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Joe Bortak

33 Joe Bortak

  • Height:
    6-7
  • Year:
    Jr.
  • Hometown:
    Jeannette, Pa.
  • High School:
    Penn Trafford
  • Position:
    MB
m 31
k/s 2.08
h % .439
a/s 0.05
b/s 0.99
sa/s 0.07
d/s 0.25

2013 (Sophomore): American Volleyball Coaches Association Division II First-Team All-American … Continental Volleyball Conference All-East Division …  National Player of the Week (2/28) … Eastern Collge Athletic Conference All-Star … played in 35 matches and started 26 … concluded the season with a team-high hitting percentage of .451 from the middle … put down a total 283 kills and 2.18 kills per set …  pounded an impressive 15 kills with one error for a .824 hitting percentage against Medaille (2/15) … team leader with 119 blocks … earned a season-high six blocks against Stevens (2/8) and Eastern Mennonite (3/9) … had ten double-digit kill performances in his junior season.

 

2012 (Freshman): Named to the American Volleyball Coaches Association Men's Division II Second-Team All-America team ... saw time in 138 games over the course of 38 matches … received honors as the Continental Volleyball Conference (CVC) freshman of the year … also recognized as the CVC player of the week for the week of February 19th … additionally named to the CVC All-East Division team … led Juniata in kills with 318 (2.30) and in blocks with 122 (0.88) … had a career-high in kills with 17 against Princeton (3/24) and a career-high in blocks with seven against Nazareth (2/25) … had fourteen games with 10 or more kills.

 

High School: Played two years of varsity basketball and was the team captain in each of those two years … played three years of varsity volleyball … received honors as a team captain, two-time first-team all-section selection, second team All-Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic League selection, and first-team all-section selection.

 

Personal: Son of Richard and Pam Bortak... POE is elementary education.

Recent Games
Apr 12 vs. Dominican (IL) W, 3-1
Apr 12 vs. Carthage W, 3-0
Apr 13 vs. Stevenson W, 3-0
Apr 25 Kean W, 3-2
Apr 26 vs. SUNY New Paltz W, 3-1
Apr 27 vs. Springfield L, 3-0
Statistics category Overall Conf
Matches 31 9
Sets 102 27
Kills 212 60
Kills per set 2.08 2.22
Errors 54 17
Total Attacks 360 101
Hitting Percentage .439 .426
Assists 5 2
Assists per set 0.05 0.07
Service Aces 7 4
Service Errors 17 8
Service Aces per set 0.07 0.15
Receptions 32 14
Reception Errors 3 2
Digs 26 12
Digs per set 0.25 0.44
Block Solo 16 3
Block Assist 86 21
Block Total 101 24
Blocks per set 0.99 0.89
Block Errors 11 6
Ball Handling Errors 5 4
Points 278.0 77.5
Points per set 2.7 2.9
Matches started 27 9
Date Opponent Score ms s k e ta pct a sa se r re digs bs ba be tot bhe pts
Jan 16 vs. New Jersey City W, 3-0 1 3 4 1 9 .333 1 3 2 0 0 2 1 2 0 3 0 9.0
Jan 16 at Rutgers-Newark W, 3-1 1 4 6 1 10 .500 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 6 0 6 0 9.0
Jan 24 Elmira W, 3-0 1 3 9 2 12 .583 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 10.0
Jan 25 Hunter W, 3-1 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Jan 25 Kean W, 3-0 1 3 8 0 9 .889 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 0 3 0 10.0
Jan 28 Puerto Rico L, 3-2 - 3 2 1 6 .167 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 5 1 5 0 4.5
Feb 1 vs. UC Santa Cruz W, 3-1 1 4 9 2 15 .467 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 9.0
Feb 1 at Nazareth W, 3-2 1 5 9 4 16 .313 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 4 1 5 0 13.0
Feb 2 vs. Hilbert W, 3-0 1 3 7 1 8 .750 1 0 1 - 0 1 2 1 0 3 0 9.5
Feb 8 vs. Carthage W, 3-2 - 4 6 2 12 .333 1 0 0 0 0 3 0 3 0 3 0 7.5
Feb 8 vs. Milwaukee Sch. of Engineering W, 3-0 1 3 8 1 9 .778 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0 9.5
Feb 9 vs. Lakeland L, 3-1 1 4 6 4 14 .143 0 0 0 5 0 1 0 2 0 2 1 7.0
Feb 21 East. Mennonite W, 3-0 1 2 5 1 9 .444 0 2 3 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 7.5
Feb 22 Marymount (Va.) W, 3-0 1 2 6 1 11 .455 0 0 2 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 6.0
Feb 22 Hilbert W, 3-0 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Feb 26 at Thiel W, 3-1 1 4 7 5 15 .133 1 1 1 0 0 2 0 2 0 2 0 9.0
Feb 28 at Stevens W, 3-0 1 3 11 3 19 .421 0 0 1 2 0 0 1 2 0 3 0 13.0
Mar 1 vs. SUNY New Paltz L, 3-0 1 3 4 3 10 .100 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 4.5
Mar 1 at Vassar W, 3-1 1 4 8 2 16 .375 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 5 0 5 0 10.5
Mar 7 at Stevenson W, 3-2 1 5 15 3 23 .522 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 4 2 5 2 18.0
Mar 8 at Cairn W, 3-0 1 3 4 0 4 1.000 1 0 1 1 0 5 0 3 1 3 0 5.5
Mar 21 at East. Mennonite W, 3-1 1 1 2 0 2 1.000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2.0
Mar 22 at Marymount (Va.) W, 3-0 1 3 5 1 8 .500 0 0 1 2 1 0 1 2 0 3 1 7.0
Mar 26 Thiel W, 3-0 1 3 11 3 17 .471 0 1 0 8 0 2 0 2 0 2 0 13.0
Mar 29 at Hilbert W, 3-1 - 2 3 1 5 .400 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 3.5
Mar 29 vs. Penn St.-Altoona W, 3-0 - 2 3 1 7 .286 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 3 0 4.5
Apr 4 Stevenson L, 3-1 1 4 5 3 12 .167 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 7 2 8 1 9.5
Apr 5 Cairn W, 3-0 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Apr 12 vs. Dominican (IL) W, 3-1 1 4 11 2 18 .500 0 0 0 2 1 2 0 5 0 5 0 13.5
Apr 12 vs. Carthage W, 3-0 1 3 4 0 7 .571 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 5 0 6.5
Apr 13 vs. Stevenson W, 3-0 1 3 6 1 8 .625 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 3 0 5 0 9.5
Apr 25 Kean W, 3-2 1 5 16 1 24 .625 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 3 1 4 0 18.5
Apr 26 vs. SUNY New Paltz W, 3-1 1 4 9 4 17 .294 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 5 1 7 0 13.5
Apr 27 vs. Springfield L, 3-0 1 3 3 0 8 .375 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 4 0 5.0
  m s k k/s e ta pct a a/s sa sa/s r re digs d/s bs ba tot b/s pts pts/s
2011-12 38 139 321 2.31 54 545 .490 3 0.02 5 0.04 18 3 30 0.22 23 100 125 0.90 399.0 2.9
2012-13 36 130 283 2.18 63 488 .451 3 0.02 17 0.13 36 3 36 0.28 16 103 119 0.92 367.5 2.8
2013-14 31 102 212 2.08 54 360 .439 5 0.05 7 0.07 32 3 26 0.25 16 86 101 0.99 278.0 2.7
2014-15 28 95 265 2.79 52 493 .432 1 0.01 11 0.12 17 2 84 0.88 13 72 85 0.89 325.0 3.4
Total 133 466 1081 2.32 223 1886 .455 12 0.03 40 0.09 103 11 176 0.38 68 361 430 0.92 1369.5 2.9
  m s k k/s e ta pct a a/s sa sa/s r re digs d/s bs ba tot b/s pts pts/s
Total 31 102 212 2.08 54 360 .439 5 0.05 7 0.07 32 3 26 0.25 16 86 101 0.99 278.0 2.7
Conference 9 27 60 2.22 17 101 .426 2 0.07 4 0.15 14 2 12 0.44 3 21 24 0.89 77.5 2.9
Exhibition - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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Home 8 25 62 2.48 12 100 .500 0 0.00 3 0.12 12 1 7 0.28 3 22 25 1.00 79.0 3.2
Away 10 34 70 2.06 20 118 .424 2 0.06 1 0.03 9 1 8 0.24 5 29 33 0.97 90.5 2.7
Neutral 13 43 80 1.86 22 142 .408 3 0.07 3 0.07 11 1 11 0.26 8 35 43 0.99 108.5 2.5
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Wins 26 85 192 2.26 43 310 .481 5 0.06 7 0.08 26 2 23 0.27 15 67 81 0.95 247.5 2.9
Losses 5 17 20 1.18 11 50 .180 0 0.00 0 0.00 6 1 3 0.18 1 19 20 1.18 30.5 1.8
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January 5 16 29 1.81 5 46 .522 1 0.06 3 0.19 3 0 3 0.19 2 17 19 1.19 42.5 2.7
February 10 34 74 2.18 24 128 .391 3 0.09 3 0.09 12 0 9 0.26 6 16 21 0.60 91.0 2.7
March 9 26 55 2.12 14 92 .446 1 0.04 1 0.04 13 1 8 0.31 2 21 23 0.88 68.5 2.6
April 7 26 54 2.08 11 94 .457 0 0.00 0 0.00 4 2 6 0.23 6 32 38 1.46 76.0 2.9