AMHERST, N.Y. – Daemen College volleyball player Amber Drzymala (West Seneca, N.Y./St. Mary's of Lancaster) has been dubbed the East Coast Conference Player of the Week for the competitions held November 7 through November 13.  The announcement was made via the league's weekly report which was released this afternoon from conference headquarters in Central Islip N.Y.
 
This is Amber's second weekly honor this season, she was previously named ECC Player of the Week for the competitions help September 12-19.  This marks the second week in a row a Daemen player has earned the conference accolade, Amber's sister, Ashley Drzymala was the recipient last week.
 
Drzymala helped Daemen wrap up the 2016 regular season action two victories last week, defeating long-time rival Roberts Wesleyan College, and ECC opponent Mercy College.  The Wildcats are 22-6 overall, and finished with a 13-1 mark in the league.  Daemen's 14-game win streak is the seventh-longest active streak among all NCAA Division II teams.  In the 3-1 victory against Roberts (Nov. 10), Daemen captured the outright regular season East Coast Conference Championship.  
 
Drzymala, a 5-foot-9 senior outside hitter, posted 11 kills and seven digs against the host Redhawks.  In yesterday's contest against Mercy, Amber put on a stellar-performance in her last regular season home match at Lumsden Gymnasium.  She recorded a match-high 19 kills, bringing her career total to 1000.  Additionally, she tallied 18 digs for her 12^th double-double of the 2016 campaign.
 
Amber became the ninth player in team history to notch 1000 kills, of that 1000 kills club, she is only the third player to also reach 1000 digs in a career.  Amber joined Tristian Seibert (2000-03) and Joanna Fretthold (2009-12) to go down as one of the all-time greatest players in Daemen women's volleyball history.  Amber surpassed 1000 digs earlier this season in the first meeting against Roberts Wesleyan.  Her career total thus far (1,134), ranks tenth all-time behind Laura Baurer's 1,364. 
 
Amber ranks fifth in kills (331), sixth in kills per set (3.12), and tenth in digs (312) in the league.  She is one of just three players in the ECC to rank in the top 10 in both total kills and digs.

Daemen earned the No. 1 seed and the rights to host the East Coast Conference Tournament, which features the top four teams in the league, this coming weekend Nov. 18-19.  Drzymala and the Wildcats host No. 4 LIU Post in the first semifinal game of the ECC tournament this Friday at 5 p.m. at Lumsden Gymnasium.  The winner will advance to the championship match, facing off against either No. 2 NYIT or No. 3 Bridgeport, on Saturday at 5 p.m.  The winner of the East Coast Conference Tournament clinches an automatic bid to the NCAA Division II Tournament.
 
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