Brandywine Earns Four First Team All-PSUAC Volleyball Honors; Jezyk Named East Division Specialist Of The Year
MEDIA, Pa. -- Freshman setter Laura Jezyk (Wilmington, Del./St. Elizabeth) was selected as the Penn State University Athletic Conference East Division Specialist of the Year and was one of four Penn State Brandywine volleyball student-athletes to claim First Team All-PSUAC honors on Monday, along with Amanda Floyd (Glenolden, Pa./Interboro), Suzie Alvarenga (Fullerton, Calif./Notre Dame Academy) and Anna Ramirez (Exton, Pa./Downingtown East).
Jezyk was named the top setter after leading the East Division and finishing second overall in the conference with 551 assists, an average of 7.76 assists per set. She is Brandywine's first setter to record more than 500 assists in a season since 2017 and her assist total currently ranks as the fifth-highest, single-season total in team history.
Jezyk reached the 30-assist mark in a match six times with a season high of 36 coming in a four-set match against Penn State York on Oct. 5.
She also ranked third on the team and eighth in the East Division by amassing 188 digs, while also totaling 53 aces, 32 kills and eight blocks. Jezyk eclipsed the 10-dig mark in a match nine times with her season best coming in Brandywine's PSUAC Tournament quarterfinal victory against Penn State Hazleton when she produced 16.
Alvarenga set a Brandywine single-season record for digs with a conference-best total of 398. She has accumulated 98 more digs than her closest competitor.
Alvarenga, who started all 22 of the team's matches as Brandywine's libero, tallied 30 digs in back-to-back matches to begin the year before setting a career high with 33 in the Lions' quarterfinal victory last Wednesday night.
In addition, Alvarenga is second on the team in assists with 43 and collected 31 service aces.
Floyd registered 190 kills and a team-best 34 blocks during 22 matches this fall. She has now played in all 70 matches for the Lions during the last four years.
Floyd set a career high with 17 kills at Penn State Hazleton in September, one of 10 double-figure kill efforts this season. Three nights earlier, she set a then-career best with six blocks against Penn State Wilkes-Barre, a mark she broke one month later when she picked up seven blocks at Penn State Lehigh Valley.
Floyd added 95 digs and finished fifth on the team with 26 aces.
Ramirez is one of three players from the East Division to have reached 200 kills this season. She ranks seventh overall in the league with 208 as the Lions' first player to reach the 200-kill mark in five years.
Ramirez also owns 217 digs and is one of only three players in the league with a 200-kill, 200-dig season in 2022. Her dig total ranks second on the team and is tied for 10th in the PSUAC.
In 22 matches, Ramirez tallied at least 10 kills on 10 occasions and accumulated double-figure digs 11 times. She also produced 33 aces.
Ramirez also received the John Fritz Sportsmanship Award. Named after former PSUAC Commissioner John Fritz, the sportsmanship award is given to one player from each team in the league who best displays the core values of the league and sportsmanship to teammates and opponents throughout the season.
Brandywine (13-9) faces Penn State Mont Alto in a PSUAC Tournament semifinal match tonight at 7:00 PM in State College.
