St. John's University Athletics
Palgutova Named to BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll
9/14/2015 12:00:00 AM | Women's Volleyball
QUEENS, N.Y. - Senior outside hitter Karin Palgutova was named to the BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll, as announced by the conference office on Monday afternoon. In a 3-1 week for the Red Storm (8-3), Palgutova tallied 4.31 kills per set on a .350 attacking percentage.
St. John's hosted the Jack Kaiser Volleyball Classic last week and won its first three matches against George Mason (3-0), Central Connecticut State (3-0), and Cornell (3-1) before falling to San Francisco in straight sets.
Palgutova collected her third and fourth double-doubles of the season with 18 kills and 11 digs against the Patriots, followed by 13 kills and 14 digs against the Blue Devils. She tallied 17 kills on a .538 hitting percentage against the Big Red while also adding eight digs.
The native of Bratislava, Slovakia also recorded 2.85 digs per set during the week. She held the match lead in kills in all four of the Red Storm victories and currently ranks second in the BIG EAST in kills per set (4.05).
This is the first time this season and ninth time in her career that Palgutova has been named to the BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll. Last week, Palgutova was named the BIG EAST Player of the Week - her fourth-career award.
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St. John's volleyball team will head south to Florida to compete against some of the elite teams in the country from Sept. 17-19. The Red Storm will first face No. 5 Florida (6-1), who advanced to the 2014 NCAA Regional Final, in Gainesville on Sept. 17. The Gators finished last season ranked No. 6 with a 28-4 record.
St. John's will then make a trip to Tampa to face defending National Champion and top-ranked Penn State (8-0) and Auburn (7-2) in the USF Invitational on Sept. 19, to round out the weekend. The Nittany Lions have won seven national championships, including six of the last eight.
