Volleyball's Bottomley & Wait Win Third Straight BIG EAST Awards - GoCreighton.com

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OMAHA, Neb. -- For the third week in a row Creighton Volleyball's Abby Bottomley and Kendra Wait have been honored by the BIG EAST Conference. Bottomley was named Defensive Player of the Week and Wait recognized as Freshman of the Week.

Bottomley averaged a league-best 7.71 digs in addition to 1.43 assists and 0.57 aces per set as Creighton opened BIG EAST play with road wins at Butler (3-1) and Xavier (3-0). The Virginia Beach, Va., product had a season-high 31 digs in Friday's 3-1 victory at Butler, adding eight assists and three service aces. She wrapped up her weekend with 23 digs, two assists and an ace in a 3-0 sweep vs. Xavier. That gave her 2,437 career digs, good for a tie for 24^th in NCAA history. Creighton held the Bulldogs and Musketeers to combined .112 hitting and seven aces in seven sets played.

This is Bottomley's third honor this fall after she earned 14 Big South Conference Defensive Player of the Week recognitions while at High Point from 2017-20.
 
Wait excelled in the first BIG EAST weekend of her career, averaging 11.00 assists, 3.86 digs, 1.57 kills, 0.86 blocks and 0.29 aces per set on .550 hitting.
 
Wait started her week with 47 assists and a season-high 18 digs in CU's 3-1 win at Butler. Wait added four blocks and four kills in addition to her first career ace. After Butler snapped Creighton's 15-set win streak, Wait had 16 assists, four digs and two kills while setting the Jays to .425 hitting in the decisive fourth frame. She followed that with 30 assists, nine digs and seven kills on .700 hitting in a 3-0 win at Xavier, which also included two blocks and an ace. Wait had kills to end both the second and third sets.

This is the fourth BIG EAST Freshman of the Week honor for Wait in the first five weeks of the season. Teammate Norah Sis won the other one.

Marquette's Taylor Wolf was named BIG EAST Offensive Player of the Week. Creighton's Jaela Zimmerman landed on the league's weekly Honor Roll.

Ranked 16th nationally, Creighton (14-1, 2-0 BIG EAST) returns to action on Friday at 6 p.m. Central with a road match at St. John's.
 

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