BETHLEHEM, Pa. -- Navy volleyball player Ava Toppin garnered a pair of awards from the Patriot League today as she was named the league's player and defensive player of the week for the sport.

Toppin averaged 2.56 kills and 1.56 blocks per set and hit.442 over the course of the weekend.  She first tallied eight kills, three blocks and a .263 hitting percentage in Navy's close four-set loss to first-place Colgate.  She then produced a career-high 15 kills and one error on 24 attempts for a .583 hitting night and added a career-best 11 blocks the next day in a five-set victory over Bucknell.  Toppin had six kills and no errors on seven attempts in the abbreviated fifth set, which she ended with her final kill of the match.

The 11 blocks ties her for third place for the most by a Mid in a match since statistics began being counted with the 1995 season, and was just two shy of tying the school mark of 13.  It also tied her for the Navy mark for the most in a Patriot League match.  Additionally, it established a new Wesley A. Brown Field House record (opened in 2008).

Navy opens the second half of the league campaign Saturday at Bucknell.