JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - The United Athletic Conference (UAC) has announced its weekly Volleyball award winners for Monday, November, 9.
VOLLEYBALL
Player of the Week: Reese Ricketts, North Alabama
Ricketts led North Alabama into a tie for second-place in the UAC standings last week after recording 4.50 kills per set and a .302 hitting percentage in a pair of victories for the Lions. Ricketts was one dig short of a double-double in a sweep over Little Rock where she tallied 12 kills and nine digs. Ricketts collected her 10th double-double of the season against Central Arkansas (24 kills, 14 digs) and recorded the final three points in the fifth set to secure the win against the Bears with two kills and a block solo.
Setter of the Week: Landri Ross, North Alabama
Ross topped her career-high in assists twice last week as she totaled 95 assists to finish with an average of 11.88 assists per set. Ross tallied 39 assists against Little Rock and set her career-high the next night against Central Arkansas with 56 assists, just four-shy of the Division I school record of 60
Defensive Player of the Week: Caitlyn Flees, EKU
Flees anchored an EKU defense that held its opponents to a combined .010 hitting percentage while recording a UAC-high 2.00 blocks per set last week. Fleed recorded nine blocks in a road sweep versus Austin Peay, tied for the most blocks in a three-set match by a UAC player this season. Flees then finished with 3 blocks in a sweep against West Georgia, helping hold the Wolves to a -.029 hitting percentage.
Freshman of the Week: Onita Davis, Tarleton State
Davis accumulated a .429 hitting percentage for the Texans last week, hitting over .400 in both matches. Davis notched nine kills with four total blocks in a road sweep against Abilene Christian who's tied for second in the UAC standings. Davis then collected seven kills with zero attack errors, along with eight digs and three aces against Little Rock .
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About the United Athletic Conference
The newly rebranded United Athletic Conference (UAC) is a competitive NCAA Division I conference sponsoring sixteen (16) sports and championships with nine (9) full member institutions including Abilene Christian University (Abilene, Texas), the University of Arkansas at Little Rock (Little Rock, Ark.), Austin Peay State University (Clarksville, Tenn.), the University of Central Arkansas (Conway, Ark.), Eastern Kentucky University (Richmond, Ky.), the University of North Alabama (Florence, Ala.), Tarleton State University (Stephenville, Texas), the University of Texas at Arlington (Arlington, Texas), and the University of West Georgia (Carrollton, Ga.) with the University of West Florida (Pensacola, Fla.) as an affiliate member in football.