Maggie Streightiff is this week's Northern Sun Conference Offensive Player of the Week. The senior right-side hitter led Upper Iowa to a pair of wins at home over the weekend including an upset of No. 10 Southwest Minnesota State University on Saturday.
Streightiff is UIU's sixth conference player of the week honoree of the fall season, joining her teammate
Charisma Herr, as well as men's soccer's Tate Lofdahl and Alan Dunlop, and women's soccer's Aimee Sies and Katrina Kazluski.
Streightiff registered 33 kills in Upper Iowa's two home wins over Sioux Falls and No. 10 SMSU. The Hayfield, Minn. product averaged 4.13 kills per set and hit .463 in the two matches with just 8 attack errors in 54 swings. Streightiff tallied 22 kills in UIU's five-frame upset of the #10 Mustangs.
Upper Iowa swept the Cougars on Friday night and outlasted the No. 10 Mustangs on Saturday in five sets to improve to 15-5 overall and 8-3 in the NSIC. The Peacocks are currently tied for fourth place in the conference standings with Winona State University. UIU heads out on the road this coming weekend with matches at No. 5 Wayne State College on Friday and Augustana University on Saturday.
