Tufts' senior co-captain setter Dena Feiger became the second consecutive Jumbo to win the NESCAC women's volleyball Player of the Week award, following in the footsteps of classmate and fellow co-captain Brogie Helgeson.
The award, announced on Monday, honors Feiger's outstanding performance in a win over UMass Boston last Tuesday and sweep of the annual Tufts Invitational over the weekend. Those victories helped the Jumbos run their winning streak to 16 games.
Feiger, who was also named the MVP of the Tufts Invitational, averaged 10.5 assists and 2.3 digs per set in the four matches she played last week. In last Tuesday's win over UMass Boston, Feiger registered a phenomenal 52 assists, her best effort so far this season.
This is Feiger's second Player of the Week honor; she previously won it in October 2007, during her sophomore year. Feiger and Helgeson are the first Jumbos to take home the award since then-sophomore Dawson Joyce-Mendive in November of last year.
Feiger and Helgeson are also the first Tufts duo to earn back-to-back Player of the Week honors this decade and the first pair in the conference to do so since then-junior Ellie Healy and then-senior Lisa Drennan accomplished the feat for Wesleyan in October of 2008.
On the year, Feiger has accumulated 580 of the Jumbos' 683 assists, good for 85 percent of the team's total.
