Senior Julie Lauro of the Muhlenberg volleyball team has been named Centennial Conference player of the week following her second-straight MVP performance at the Buttermaker Tournament this past weekend.

Lauro averaged 4.50 kills per game during the tournament while adding 10 aces and nine blocks as the Mules went 4-0 en route to capturing the championship. She put up her best numbers in the championship match, recording 17 kills – including the 1,500th of her career – and 14 digs while hitting .371 against Penn State-Altoona.

This is the fifth time Lauro, Muhlenberg’s all-time leader in kills, has received this honor. She has already moved up from 11th to seventh place on the CC all-time kills list this season and is 49 kills away from sixth place.

The Mules are off to a 4-0 start for the first time since 1994, winning their four games by a combined 13-2 margin.

This is the highest ranking for Muhlenberg since it was 16th for one week in 2003, a season in which it won the Centennial Conference championship.

The Mules will put their ranking to the test when they host ninth-ranked Johns Hopkins, the defending CC champion, in an early-season showdown on Saturday.