NCAA Womens Volleyball

Zoe Staats and JJ Laap Named SUNY Cortland Athletes of the Week

Zoe Staats and JJ Laap Named SUNY Cortland Athletes of the Week


Graduate student women’s volleyball right-side hitter Zoe Staats (Buchanan/Hendrick Hudson) and junior football wide receiver JJ Laap (Stony Brook/Ward Melville) have been named the SUNY Cortland Athletes of the Week for the week ending Sept. 4.

Zoe Staats

Zoe led Cortland with a combined 32 kills and had a .439 attack percentage in three matches as the Red Dragons went 3-0 at its own season-opening tournament. She started with 12 kills and just one error in 22 attempts in a 3-0 win over St. Lawrence, followed by 12 kills in a 3-1 win over Western New England and eight kills in a three-set win versus Hartwick.

 

JJ Laap

JJ broke the Empire 8 and Cortland single-game records with 312 receiving yards in a 48-28 win over visiting Wittenberg. The previous Empire 8 record was 311 yards, and the prior school record was 267 yards set by Frank Burm in 1982. Laap finished with nine catches, including 90-yard and 49-yard touchdowns along with catches of 51, 44, 35 and 20 yards.

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