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Caroline Sklaver Earns Ivy League Player Of The Week Honor For First-Place Volleyball Team
November 07, 2017 | Women's Volleyball
Junior middle Caroline Sklaver is in her first year as a starter, and she showed last weekend that she was more than ready to handle the pressure of a title chase.
Sklaver became the fourth different Princeton player to earn Ivy League Player of the Week honors after helping lead the Tigers to a home sweep of Columbia and Cornell last weekend. Those two wins, combined with a 3-2 Harvard comeback win at Yale, moved Princeton back into a first-place tie with the Bulldogs heading into the final weekend.
Sklaver recorded 21 kills and three blocks while hitting .563 in the 3-0 wins over both Columbia and Cornell. She had 10 kills with only one error in the Friday win over the Lions, and she followed up with an 11-kill, three-block performance against the Big Red. She moved to third in the Ivy League in hitting percentage — one spot behind teammate Nnenna Ibe — with a .344 percentage.
Sklaver joins teammates Natasha Skov (Sept. 11), Jessie Harris (Oct. 2) and Nnenna Ibe (Oct. 9) among the previous Ivy League Player of the Week recipients.
Princeton heads on the road for matches at both Harvard and Dartmouth this weekend; wins in both would clinch at least a share of Princeton's 17 Ivy League title, as well as its third in a row. Check back Thursday for a full weekend preview, as well as all of the championship scenario possibilities.
Sklaver became the fourth different Princeton player to earn Ivy League Player of the Week honors after helping lead the Tigers to a home sweep of Columbia and Cornell last weekend. Those two wins, combined with a 3-2 Harvard comeback win at Yale, moved Princeton back into a first-place tie with the Bulldogs heading into the final weekend.
Sklaver recorded 21 kills and three blocks while hitting .563 in the 3-0 wins over both Columbia and Cornell. She had 10 kills with only one error in the Friday win over the Lions, and she followed up with an 11-kill, three-block performance against the Big Red. She moved to third in the Ivy League in hitting percentage — one spot behind teammate Nnenna Ibe — with a .344 percentage.
Sklaver joins teammates Natasha Skov (Sept. 11), Jessie Harris (Oct. 2) and Nnenna Ibe (Oct. 9) among the previous Ivy League Player of the Week recipients.
Princeton heads on the road for matches at both Harvard and Dartmouth this weekend; wins in both would clinch at least a share of Princeton's 17 Ivy League title, as well as its third in a row. Check back Thursday for a full weekend preview, as well as all of the championship scenario possibilities.
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