NJAC WEEKLY AWARD PDF
PITMAN, NJ (www.NJCUGothicKnights.com)...New Jersey City University sophomore outside hitter
TABITHA JORDAN (Bayonne, NJ/Memorial) has been named the New Jersey Athletic Conference Player of the Week for the fifth week of the 2009 season. It is the first weekly NJAC honor of her career.
Jordan’s award makes her the sixth different Gothic Knight to be named NJAC Player of the Week since the 2001 season and marks the 30th time that an NJCU player has won the conference’s top weekly award in that span.
Jordanposted the best week of her career last week and helped NJCU win twice, including an important conference road victory against Kean University. For the week, she averaged 4.33 digs, 3.50 points, 3.00 kills, 0.50 aces and 0.33 assists per set and had three double-doubles.
In a 3-2 (25-15, 19-25, 25-21, 19-25, 15-13) win at Kean on September 29, Jordan posted a double-double, contributing a match and what was then a career-high 12 kills while adding 20 digs. She had an important kill in the fifth set to put NJCU in front, 9-7, finishing with her third career double-double.
In a 3-0 (25-8, 25-17, 25-6) rout of York College (NY) on October 2, Jordan hit .214 with 11 kills (11-5-28) and 12 digs for her fourth career double-double, distributing double-digits in digs for the fifth time in six matches.
In a 3-1 loss to Baruch College on October 3, Jordan chalked up her fourth consecutive double-double—and her fifth of the season and her career—as she collected a career-high 13 kills (13-4-42, .214), matched her personal best with 20 digs, and landed four aces. It was the sixth time in seven matches she has distributed double-digits in digs.
Through matches of October 8, Jordanranks ninth in the NJAC in total kills (128), 11th in kills per set (2.42), 12th in points per set (2.85), 14th in total digs (150), 15th in service aces (0.43) and 18th in digs per set (2.83).
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