Volleyball | 9/12/2016 3:12:00 PM

NEW ORLEANS – The Sun Belt Conference has named Georgia Southern redshirt senior Katie Bange its Offensive Student-Athlete of the Week, the league announced today. 

Bange averaged three kills, 2.07 digs, 5.21 assists and 0.71 blocks a set and was named all-tournament at the SpringHill Suites Invitational. The right side/setter hit .420 with 41 kills on 81 swings and just eight errors. 

She tallied two triple-doubles on the first day of the tourney, and her four triple-doubles this season are tied for the second-most in the country. Bange recorded 16 kills, 11 digs, 23 assists and two blocks against Buffalo and posted 14 kills, 11 digs, 21 assists and four blocks while hitting .522 vs. Wake Forest. She also notched 12 kills, 29 assists, seven digs and four blocks against South Carolina.

Bange is the first Eagle to win Sun Belt Offensive Player of the Week since Georgia Southern joined the conference in 2014.

Georgia Southern caps a four-match homestand by playing host to North Florida in Hanner Fieldhouse Tuesday at 6 p.m.

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