Former MC volleyball player Hershberger honored by PAC

By Kenny Varner Jr.
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Updated: September 30, 2024

Courtesy of Saint Vincent Athletics

TRAFFORD, Pa. (Sept. 30) – Two Saint Vincent College have landed weekly accolades from the Presidents’ Athletic Conference for their performances over the week of Sept. 23.

Graduate student Tanisha Grewal (Grantville, Pa./Eastern Lebanon) was selected the PAC Women’s Soccer Offensive Player of the Week, while freshman Dakota Hershberger (Belleville, Pa./Mifflin County) was tabbed the league’s Women’s Volleyball Newcomer of the Week.

Grewal earns PAC Offensive Player of the Week honors for the first time this season and the third time of her career after helping lead the Bearcats to a pair of decisive victories. In last Wednesday’s 5-1 win at Franciscan, Grewal was one of four goal-scorers for the Bearcats, before she scored a pair of first-half goals for SVC in a 7-1 win at Thiel on Friday night. After the two victories, the Bearcats are now 7-1-1 overall, their best start to a season since 2012, while they have started the PAC schedule 2-0 for the first time in program history. Through SVC’s first nine games, Grewal has 14 points, on six goals and two assists.

In two matches for the Bearcat women’s volleyball team, Hershberger totaled 21 kills, 14 digs, five blocks and three service aces. In Wednesday’s five-set marathon at Penn State-Altoona, the rookie outside hitter recorded 10 kills, eight digs, three service aces and two blocks. Two nights later, in a 3-1 win at Carlow, she put down 12 kills and hit at a stellar .346 clip, while adding six digs and three blocks. Over her first season at SVC, Hershberger ranks second on the team in blocks (16), while her 1.82 kills per set and .154 hitting percentage are both good for third on the Bearcats.

Both Grewal and Hershberger will be back in action with 7 p.m. home matches on Wednesday, Oct. 2, as the women’s soccer team hosts PAC foe Bethany at UPMC Field, and the women’s volleyball team concludes its non-conference portion of the schedule with a match against Mount Aloysius in the Robert S. Carey Center.