2016 GNAC Women's Volleyball News
On Friday,the Wildcats' unbeaten season came to an end with a 3-0 loss (25-22, 25-22, 25-20) to UMass Boston in the NCAA Tournament First Round at Tufts.
Anna Maria College sophomore outside hitter Amari King has been selected as the 2016 GNAC Player of the Year.
After winning the GNAC Tournament on Saturday, JWU learned its first round NCAA Tournament opponent on Monday.
The undefeated Wildcats (33-0) are headed to the NCAA Tournament after a 3-1 GNAC title match victory over Rivier on Saturday afternoon in Providence, R.I.
Top-seeded Johnson & Wales (32-0) and second-seeded Rivier (32-3) will square off Saturday (1:00 PM) for the GNAC crown for the second straight year.
No. 1 JWU will host No. 4 Simmons and No. 2 Rivier will host No. 3 Anna Maria in Thursday night's GNAC Semifinals after earning quarterfinal wins on Tuesday.
Anna Maria sophomore Amari King won her second straight and fourth overall Player of the Week honor after averaging 6.78 kills per set in a 3-0 week.
Unbeaten JWU (30-0) and regionally-ranked Rivier (29-3) have earned the top two seeds in next week's GNAC Tournament.
Anna Maria sophomore Amari King averaged an impressive 5.67 kills and 5.67 digs in an unbeaten 3-0 week for the AMCATS.
Simmons freshman Morgan Weeg averaged 4.33 kills and 5.50 digs per set to grab her second straight GNAC Rookie of the week honor.
JWU sophomore Emily Kalmink hit .422 and averaged 3.67 kills and 1.33 blocks per set to help lead the Wildcats to another unbeaten week (3-0).
Anna Maria's Amari King averaged an impressive 5.57 kills per set to collect her second GNAC Player of the Week award of the season.
JWU freshman Maria Coniglio hit .372 and averaged 4.50 kills and 3.90 digs per set in a 3-0 week for the Wildcats.
Anna Maria's Amari King averaged 5.23 kills per set on .376 hitting to lead the AMCATS to a 4-0 week last week.
Rivier is off to an 8-0 start, the best in program history, and Lauren Silverman averaged 3.29 kills and 1.71 blocks per set in a 4-0 week for the Raiders.
Rivier sophomore setter Hayley Macken averaged 10.29 assists per set as the Raiders went 4-0 to take the NYU Invitational title this past weekend.
