Fort Wayne’s Tony Price has been named this week’s AVCA Men’s DI-II Player of the Week after helping his team to a 2-1 week.
Fort Wayne played in three matches this week, winning against #3 UC Irvine in five, losing to #14 UC Santa Barbara and sweeping Concordia Irvine as an unranked team. In 11 sets played, Price posted 3.09 kills per set on a .364 hitting percentage. Additionally, he recorded 1.73 digs per set and 0.63 blocks per set.
Against UC Irvine, Price posted 13 kills on a .367 hitting clip along with 9 digs, 3 blocks and 2 aces – the win was the program’s first over a top-5 team since 2007. In the team’s win over Concordia Irvine, he recorded 15 kills without committing an error.
This is the 11th time that a Fort Wayne player has picked up the AVCA Player of the Week with the last coming on January 27, 2015.
2018 AVCA MEN’S DI-II PLAYERS OF THE WEEK
March 13 | Tony Price | Fort Wayne | OH | RS-Jr. |
---|---|---|---|---|
March 6 | Felipe de Brito Ferreira | BYU | MB | Fr. |
February 27 | David Wieczorek | Pepperdine | OH | RS-Jr. |
February 20 | TJ DeFalco | Long Beach St. | OH | Jr. |
February 13 | Micah Ma’a | UCLA | S | Jr. |
February 6 | Ryan Coenen | Lewis | OH | RS-So. |
January 30 | Joel Schneidmiller | UC Irvine | OH | Fr. |
January 23 | Matt Walsh | Ball State | MB | Sr. |
January 16 | Gabi Garcia Fernandez | BYU | RS | Fr. |
January 9 | Tanner Syftestad | UC San Diego | RS | Sr. |
Leave a Reply