AMHERST, N.Y. -- The Daemen University women's volleyball team swept the East Coast Conference weekly awards for the second time this season after going an impressive 3-0 with wins over Post, Mercy and St. Thomas Aquinas on the weekend. Fifth year senior outside hitter Maggie Burns (Louisville, Ky.) was named the ECC Player of the Week, senior libero Jasmine Brundage (East Aurora, N.Y.) earned ECC Defensive Player of the Week, senior setter Dunja Masic (McHenry, Ill.) picked up ECC Setter of the Week, and freshman outside hitter Charlotte Koerber (Munich, Germany) was named the ECC Rookie of the Week. The weekly ECC awards were announced on Monday afternoon, and are awarded for competitions taking place October 2-8.

Burns picks up her first ECC Player of the Week honor after totaling 24 kills (2.67 kills per set) and 29 digs (3.22 digs per set). The fifth year senior outside hitter posted her fifth double-double of the season, totaling 10 kills and 11 digs against the Mavs on Saturday. She added 36 total receptions, six assists, three aces and two blocks to her stat line on the weekend. Burns is just 63 kills away from crossing the 1,000 career mark and just 20 digs away from crossing the 1,000 mark over her five year career. 

On the year, Burns ranks third on the team with 125 total kills, averaging 2.91 kills per set, and ranks third on the team with 124 total digs (2.88 digs per set). She has added 11 aces and eight total blocks this season. This is the fourth week that a Wildcat has been named the Player of the Week, and Burns is the third Daemen player to earn the award, with Koerber earning the honor twice and senior Giselle Giraud (Orlando, Fla.) taking home the award once.

Brundage earns ECC Defensive Player of the Week for the third time this season. She led the Wildcats defensively in all three matches, totaling 36 digs (4.0 digs per set) in Daemen's 3-0 weekend. The senior libero tallied double-digit digs throughout the weekend, extending her streak to 13 straight matches with 10-plus digs. She added five aces, six assists and 32 receptions with zero reception errors this weekend.

As the league leader in digs and digs per set, Brundage totals 281 digs and averages 5.02 digs per set. She has started in 17 of Daemen's 18 matches this season, playing in 56 of the Wildcats' 63 total sets. She ranks third on the team with 21 service aces, averaging 0.38 aces per set, and ranks third on the team with 216 total receptions for a 96.3 reception percentage on the season. She's the only player in the league to earn ECC Defensive Player of the Week multiple times this season.

Masic is named the ECC Setter of the Week for the second time this season while running the Wildcat offense to a perfect weekend. The senior setter totaled 100 assists, averaging 11.11 assists per set over the three matches, adding 10 digs, eight kills, seven aces and four total blocks. Masic directed the Wildcats to a 127-kill weekend, with Daemen tallying 45 and 44 kills over the pair of ECC victories against Mercy and STAC on Saturday and Sunday. She recorded multiple aces in each game, marking the seventh time this season that she tallied two or more aces in a match. 

Masic leads the Wildcats with 401 assists, ranking third in the ECC with an average of 8.72 assists per set. She is second on the team with 26 aces and is tied with Koerber at second in the league with 0.57 aces per set.

Just days after being named Daemen's Female Athlete of the Month for September, Koerber earns her fifth ECC weekly award and her third ECC Rookie of the Week nod. The heavy hitting freshman led the Wildcats on the weekend with 32 kills (4.0 kills per set) for a .475 hitting percentage over the three matches. She added 22 digs, five aces and 56 receptions to her stat line. The freshman outside hitter posted a team-high 17 kills in Daemen's 3-0 win over Mercy on Saturday, accompanying a season-high .533 hitting percentage. 

Koerber leads the team with 209 total kills, and ranks second in the league with 3.87 kills per set. Her team-leading 31 aces has her tied with Masic for second in the ECC with 0.57 aces per set. She ranks second on the team with 155 total digs, averaging 2.87 digs per set.

The Wildcats have been included in five of the six ECC weekly reports, and have swept the awards twice this season, in Week 4 and in Week 6.

Daemen will play a pair of matches this week but remain in Western New York for just the third weekend this season. The Wildcats round out the first half of ECC play on Thursday at 7 PM when they travel across town to play at D'Youville, then will host non-conference opponent Saint Rose on Saturday in a 4 PM match. 

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