AMHERST, N.Y. -- Daemen University women's volleyball players
Charlotte Koerber (Munich, Germany) and
Jasmine Brundage (East Aurora, N.Y.) earned East Coast Conference women's volleyball weekly awards on Monday afternoon for competitions taking place Sept. 11-17. Koerber was named the ECC Player of the Week, while Brundage was named the ECC Defensive Player of the Week.
Koerber, a freshman outside hitter, earned her third straight weekly honor, and second Player of the Week award, after a big weekend at the Adelphi Volleyball Tournament. She finished with 56 kills to average 4.67 kills per set, 42 digs (3.5 digs per set), a .240 hitting percentage, seven aces and two solo blocks as she helped the Wildcats to a 2-2 record through four matches at the tournament. Koerber hit a career-high 21 kills (7 kills/set) while hitting at a season high .340 clip against New Haven on Saturday morning for one of Daemen's two victories on the weekend. She finished with two double-doubles, her fifth and sixth of the season, first posting 16 kills and 13 digs against Wilmington then finishing with 11 kills and 10 digs against Adelphi.
The heavy hitting freshman has made an immediate impact on the Wildcats this season, and leads the team with 127 kills and 19 aces, while ranking second on the team with 103 digs, averaging 3.03 digs per set on the season. Koerber ranks second in the league with 3.74 kills per set and in total kills.
Brundage, the Wildcats' senior libero, picks up her first weekly award of the season and was named the Defensive Player of the Week after totaling 82 digs, averaging 6.31 digs per set, over the weekend's four matches. She posted a weekend-high 24 digs (8 digs per set) in Saturday's 3-0 win over New Haven, and totaled 20+ digs in three of the four matches. Brundage added 11 assists and seven aces at the tournament as well.
On the year, Brundage leads the team, and the ECC, with 180 total digs for a league-high 5.45 digs per set. On Saturday, she notched her 1,000th career dig in the match against New Haven.
The Wildcats have been included in all three ECC weekly reports of the season. Brundage is the first player earn Defensive Player of the Week this season.
Daemen remains on the road this weekend with a match at Southern Connecticut State on Friday at 6 PM, then opens ECC play on Saturday with a noon match at Queens. They'll wrap up their road trip with a noon match against Molloy on Sunday.
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