ST. LOUIS – After her dynamic defense helped the UNI Panther volleyball team claim its 20th Missouri Valley Conference regular season title in program history, Panther libero Sydney Petersen was chosen as the MVC Defensive Player of the Week. She leads all 2022 conference performers with three such awards.
Petersen, a fifth-year senior who spent the previous four seasons with the Texas Longhorns, also picked up MVC Defensive of the Week honors for UNI back on Sept. 19 and Oct. 3. Her three weekly defensive award selections represent the best total by any Panther in one year since Kendyl Sorge won the award four times in 2016.