WAC player of the week 9/5

[kolohekeiki]

New Mexico State's Oguh Earns Player of the Week Honors

Monday, September 05, 2005


DENVER – New Mexico State’s Kim Oguh has been named the Western Athletic Conference Volleyball Player of the Week for the week of Sept. 5. This is the first WAC Player of the Week honor for the Aggies.

The El Paso, Texas, native had a total of 34 kills in three matches, hitting .386 with only seven errors. She also tallied 11 block assists during the week. Oguh was named 2005 Hilton Las Cruces Classic Tournament MVP, hammering 15 kills, had five block assists and three solo blocks in the Aggies’ 3-1 win over Cincinnati. She also had eight kills, hitting.615 in the Aggies’ 3-0 sweep of Texas-Pan American. Against the New Mexico Lobos on Aug. 29, she had 11 kills and three block assists.

Other nominees included: Boise State’s Telia Peterson had 11 kills, nine digs and one block against Wyoming. She had 15 kills, hit .143 (15-9-42), and added 14 digs and four blocks against Northern Colorado ... Fresno State’s Kasie Spencer had 21 kills in a, 3-1, victory over North Carolina, and hit .524 against Long Island at the USF Powerade/Asics Classic … Hawai‘i’s Kanoe Kamana`o averaged 14.50 assists per game, 3.00 digs per game and 1.00 blocks per game in the classic. She earned all-tournament team honors at the Hawaiian Airlines Wahine Volleyball Classic … Idaho’s Erin Curtis was selected to the LMU all-tournament team after leading the Vandals to a 2-1 record last week … Louisiana Tech’s Ambra Hayes had 47 kills in 12 games as the Lady Techsters won three matches … Nevada’s Carly Sorensen averaged 4.18 kills, and 4.41 points while hitting .252 in three mathces for the Pack in the Sands Regency/SBC Tournament. … San Jose State’s Colleen Burke had 33 kills in 12 games earning Falcon Invitational all-tournament honors.

[Barefoot In Kailua]

Interesting that the first 2 WAC players of the week come from new members to the conference.

Kamana'o was robbed!

[roy]

barefootinkailua said:

Interesting that the first 2 WAC players of the week come from new members to the conference.

Kamana'o was robbed!

I wouldn't say Kamanao was robbed, but I thought this week gave her a strong showing that put her in consideration. Sweeping a top 10 team and losing to a top 5 team in 5 isn't a bad showing at all. Every other WAC school would be thrilled with a showing like that. I would suspect that a Hawaii player will win POW next week. Hawaii will play the second strongest schedule (Fresno State playing at the Santa Clara tournament with Arizona, Santa Clara, and UCSB). If Hawaii goes wins their tournament and no Fresno State player puts up a strong showing, likely the award will go to Hawaii.

[chrisreed]

roy said:

barefootinkailua said:

Interesting that the first 2 WAC players of the week come from new members to the conference.

Kamana'o was robbed!

Hawaii will play the second strongest schedule (Fresno State playing at the Santa Clara tournament with Arizona, Santa Clara, and UCSB). If Hawaii goes wins their tournament and no Fresno State player puts up a strong showing, likely the award will go to Hawaii.

if you're basing WAC POW by strengh of schedule/tournament wouldn't Hawaii have won the 1st two already?.....The WAC is trying to spread the wealth this year, you will no longer see a Hawaii player winning POW every other week as in the past. Does it really matter? I don't think so. If I were a player I would want to make the all WAC team at the end of the season anytime over WAC player of the week.

[roy]

chrisreed said:

if you're basing WAC POW by strengh of schedule/tournament wouldn't Hawaii have won the 1st two already?.....The WAC is trying to spread the wealth this year, you will no longer see a Hawaii player winning POW every other week as in the past. Does it really matter? I don't think so. If I were a player I would want to make the all WAC team at the end of the season anytime over WAC player of the week.

Maybe I didn't make my point exactly clear. Every WAC POW so far still seems to fit the bill. If you look at years past, the winners of the WAC POW are generall based on 3 criteria: win-loss percent over that week, who the team beat, and the stats of the individual player. Please note, this is a very broad generalization based on what has happened in the past and no one takes precedence over another. A lot of it comes down to meeting or exceeding the expectations of that week. Had Hawaii not lost, Kamanao would have gotten some stronger looks. Also, had Nevada taken the match from UCLA, it would have likely gone to them as Nevada an unranked team would have knocked off a top 15 team. So, in that sense, strength of schedule does play a factor in determining POW. But it is not exclusively SOS and when a player like Oguh has a great week with some great stats and leads her team to a 3-0 record on the week, it makes a stronger push for a team like NMSU.

There are some trends you can see in the way POW usually go. Usually when Hawaii runs through a tournament with ranked teams, they get POW unless another team gets really hot and has some great numbers. Another trend will likely come when Nevada and Hawaii meet. When the top 2 teams in the conference get together, the winning team will probably get POW. This happend when Hawaii beat Fresno State (with Fenton) and Nevada in 2004, Fresno State and San Jose State (with Gallop) in 2000. Also, if any team beats Hawaii, their star will likely get POW. And if one of the lower teams knocks off an upper team (like LT beating Utah State), a LT player will likely get POW. Again, just some generalization in trends from the WAC POW.