Bragg and Ieremia Named Crossroads League Players of the Week

Volleyball | Mon, Oct. 31, 2022 at 12:55 PM
| by Jake Chipka

Crossroads League Release | TU Honors Page

JACKSON, Mich. – The Crossroads League announced its final collection of weekly awards for the 2022 volleyball regular season, in which Trojan duo, Kacy Bragg and Grace Ieremia, each received player-of-the-week honors.

This is the fourth week throughout 2022 that Bragg and Ieremia have received weekly honors as a pair. Individually, though, for Bragg Monday’s award marked her seventh of the season, while for Ieremia it marked her fourth.

Bragg’s latest setter-of-the-week award came in the wake of a series of monster performances, with which Bragg fueled the Trojans to a 3-0 week and their first Crossroads League Regular Season championship since 2011. Even more, by week’s end, Bragg became just the fifth player in TU program history to surpass 4,000-career assists.

The native of Warsaw, Indiana, posted a weekly average of 11.36 assists-per-set, alongside 1.73 digs-per-set, 0.45 blocks-per-set, and 14 total kills enacted without a single error.

Bragg’s keynote performance came in the finale of Taylor’s historic week, a match in which she orchestrated 50 assists en route to a five-set win over No. 18 Marian. Alongside her plentiful assists, however, Bragg added 13 digs and seven kills, missing out on the third triple-double of her career by a mere three kills.

As the nation’s leader in total assists with 1,273, Bragg has now posted 50 or more assists in four separate matches in 2022. The Trojan setter also ranks seventh in the NAIA with 10.97 assists-per-set, which currently ranks as the eighth-best mark for a single season in TU program history.

But just as Bragg quarterbacked the Trojan offense, so did Ieremia solidify the TU defense en route to her fourth CL Defender-of-the-Week award. Ieremia posted six or more blocks in each of Taylor’s three wins, including an eight-block performance against Saint Francis to bolster a weekly average of 1.82 blocks-per-set.

Taylor’s mid-hitter from Homestead, Florida, has now posted six or more blocks in six-straight matches and, even more impressively, nine of her last 10. Along the way, Ieremia has accumulated the nation’s third most block assists with 121 for the season, while ranking fifth in the nation with a season-average of 1.31 blocks-per-set.

Ieremia currently sits just one block assist shy of Casey Allen and the 10th-most for a single season in TU…