Fort Wayne’s Tony Price Named AVCA Men’s DI-II Player Of The Week

  0 Carly DeMarque | March 13th, 2018 | College - Men's Indoor, MIVA, News

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.

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Carly DeMarque has been involved with competitive volleyball for the majority of her life, playing competitively at the club and collegiate level for 15 years and coaching club for five. Now a retired Division I volleyball athlete out of McNeese State University, she continues her volleyball enthusiasm by stepping back into …

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