BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – WKU Volleyball's Paige Briggs and Nadia Dieudonne each been recognized with Conference USA weekly accolades in the league's first week of distribution this season. Briggs was selected as the Offensive Player of the Week while Dieudonne collected the Setter of the Week honor.
The duo helped WKU Volleyball to a pair of wins on Sunday, 78 days after the Hilltoppers opened the 2020-21 season back on November 7 as the Tops improved to 3-0 on the season.
This week's honor marks the first-ever Offensive Player of the Week nod for Briggs, who was tabbed the Freshman of the Week seven times last season by C-USA.
Briggs put on a show for the E.A. Diddle Arena crowd on Sunday, racking up 30 kills on 56 swings with just one error for a .518 hitting clip across the Tops' two wins. She recorded a trio of aces in the day's opening match; breaking out the jump serve she added to her repertoire since last season. Briggs added 11 digs and five blocks in that opening match. A few hours later, Briggs added her third double-double in as many 2020-21 season matches, this time registering 13 kills, a .522 hitting percentage, a perfect serve-receive rating, 11 digs and two blocks.
She averaged 4.29 kills per set to go along with 3.14 digs per set and 1.0 blocks per set to average 5.29 total points per set.
Dieudonne was spectacular for WKU Volleyball over the Tops' two-win weekend. The setter facilitated the Hilltoppers to a combined hitting percentage of .420 across the matches including a blistering .443 rate in their sweep of Bellarmine. The senior tallied 35 assists, seven digs, a perfect serve rating and reception rating in WKU's 3-1 win over Mercer. A few hours later, she delivered 42 assists and four digs in the Tops' sweep of Bellarmine. Collectively, 49 percent of Dieudonne's sets found the floor for kills by her teammates.
The Louisville, Ky., native now owns six C-USA Setter of the Week laurels across her two seasons as a Hilltopper.
How to Follow WKU Volleyball: For complete information on WKU Volleyball, follow the team on Twitter at @WKUVolleyball and head coach Travis Hudson at @TravisHudsonWKU. The team is also on Instagram and Facebook.
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