Adrianna Culbert's nickname is LeBron, after NBA superstar LeBron James, but James has some catching up to do to match Culbert, the Colorado State outside hitter who is the espnW national player of the week.

Culbert has seven triple-doubles and counting this season; LeBron had two in 2014-15. Quadruple-doubles? Culbert leads that category 1-0 over LeBron after her unprecedented effort on Oct. 17 against San Jose State: 20 assists, 13 digs, 11 blocks and 10 kills. It marked the first quadruple-double in CSU history, the first in the NCAA since 2010 and the first four-set quad since 25-point rally scoring was introduced in 2001.

"She's just so good at every facet of the game," CSU coach Tom Hilbert said. "She's good instinctively; she has great vision. She makes great decisions. All of that leads to her playing such a big role. We're having her set and hit and play defense and serve receive, and there's even things that don't come out of those numbers that she's doing."

On the heels of the quadruple-double, last week Culbert collected her fourth three-set triple-double against Boise State, recording 14 kills, 20 assists and 10 digs along with three blocks and an ace. She came one kill and two digs shy of another, finishing with nine kills, 27 assists and eight digs in CSU's sweep of Utah State. The Rams (17-3), ranked No. 18 in the AVCA Division I coaches poll, are 10-0 in the Mountain West, poised to repeat as conference champions for the seventh straight time.

Culbert, of Delton, Michigan, attributes many of her statistics to her familiarity with every position on the court. At 5-10, she said, "I wasn't a huge person or the most athletic, so I went where anyone needed me. Growing up, I learned all the different aspects that come with volleyball."

Hilbert recruited Culbert as a setter while having two setters on his roster. He asked her to walk on as a freshman and planned to redshirt her, but when a scholarship opened up, Hilbert offered it to her.

"We didn't redshirt her because she was so good at the passing and attacking part of the game," Hilbert said. "We needed that in that particular year. Then between her freshman and sophomore year her vertical jump went up five inches. Most athletes don't have the capacity to improve like that."

This year Culbert and CSU benefit from having her set and hit, with the Rams employing a 6-2 offense that allows all six players to be spikers while two set.

"I compartmentalize a lot because there's so many different things I have to do on the court all the time," Culbert said. "I know if I'm working well in the areas I need to, our team will be successful."

Culbert, CSU's team captain, said she isn't mindful of her numbers while she's playing. After her first career triple-double, against UC Davis in August, she was asked if she knew what that was.

"Yeah, I grew up watching basketball, and I grew up watching LeBron James," she said. "So the reporters went with it, and it's a running joke since that I'm like LeBron."

Culbert threw discus at Delton-Kellogg High, where she was also a post player, and didn't become a serious volleyball player until sophomore year of high school, when she realized she probably didn't have the basketball skills to play for her dream school, Tennessee.

A self-described gym rat, she was on her first club volleyball team in third grade and identified strongly with her sister, Alex, who played at Northern Michigan.

"Because she was the stud athlete of the family, I wanted to be like her," Culbert said. "In high school, I was Alex's little sister. I wanted to beat her records and be better than her. It was awesome to have her as a role model."

Speaking of role models, Adrianna makes a good one. A business major, she was preseason Mountain West player of the year and was a Mountain West scholar athlete in 2012 and 2013. She is also on the executive board of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee and is a founding member of Rambition, a community-service movement at the college.

As a junior, Culbert was an AVCA All-American honorable mention. She said she is hoping to remove the honorable mention tag this season.

"It's a great accomplishment being All-American honorable mention," she said. "But it would be unbelievably awesome to be an actual All-American."