NDSU's Stuewe, ORU's Garbato Earn Weekly Honors
OFFENSIVE
Christy Stuewe,
North Dakota State
Sr., MH, Hamburg,
Minn./Mayer Lutheran
Stuewe earns
Offensive Player of the Week honors for the third time this season
after averaging 4.78 kills on .350 hitting, 4.56 digs and 1.22
blocks per game last week, all of which were above her season
averages. In a five-game heartbreaker at Western Illinois, she
finished with 24 kills on .311 hitting to go along with a
career-high-tying 22 digs and four blocks. In a four-game win over
UMKC, she tallied 19 kills on .410 hitting to go with 19 digs and
seven blocks. The two double-doubles were her seventh and eighth of
the season. The senior now ranks sixth all-time at NDSU with 356
block assists and ninth with 414 total blocks.
Also nominated: Mayara
Schlindwein, IPFW; Devika Bellamy, IUPUI; Sarah Johnson, UMKC;
Juliane Vieira, Oral Roberts; Amy Anderson, South Dakota State;
Erin Frick, Western Illinois.
Previous winners: Oct. 29 -
Kristina Martin, South Dakota State; Oct. 22 - Christy Stuewe,
North Dakota State; Oct. 15 - Thais Parada, Oral Roberts; Oct. 8 -
Rebekah Roehm, IPFW; Oct. 1 - Brooke VandenBergh, North Dakota
State; Sept. 24 - Kristina Martin, South Dakota State; Sept.
17 - Jackie Oliveira, Oral
Roberts; Sept. 10 - Adrienne Leone, Oakland; Sept. 4 - Jessica
Miller, IPFW; Aug. 27 - Christy Stuewe, North Dakota
State.
DEFENSIVE
Carol Garbato, Oral
Roberts
Jr., L, Sao Paulo,
Brazil/E.E. Padre Antao
Garbato
receives Defensive Player of the Week honors after leading the
Golden Eagles to a 2-1 record last week, including a pair of Summit
League wins to keep ORU in a tie for first place in the league
standings. In a five-game loss to Tulsa, she posted a match-high 25
digs. She followed it up with 23 digs in a sweep of Oakland and 22
digs in a four-game win over IPFW. For the week, she averaged 5.83
digs per game, well above her season average of 4.20. Garbato's
three 20-dig matches on the week give her seven this season and
four in a row.
Also nominated: Peachy
Jankowski, IPFW; Chelsea Bastin, IUPUI; Mandy Tipton, UMKC; Kari
Fagnan, North Dakota State; Samantha Pearson, South Dakota State;
Michelle Donnelly, Western Illinois.
Previous winners: Oct. 29 -
Kari Fagnan, North Dakota State; Oct. 22 - Peachy Jankowski, IPFW;
Oct. 15 - Peachy Jankowski, IPFW; Oct. 8 - Michelle Donnelly,
Western Illinois; Oct. 1 - Amy Anderson, South Dakota State; Sept.
24 - Samantha Pearson, South Dakota State; Sept. 17 - Samantha
Pearson, South Dakota State; Lauren Duquette, Oakland; Sept. 10 -
Kari Fagnan, North Dakota State; Sept. 4 - Samantha Pearson, South
Dakota State; Aug. 27 - Kari Fagnan, North Dakota
State.
