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Princeton University Athletics
Brown Named Ivy League Women's Volleyball Player Of The Week
October 20, 2004 | Women's Volleyball
Oct. 20, 2004
PRINCETON - Senior Alex Brown pushed the Princeton women's volleyball team to a crucial sweep of Dartmouth and Harvard last weekend, and her efforts landed her the Co-Ivy League Player of the Week award, along with Yale's Shannon Farrell.
Brown recorded 28 kills to only seven errors and had an attack percentage of .396 for the weekend. She also added 14 blocks, including seven solo ones, and averaged 4.94 points per game for the Tigers. In the match against Harvard, Brown killed a team-best 19 balls, hit a match-high .417, recorded a match-high 11 blocks and ended the match with a solo block in the fifth game.
The wins improve Princeton to 13-4 and 4-1 in the Ivy League. The Tigers are one half game behind Harvard in the league standings, but both still have plenty of tough matches down the road. Princeton will battle Cornell Friday night at 7 p.m. in another key test for the Tigers, who defeated the Big Red 3-2 in a road thriller last season. Cornell is 4-2 in the Ivy League and would move ahead of Princeton with a win.
The subplot of the weekend is Princeton head coach Glenn Nelson's race to become the third coach in Princeton history with 500 wins (behind softball coach Cindy Cohen and men's basketball coach Pete Carril). Nelson has 497 wins and can move to within one victory with a sweep. At least one win this weekend will give Princeton the chance to win Nelson's 500th at home the following weekend (Yale on Friday the 29th, Brown on Saturday the 30th).