JEFFERSON CITY, Tenn. - Carson-Newman volleyball middle blocker Jenna Wilson (Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.) and football running back Andy Hibbett (Corryton, Tenn.) have been named Bojangles' Female and Male Athletes of the Week.
Jenna Wilson (Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.) was named the Tennessee Sportswriters Association's volleyball Player of the Week. The senior is the first Eagle volleyball player to earn the honor in the program's history.
Wilson began the week by matching a season-high with 20 kills on a .429 attack percentage to go along with 3.5 total blocks at Mars Hill in a five-set victory. On Friday night, the senior matched a season high with five total blocks to accompany 10 kills in a four-set win over Queens (N.C.). She capped the weekend with 10 kills and five blocks assists in a sweep of Catawba and five kills and 1.5 blocks in a three-set triumph over Belmont Abbey.
The Rancho Cucamonga, Calif. native is on pace to shatter the Carson-Newman single season attack percentage record of .317 that Katie Troyer set in 2008. Wilson currently ranks 16th in the country with a .389 percentage.
Wilson is also putting up huge blocking numbers. Her 86 this season rank second in the South Atlantic Conference while her 1.18 blocks per set are good for 20th among Division II players.
Andy Hibbett earned South Atlantic Conference Offensive Player of the Week honors and was named Running Back of the Week by the Beyond Sports Network in earning Bojangles Male Athlete of the Week honors for a third time this season.
Hibbett turned in a 221-yard performance in the Eagles' 55-35 win over the Tusculum Pioneers Saturday. He toted the rock 30 times and scored three touchdowns. The trio of scores all came in the fourth quarter to put the game out of reach.
Hibbett slogged his way through the mud for the 14th-best single-game rushing tally in Carson-Newman football history. His 221 yards narrowly edged out the last 200-yard game for the Eagles, a 219-yard day for Brandon Baker in C-N's season opening win over Glenville State in 2012.
The senior from Gibbs 30 carries were also the most by an Eagle ballcarrier since quarterback Brandon Haywood ran 34 times in a second round playoff win over Lenoir-Rhyne on November 23, 2012.
With his 200-yard performance, Hibbett tied Buck Wakefield's school record of consecutive 100-yard rushing performances at five. Unlike Wakefield (or Brandon Baker and Tyrone Westmoreland, who each had four straight 100-yard games), Hibbett's streak is in the middle of the season as opposed to its end.
Bojangles is a proud corporate sponsor of Carson-Newman athletics. Eagle fans can get a free large sweet tea from the Jefferson City location the Saturday and Sunday after a Carson-Newman football game where the Eagles score 28 points or more by telling the cashier, "It's Bo Time at Carson-Newman."
