Golden Eagle Volleyball
Shawn D. Smith, Sports Information Director • 218-281-8414 (work) • 319-431-2545 (cell) • smithsd@umn.edu Minnesota Crookston 13-13; 8-10 NSIC Head Coach: Lee Anderson At UMC: 55-148 Career: 81-231
Top Players Jr. OH 8 Brittany Looker (Rochester, Minn.) 3.83 k/set, 2.83 d/set Sr. Lib. 6 Chelsea Wiesner (Rochester, Minn.) 4.06 d/set
Winona State 10-17; 7-11 NSIC Head Coach: Dave Simon At WSU: 68-79 Career: 117-245
Top Players Sr. OH 17 Bekah Saugen 2.97 K/Set, 3.92 D/Set Sr. OH 2 Katie Froehle 4.56 D/Set, 3.68 D/Set
On Tap For This Weekend
Fri., Nov. 1 Winona State at Minnesota Crookston • 6 p.m. • Lysaker Gymnasium Live Stats: http://www.sidearmstats.com/umcrookston/wvball/ Live Video: http://www.sidearmstats.com/umcrookston/wvball/ Live Radio: Chris Fee, KROX AM 1260 Sat., Nov. 2 Upper Iowa at Minnesota Crookston • 4 p.m. • Lysaker Gymnasium Live Stats: http://www.sidearmstats.com/umcrookston/wvball/ Live Video: http://www.sidearmstats.com/umcrookston/wvball/
Golden Eagle Quick Hits First Team All-Conference UMC outside hitter Brittany Looker (Jr., Rochester, Minn./Health Science) became just the second player in school history, along with Joan Ebnet, to be named All-NSIC First Team. Looker has been named to the All-NSIC team each of her three seasons in the Maroon and Gold. She was an All-NSIC Second Team pick as a sophomore and an All-NSIC Honorable Selection as a freshman. She is the first player in Coach Lee Anderson’s seven years to earn All-NSIC First Team honors. Looker has been a force this season at her outside hitter position, averaging 3.91 kills per set and 2.84 digs per set. Looker’s kill mark currently ranks in sixth on the season in the NSIC this season. She has improved by over a kill per set from last season after averaging 2.69 kills per set as a sophomore. Looker has 12 double-doubles this season and has tallied 20 or more kills on four occasions including in league play against nationall ranked Wayne State College (Neb.), University of Mary and Upper Iowa University. This Is The Time! It all comes down to this weekend on whether the Golden Eagles will advance to the NSIC Tournament. The Golden Eagles are currently in a tie for eighth place with MSU Moorhead and Minnesota State. Minnesota Crookston will be battling for the final two spots along with Wayne State, Sioux Falls, MSU Moorhead, Minnesota State, St. Cloud State, Minot State and Winona State. A big determinant in the Golden Eagles’ fate could be decided with Friday’s match against Winona State, as it would go along way in improving UMC’s chances at getting in. If their is a tie, the first determinant to break the tiebreaker will be record against the team that UMC is tied against (as long as they have played two games), if not it gets broken down into a point rating system. It should be a fun weekend to see where the Golden Eagles end up. If they do get in, they would play the No. 1 and No. 2 seed in the conference at their site on Wed., Nov. 20. Moving On Up This could be a big weekend for Brittany Looker (Jr., OH, Rochester, Minn.) as she has a good chance to surpass the 1,000 kills mark in her career this weekend, as she is just 22 kills away from the mark. Looker’s All-Conference First Team caliber season has moved her up the charts in a lot of categories this season. She is ranked sixth all-time in kills with 978, needing just 21 kills to move past Amber Meyer in fifth. Looker is slotted tied for eighth all-time in career service aces with 95, needing just nine to move past Jamie Wolff in seventh place. In addition, she needs just 14 points to move past Meyer in fifth for that category, as well, and needs just 26 digs to break into the top 10 and move past Cassie Yates. Senior Class The University of Minnesota Crookston volleyball senior class has been integral the past four seasons in moving the program forward. The group Golden Eagles has done something that four years ago seemed unlikely, after the team went 0-28, in that they have put their team in contention for the conference tournament in the country’s premier NCAA Division II volleyball conference. The Golden Eagles senior class has won 36 matches in their last three seasons, has been part of an NCAA record 37-point set against Augustana and set the NCAA record for most points in a three-point set, as well.
Upper Iowa 8-20; 4-14 NSIC Head Coach: Aaron Nelson At UIU: 39-48 Career: 76-80
Top Players Sr. OH 7 Melanie Behnke 3.68 K/Set, 1.60 D/Set Jr. Lib. 11 Amanda Weiss 4.12 D/Set
2013 Schedule Hilltopper-Rattler Classic 9/6 at St. Mary’s San Antonio, Texas W, 3-1 9/6 #8 Central Missouri San Antonio, Texas L, 3-0 9/7 at St. Edward’s Austin, Texas W, 3-1 9/7 Merrimack Austin, Texas W, 3-0 Wildcat Invitational 9/13 Lake Superior State Marquette, Mich. W, 3-0 9/13 at Northern Michigan Marquette, Mich. L, 3-0 9/14 Michigan Tech Marquette, Mich. W, 3-0 9/14 Quincy Marquette, Mich. L, 3-1 Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference 9/19 at #1 Minnesota Duluth Duluth, Minn. L, 3-0 9/21 St. Cloud State Crookston, Minn. L, 3-2 9/24 Bemidji State Crookston, Minn. W, 3-2 9/27 at Upper Iowa Fayette, Iowa L, 3-2 9/28 at Winona State Winona, Minn. L, 3-0 10/4 #1Concordia-St.Paul Crookston, Minn. L, 3-0 10/5 Minnesota State Crookston, Minn. W, 3-0 10/11 at MSU Moorhead Moorhead, Minn. W, 3-2 10/12 at Northern State Aberdeen, S.D. L, 3-0 10/18 Minot State Crookston, Minn. W, 3-0 10/19 U-Mary Crookston, Minn. W, 3-1 10/22 at Bemidji State Bemidji, Minn. W, 3-1 10/25 at Sioux Falls Sioux Falls, S.D. W, 3-0 10/26 at#6SWMinnesotaState Marshall, Minn. L, 3-1 11/1 #18 Wayne State Crookston, Minn. L, 3-1 11/2 Augustana Crookston, Minn. W, 3-0 11/8 at Minnesota State Mankato, Minn. L, 3-2 11/9 at #1 Concordia-St. Paul St. Paul, Minn. L, 3-0 11/15 Winona State Crookston, Minn. 6 p.m. 11/16 Upper Iowa Crookston, Minn. 4 p.m.