Katie Foster Award Female Athlete of the Week Week Of 9/6/2021 Sport American Rivers Conference School Wartburg College Year Senior Position Hometown Charles City, Iowa High School Charles City Female Athlete of the Week – Volleyball – Defensive Player of the Week Katie Foster, Wartburg College Sr., Libero, Charles City, Iowa/Charles City Senior Katie Foster helped lead the Knights to a 4-0 week. The Wartburg libero tallied 84 digs and no defensive errors over the four matches. Additionally, she dealt three service aces. In Wartburg’s 3-2 win over Gustavus, the senior tallied 36 digs. Foster added 19 digs in the Knights’ 3-0 sweep of UW-River Falls. Wartburg also swept Carleton and Saint Mary’s University, with Foster tallying 16 and 13 digs respectively. Foster is a four-time All-Conference performer, two-time Defensive Player of the Year, 2019 Most Valuable Player, and 2017 Freshman of the Year. The Charles City, Iowa native is picking up her seventeenth Defensive Player of the Week honor in her Wartburg Career (9/5/21, 3/29/21, 2/22/21, 11/4/19, 10/21/19, 9/30/19, 9/23/19, 9/16/19, 9/9/19, 10/29/18, 10/15/18, 10/8/18, 9/2/18, 11/5/17, 10/29/17, 9/24/17, 9/3/17).
