Janey Goodman of Powhatan Named CAA Player of the Year

2016 Nov 28

After a vote by the league's head coaches, senior right side hitter Janey Goodman of Powhatan was selected as Colonial Athletic Association Player of the Year and earned a spot on the All-CAA First Team.

Winning Player of the Year for the second consecutive season, Goodman becomes the first back-to-back honoree since George Mason's Aline Pereira accomplished the feat in 2001 and 2002.

Goodman has rewritten the JMU record book over her senior campaign while leading the conference with a 4.66 kills per set average with a league-best 503 kills. Goodman is just the second Duke in program history to record 500 kills over a single season and is just four kills away from breaking Lindsay Collingwood's single-season record of 506 set in 1996. The Powhatan, Va. native has tallied 566.5 points this season to average 5.25 per set, leading the conference in both categories, while ranking fourth with a .316 hitting percentage.

Nationally, Goodman ranks as one of the top offensive players in the country as the senior is seventh in total kills, eighth in total points, 10th in kills per set and 12th in points per set. The right side hitter is a three-time Offensive Player of the Week honoree this season and was named a candidate for the 2016 Senior CLASS Award.

Goodman has garnered 20 or more kills in 10 matches this season, including setting a new career-high of 33 at the College of Charleston on Nov. 3. She currently holds JMU's single-season records for kills per set and attack attempts (1,228).

Nearing the end of her senior season, Goodman has become just the second Duke in program history to ever record 1,600 career kills, ranking second all-time with 1,667. She also ranks second in career attack attempts (4,342), third in career kill average (3.79), fourth in career block assists (325), tied for sixth in career games played (440) and 10th in career blocks (346).