I want to personally thank each of you who voted for Valley’s own Paul Roberts. The senior quarterback from Gulfport was named the Heritage Sports Radio Network National Player of the Week! We’re looking forward to another great performance by the Delta Devils during our Homecoming Game on Saturday. Please join us!

Be sure read more about Paul by going to the HSRN Web site.

While you are there, you can scroll to the lower right hand corner where you’ll read about another outstanding Valley athlete, Maura Moed of our volleyball team. Maura is a junior from San Antonio, Texas who plays for Coach Alyse Wells-Kilbert. Coach Kilbert tells me that she couldn’t be prouder of the Maura and the entire team as they won four times last week, including Valley’s own Jessie Harris Volleyball Classic Tournament!

The Valley defeated Alabama State, Alcorn State and Southern University to win the third annual classic. Maura was named Most Valuable Player. Her teammates, Kantessa Bryant, a senior from Grand Prairie, Texas and Shonese Evans, a junior from Schriever, Louisiana, were chosen on the All-Tournament Team. 

Coach tells me that Maura recorded 43 kills, 16 blocks, 14 service aces, and nine digs in helping the Devilettes win their matches. Maura, at the time of this writing, is ranked first in the SWAC in hitting percentage (.311) and service aces (0.55 per game), while ranking second in kills (2.79 per game).

I was pleased to hear that Coach Harris, a MVSU former head volleyball and women’s basketball coach for more than 20 years, was on hand to present the all-tournament awards to the student-athletes.

The MVSU ladies secured their second conference victory of the season by defeating Alabama State on Sunday. Congratulations to the entire team who sport a 2-0 conference record at the moment.

Also, I want to personally congratulate two of our Canadian players who recently were named as SWAC players of the week, along with Maura.

Kudos to Valley’s Lonnie Hoff of Standard, Alberta. She was named SWAC Newcomer of the Week. During the tourney, Lonnie Hoff had 34 kills, 17 digs, seven blocks, and three service aces. Way to go!

During the week of Sept. 9, April Brown, a freshman from Yorkton, Saskatchewan, was named Newcomer of the Week. Congrats, April!

You can read more about all Valley sports on the MVSU Web site and by going to the SWAC official Web site.