Posted: Oct 27, 2014
MACEY POOL OF SOUTHWESTERN
UNIVERSITY, a junior
outside hitter from Spring, Texas, has been named SCAC Volleyball
Defensive Player-of-the-Week for matches played from Monday,
October 20th through Sunday, October 26th.
Pool led the Pirates to a huge 4-0 weekend to lock of the No. 2 seed in the upcoming SCAC Volleyball Tournament and give a big boost to Southwestern's national postseason hopes.
Pool led Southwestern with 106 digs in the span of six games (5.05/set) including 68 over the conference weekend (4.86/set). Pool opened the weekend with 22 digs in a 3-0 win over St. Thomas. She followed that up with 16 digs in a 3-1 win over Our Lady of the Lake.
During the Cross-Divisional play, Pool's biggest day game came against eighth-ranked Colorado College, where the junior had 25 digs in the five set victory to go with 15 kills. She also had an impressive 19 and 17 dig performance against Dallas and Austin College.
Pool led the Pirates to a huge 4-0 weekend to lock of the No. 2 seed in the upcoming SCAC Volleyball Tournament and give a big boost to Southwestern's national postseason hopes.
Pool led Southwestern with 106 digs in the span of six games (5.05/set) including 68 over the conference weekend (4.86/set). Pool opened the weekend with 22 digs in a 3-0 win over St. Thomas. She followed that up with 16 digs in a 3-1 win over Our Lady of the Lake.
During the Cross-Divisional play, Pool's biggest day game came against eighth-ranked Colorado College, where the junior had 25 digs in the five set victory to go with 15 kills. She also had an impressive 19 and 17 dig performance against Dallas and Austin College.
For the season, Pool is fourth in conference play with 133 kills and fifth in digs with 216. She is eighth in the SCAC with 3.93 digs per set.
Other outstanding performances in the SCAC:
Junior
defensive specialist Rachel Fusselman of Austin
College had an outstanding weekend for Austin
College, averaging 5.9 digs per set, including notching 30 digs in
a win over Schreiner. Freshman Desiree Frey of
Centenary finsihed with 33 digs on the weekend
including a 14 dig performance against Jarvis Christian and a 12
dig performance against Schreiner. Sophomore outside hitter Abbe Holtze
of Colorado College picked up 79 digs for the
weekend including a 30 dig performance against Texas Lutheran and a
25 dig performance against Southwestern. She also led the team with
56 kills. Sophomore outside hitter Jessie
Koster of Dallas had a huge weekend with 112
digs including 91 during the conference weekend. She had 43 digs in
the five set victory over Texas Lutheran and 21 digs in the victory
over Dallas Christian. Senior defensive specialist Megan Lee
of Texas Lutheran capped off her home career at
TLU with a career-best 52 digs in a 3-2 loss against Dallas, the
fourth most digs in SCAC Volleyball history. Senior outside hitter Layne
Hubbard of Trinity led the team with 48
total digs (4.80/set) for the weekend, that saw the Tigers earn
four 3-0 victories – including a sweep of eighth-ranked
Colorado College on Sunday morning. Schreiner did
not nominate anyone.
| SCAC Volleyball Defensive Players-of-the-Week | |
| Week 1 | Megan Lee, Texas Lutheran University |
| Week 2 | Erin Cusenbary, Trinity University |
| Week 3 | Megan Lee, Texas Lutheran University |
| Week 4 | Shannon Courtney, Trinity University |
| Week 5 | Chandler Lentz, Southwestern University |
| Week 6 | Presleigh Watson, Austin College |
| Week 7 | Sophie Merrifield, Colorado College |
| Week 8 | Layne Hubbard, Trinity University |
| Week 9 | Macey Pool, Southwestern University |