ORLANDO Fla. – After opening conference play with a pair of sweeps over East Carolina and Cincinnati, Claudia Dillon was named the American Athletic Conference Offensive Player of the Week, the league office announced on Monday.
"These kinds of individual honors are things that we want to be able to stack up week after week because the greater team is doing well as a whole," head coach Todd Dagenais said, "This shows the strength within our team and people doing jobs that nobody else sees, which allows members of the team to really shine in certain situations. This team is working really hard to open things up to allow the middles to score and Claudia is taking advantage of it."
This marks the fourth weekly honor UCF has received this season and is now Dillon's second as she earned defensive player of the week last week.
Dillon was a key player in UCF's success all weekend long both offensively and defensively. She recorded 16 kills (2.67 per set) while hitting .577 with only one error and grabbed 28.5 points (4.75 per set) on the weekend. She was also dominate from the service line as she notched eight service aces, earning 1.33 aces per set with no errors. Dillon put up a wall all weekend long, posting nine blocks, 1.50 blocks per set, and six digs.
In UCF's win over ECU in three-straight sets, Dillon recorded 10 kills, hit .625 and had zero errors. She added two aces in the match and led the team with 14.5 points. Defensively, she put up five blocks on no errors and added five digs.
On Sunday's sweep over Cincinnati, Dillon had six kills while hitting .556. She notched an incredible six aces with zero errors in the match and added 14 points. On the defensive end, she added four more blocks with no errors.
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