GLIAC -- The Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) has announced weekly awards following week four of the 2019 volleyball season. Michigan Tech junior outside hitter Olivia Ghormley earned GLIAC Volleyball North Player of the week honors, while Ashland junior outside hitter Brooke Peiffer was awarded GLIAC Volleyball South Division Player of the Week accolades.
NORTH PLAYER OF THE WEEK - Olivia Ghormley, Michigan Tech.
Michigan Tech junior outside hitter Olivia Ghormley recorded her 1,000th career kill Saturday to become the ninth player in program history to reach the milestone. Tech went 3-0 during the week with three sweeps. Ghormley tallied 39 kills and averaged 4.33 kills per set. She also added 23 digs (2.56 per set), three assists, and a pair of block assists. Ghormley had a double-double Saturday with 16 kills and 11 digs. She has recorded double-digit kills in 12 of the 13 matches this season and ranks second in the GLIAC in kills per set (4.2) and third in overall kills (185).
SOUTH PLAYER OF THE WEEK - Brooke Peiffer, Ashland
For the third consecutive week, an Ashland University volleyball player has been named Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference South Division Player of the Week. In Week 4, it is junior outside hitter Brooke Peiffer, who garnered her first GLIAC weekly honor as an Eagle on Monday (Sept. 30) afternoon after serving as Ashland’s leading attacker in a 3-0 week. Peiffer finished the week with 47 kills (4.27 per set) and hit an efficient .246 clip on the week, and also added 33 digs (3.0 per set). She had two double-doubles and just missed out on a third last week, going for 10 kills and 11 digs in three sets against Wayne State on Tuesday (Sept. 24). On Friday (Sept. 27), she tallied 20 kills and had 13 digs in five sets at Davenport before posting 17 kills (.353) and nine digs in three sets at Grand Valley State on Saturday (Sept. 28). In Week 2, sophomore outside hitter Erin Krupar was the GLIAC South Player of the Week. In Week 3, it was sophomore setter Zoey Peck.
HONORABLE MENTION
NORTH: Karlie Wengorovius (NU), Abigail Durecki (NMU), Allyson Cappel (FSU), Hannah Tabit (SVSU),
SOUTH: Jaeli Primus (GVSU), Ann Leo (UWP), Sami White (DU)
