Sr., OPP, Utah
Nov. 8 Lauren Whitney, Sr., OH, Wyoming
Nov. 15 Lisa Meeter, Sr., OH, New Mexico
Lisa Meeter Earns Third Mountain West Volleyball Player of the Week Award
Helped Lobos to seventh straight win
Nov. 15, 2010
Colorado Springs, Colo. - Lisa Meeter just keeps winning awards. For the third time this season, the senior outside hitter has been named Mountain West Conference Volleyball Player of the Week.
Meeter, a 5-11 senior from Colorado Springs, Colo., led the Lobos to 3-0 wins over No. 13 Colorado State and Wyoming last week. Meeter recorded double-doubles in each match, starting with a team-leading 15 kills and 15 digs in UNM's first win over a ranked opponent since Oct. 6, 2007 on Thursday night. Against Wyoming on Saturday, she recorded 12 kills and 10 digs to go along with three blocks.
The double-doubles gave her a career-high 13 this year, and 37 in her career, good for a tie for 6th on the MWC charts. She was the player of the match and interviewed on national television after the win over Colorado State, which was shown on the mtn.
For the week, Meeter averaged 4.50 kills, 4.17 digs and 4.17 points per set, while hitting .344 (27-6-61) over six sets. She also had four assists and three blocks. The Lobos head to Utah on Thursday for another match on the mtn., starting at 7:30 p.m., and then the squad travels to BYU for a 7:30 p.m. match on Saturday night.
Meeter previously won the award on Sept. 20, and she was co-player of the week on Oct. 25.
Kelly Svoboda Picks Up Second Straight Mid American Conference Weekly Accolade
BUFFALO, NY – University at Buffalo volleyball freshman Kelly Svoboda has been named the MAC East Defensive Player of the Week for the second straight week, the Mid-American Conference announced from their offices in Cleveland this morning. The honor is the third straight for UB.
Svoboda finished with 43 digs on the weekend, tying her career high with 25 at Akron on Thursday night in UB’s five-set victory. Svoboda followed that performance up with 18 digs in a three-set loss at Toledo in the regular season finale. Svoboda also had a service ace in the win against the Zips.
Svoboda currently leads the Bulls with 436 digs, which is currently 10th in school history for digs in a single season. Svoboda also has 23 aces on the year and 63 assists. She has 83 digs in the last four matches alone.
Svoboda and the Bulls begin Mid-American Conference Tournament play on Tuesday night at Akron. The 10th-seeded Bulls take on the seventh-seeded Zips at 7:00 pm.
Dayton Volleyball Player Lindsay Fletemeier Named A-10 Volleyball Player of the Week
Fletemier Guided UD To A 15-0 Atlantic 10 Record With .679 Hitting Percentage Over The Weekend
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. – After guiding No. 17 Dayton to an undefeated 15-0 conference season senior middle blocker Lindsay Fletemier was named Atlantic 10 Offensive Player of the Week on Monday for her fifth A-10 weekly honor of the season.
Fletemier recorded a.697 hitting percentage last weekend with 23 kills and no attacking errors in leading Dayton to a perfect 15-0 conference season and back-to-back undefeated home seasons. The Garden City, Mich., native guided UD to a sweep at Fordham with eight kills on 11 swings, before recording 15 kills (.682 hitting percentage) in another three-set win over Saint Louis to help UD become the second team since 1998 to go undefeated through the A-10 conference slate.
On the defensive side, Fletemier registered seven blocks to help hold weekend opponents to a .132 hitting percentage.
It is the fourth consecutive week that Dayton has featured the A-10 Offensive Player of the Week, represented by three different players (Fletemier, Rachael Krabacher, Jessica Yanz).
It is the 16th Atlantic 10 weekly award in Fletemier’s career and fifth of the season, including four Offensive Player of the Week awards (9/21, 9/28, 11/2, 11/15) and one Defensive Player of the Week honor on Sept. 7. In Fletemier's four seasons with UD, she has been named Offensive Player of the Week eight times, Defensive Player of the Week three times and Rookie of the Week five times.
Charlotte’s Kat Hicks and Amanda Videmsek were named Defensive Player of the Week and Rookie of the Week, respectively.
The 17th-ranked Flyers will be the top seed in the 2010 Atlantic 10 Championship which commences on Friday in Cincinnati, hosted by Xavier at the Cintas Center. With a first round bye, UD will play fourth-seeded Duquesne or fifth-seeded Fordham on Saturday at 7:30 p.m.
Arkansas State Sweeps SBC Volleyball Player of the Week Honors
NEW ORLEANS – Arkansas State’s Cayla Fielder and Megan Baska have been named the Sun Belt Conference Volleyball Player and Defensive Player of the Week, respectively, as announced by the conference office on Monday.
The honor is the first of the season for Fielder and the second of her career. Baska has now racked up four Defensive Player of the Week honors to bring the total to five on the year for the Red Wolves.
Junior Cayla Fielder led the A-State squad to a 3-0 week in Sun Belt Conference action, taking wins over UALR, ULM and Louisiana-Lafayette. Fielder tied her career high of 22 kills for the third time this season in the Red Wolves’ four-set win over UALR Tuesday and added another 30 on the weekend, totaling 52 for a 5.20 average last week. In ASU’s three-set sweep over ULL, she hit for .500 and put up 17 kills. The Jonesboro, Ark., native also added 10 digs and six blocks this week, including four unassisted (two against each ULM and ULL). Fielder now owns a total of 326 kills on the year.
Freshman Megan Baska racked up another 51 digs to her credit as the Red Wolves went 3-0 last week in Sun Belt Conference action. She tallied 22 digs for a 5.50 average in ASU’s 3-1 victory over UALR Tuesday. Over the weekend, she chalked up 13 digs in A-State’s 3-0 sweep over ULM and another 16 when the Red Wolves topped Louisiana-Lafayette in three sets. The true freshman now sits seventh on the single-season digs chart with 548 so far this year. Baska also added five assists through the three matches.
Kathryn Wilkerson Named C-USA Offensive Player Of The Week
Senior Outside Hitter Kathryn Wilkerson
SMU Volleyball Player Kathryn Wilkerson Named Conference-USA Offensive Volleyball Player Of The Week
Nov. 15, 2010
IRVING, Texas (SMU) --- SMU outside hitter Kathryn Wilkerson was named Conference USA Offensive Player of the Week today by the league office.
Wilkerson averaged 4.22 kills, 3.33 digs and 0.78 blocks per set in two matches this past week. The senior started the weekend with 20 kills and 13 digs in a win over UTEP and followed with 18 kills and 17 digs at UCF. The Mustangs defeated UTEP, 3-2, and UCF, 3-1, to gain 23 wins this season, which ties a program record for most single-season victories.
Wilkerson, who is SMU's all-time career digs leader with 1,521, is one of only two active C-USA student-athletes (teammate Dana Powell is the other) to record over 1,000 career kills and digs.
SMU returns home for senior weekend with matches against in-state opponents Houston and Rice at Moody Coliseum. Wilkerson, along with fellow seniors Caitlin Adair and Kenzie Bukolt, will be honored for their contributions to the Mustang volleyball program.
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Kolbe, Shaffer Named Southland Volleyball Players of the Week
Kolbe records second season of 400-plus kills, Shaffer receives third consecutive award
FRISCO, Texas – Sam Houston State junior Carli Kolbe and UT Arlington junior Alicia Shaffer were named the Southland Conference Offensive and Defensive Players of the Week, respectively, the league announced Monday.
Shaffer receives her third consecutive award and Kolbe takes home her second honor of the season. Shaffer is the first UTA player and one of four players in conference history to receive three consecutive player of the week awards.
Offensive Volleyball Player of the Week – Carli Kolbe, Sam Houston State
Kolbe, a native of College Station, Texas, played a huge role in raising Sam Houston’s Southland tournament seed from the No.7 to No.5 by leading the Bearkats in kills in a pair of 3-set wins over Lamar and McNeese State. With 36 kills over the weekend, Kolbe is the first Sam Houston player in since Alisha Fowler in 2004-05 to post more than 400 kills in two consecutive seasons. Kolbe enters the Southland tournament with 401 kills this year ranked third in the league.
Honorable Mention: Chloe Smith, Central Arkansas; Amanda Aguilera, UT Arlington; Mo Middleton, Texas State.
Defensive Volleyball Player of the Week – Alicia Shaffer, UT Arlington
Shaffer led the Mavericks to two sweeps with her outstanding defensive play last week. In a 3-0 win over Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, Shaffer recorded the most digs (28) in a three-set match by a player against a Southland team this season. A native of Magnolia, Texas, Shaffer led a strong defensive team effort with 80 digs, the most by a league team in a three-set match this year and held the Islanders to a .035 attack percentage. She ended the regular season with 17 digs in a sweep over the West Division champion and No. 2 seed UTSA. Shaffer currently ranks third in the league in digs and is one of only three conference players with more than 500 digs on the year (580).
Honorable Mention: Cristin Curl, Central Arkansas; Danielle Daigle, Nicholls; Kim Black, Sam Houston State;
Each school’s sports information director nominates and votes for the players of the week, though is not permitted to vote for his own player. To receive honorable mention, a player must receive votes from 25 percent of the Southland sports information directors.
2010 Ohio Valley Conference Volleyball Players of the Week - November 15
Offensive:
Ilyanna Hernandez, OH, Jr., 5'10
Torrance, Calif. - Austin Peay
Hernandez recorded 28 kills and a .472 hitting percentage as Austin Peay went 2-0 to close out the regular season. Against Tennessee State, she recorded 15 kills on 27 attacks to finish with a .556 hitting percentage. She followed that up with 13 kills and a .385 attack percentage against SIU Edwardsville.
Defensive:
Kayleah Sauer, L, Jr., 5'7
Louisville, Ky. - Murray State
Sauer led Murray State with 38 digs on the weekend, including a 21-dig performance against Eastern Kentucky. She recorded 6.33 digs per set which was above her season average of 4.17. She also added four assists and three service aces.
Setter:
Sarah Alisaleh, S, Sr., 5'8
San Antonio, Texas - Austin Peay
Alisaleh recorded 43 assists against Tennessee State and 42 versus SIU Edwardsville. She also led the Lady Govs with five service aces during the week, recording four in the match with SIUE.
Colonial Athletic Association Volleyball Players Of The Week
Co-OFFENSIVE VOLLEYBALL PLAYER OF THE WEEK:
Britney Brown - Northeastern
Edwards, Colo./Battle Mountain, Sr., Setter/Opposite Hitter
Brown notched her fifth triple-double of the season on Saturday to send NU past George Mason and into the CAA Tournament for the fourth time in the last five years. After collecting 22 kills and 10 digs on .366 hitting in the Huskies' loss to James Madison on Friday, the senior setter posted 18 kills, 24 assists and 13 digs in the win over the Patriots. She added six blocks and three service aces in the two matches.
Co-OFFENSIVE VOLLEYBALL PLAYER OF THE WEEK:
Paige Erickson - Delaware
Tulsa, Okla./Jenks, Sr., Middle Blocker
Erickson was effective on both sides of the ball last weekend as Delaware downed UNC Wilmington and Georgia State to earn its best ever finish in the CAA standings at 13-1. The senior middle blocker totaled 27 kills and averaged 3.38 kills per set on a stellar .449 hitting in the two matches. The Tulsa native also skied for nine blocks and contributed eight digs on the weekend.
DEFENSIVE VOLLEYBALL PLAYER OF THE WEEK:
Lindsay Callahan - James Madison
Virginia Beach, Va./Landstown, Sr., Outside Hitter
Callahan displayed an impressive defensive performance as James Madison knocked off Northeatern and Hofstra to secure a spot in the conference tournament for the first time in three years. The senior outside hitter tallied 26 digs and 11 blocks to lead the Dukes defensively, while chipping in 20 kills on the offensive front. Her 21-dig, 10-kill showing against the Huskies marked her ninth double-double of the season.
ROOKIE OF THE WEEK:
Katy Buck - Towson
Catonsville, Md./Mount de Sales, Fr., Outside Hitter
Buck blasted 28 kills and registered 26 digs to help the Tigers trounce Georgia State and UNC Wilmington last weekend. The freshman outside hitter earned her seventh double-double of 2010 with 11 kills and 18 digs against the Panthers and fell just short of a repeat performance with 17 kills and eight digs in a sweep of the Seahawks. Buck also served up a pair of aces and two blocks in the two wins.
Sun Belt’s Cayla Fielder Receives National Recognition
NEW ORLEANS – Arkansas State’s Cayla Fielder was named a Top Performer of the Week by Collegiate Volleyball Update (CVU.com), the website announced Tuesday.
For the second consecutive week, a Sun Belt player has been recognized as a Top Performer of the Week. Five different players from the league have received the recognition this season. FIU’s Natalia Valentin, Arkansas State’s Fielder and Megan Baska, Middle Tennessee’s Izabela Kozon twice, and Louisiana-Lafayette’s Lindsay Brown all were named Top Performers of the Week in 2010. Kozon and Brown were also both named Player of the Week on two separate occasions by CVU.com this season.
Fielder is the reigning Sun Belt Player of the week this week. The junior middle blocker led the A-State squad to a 3-0 week in Sun Belt Conference action, taking wins over UALR, ULM and Louisiana-Lafayette. Fielder tied her career high of 22 kills for the third time this season in the Red Wolves’ four-set win over UALR Tuesday and added another 30 on the weekend, totaling 52 for a 5.20 average last week. In ASU’s three-set sweep over ULL, she hit for .500 and put up 17 kills. The Jonesboro, Ark., native also added 10 digs and six blocks this week, including four unassisted (two against each ULM and ULL). Fielder now owns a total of 326 kills on the year.Full Release from CVU.com
