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Karolina Bartkowiak earned her third MWC Player of the Week award this season.
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Oct. 12, 2009
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - Junior opposite hitter Karolina Bartkowiak of the University of Utah volleyball team was named the Mountain West Conference's Player of the Week for the third time this season and the third in her career, the conference office announced Monday.
Bartkowiak became the second three-time winner of the award this season after leading the Utes with 3.33 kills per set and tied for the team-high honors with 1.00 blocks per set in Utah's three four-set matches last week against Weber State, TCU and New Mexico. She also was second on the squad in hitting percentage and digs. The Aurora, Ill., native posted a .438 hitting percentage, converting 40 kills on 73 attempts with only eight errors and totaled 36 digs.
To open the week, Bartkowiak posted a team-high 17 kills and hit double-digit kills for the fourth straight match and the 25th time in her career in Tuesday's 3-1 win over Weber State. She posted a career-high hitting .800 hitting percentage, needing only 20 swings to get her 17 kills while committing only one error and also had seven digs from the back row and tied her season high with six blocks. Bartkowiak had six kills on seven attempts for a .857 clip in the final frame of the match against the Wildcats after leading the way with six kills on six swings for a perfect 1.000 hitting percentage in the first set.
Bartkowiak led a group of five different Utes who reached double-figures in kills and five more hit double-digits in digs in Utah's 19th consecutive MWC victory, a 3-1 decision over TCU on Thursday. She turned in 14 kills and a career-high 23 digs for her sixth double-double this season. She has now reached double figures in kills in five of Utah's last six matches and owns six career double-double performances. Saturday against New Mexico, Bartkowiak came up with nine kills, her final one being her 200th of the season, to go with six digs and two blocks.
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