NORFOLK, Va. – Coppin State's
Ammaarah Williams has been named the MEAC Volleyball Co-Player of the Week while
Ashley Roman received Defensive Player of the Week, it was announced by the league office on Monday afternoon. This is the first time that Williams has received a MEAC weekly award while in a Coppin uniform while Roman is picking up her tenth Defensive Player of the Week honor.
A graduate student from Cleveland, Ohio, Williams led the Eagles with 3.71 points per set in four games last week, picking up 45 kills on .170 hitting, four aces, 3.36 digs per set and six blocks. Coppin went 3-1 in those games, falling in four sets to American University in a midweek contest before defeating Alabama State, Alabama A&M and Alcorn State at the ISTAP HBCU Challenge over the weekend.
Williams opened the week with a season-high 13 kills and a career-high 22 digs against American where she added a pair of aces. She followed that up with nine kills and three blocks in a convincing win over Alabama State before notching back-to-back double-doubles against Alabama A&M and Alcorn State where she hit a combined .296.
Roman averaged a whopping 7.57 digs per set as Coppin went 3-1 last week and now leads the Nation with 229 total digs while her 5.33 per set are 12
th in NCAA Division I. A senior from Isabela, P.R., Roman broke her own school-record with 36 digs against American before 29 against the Hornets, 26 against the Bulldogs and 15 against the Braves.
In her effort against Alabama State, Roman went over the 1,500 career digs mark and now has 1,556 in her career to rank fourth in MEAC history. Roman is currently 113 digs away from the CSU record held by
Gabrielle Otero (2011-14) which would move her into third on the league's all-time list.
Coppin returns to action on Tuesday, September 13 when it travels to our Nation's Capital to face George Washington University in a 6 pm start.
