NEW HAVEN, Conn. — For the second week
this season, senior Cat Dailey of the Yale volleyball team has been
recognized by the Ivy League as its Player of the Week. Dailey
averaged 4.17 kills with a scorching .489 (25-3-45) hitting
percentage in six sets of action this past weekend as the Bulldogs
swept Ivy League foes Columbia and Cornell. She was also a force in
the back row of the Yale set, piling up 4.17 digs per frame and
landing six service aces en route to earning her 10th and 11th
double-doubles of the season.
On Friday against the Lions, Dailey had a match-best 13 kills
(13-2-23, .478) with 11 digs and three aces. She was dominant once
again on Saturday against Big Red, totaling 12 kills (12-1-22,
.500) with 13 digs, three more service aces and a solo block to end
the second set. She shares the Player of the Week honor this week
with Princeton senior Sheena Donohue.
The reigning Ivy League Player of the Year, Dailey was also
nationally recognized this week as a CVU.com (College Volleyball
Update) Top Performer, a distinction handed out to fewer than 15
players throughout Division I each week. She was also honored by
CVU.com when she claimed Ivy League Player of the Week laurels on
Sept. 8. Dailey is the only Ancient Eight player to land on the
weekly CVU.com list in 2009.
On the season, Dailey leads the Ivy League in kills (4.03 per set)
and service aces (0.38 per set). She is also in the league-wide top
10 in hitting percentage (.277) and digs (3.35 per set). In
addition to being the unanimous Ivy League Player of the Year,
Dailey was an All-Ivy first team selection in 2008 and was recently
selected to the ESPN the Magazine Academic All-District First
Team.
Ivy League
Weekly Release
report filed by Drew M. Kingsley, Yale Sports Publicity
