CHARLOTTE, N.C. (theACC.com) – California sophomore outside hitter Maggie Li has been named the Atlantic Coast Conference Offensive Player of the Week, while Louisville senior libero Elena Scott is the ACC Defensive Player of the Week for matches played during the opening week of the regular season, it was announced today. In addition, Cal senior Annalea Maeder is the ACC Setter of the Week and Louisville’s Nayelis Cabello was tabbed the ACC Freshman of the Week.
Li posted a conference-best 49 kills in 11 sets, as she paced Cal to a perfect 3-0 start at the Rose City Showdown presented by Hotel Vance last week. In the Golden Bears’ 3-0 sweep of Nevada to open the season on Saturday, the Beijing, China, native put down a team-best 10 kills and posted three aces in the win. In a hard-fought 3-2 win over San Francisco on Saturday, Li matched a career high with 24 kills to help propel the come-from-behind win. To close out the three-day event, Li hit .565 with 15 kills and just a pair of errors to lead the Bears to a 3-0 victory at Portland State later that day. For the week, Li averaged a league-best 5.32 points per set.
Scott was named the Defensive MVP of the AVCA First Serve Showcase on Tuesday after she totaled 22 digs and averaged 5.50 digs per set in Louisville’s 3-1 win over No. 3 Wisconsin. The Louisville, Kentucky, native forced the Badgers to hit just .179 for the match, capped off by a .079 mark in the fourth set. On Sunday, the senior posted eight digs in a 3-0 sweep over No. 15 Tennessee. As a team, the Lady Vols hit just .151 with a .057 average in the final and third set.
Maeder totaled a conference-best 122 assists in Cal’s 3-0 start to the season, becoming one of just two players in the ACC to total over 100 assists in the opening weekend. After recording 27 assists in the Bears’ 3-0 sweep of Nevada on Friday, the Basel, Switzerland, native recorded 60 helpers in a 3-2 win over San Francisco on Saturday, the highest assist mark by any player in the ACC this season. To cap off the weekend, Maeder handed out 35 assists in a 3-0 sweep of host Portland State.
Cabello helped set up the Louisville attack with 37 assists and 13 digs in the Cardinals’ perfect 2-0 start to the regular season. In her first collegiate match last Tuesday, the Clermont, Florida, native totaled 20 assists in Louisville’s…
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