Tewksbury's Allison Luppi Named Little East Conference Defensive Player-of-the-Week

Allison Luppi ‘16, of Tewksbury majoring in English, was named Little East Conference Defensive Player-of-the-Week in volleyball.

Senior libero Allison Luppi played a central role when the Warriors handed six-time defending Little East Conference regular-season champion UMass Boston its first LEC regular-season loss since 2012 with a three-game sweep Saturday at Geissler Gymnasium. In a match where three sets were decided by a total of nine points, Luppi averaged over ten digs per set - nearly twice as many as her season average -- and made just one error on 30 reception attempts. She totaled half of the team’s digs in the match and nearly half of the team’s reception attempts. In the second set win which gave the Warriors a dominant 2-0 lead, Luppi was perfect on 15 reception tries. Luppi’s 70 digs in a 2-1 week (6.36 per set) moved her into the all-time Top 10 in career digs. She is ninth with a total of 1,390. Last week, she also handled 89 receptions with only three errors for a success mark of .966.

Five Eastern Connecticut State University athletes were cited during the third weekly Little East Conference awards report of the season, through matches of Sept. 20. The five awardees give Eastern ten selections in five fall sports (men’s soccer, women’s soccer, field hockey, women’s volleyball, and women’s cross country) in the program’s first three weeks. Eight different individuals have earned the award at least once this fall.

Eastern Connecticut State University is the state of Connecticut’s public liberal arts university, serving more than 5,300 students annually at its Willimantic campus and satellite locations. In addition to attracting students from 161 of Connecticut’s 169 towns, Eastern also draws students from 25 other states and 18 other countries.

A residential campus offering 38 majors and 55 minors, Eastern offers students a strong liberal art foundation grounded in an array of applied learning opportunities. Ranked in the top 30 public universities in the North Region, by U.S. News and World Report in its 2016 Best College ratings, Eastern has also been awarded “Green Campus” status by the U.S. Green Building Council six years in a row. For more information, visit www.easternct.edu.