Krystal Rivers Earns Third-Straight SEC Offensive Player of the Week Award
9/19/2016 1:26:00 PM | Volleyball
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Another impressive weekend allowed Alabama senior Krystal Rivers to earn an unprecedented third-straight SEC Offensive Player of the Week accolade, the league announced Monday.
The honor is her third of the season and the sixth of her career, giving Rivers the most weekly conference honors of any player in program history. She led the team with 54 kills over nine sets of play last weekend, an average of 6.00 kills per set, and posted seven aces from the service line. For her efforts in leading the team to a 3-0 weekend, she was named the Crimson-White Tournament MVP. Her 54 kills also moved her to second all-time at Alabama in career kills with 1,710, placing her 380 shy of Erin Heffner's (2001-04) career record of 2,090.
Next up, Rivers and the Tide open SEC play at Foster Auditorium against a pair of ranked conference opponents. Alabama starts the weekend against No. 16 Texas A&M on Friday, Sept. 23 at 6 p.m. CT before facing No. 7 Florida on Sunday, Sept. 25 at Noon CT. Both matches will be broadcast live on the SEC Network.
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