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Joe Bortak

33 Joe Bortak

  • Height:
    6-7
  • Weight:
    205
  • Year:
    Sr.
  • Hometown:
    Jeannette, Pa.
  • High School:
    Penn Trafford
  • Position:
    MB/OPP

2015 (Senior): Off The Block/Springbak Preseason All-American ... first person to be named CVC All-Conference all four years ... AVCA All-American First Team selection ... ECAC First Team All-Star ... 265 kills led the Eagles ... tallied 136 kills in conference play ... finished with .432 hitting percentage and hit .480 in league play ... CVC and ECAC Player of the Week for 2/23 ... season-high seven blocks at Carthage (1/31) ... 21 kills at Cairn (2/18) was a season-high ... also had season-best .800 hitting percentage in that match ... ends career as program leader in total blocks with 430. 

2014 (Junior): American Volleyball Coaches Association First-Team All-America … Continental Volleyball Confernce (CVC) All-Tournament team … CVC All-East team … helped team advance to the NCAA Division III national championship match … member of 2014 CVC championship team … ranked second nationally and led CVC with .439 hitting percentage … ranked 20th nationally in blocks per set (1.00) … appeared in a team-high 31 matches, earning a team-best 27 starts … finished second on the team in blocks with 102 and third in points at 278 … his .439 hitting percentage was third best on team … recorded career-best .625 attack percentage with 16 kills on 24 swings with only one error in 3-2 win over No. 9 Kean (4/25) in national quarterfinal match … tied career-high of eight blocks against No. 15 Stevenson (4/4).

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 College 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): Saw time in 138 games over the course of 38 matches … named to the American Volleyball Coaches Association Men's Division II Second-Team All-America team ... 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 education studies.