The Stony Brook Seawolves volleyball team has gotten off to a rousing start this season and with their red-hot start has come some personal accolades.
Mercedes Motton earned her first career weekly honor after leading the Seawolves with 14 blocks over the weekend and then was named the CAA Defensive Player of the Week.
The Seawolves went 3-0 in the Stony Brook Invite over the week and Motton was an elite presence. Besides her 14 total blocks she also added 15 kills and four digs filling up her stat sheet. In the second match of the weekend, she recorded six blocks in Stony Brook's win over Siena. In the weekend finale against Rhode Island, she added another four blocks and seven kills.
Stony Brook wound up taking home two of the three honors given out by the CAA weekly when Ava Zamora was named CAA Rookie of the Week.
In her debut game the freshman led the way with 115 assists and 10 assists per set. She also added 12 kills, six service aces, 31 digs and three blocks over her first three collegiate starts. Zamora nearly posted a triple-double in her second career start, totaling 50 assists, 17 digs and going 9-of-12 on kill attempts against Siena. Zamora was also named to the Stony Brook Invite All-Tournament Team.