FloVolleyball's Big Ten Player Of The Month: Haleigh Washington

As we dive into the final month of the 2017 Big Ten season, Penn State is tied with Nebraska for the top spot in the conference standings and is the No. 1 team in the country. Who's the player leading the sprint at the top? 

That would be senior middle blocker Haleigh Washington.

Washington is FloVolleyball’s Big Ten Player of the Month. Since October 1, she has helped lead the Nittany Lions to victories over top-20-ranked Michigan State, Purdue, and Wisconsin. She also surpassed 1,000 career kills and 500 career blocks last month.

Absolutely deadly on the slide, the 6-foot-3 First Team All-American has a .519 hitting percentage, the best average in the country. Her career hitting percentage ranks third all-time in NCAA Division I history.

Against Ohio State on October 6, Washington set a new career high with 20 kills. That night, she also added eight blocks. In the month of October, Washington was named the Big Ten Player of the Week not once, not twice, but three times.

FloVolleyball is live streaming six Penn State matches this month: 

Nov. 4 vs. Rutgers @ 7 PM ET
Nov. 11 vs. Maryland @ 7 PM ET
Nov. 15 vs. Indiana @ 7:30 PM ET
Nov. 18 vs. Rutgers @ 7 PM ET
Nov. 24 vs. Wisconsin @ 8 PM ET
Nov. 25 vs. Minnesota @ 7 PM ET

Want more of Haleigh Washington? Watch her in the two-episode FloFilm documentary "The Program: Penn State" here.

The Program: Penn State

Watch Episode One here.

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