HEAD COACH KELLY SHEFFIELD
ATLANTIC 10 CHAMPIONS 6 TOURNAMENT TITLES • 8 REGULAR SEASON TITLES
JESSICA YANZ
AVCA All-America Honorable Mention Atlantic 10 Setter of the Year Atlantic 10 Championship MVP AVCA All-Northeast Region Atlantic 10 First Team All-Conference Atlantic 10 Offensive Player of the Week (10/26/10)
LINDSAY FLETEMIER
3-time AVCA All-America 2-time Atlantic 10 Player of the Year 2007 Atlantic 10 Rookie of the Year 3-time A-10 First Team All-Conference 3-time A-10 All-Tournament Team 8-time A-10 Offensive Player of the Week 3-time A-10 Defensive Player of the Week 5-time Atlantic 10 Rookie of the Week 2007 CVU National Player of the Week
AMANDA COWDREY
Atlantic 10 First Team All-Conference 2-time Atlantic 10 All-Tournament Team 2009 A-10 Championship MVP Atlantic 10 Defensive Player of the Week (9/28/10)
BECKY NOVACEK
Atlantic 10 Student-Athlete of the Year AVCA All-Northeast Region ESPN/CoSIDA Academic All-District IV Two-time A-10 First Team All-Conference Atlantic 10 All-Tournament Team Atlantic 10 Academic All-Conference Lowes Senior CLASS Award candidate
ELITE PLAYERS
Head Coach Kelly Sheffield recently completed his third season with the Flyers – a record-setting season which solidified UD as one of the nation’s elite volleyball programs. As the AVCA Northeast Region Coach of the Year, Sheffield led the Flyers to its first undefeated record in the A-10, en route to earning back-to-back conference regular season and tournament titles. Dayton was given its highest seeding in the NCAA Championship at No. 14 in the third consecutive season Sheffield has led the Flyers to the NCAA postseason. On the heels of a 23-match winning streak, Sheffield’s 2010 squad reached the highest national ranking in program history at No. 12 (AVCA), while becoming the first team in UD Athletics history to be nationally ranked for the entire season. The Flyers finished the season ranked No. 15 and have been nationally ranked for 19 consecutive weeks under Sheffield. With an unblemished 17-0 Atlantic 10 record in 2010, including the conference tournament, the Flyers became conference leaders in six of the seven team statistical categories. Most notably under the leadership of one of best volleyball minds in the sport, UD recorded a single-season program-best .260 hitting percentage and ranked in the Division I top 10 in blocks per set with 2.95.
Sheffield developed twotime Atlantic 10 Player of the Year and three-time AVCA All-America middle blocker Lindsay Fletemier, while guiding a newcomer setter, Jessica Yanz, to earn A-10 Setter of the Year and AVCA Honorable Mention AllAmerica honors. In addition to Fletemier and Yanz, the Flyers
boasted two more First Team All-Conference honorees in 2010 – middle blocker Becky Novacek and outside hitter Amanda Cowdrey. Sheffield added to the conference accolades as the Atlantic 10 Co-Coach of the Year. Midway through his 10th season as a head coach Sheffield reached 200 career wins on Sept. 17, 2010 against Santa Clara, which helped the Flyers win the Notre Dame Invitational title. As the seventh head coach in UD volleyball history, Sheffield is one of two Dayton coaches to earn AVCA Northeast Region Coach of the Year honors.
HOME COURT ADVANTAGE
2010 REVIEW • Top 25. Dayton volleyball finished the season No. 15 in the AVCA Top-25 and has been nationally ranked for 19 consecutive weeks, becoming the first UD Athletics team in any sport to be ranked in the top 25 for the entire season. UD played five top 25 teams in 2010
• All-Conference. Four Flyers were named A-10 First Team All-Conference, as the program garnered Coach of the Year (Sheffield), Player of the Year (Fletemier), Setter of the Year (Yanz), and Student Athlete of the Year (Becky Novacek) honors.
• 2010 Atlantic 10 Regular Season Champions. Dayton finished an undefeated 15-0 in conference play to earn the program’s eighth A-10 regular season title.
• 2010 NCAA Dayton Regional. The University of Dayton distinguished itself as a premiere volleyball program after hosting a NCAA Volleyball Championship Regional at UD Arena for the first time.
• 2010 Atlantic 10 Tournament Champions. UD completed an unblemished conference season by winning its sixth A-10 tournament title while advancing to the title match for the seventh consecutive season. Four Flyers were on the alltournament team with Jessica Yanz as the MVP. • Coach of the Year. Head Coach Kelly Sheffield earned AVCA Northeast Region Coach of the Year and Atlantic 10 Coach of the Year honors after leading Flyer volleyball to one of the most successful seasons in program history. • All-Americans. Lindsay Fletemier (Second Team) and Jessica Yanz (Honorable Mention) became the third pair of UD volleyball players to be named all-americans in the same season. • NCAA Tournament Second Round. Given the program’s highest tournament seeding at No. 14, the Flyers advanced to the second round in back-to-back seasons in the program’s seventh NCAA Tournament appearance in eight years. UD also hosted the First and Second Rounds at the Frericks Center for the third time in four years.
• Winning Streak. Dayton’s 23-match winning streak tied for the third-longest in the nation while intact. The Flyers have won at least 20 matches for 10 consecutive seasons. • Stat Leaders. Dayton led the Atlantic 10 in six of the seven team statistical categories, which included a program-best .260 hitting percentage and a national top 10 ranking in blocks per set (2.95). • Academic Excellence. Flyer volleyball has been given the AVCA Team Academic Award -- which honors teams with a 3.0 GPA or higher -- for three consecutive seasons. Becky Novacek, the A-10 VB Student-Athlete of the Year, and Yvonne Marten were named to the ESPN/CoSIDA Academic All-District and the Academic All-Conference teams this season.
FRERICKS CENTER • The Flyers have completed back-to-back undefeated home regular seasons in 2009 and 2010 (23-0). UD’s overall 25-match home winning streak was the fifth-longest in the nation in 2010. • UD ranked 30th in the nation and led the Atlantic 10 in attendance, averaging 1,244 fans per home match in 2010. • The Frericks Center has been the host of the NCAA Volleyball Championship First & Second Rounds for three of the last four years. • In 2009, the historic gym floor recieved a $300,000 upgrade to the state-of-the-art Robbins Bio-channel court -- a multi-layered wood surface which helps reduce the toll taken on a player’s body during the explosive movements in volleyball.