STANFORD, Calif. – The honors continue for Stanford's Audriana Fitzmorris as the middle blocker has been named the Sports Imports/AVCA National Player of the Week.
Earning Pac-12 Offensive Player and Freshman of the week, she averaged a team-high 3.50 kills on .520 hitting, 1.38 blocks and 4.44 points per set in Cardinal wins over then-No. 17 Illinois and then-No. 13 Penn State as a part of the Big Ten/Pac-12 Challenge in Boulder, Colorado.
In a five-set win over the Fighting Illini on Saturday, Fitzmorris recorded a career-high 20 kills with just one error on 34 swings to hit .559. She also collected seven blocks and ace against Illinois.
In Stanford's first sweep over Penn State since 2010, Fitzmorris posted eight kills on .438 hitting, again committing just one attack error, to go with four blocks and an ace.
It is the 18th time a Stanford player has been named the Sports Imports/AVCA Player of the Week, and the first time since Inky Ajanaku took home the honor on Sept. 9, 2014.
The Cardinal, which is now 3-1 on the season, plays host to the Stanford Invitational Sept. 9-11 at Maples Pavilion. Stanford will face No. 20 Purdue on Friday, Sept. 9 at 8 p.m. on the Pac-12 Network and Cal Poly on Sunday, Sept. 11 at 1 p.m.