SEC Volleyball Week 3 Player of the Week:Kaitlyn Blake ? Texas A&M Sophomore ? MB ? 6-2 ? Allen, TexasOffensive Player of the Week:Krystal Rivers ? Alabama Redshirt Senior ? RS ? 5-11 ? Birmingham, Ala.Rivers was named MVP of the Hampton Inn Bash after leading her team with 5.90 kills and 6.65 points per set during the tournament. She posted a career-high 38 kills in the five-set win over Southern Miss, including nine kills in the deciding fifth set. The 38 kills are the most in a single match for an Alabama player in 18 years (Michelle Green, 38 vs. Eastern Michigan, Sept. 19, 1998). Rivers is now ranked third in career kills at Alabama with 1,656, and is 52 away from moving into second place.Defensive Player of the Week:Kaitlyn Blake ? Texas A&M Sophomore ? MB ? 6-2 ? Allen, TexasBlake was dominating at the net, averaged 2.44 blocks per set and took or tied for match-high honors in blocks in every match as Texas A&M went 3-0 at the Borderline Invitational. In addition to her five blocks-including a career-high tying two solo blocks-in the sweep against Arizona, she also had a match-high 12.5 points and tied for team-high honors in kills with eight while hitting .400. Blake had a match-high eight blocks at New Mexico State, propelling Texas A&M to a 12-2 lead in blocks and a 3-0 victory. She had match highs with nine blocks and 13.5 points in the sweep against UTEP as well. Blake leads the SEC with 1.81 blocks per set.Setter of the Week:Allie Monserez ? Florida Redshirt Sophomore ? 5-9 ? Windermere, Fla.Monserez earned a spot on the Blackbird Invitational All-Tournament Team after setting UF to its second (.437) and third (.389) best efficiencies this season against Denver and LIU Brooklyn, respectively. She still paces the SEC with her 11.79 assists per set through three weeks of the volleyball season. Monserez has now set Florida to five straight matches of single-digit attack errors. She had her most assists in a three-set match this season (38) against Denver, the most for a SEC setter in a three-set match this week (third best this season). Against LIU Brooklyn, Monserez quarterbacked five players who hit above .320.Freshman of the Week:Leah Edmond ? Kentucky Freshman ? OH ? 6-2 ? Lexington, Ky.Edmond led UK in total kills (39) and kills per set (3.90) for the weekend. She registered her first two career double-double efforts with a 17-kill, 10-dig performance vs. Marquette, and an 11-kill, 10-dig performance in a three-set win over Saint Louis. Edmond had only amassed one dig in six matches before logging 10 vs. Marquette, seven in the three-set win over Virginia and then topped the three-set mark with 10 more vs. Saint Louis. She also broke out with 13 of her 18 total blocks for the season coming in UKs two victories on Saturday. She had a career-high seven vs. Virginia and five against the Billikens. 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Why couldnt Gatlin do it here, in Rio, and finally slay the dragon?Because Bolt is always transcendent in the biggest moments. Because hes determined to win three sprint golds in a third Olympics and move past legend into immortality.And because Gatlin finally got tired.I was tired going into the finals, Gatlin said after winning silver with a 9.89, well off the 9.80 he ran six weeks ago at the U.S. Olympic trials.Tired? In the biggest race of his life? After all the physical and mental training needed to climb all the way back from a four-year doping suspension to the cusp of redemption?Yes, the turnaround between the semifinal and final races was shorter than usual -- 1 hour, 25 minutes -- even less for Gatlin because he ran the last semifinal heat. Even Bolt said he was fatigued and called the inexplicably compacted schedule ridiculous and stupid.But there was more weighing Gatlin down than a shortage of time to rest his 34-year-old legs and lungs. Gatlin had to be tired of chasing the 29-year-old Bolt, of pushing the boulder up the hill only to see it roll back down again. Tired of still being branded a cheater for the testosterone he took 10 years ago. Tired of moralistic fans overlooking his humanity.Gatlin tried to say that he didnt hear the boos that rained down as he exited the tunnel and again when he was announced at the starting line, an unprecedented Olympic display that Bolt called shocking. Gatlin tried to say he tuned them out. If this were any other race than his last, best shot to defeat Bolt, he might have stuck to that story.At the end of the day, you hear everything, Gatlin finally admitted.People, when they come out here they get enthralled in the excitement, he continued. And theres a lot of Usain Bolt fans, a lot of Jamaicans. But they dont know me. They dont know Justin.The Rio Games have been dominated by doping past and present, real and imagined. The chaos has been heightened by the International Olympic Committees bumbling, inconsistent and quasi-legal decision-making. If the IOC tried to unilaterally ban Russian athletes who tested positive in the past, many thought, why is Gatlin in the 100-meter final, running faster at his advanced age than he did when he won gold in Athens in 2004?Gatlins doping critics doubled down last season as he ran a series of 9.dddddddddddd7-something times. Every time he showed his face in Rio, the interrogation resumed. Last week, a teenage American swimmer said he didnt belong in these Olympics. And when Gatlin wasnt being asked about doping, people wanted to know why he choked in last years world championships, stumbling to the finish to lose by one-hundredth of a second to an out-of-shape Bolt.So Gatlin was already tired before that short hour between the semifinal and the gold-medal race. He usually has a ferocious look on his face at the starting line. He has a roaring tiger tattooed on his arm because he considers himself an animal when competing. When the camera is on him at the line, he likes to form his hands into claws and pantomime ripping something open. But at the starting line Sunday, after the boos fell, Gatlin looked subdued. Shaken. Like a man sapped of strength before a fight against Superman.Gatlin did summon the courage to launch his trademark fast start, and he led the field for 50 meters. Then Bolt measured Gatlin up, accelerated to his magnificent top speed, and reeled him in. At 70 meters, the race was over. Gatlin wilted as Bolt roared to the finish, with Bolt thumping his chest before he crossed the line. Andre de Grasse of Canada took the bronze in 9.91 seconds.There will be no redemption for Gatlin. There is no such thing for track and field athletes caught taking performance-enhancing drugs. Like felons stripped of their right to vote, our hunger for heroes and villains deems them beyond rehabilitation.Track and its fans are desperate for Bolt the redeemer. He has never tested positive, but neither did Lance Armstrong. Four of the five fastest men in history used PEDs; Bolt is the only one left unsullied. The doping detectives are just now catching cheaters from the 2004 Olympics. Bolts urine sits on a shelf, just in case.Gatlin could still run the 200 against Bolt in Rio if he makes it beyond Tuesdays preliminaries and into the finals, but the Jamaican is even more invincible in that event. After Gatlin lost the 100, he went into the stands to hug his family, then smiled broadly while taking a victory lap wrapped in the American flag. He is the oldest man to ever win an Olympic track medal. He called that a victory in itself.Gatlin finally left the track. The cameras and microphones were waiting with questions. Near the end of the media gantlet, I was able to get close to the Gatlin, look him in the eye, and ask: Could you have run faster?He looked back with sad and tired eyes.I guess so, Gatlin said. I just came out and gave it all I had. ' ' '