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 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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