NCAA stats: Maranatha, St. Thomas home to national leaders

The NCAA released its first statistical report and the Midwest and Central regions are once again well represented. Here are the MW/C region players and teams ranked in the top 10 nationally. Maranatha’s Torey DeLozier is leading her two categories by wide margins.

I’m tempted to call shenanigans on Trinity (DC), which has the top two players in digs per set. One is averaging 10.78 per and the other is at 8.14. Amazing.

Stats are through Sept. 11. Aces/Set 3. Tayler Viegut, Northland 1.33 3. Megan Zynda, Northland 1.33 4. Blackburn 4.69 5. Northland 4.33

Assists/Set 1. Ashley Maher, St. Thomas 11.92 3. Marilee Fisher, Washington 11.56 5. Ali Sikic, UW-Platteville 11.52 *1. Dominican 13.85 ? 4. Washington 12.82 5. UW-Platteville 12.73 6. St. Thomas 12.61

Blocks/Set 7. Morgan Bartkowiak, UW-Stevens Point 1.51 9. UW-Stevens Point 2.79

Digs/Set 4. UW-Whitewater 21.86

Hitting percentage 3. Megan Reynolds, Elmhurst .493 5. Torey DeLozier, Maranatha .479 10. Jessa Youso, Carleton .455 1. Maranatha .457 *8. Dominican .372 ?

Kills/Set 1. Torey DeLozier, Maranatha 6.94 4. Kelsy England, Millikin 4.63 7. Kelly Foley, St. Thomas 4.42 *1. Dominican 15.42 ? 5. Washington 13.97 8. St. Thomas 13.68 9. UW-Platteville 13.67

Points/Set 1. Torey DeLozier, Maranatha 8.15 5. Kelsy England, Millikin 5.22

Won-Loss Percentage (I updated through 9/13) 1. Washington 10-0 1. Chicago 9-0 1. St. Thomas 8-0

*UPDATE: As you may have noticed, I removed Dominican from the headline. A comment alerted me to a flaw in Dominican’s stat report to the NCAA. DU’s Facebook page says that a few match stats were accidentally doubled, and the NCAA will be notified.

-Ricky Nelson