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Volleyball programs from across the Minnesota College Athletic Conference have fared well on the national stage early in 2019, with five teams picking up a NJCAA Top Ten poll ranking yesterday and several teams boasting perfect - or nearly perfect - records after two weeks of play. MnWest, RCTC, Central Lakes, M State-Fergus Falls and St. Cloud Technical & Community College all landed in the NJCAA Top 10 this week.
Two individual student-athletes were highlighted by the NJCAA in the first week of National Player-of-the-Week voting; Rochester Community & Technical College sophomore Carrie Rutledge and Tori Nelson of St. Cloud Community & Technical College both received inaugural NPOW honors.
Rutledge, an All-America selection for the Yellowjackets in 2018, was tabbed NJCAA Division III Offensive Player-of-the-Week on the strength of an unbeaten four-match outing at the College of DuPage Invitational this past weekend. Rutledge had 146 kills and a 6.08 Kill-per-Set mark.
Nelson - a sophomore for SCTCC - was named the NJCAA Division III Defensive Player-of-the-Week in the country as the Cyclones also went 4-0 at the College of DuPage competition. Nelson leads the MCAC in digs after two weeks of play.
Both Nelson and Rutledge, and all 16 MCAC Volleyball teams, will be in action today, Wednesday, September 4th, as Divisional play opens up. For the complete MCAC schedule,please click here or go to: https://www.mcacsports.org/sports/wvball/2019-20/schedule
For the full NJCAA Division III Volleyball Top Ten Poll Release, go to: http://njcaa.org/sports/wvball/2019-20/div3/polls
CLICK HERE for the 2019 MCAC Southern Division Volleyball Preview.
Go to THIS LINK for the 2019 MCAC Northern Division Volleyball Preview.
The Minnesota College Athletic Conference is the organizational body for NJCAA-affiliated two-year technical and community college athletic programs in the Minnesota State Colleges & Universities system, as well as select member colleges in North Dakota and Wisconsin. The mission of the Minnesota College Athletic Conference is to advance intercollegiate athletics by providing an engaging and supportive environment for success of our student athletes and competition among member institutions. The MCAC is committed to the guiding principles of encouraging the development and success of student athletes, promoting the integrity, honesty and loyalty to member schools as well as upholding the sustainability of conference athletic programs.
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