Volleyball Player of the Week
Sarah Wallace, Swarthmore
Freshman, Outside Hitter
San Francisco, Calif./Branson
Paving the way to Swarthmore's best conference start in program history (6-0), Wallace led the Garnet in a 3-0 week, including wins over Gettysburg and McDaniel. Wallace averaged 5.36 k/s on a .303 hitting percentage and 2.55 digs per set. She swung a season/career high 25 kills against the Green Terror and 18 against Penn State Berks to extend her double-digit kill streak to six matches. Adding to many program first's this season, Wallace recorded a double-double in Swarthmore's first ever victory at Gettysburg on October 8th.
Notebook:
Washington College freshman setter Taylor Horan notched her fifth double-double of the season with a match-best and career-high 56 assists along with 10 digs as visiting Washington College topped host Catholic, 3-1, (20-25, 25-21, 25-21, 2-517) at the DuFour Center in a non-conference volleyball match on Tuesday evening.
Previous Volleyball Players of the Week for 2014:
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October 6, 2014 Nina Mutty, Haverford College Mutty registered two double-doubles and fell just two kills shy of a third one in the Fords' 3-0 week. Against F&M, the junior recorded 12 kills and tied a team-high with 17 digs. In Haverford's 3-0 win over Gettysburg, Mutty tied the team-high with 12 kills, finished second on the team with 13 digs, and had three service aces. She led the team with 14 digs and 8 kills against Baruch. |
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September 29, 2014 Meg O'Day, Haverford College O’Day led Haverford to a 3-1 week. In the Fords' Centennial Conference win over McDaniel, O'Day tied her career-high with 22 kills. Her final two kills were the final two points in the deciding fifth set to secure the win. She also finished with a .312 attack percentage, a solo block, and five block assists. The junior continued her stellar play with 13 kills and 2 solo blocks in the Fords' 3-1 win over Widener. In a thrilling five-set victory over the #14 Eastern University Eagles, O'Day once again tied her career-high with 22 kills. She finished with a team-high .390 attack percentage and five block assists in the 3-2 win. In Haverford's 3-1 loss to Salisbury, O'Day contributed 15 kills and a .367 attack percentage. Currently, the junior is on a 27 match streak of at least 10 kills and leads the conference with 255 kills. |
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September 22, 2014 Allison Glass, Muhlenberg College Glass hit .292 and averaged 2.45 kills and 4.00 digs per set in a 3-0 week for the Mules. She had a match-high 14 kills with only one error in 36 attempts to go along with a career-high 23 digs in a five-set win against Franklin & Marshall that broke the Diplomats 15-match CC regular-season winning streak. In a 3-2 win over McDaniel, Glass recorded another double-double with 10 kills and 21 digs. The Mules are off to their first 2-0 start in Conference play since 2002. |
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September 15, 2014 Kristen Lee, Washington College Lee averaged 4.50 kills per set, 4.00 digs per set, .83 aces per set, and hit .291 for the week as Washington College went 4-0 at the Frostburg State Tournament. In a 3-0 win against Waynesburg on Friday, Lee had 16 kills, 15 digs, and hit .273. In the fourth and final match of the tournament, Lee hit 0.324 and had a match-high 21 kills to go along with 16 digs in the team's four set victory over Eastern Mennonite. She earned the tournament's Most Valuable Player Award for her performance. |
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September 8, 2014 Katherine Boll, Muhlenberg Boll hit .484 while averaging 3.00 kills per set to lead the Mules to their first Buttermaker Tournament championship in nine years. An all-tournament selection, she also recorded six aces and 14 blocks (1.08 per set) in the four matches. In the championship round, Boll hit .538 and averaged 3.57 kills per set, recording a match-high 16 kills against Allegheny and nine kills in only 14 attempts to go along with six blocks in the title-clinching sweep of Shenandoah. |
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September 2, 2014 Caroline Hubbard Senior, Setter, 5-10 Baton Rouge, La. / Western Reserve Academy Hubbard led Franklin & Marshall to a 3-0 week as the Diplomats downed Lancaster Bible, Elizabethtown, and Penn St. - Berks at the Crosstown Crossover. Hubbard tallied 103 assists in three matches (10.3 assists per set) to go along with 13 service aces and 27 digs. |