NEW ORLEANS – The Coastal Carolina volleyball team's outside hitter Ella Saada was named the Sun Belt Conference Offensive Player of the Week for her play last week in Sun Belt Conference action against Appalachian State. It is the first SBC weekly conference award for Saada and the second weekly award for the Chants.
 
The graduate student guided her team to a pair of wins over the Mountaineers, totaling 52 kills and five service aces. She finished with 5.78 kills per set average while scoring a Sun Belt-best 58.5 points on the week (6.50 per set).
 
In the opening match, Saada finished with a then-career-high 23 kills leading the Chants to a four-set victory. She followed that with a career-high 29 kills in the second match. The Kfar Masaryk, Israel, native has helped the Chanticleers to a 4-0 start in SBC play.
 
Coastal Carolina will return to action on Friday, Oct. 7, at 6 p.m. ET as the Chanticleers will host Georgia Southern at the HTC Center in Conway, S.C.
 
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