Simic takes home her second NEC Rookie of the Week Award this season after averaging 4.58 digs, 2.58 kills and 0.58 service aces while hitting .299 in four wins for the Blackbirds last week. She notched a double-double (11 kills & 11 digs) and hit .500 in the 3-0 win over NJIT to start the week. Then at the Harvard Invitational, she came up with double digit digs in all three matches, with 11 versus Rutgers, 15 against Harvard and a match-high 18 in the win over Binghamton. She also added four service aces, three assists and three kills versus Rutgers, 10 kills, two aces and one block in the win over the host Crimson and seven kills, three assists and one ace against Binghamton. Simic leads LIU and ranks third in the league in digs with 4.12 digs per game.