Taylor Roberts of Emmanuel and Morgan Gibbs of UNC Pembroke Named Women’s Volleyball Weekly Award Winners
GREENVILLE, S.C. – Taylor Roberts of Emmanuel and Morgan Gibbs of UNC Pembroke were selected as the Conference Carolinas weekly award winners for women’s volleyball for the week ending Oct. 30.
Roberts was selected as the Player of the Week, while Gibbs earned Specialist of the Week accolades.
A 6-foot-3 middle blocker from Rome, Georgia, Roberts hit .511 in three conference sweeps for the Lions as she tallied 27 kills, 18 blocks, four digs and two service aces to help lead Emmanuel to the West division title. She opened the week with 10 kills, a .692 attack percentage and six blocks in a sweep of Southern Wesleyan on Tuesday, Oct. 25. On Friday, she hit .476 with 11 kills, two aces, three digs and eight blocks in a sweep of Chowan before adding six kills, one dig and four blocks in a sweep of Barton on Saturday, Oct. 29. Roberts currently leads Conference Carolinas with a .413 attack percentage and 1.24 blocks per set. She is tied for ninth in NCAA Division II in blocks per set and her 120 total blocks and .413 hitting percentage rank seventh best in the country.
A native of Dumfries, Virginia, Gibbs helped the Braves to a 2-1 week as she averaged 10 assists and 3.36 digs per set. The 5-foot-8 setter began the week with 28 assists, 11 digs, one service ace and one block in a loss at Lenoir-Rhyne on Tuesday, Oct. 25. In a conference sweep of Belmont Abbey on Friday, Oct. 28, Gibbs dished out 26 assists and added 10 digs, two service aces, one block and one kill. She closed out the week with 56 assists and 16 digs with three kills and two aces in a five-set win over North Greenville that clinched a share of the East division title. For the week, Gibbs tallied 110 assists, 37 digs, five aces, four kills and two blocks.
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2022 Conference Carolinas Women’s Volleyball Weekly Awards
Week 1 (Aug. 29, 2022)
Player of the Week: Amara Eziakonwa, Mount Olive
Specialist of the Week: Kaylee Gillespie, Francis Marion
Week 2 (Sept. 5, 2022)
Player of the Week: Vanja Przulj, UNC Pembroke
Specialist of the Week: Katie Pressley, UNC Pembroke
Week 3 (Sept. 12, 2022)
Player of the Week: Jasmine Finkley, Converse
Specialist of the Week: Katie Harless, King
Week 4 (Sept. 19, 2022)
Player of the Week: Hailee Blankenship, King
Specialist of the Week: Katie Harless, King
Week 5 (Sept. 26, 2022)
Player of the Week: Katie Kemp, Francis Marion
Specialist of the Week: Ashlyn Conner, North Greenville
Week 6 (Oct. 3, 2022)
Player of the Week: Vanja Przulj, UNC Pembroke
Specialist of the Week: Ashlyn Conner, North Greenville
Week 7 (Oct. 10, 2022)
Player of the Week: Brianna Warren, UNC Pembroke
Specialist of the Week: Gabrielle McGlamery, Emmanuel
Week 8 (Oct. 17, 2022)
Player of the Week: Sydney Stigler, Lees-McRae
Specialist of the Week: Gabrielle McGlamery, Emmanuel
Week 9 (Oct. 24, 2022)
Player of the Week: Amara Eziakonwa, Mount Olive
Specialist of the Week: Gabrielle McGlamery, Emmanuel
Week 10 (Oct. 31, 2022)
Player of the Week: Taylor Roberts, Emmanuel
Specialist of the Week: Morgan Gibbs, UNC Pembroke