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Danielle Taylor Named WAC Volleyball Player Of The Week
Nov. 12, 2007
LOGAN, Utah - Utah State volleyball player Danielle Taylor has been named the Western Athletic Conference Player of the Week it was announced by the league office Monday. Taylor was also named the America First Credit Union Utah State Student-Athlete of the Week, which was voted on by a state media panel, for the period ending on Sunday, Nov. 11. Taylor becomes the third USU volleyball player this year to earn the weekly WAC award, joining Melissa Osterloh and Amanda Nielson. Overall, it is the fifth time that USU has had a player earn weekly WAC accolades in its three years in the conference. Taylor, a 6-1 sophomore middle blocker from Springville, Utah (Springville HS) led Utah State to a 2-1 record last week as the Aggies lost to Idaho (3-0), and then defeated Nevada (3-1) and No. 10 Hawai'i (3-0) in Honolulu. Taylor began her week with six kills, four digs and seven blocks against Idaho. She then recorded six kills, five digs and three blocks against Nevada and ended her week by hitting a blistering .533 (11-3-15) against Hawai'i as she posted 11 kills and five blocks. For the week, Taylor hit .276 and averaged 2.09 kills, 1.36 blocks and 0.91 digs per game. Hawai'i had won 97 straight WAC matches at home and was 169-2 (.988) in WAC play since joining the league for volleyball in 1996. The win against Hawai'i for the Aggies is their first over a ranked opponent since they defeated then 24th-ranked UC Santa Barbara in five games on Sept. 15, 2005. The last time Utah State defeated a team ranked in the top 10 was on Sept. 12, 2000 when it beat then 10th-ranked BYU in three games in Logan. Utah State entered the match against Hawai'i having lost 20 straight contests to the Rainbow Wahine. Utah State finished the regular season with a 17-12 record, including a third-place finish in WAC with an 11-5 league mark after being picked to finish in seventh-place in the preseason polls. After starting the season with a 2-6 record, USU has won 15 of its last 21 matches. The Aggies will be the third-seed in the 2007 WAC Tournament held in Las Cruces, N.M., on Thursday, Nov. 15 through Saturday, Nov. 17 and play sixth-seeded San Jose State at 5 p.m. (MT) Thursday night. Nominees from other sports included: MEN'S BASKETBALL - Senior guard Jaycee Carroll (Evanston, Wyo.) led Utah State a 1-1 record last weekend with a 60-49 win against Southern Utah and a 78-71 loss at Weber State. Against SUU, Carroll scored a game-high 23 points to go along with seven rebounds, as he was 8-of-14 from the field, 3-of-5 from three-point range and 4-of-4 from the free throw line. Against WSU, Carroll added 14 points and eight rebounds. For the week, he averaged 18.5 points and 7.5 rebounds, while shooting 44.0 percent from the field, 54.5 percent from three-point range and 90.0 percent from the free throw line. WOMEN'S BASKETBALL - Senior guard Taylor Richards (West Valley City, Utah) scored a game-high 18 points and added six rebounds, two assists and two steals in Utah State's season-opening 67-66 home loss to Pacific. MEN'S CROSS COUNTRY - Junior Seth Wold (Highland, Utah) led Utah State's men's cross country team to an eighth-place finish at the NCAA Mountain Regional on Saturday as he finished in 39th place with a time of 31:53.8 in the 10-kilometer race. WOMEN'S CROSS COUNTRY - Senior Amy Egan (Greensburg, Pa.) led Utah State's women's cross country team to an eighth-place finish at the NCAA Mountain Regional on Saturday as she finished the six-kilometer race in 33rd place with a time of 21:57.1. MEN'S GOLF - Junior Devin Daniels (Smithfield, Utah) led Utah State's golf team to a ninth-place finish at the Agua Caliente Air Force Invitational held in Palm Springs, Calif., during the weekend. Daniels finished the tournament tied for 15th with a 12-under par 204 as he shot a two-under par 70 during the first round, an eight-under 64 in the second round and a two-under 70 in the third round. SOCCER - Junior forward Candice Clark (Provo, Utah) scored two goals in the first-half of Utah State's match against San Jose State to lead the Aggies to its first-ever WAC Tournament win with a 4-0 victory against the Spartans. Clark then had six of USU's seven shots on goal in its 1-0 double-overtime loss against top-ranked Hawai'i in the semifinals of the tournament. 2007-08 Utah State Athlete of the Week Winners -USU- |
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