Washington's Bianca Rowland named Pac-12 Player of the Week

For the second time this season, Washington’s Bianca Rowland has been named Pac-12 defensive Player of the Week.

During home matches against Oregon and Oregon State, the senior middle blocker had one solo block, and a hand in 14 team (shared) blocks. Her teammate, Lauren Barfield, wasn’t far behind, with 10 team blocks in the two matches. As a team, the Huskies outblocked the Ducks 14-3, and the Beavers 12-7.

Barfield, with 15 kills/3 errors/29 attacks for the weekend (.414) was among those nominated for conference offensive player of the week. That award was given to Stanford’s Carly Wopat, who hit .502 in wins against Arizona and Arizona State. Earlier this season, Wopat, a sophomore middle blocker, was named defensive player of the week.

Washington freshman Summer Ross was among those nominated as freshman of the week. Against UO and OSU, Ross had 11 kills/1 error/30 attempts (.333), and added 10 team blocks and 16 digs, many of them spectacular. This week’s freshman award went to Cal’s Christina Higgins, who had 27 kills and hit .345 against UA and ASU.

PAC-12 PLAYERS OF THE WEEK
	OFFENSE	DEFENSE	FRESHMAN
Aug. 29	Alaina Bergsma ORE	Bianca Rowland WASH	Krista Vansant WASH
Sept. 5	Rachael Kidder UCLA	Karissa Cook STAN	Krista Vansant WASH
Sept. 12	Rachel Williams STAN	Carly Wopat STAN	Arica Nassar OSU
Sept. 19	Alaina Bergsma ORE	Robin Rostratter CAL	Chloe Mathis ARIZ
Sept. 26	Kendall Bateman USC	Kelly Reeve UCLA	Zoe Nightingale UCLA
Oct. 3	Carly Wopat STAN	Bianca Rowland WASH	Christina Higgins CAL

Washington's Bianca Rowland (15) attacks against Oregon State
[Volleyblog Seattle photo by Leslie Hamann]