Cole Bogner, Penn State

Cole Bogner

  • Award
    Offensive Player of the Week
  • Week Of
    4/3/2023
  • Sport
    Men's Volleyball
  • School
    Penn State University
  • Year
    Graduate Student
  • Position
    Setter
  • Hometown
    Chesapeake, Va.
  • High School
    Hickory
Penn State's Cole Bogner has been named the EIVA Offensive Player of the Week for April 3, 2023. Cole directed the Penn State offense to a pair of 3-0 sweeps of Harvard and keep the No. 3 Nittany Lions undefeated atop the EIVA. The graduate student setter handed out 63 assists while guiding the team to .344 hitting. In the opening match on March 31, Bogner gave out 33 assists to help the Lions hit .457, with only one hitting error in each of the first two sets and seven for the match. He had 30 assists and Penn State hit .256 the next day. Over the six sets he also tallied a kill, two aces, three blocks and 10 digs. Bogner leads the EIVA with 868 assists and 10.21 assists per set, with the latter ranking sixth nationally. Penn State’s .329 team hitting is second in the EIVA and eighth in the nation. Bogner’s first weekly EIVA honor this season is the fourth of his career, and he is the sixth different Lion to win a weekly award in 2023.