GENERAL INFORMATION Name: University of Alaska Anchorage Website: www.GoSeawolves.com Address: 3211 Providence Dr. Anchorage, AK 99508 Founded: 1977 Enrollment: 20,205 Nickname: Seawolves Colors: Green & Gold Home Court: Wells Fargo Sports Complex Opened: 1977 Capacity: 1,250 Affiliation: NCAA Division II Conference: Great Northwest Athletic Conference Chancellor: Dr. Elaine Maimon Athletics Director: Dr. Steve Cobb Athletic Dept. Phone: 907-786-1250 Sports Information Dir. (VB contact): Nate Sagan Office: 907-786-1295 Email: nate@uaa.alaska.edu HISTORY First year of volleyball: 1980 All-time record: 410-389 (.513) NCAA appearances: 2 (1988, 1990)
SEAWOLF VOLLEYBALL A New Direction A proven winner as both a player and coach on the collegiate level, Michelle Earl brings an intense approach and an up-tempo style of play that should have the Seawolf program on the upswing in 2006. At UAA, Earl is beginning to put her imprint on the program, building around a solid group of returners with a tremendous recruiting class. “We’re still youthful overall,” said Earl. “But with the steady improvement that we have seen in our returning players, plus the confidence that we have in the newcomers, I feel like the future holds great things for Seawolf Volleyball.” One thing that will stay the same, however, is the Seawolves’ strong fan base in volleyball-mad Anchorage. For six of the past nine years, UAA has ranked among the top 10 in Division II attendance, and with excitement about the new era, those figures are sure to grow.
2006 Roster NO NAME
POS
1 Heather Lyons
OH
2 Chelsey Jones
MB
6-1
Sr. 1V
Roosevelt, Utah (Union HS/W. Wyoming CC)
4 Brenda Cooper
OH
6-0
So. 1V
Anchorage (Service HS)
5 Cristal Negron
L/DS
5-5
So. 1V
Anchorage (Dimond HS)
6 Meghan Koizumi
S
5-8
Fr. HS
Waimanalo, Hawaii (Kalani HS)
7 Tehane Kahalehau
S
5-7
Fr. HS
Wailuku, Hawaii (Kamehameha HS)
8 Pasadeanna Aukusitino DS/OH 5-5
Fr. HS
Anchorage (Service HS)
9 Samantha Calderwood
S
5-5
Fr. HS
Kenai (Kenai Central HS)
10 Rachael Knecht
L
5-6
Sr. 2V
Anchorage (Service HS)
11 Jessica Morehouse
OH
6-1
So. 1V
Anchorage (Service HS)
12 Paepaetele Poasa
OH
5-10
Jr. TR
Honolulu, Hawaii (Farrington HS/Taft [CA] Coll.)
13 Kim Stolk
MB
6-0
Jr. TR
Lakewood, Calif. (Mayfair HS/Cerritos College)
14 Caitlin Grenier Sophomore outside hitter Brenda Cooper ranked among last year’s team leaders in kills (2.24 kpg) and blocks (0.91 bpg).
15 Emily Tweto
HT
CL EXP
5-11 So. 1V
OH/MB 5-11 So. 1V OH
5-9
Sr. HS
HOMETOWN (HIGH SCHOOL/COLLEGE) Anchorage (South HS)
Anchorage (Service HS) Anchorage (West HS)
HEAD COACH: Michelle Earl (Iowa, ’94), 2nd season at UAA (13th season overall) ASSISTANT COACH: Nicky Rose (Southwest Texas State, ’00), 7th season GRADUATE ASSISTANT: Suzanne Givan (Georgia Southwestern State, ‘06), 1st season
Seawolf Seniors & Returners
2006 Schedule AUGUST
Chelsey Jones - Sr.
Rachael Knecht - Sr.
• UAA record-holder for season digs avg (5.28, 2004). • 4.00 dpg in 2005 • 2005 GNAC All-Academic
5-26 2 25 25 26 26
Emily Tweto - Sr.
Brenda Cooper - So.
AUG./SEPTEMBER
Caitlin Grenier - So.
Heather Lyons - So.
Jessica Morehouse - So.
Cristal Negron - So.
31-2 31 1 1 1 1 2 2 2
EXTENDED STAY DELUXE INVITATIONAL UAA vs Briar Cliff 7 pm UAA vs LaGrange 1 pm Briar Cliff vs Notre Dame de Namur 3 pm LaGrange vs Briar Cliff 5 pm UAA vs Notre Dame de Namur 7 pm LaGrange vs Notre Dame de Namur 11 am Third-place match 5 pm Championship match 7 pm
SEATTLE PACIFIC* CENTRAL WASHINGTON* NORTHWEST NAZARENE* at Saint Martin’s* at Western Oregon* at Western Washington* at Seattle University*
• • • •
2005 All-GNAC hon. men. 1.13 bpg (No. 2 GNAC) 2.02 kpg 11 blks at W. Ore. (10/27/05)
• 2.24 kpg in 2005 • 0.91 bpg (No. 10 GNAC) • Career-high 15 kills in win over UAF (10/7/05)
• Returning to VB court for first time since high school • Seawolf multi-event track & field standout (jumps, hurdles, sprints)
• • • •
• Led UAA with 2.87 kpg and 3.18 points per game in ‘05 • Team-high 7 double-doubles • 2.87 dpg
2005 All-GNAC hon. men. Led UAA with .235 attack pct. 0.94 bpg (No. 9 GNAC) 2.22 kpg
• Full-time libero in all 26 UAA matches in 2005 • 2.25 dpg
• Saw action 15 times in 2005 • 3 assists in win vs UAF (11/5)
Seawolf Newcomers
7 9 16 21 23 28 30
at St. Mary’s Invitational - San Antonio, TX vs Valdosta State 7 am at St. Mary’s 11 am vs Rollins 7 am vs Colorado School of Mines 2:30 pm
7 pm 7 pm 7 pm 6 pm 6 pm 6 pm 6 pm
OCTOBER
Pasadeanna Aukusitino
Samantha Calderwood
Tehane Kahalehau
Meghan Koizumi
Paepaetele Poasa
Kim Stolk
5 7 11 13 14 19 21 26 28
WESTERN OREGON* SAINT MARTIN’S* ALASKA FAIRBANKS* vs Dixie State (at NNU) at Northwest Nazarene* SEATTLE UNIVERSITY* WESTERN WASHINGTON* at Central Washington* at Seattle Pacific*
7 pm 7 pm 7 pm 5 pm 5 pm 7 pm 7 pm 6 pm 6 pm
NOVEMBER
4 at Alaska Fairbanks*
7 pm
Home matches in BOLD CAPS at Wells Fargo Sports Complex All times Alaska Daylight/Standard Time * Great Northwest Athletic Conference match
2006 Alaska Anchorage Seawolf Volleyball Team Standing (left-to-right): Graduate assistant coach Suzanne Givan, assistant coach Nicky Rose, Caitlin Grenier, Heather Lyons, Brenda Cooper, Jessica Morehouse, Paepaetele Poasa, Emily Tweto, head coach Michelle Earl. Sitting (l-r): Rachael Knecht, Tehane Kahalehau, Samantha Calderwood, Kim Stolk, Chelsey Jones, Pasadeanna Aukusitino, Meghan Koizumi, Cristal Negron.
Seawolf Coaching Staff Head Coach
assistant Coach
Hometown: Phoenix, Ariz. Education: B.S., Health Promotion, Univ. of Iowa, 1994; Masters of Physical Education, Georgia Southwestern State, 1996 Phone: 907-786-1226 / Email: anmre1@uaa.alaska.edu
Hometown: Anchorage Education: B.A., Exercise Sports Science, SW Texas State, 2000 Phone: 907-786-4855 Email: rose@uaa.alaska.edu
Michelle Earl
Nicky Rose
As she begins her second season at the Seawolf helm in
2006, Michelle Earl is poised to take the UAA volleyball program to the next level. The fifth volleyball coach in UAA history, Earl came to UAA in 2005 from Georgia Southwestern State, where she compiled a 212-191 record over 10 seasons. At GSW, Earl started the program from scratch in 1995 and eventually led the Hurricanes to four conference titles in five years (1998-2002) and a berth in the 1999 NAIA National Tournament. Earl was recognized as GeorgiaAlabama-Carolina Conference Coach of the Year in 2000 and 2003, and was the NAIA Region XIII Coach of the Year in 2000 as well. Earl was a junior college All-America outside hitter at Mesa (Ariz.) Community College (1989-91) before going on to star for the University of Iowa from 1991-92. She earned a bachelor of science in Health Promotion from Iowa in 1994, and went on to earn her masters degree in Physical Education from Georgia Southwestern in 1996. Earl’s coaching career began at her alma mater as a graduate assistant in 1993, and a year later she took over as head coach at Iowa Wesleyan College, helping that team improve its record from 6-24 to 16-28.
Nicky Rose enters her seventh season as
an assistant coach with the Seawolves in 2006. Her primary responsibilities include recruiting, match preparation and on-court instruction. Rose was a four-year letterwinner at Southwest Texas State, where she earned second team All-Southland Conference honors as a sophomore, junior and senior. She earned Southland Conference Tournament MVP honors as a senior, and was named to the all-tournament team as a junior. The career record-holder for digs at Southwest Texas, Rose also received the school’s Scholar-Athlete of the Year Award in 1998. Rose established herself on the local volleyball scene as a prep star at Anchorage’s Dimond High School.
GRADUATE ASSISTANT
Seawolf Record Book KILLS Match: 32, Cherie Knox vs Regis, 10/15/89 Season: 535, Jen Szczerbinski, 1992 Career: 1,691, Jen Szczerbinski, 1988-90, 92 KILLS PER GAME Match: 10.6, Cherie Knox vs Regis, 10/15/89 Season: 4.1, Jen Szczerbinski, 1992 Career: 3.76, Mindy Cason, 2002-03 ATTACK PERCENTAGE Match (min. 10 att.): .909, Janelle Veith (10-011) vs Seattle U., 10/20/01 Season: .333, Tammy Middaugh, 1982 Career: .250, Michelle Harlamert, 1989-91, 93 TOTAL BLOCKS Match: 17, Michelle Harlamert vs Bellarmine, 10/1/93 Season: 176, Vickie Maas, 1992 Career: 499, Vickie Maas, 1989-92
SERVICE ACES Match: 9, Tegan Bosard vs Western New Mexico, 10/27/97 Season: 57, Sandra Kirtley, 1995 Career: 162, Jen Szczerbinski, 1988-92 DIGS Match: 39, Jen Szczerbinski vs Chaminade, 10/19/90 Season: 604, Jen Szczerbinski, 1990 Career: 2,108, Jen Szczerbinski, 1988-90,92 ASSISTS Match: 75, Janelle Morrisette vs St. Cloud State, 8/25/00 Season: 1,522, Tracy Zink, 1990 Career: 3,853, Janelle (Morrisette) Veith, 19982001
Suzanne Givan
Hometown: Peyton, Colo. Education: B.S., Exercise Sports Science, Georgia SW State, 2006 Phone: 907-786-1283
Suzanne Givan joins the Seawolf staff in
2006 as a graduate assistant coach. In addition to on-court and administrative coaching roles with the volleyball team, she is also in charge of the overall conditioning program for all six Seawolf womenís teams. Givan recently graduated from Georgia Southwestern State University in Americus, Ga., where she played volleyball under current Seawolf mentor Michelle Earl for two seasons. She also lettered in cross country and tennis at GSW. Givan earned her associate’s degree from South Florida Community College in 2003, where she played tennis and volleyball as well.
Facilities The Seawolves play their
home matches in the comfortable confines of the 1,250-seat Wells Fargo Sports Complex, conveniently located in the heart of the UAA campus. UAA studentathletes also train at the Complex, taking advantage of the facility’s recently refurbished weight room, swimming pool and indoor jogging track.
The Seawolves begin their 2006 home season with the 13th annual Extended Stay Deluxe Invitational, one of the top in-season tournaments in Division II Volleyball. UAA has won two of the past four tournaments, taking 14 of 16 matches in that span. The 2006 Invitational features UAA, Briar Cliff, LaGrange and Notre Dame de Namur, Aug. 31-Sept. 2 at the Wells Fargo Sports Complex.
Stretching from Alaska to Oregon to Idaho, and
soon Montana, the Great Northwest Athletic Conference has quickly become one of the most successful leagues in NCAA Division II. Founded in 2001, the GNAC features nine schools – UAA, Alaska Fairbanks, Central Washington, Northwest Nazarene, Saint Martin’s, Seattle Pacific, Seattle University, Western Oregon and Western Washington – in six men’s and six women’s sports. In 2007-08, Montana State-Billings will bring the GNAC membership to 10. The Seawolves field GNAC teams in volleyball, men’s and women’s basketball, men’s and women’s cross country,
This is UAA! ACADEMICS The University of Alaska Anchorage is the state’s largest, most comprehensive university, serving more than 20,000 students through four primary campuses and numerous other sites in southcentral Alaska and the Aleutian chain. Academic units located on the Anchorage campus include the College of Arts and Sciences; College of Technical and Community Education; College of Health Education and Social Welfare; College of Business and Public Policy, and the School of Engineering. Organized research units at UAA complement the academic programs and reflect the special character of the University’s mission in Alaska. Research units include the Alaska Center for International Business, the American Russian Center, the Environment and Natural Resources Institute, the Center of Alcohol and Addiction Studies, the center for Economic Education, the Institute for Circumpolar Health Studies, the Center for Human Development, the Institute of Social and Economic Research and the Justice Center. UAA operates on a semester system. Fifteen semester credits are a normal class load and a minimum of 120 credits are required to complete a bachelor’s degree. The attractive, wooded campus is an urban oasis with residential wildlife populations of moose, waterfowl and birds.
ATHLETICS Nicknamed the Seawolves, UAA’s athletic teams compete as members of NCAA Division I in hockey and gymnastics and NCAA Division II in all other sports, including basketball, volleyball, skiing, track & field, and cross country. UAA annually hosts the Carrs/Safeway Great Alaska Shootout men’s and women’s basketball tournament – recognized as one of the top inseason tournaments in the nation – as well as the Nye Frontier Classic hockey tournament. Over the last three decades, the University of Alaska Anchorage has become a perennial national power in many of its sports. A total of 112 Seawolves have earned All-America honors since 1984 and UAA has produced several individual national champions. UAA athletes have enjoyed unprecedented success in the classroom.The entire UAA Athletic Department has compiled a cumulative GPA of 3.0+ in 10 of the last 13 years. Through the years, UAA has produced several Academic All-Americans.