2014 UAB Volleyball Media Guide

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2014 UAB Volleyball Information Guide Table of Contents

2014 Schedule UAB/Samford Volleyball Challenge Aug. 29 SOUTHEASTERN LA. BARTOW ARENA

MICHIGAN STATE BARTOW ARENA Aug. 30 Georgia State Birmingham, Ala.

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7 p.m.

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Residence Inn Challenge (Arizona State) Sept. 5 Idaho State Phoenix, Ariz.

at Arizona State Phoenix, Ariz.

Sept. 6 Iowa Phoenix, Ariz.

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Sept. 9

CHATTANOOGA

BARTOW ARENA

Magnolia Invitational (Ole Miss) Sept. 11 at Ole Miss Oxford, Miss.

Sept. 12 Jacksonville State Oxford, Miss.

Mercer Oxford, Miss.

Sept. 16

at Alabama

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Tuscaloosa, Ala.

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Miami (OH) Invitational Sept. 19 Ohio State Miami, Ohio Sept. 20 at Miami (OH) Miami, Ohio

IUPUI Miami, Ohio

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12 p.m.

4:30 p.m.

Sept. 26 at Charlotte* Sept. 28 LOUISIANA TECH* Sept. 30 at Samford Oct. 3 at Florida Atlantic Oct. 5 at FIU* Oct. 10 UTEP* Oct. 12 UTSA Oct. 14 MIDDLE TENNESSEE* Oct. 17 at Marshall* Oct. 24 at Southern Miss* Oct. 26 at Rice Oct. 31 WESTERN KENTUCKY Nov. 2 NORTH TEXAS* Nov. 7 at UTSA* Nov. 9 at Middle Tennessee* Nov. 11 at Alabama State Nov. 14 SOUTHERN MISS* Nov. 16 MARSHALL* Nov. 21-23 Conference USA Champ

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12 p.m.

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4:30 p.m.

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TBA 12 p.m.

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Charlotte, N.C. BARTOW ARENA Birmingham, Ala. Boca Raton, Fla. Miami, Fla. BARTOW ARENA BARTOW ARENA BARTOW ARENA Huntington, W. Va. Hattiesburg, Miss.

Houston, Texas BARTOW ARENA BARTOW ARENA San Antonio, Texas Mufreesboro, Tenn.

Montgomery, Ala. BARTOW ARENA BARTOW ARENA Hattiesburg, Miss.

Schedule/Table of Contents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Quick Facts/Media Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Roster Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2014 Season Preview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Coaching Staff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Returning Player Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Newcomer Profiles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Bartow Arena. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Conference USA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 2013 Statisics/Results. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 2013 Conference USA Results. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Record Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28-29 Honors & Awards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30-31 All-Time Won-Loss/Coaching Records. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 All-Time Series Records. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 All-Time Letterwinners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 NCAA Tournament History. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 UAB At A Glance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36-38 Blazer Highlights. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Excellence at the Next Level. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Proud Past, Bright Future. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41-42 UAB All-Americans. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Sports Medicine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44-45 Campus Rec Center. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Birmingham “The Magic City”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Keeping up with the Blazers Online at uabsports.com

* Conference USA match.

Home matches in BOLD CAPS. All times are CT and subject to change.

The official UAB athletics website, uabsports.com, is the most comprehensive source for information on all Blazer teams. The site provides fans with the latest news, results and features along with rosters, bios, statistics, game notes and more.

Again in 2013, fans can watch Blazer home matches with live video through uabsports. com. The video streaming is available through the Blazers All-Access package.

Information Guide Credits The 2013 UAB Volleyball Information Guide is an official publication of the UAB Athletic Media Relations office. Editors/Designers: Assistant Media Relations Director Kristin Watkins with assistance from Provations Group (Nicholasville, Ky.). Contributions and Editorial Assistance: Norm Reilly Cover Concept/Design: Provations Group (Nicholasville, Ky.). Photography: Jimmy Mitchell, Steve Wood, Stephen Pinchback, Don Liebil, Nik Layman, Joe Murphy, Scott Bruhn, Tod Van Emst and Sam Morgan.

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2014 UAB Volleyball Quick Facts Media Outlets

General Information

Location. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Birmingham, Ala. Founded. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1969 Enrollment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,568 President . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dr. Ray L. Watts (UAB, 1976) Athletics Director. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brian Mackin (UAB, 1983) Faculty Athletics Representative. . . . . . . Dr. Frank Messina (West Alabama, 1986) Nickname. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Blazers Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Forest Green & Old Gold Home Arena. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bartow Arena (8,500) Affiliation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NCAA Division I Conference. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Conference USA (C-USA) Athletic Department Phone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (205) 975-8221 Ticket Office Phone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (205) 975-8221 Website . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.uabsports.com

Volleyball Information

Head Coach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kerry Messersmith (Chadron State, 1986) Record at UAB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172-100 (Ninth Season) Career Record. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 646-352 (27th season) Assistant Coach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bailey Coleman (Georgia Southern, 2008) Assistant Coach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ashley Hardee (East Carolina, 2000) Director of Volleyball Operations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Judy Green Video Coordinator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shawn Matthews Volleyball Office Phone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (205) 934-6003 First Year of Volleyball . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1978 All-Time Record. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 654-652 (36 years) NCAA Appearances/Most Recent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2/2008 2013 Record. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-14 2013 C-USA Record . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-7 2013 C-USA Finish. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . T-7th 2013 Postseason. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . N/A Letterwinners Returning/Lost. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7/4 Starters Returning/Lost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3/4 (Libero) Newcomers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Athletic Media Relations

Associate AD for Media Relations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Norm Reilly Assistant Director (Volleyball Contact). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kristin Watkins Email. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . kristinw@uab.edu Phone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (205) 934-0725 Assistant Director. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tray Littlefield Assistant Director. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Anthony Prisco Media Relations Assistant. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brandon Lee Media Relations Phone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (205) 934-0722 Media Relations Fax. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (205) 934-7505 Mailing Address. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . UAB Media Relations 105 Bartow Arena - West Tower 1720 2nd Ave. South

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Roster Breakdown

By Class Freshmen (6) Alexis Howell, Haley Jared, Gabbi Moreno, Zahria Richard, Baley West, Victoria Young Sophomores (4) Gabby Deshotel, Emma Schroer, Ashlyn Sunseri, Amber Treace Juniors (2) Sydney Nelson, Collin Nichols Seniors (5) Leslie Ekpe, Kiriana Hirini, Sara Rishell, Lindsay Simmons, Bethanie Thomas

By Position Middle Blocker (5) Leslie Ekpe, Kiriana Hirini, Haley Jared, Sara Rishell, Victoria Young Outside Hitter (5) Gabby Deshotel, Sydney Nelson, Zahria Richard, Ashlyn Sunseri, Bethanie Thomas Opposite (1) Collin Nichols, Lindsay Simmons Setter (3) Gabbi Moreno, Emma Schroer, Amber Treace Defensive Specialist (3) Alexis Howell, Emma Schroer, Baley West

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Name Sara Rishell Amber Treace Ashlyn Sunseri Gabby Deshotel Emma Schroer Baley West Collin Nichols Lindsay Simmons Alexis Howell Victoria Young Gabbi Moreno Sydney Nelson Zahria Richard Kiriana Hirini Bethanie Thomas Leslie Ekpe Haley Jared

Pos. MB S OH OH S/DS DS OPP OPP L MB S OH OH MB OH MB MB

Ht. 6-2 6-0 5-11 5-11 5-9 5-7 5-9 6-0 5-6 6-1 5-10 6-1 5-9 6-1 6-1 6-0 6-1

Cl. Sr. So. So. So. So. Fr. Jr. Sr. Fr. Fr. Fr. Jr. Fr. Sr. Sr. Sr. Fr.

Coaching Staff Head Coach: Kerry Messersmith, ninth season (Chadron State, 1986) Assistant Coach: Bailey Coleman, third season (Georgia Southern, 2008) Assistant Coach: Ashley Hardee, first season (East Carolina, 2000) Director of Operations: Judy Green (Western Carolina, 1984) Video Coordinator: Shawn Matthews (Abilene Christian, 2004) Pronunciation Guide Gabby Deshotel (Day-SHO-tel) Leslie Ekpe (Ek-pay) Kiriana Hirini (keer-e-an-uh heer-E-nee) Gabbie Moreno (Mo-RAY-no) Zahria Richard (Ri-SHARD) Emma Schroer (Sh-WORE) Amber Treace (Treece)

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Hometown (Last School) Smithsburg, Md./American Spanish Fort, Ala./Spanish Fort HS Tuscaloosa, Ala./Tennessee Daphne, Ala./Bayside Academy Ogallala, Neb./Ogallala HS Kennesaw, Ga./Marietta HS Huntsville, Ala./Madison County Danville, Ala./Danville HS Madison, Ala./Bob Jones HS Mobile, Ala./McGill-Toolen HS Houston, Texas/Glenda Dawson HS St. Charles, Mo./Iowa Western CC South Lyon, Mich./South Lyon HS Tauranga, New Zealand/Long Beach State Madison, Ala./South Carolina Lewisville, Texas/Alabama A&M Hartselle, Ala./Hartselle HS

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2014 Blazers Outlook With three consecutive years of 20-win seasons, the UAB volleyball team is looking to continue its history of success into the 2014 season. The Blazers are led by head coach Kerry Messersmith, who is entering her ninth season at the helm of the UAB volleyball program.

The team is coming off a 21-14 finish overall and 7-7 record in Conference USA play in 2013. Four players were selected to the all-conference teams, while senior Rachel Fairbanks was named the C-USA Libero of the Year.

Heading into the 2014 season, UAB will have a new look with the addition of 10 newcomers to the squad. Luckily, the Blazers will have some of its top players from last season returning to lead the large group of newcomers. Three starters from 2013 will be back, including second team All-Conference USA selection Sara Rishell, along with four key reserves.

“I think we put together a team that in May we were a little unsure of what we were going to look like,” Messersmith said. “I think that we are all very excited about what we put together and the potential for this team.”

“We come into our preseason with 10 new players so we are a little unsure of what we are going to be like,” said Messersmith. “We have some very talented freshmen as well as some transfers that have come in so we couldn’t be more excited about the season.”

UAB will have a tough non-conference schedule to open the season, which will include four teams that were ranked in the top-25 during 2013. The Blazers will travel to three tournaments after hosting its annual UAB/Samford tournament to being the year.

season.

“We have a great group of middles this year,” remarked Messersmith. “Sara Rishell is back for her senior year. Sara has a ton of experience and had the opportunity to go to Minneapolis this summer to compete and train with the Collegiate National Team program and gained valuable experience there so we expect big things from Sara.”

Also returning is fellow senior Kiriana Hirini. Hirini was second on the team with 355 kills and 139 blocks last season. She is also the top returner in service aces, after landing 25 in 2013.

The remaining middle blockers will all be new to the Blazers’ volleyball squad. Senior Leslie Ekpe joined the team as a transfer from Alabama A&M, where she had significant playing time all three years.

“Leslie Ekpe has been fantastic in camp,” Messersmith said.

“She really has shown tremendous things both offensively and defensively.”

Rounding out the group will be two freshmen, Victoria Young and Haley Jared. Both bring a lot of athleticism to the team and will be great assests for UAB in the future.

“Vicki is a tremendous athlete, very tall at 6’ 1”, very physical, puts up a great block, is quick from side-to-side and is a terminator as well. Haley Jared is fantastic off of one foot.

She is a very good athlete, can get up high.”

“Our non-conference schedule is going to be very challenging,” said Messersmith. “We will face five teams in the span of four weeks that participated in the 2013 NCAA Tournament. It’s definitely the toughest pre-conference schedule we have had in my tenure and will definitely test us early.”

Messersmith knows that this type of schedule can either propel the team into conference play or it can tear a team down.

“Obviously we are hoping that we will get better and better every week and be ready for conference once it starts.”

The following is a position-by-position breakdown of the 2014 UAB volleyball roster.

MIDDLE BLOCKERS Leslie Ekpe, Sr. | Kiriana Hirini, Jr. | Haley Jared, Fr. Sara Rishell, Jr. | Victoria Young, Fr. UAB will have a strong group of middle blockers that are returning a lot of experience, with three of its five seniors coming at this position. Senior Sara Rishell, a preseason All-Conference USA selection, comes back after leading the Blazers in kills (387) and blocks (142) during the 2013 4

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Senior Sara Rishell led UAB with 387 kills and 142 blocks in 2013.

OUTSIDE HITTERS Gabby Deshotel, So. | Zahria Richard, Fr. Ashlyn Sunseri, So. | Bethanie Thomas, Jr. At outside hitter, the Blazers will have two returners in senior Bethanie Thomas and sophomore Gabby Deshotel.

Thomas was one of the most all-around players from last season. She was all over the court with 261 kills, 274 digs and 50 blocks.

“Bethanie is our steady eddy. She has great ball control and doesn’t make a lot of errors, but has the potential to be deadly on offense.”

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2014 Blazers Outlook great preseason, Messersmith feels that she will be a huge asset for the team.

Gabby is a phenomenal athlete, probably the best athlete we have on the team. She is a terminator and is really developed great confidence. We expect big, big things out of Gabby.”

Along with Thomas and Dehotel, UAB will have transfer Ashlyn Sunseri and freshman Zahria Richard. Sunseri is a transfer from Tennessee where she played two seasons for the Volunteers.

“Nobody works as hard as Ashlyn does,” said Messersmith.

“She wants to learn, is always watching film, just a great player to have in the gym. She will definitely push for some playing time.”

Richard is a young player that Messersmith feels will likely redshirt and will be a valuable player for the future.

SeniorBethanie Thomas had 261 kills last season.

258 in six 102 sets.

Along with Treace, the Blazers added highly-touted freshman Gabbi Moreno.

Moreno had great high school career and will challenge for a starting spot right away.

“Both are tall and athletic, which will enable them to be an offensive threat and allow our hitters to have more one-on-one situations.”

“I think they will both continue to battle for the starting position. The key is that we are very experienced offensively and I think that will make up for our inexperience at the setter position.

Amber Treace started six matches at setter as a freshman.

Howard, an all-conference selection, will be tough to replace but Messersmith feels that Treace and Moreno have what it takes to step up and lead this UAB offense.

DEFENSIVE SPECIALISTS/LIBERO Alexis Howell, Fr. | Collin Nichols, Jr. Emma Schroer, Fr. | Baley West, Fr. RIGHT SIDE HITTERS Sydney Nelson, Jr. | Lindsay Simmons, So. This position will be a battle, with senior Lindsay Simmons returning from last season and the addition of junior college transfer Sydney Nelson.

Simmons played in 13 matches, recording 30 kills at right side for UAB in 2013. She has continued to improve during her time with the Blazers and will contend for playing time this season.

Nelson comes from Iowa West Community College. She has impressed in her first few weeks with the Blazers, being termed one of the hardest hitters to ever play at UAB. “Sydney is probably the strongest player we have,” Messersmith said. “She is a terminator and can hit the ball as hard as any we have had here so we expect big things from her.”

SETTERS Gabbi Moreno, Fr. | Amber Treace, Fr. Another position that will be a battle for UAB is at setter. The Blazers return Amber Treace, who gained valuable exprience as a freshman when Becca Howard was injured last season. Treace averaged 6.97 assists per set, dishing out 5

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UAB will have to replace senior Rachel Fairbanks, who started at libero for the last two seasons. Fairbanks earned C-USA Libero of the Year in 2013 after leading the Blazers with 609 digs to average 4.91 per set. Two newcomers along with sophomore returner Emma Schroer will highlight the group.

Schroer saw limited action in 2013, appearing in 16 matches and recording 31 digs. She has worked hard in the offseason and has continued to improve.

“Emma has made vast improvements in the two years she has been here,” Messersmith said. “We expect her to play a significant role in our program this year.”

Joined Schroer, will be junior college transfer Collin Nichols and freshmen Alexis Howell and Baley West. Nichols comes to UAB from Gadsden State and has shown great promise in camp.

Both freshmen will also likely see playing time, as they each bring their own set of unique qualities to the team.

“Alexis is probably the quickest defensive player we have had here,” remarked Messersmith. “She played outside in high school and I think she was the MVP of the state tournament this past year. She will have to get used to a new position, but she has great promise. She is quick and has great ball control. Baley West is going to definitely vie for some playing time. She has a lot of good skills as well.”

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Coaching Staff

Kerry Messersmith

Head Coach | 9th Season Chadron State, 1986

Entering her ninth season at the helm of the UAB program, Kerry Messersmith has showcased continued success in leading the Blazers, evident by four 23-plus win seasons and seven straight seasons finishing .500 or better in Conference USA action.

The 2013 season saw continued sucess for the UAB volleyball program under Messersmith. She guided the team to an overall record of 21-14 and a 7-7 mark in Conference USA, marking the third consecutive season of 20 or more wins for the Blazers.

The Messersmith File Career Record. . . . . . . . 646-352 (26 seasons) NCAA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393-239 (17 seasons) Division I . . . . . . . . . . . 288-152 (13 seasons) Head Coaching Experience 2006-Present. . . . . . . . . . . . . UAB (172-100) 2001-05. . . . . . . . Georgia Southern (116-52) 1997-00. . . . . . Arizona Western CC (129-65) 1994-95. . . . . . . . . . . Chadron State (46-29) 1991-93. . . . . . . . . . . Pittsburg State (59-58) 1989-90. . . . . . . . . . . . Fort Scott CC (63-25) 1987-88. . . . . . . . . Allen County CC (61-23) NCAA Tournament Appearances 2001 NCAA First Round (Georgia Southern) 2003 NCAA First Round (Georgia Southern) 2006 NCAA First Round (UAB) 2008 NCAA Second Round (UAB) Education Bachelor’s: Chadron State (1986) Family Husband: late husbans, Hal Children: Meghan and Brynnley Resides Vestavia Hills, Ala.

During that season, four players were selected to the All-C-USA team and Rachel Fairbanks was named C-USA Libero of the Year with Messersmith’s guidance. It was the first Libero of the Year award for any UAB player.

Messersmith guided UAB to its second consecutive 20-win season with an overall record of 20-14 in 2012. The Blazers finished third in the conference with an 11-5 record in C-USA play. Under her tuteledge, All-American Sam Serley set a UAB single season record in blocks and led the conference in hitting percentage.

In 2011, the Blazers were yet again one of the top programs in the league, finishing second in the standings at 23-9 overall and 13-7 against C-USA foes as Messersmith earned the C-USA Co-Coach of the Year award for the first time leading the Blazers. The 13 victories in conference action tied Messersmith’s 2008 squad for the most in program history and the Green and Gold also recorded a 13-match win streak last season, the second longest in UAB lore.

Messersmith reached a legendary milestone during the 2011 campaign, earning her 600th career coaching victory when UAB defeated Rice, 3-1, on October 23 at Bartow Arena. Entering her 25th season on the sidelines, Messersmith boasts a career record of 605-324 (.651).

In the two seasons prior to Messersmith’s arrival in 2006, the Blazers were a combined 15-37, including a 1-24 campaign in 2004. The program had never won a Conference USA Championship and had never earned a berth in the NCAA tournament.

In the six seasons since she set foot in Birmingham, UAB has made three appearances in the C-USA Championship finals, competed in two NCAA tournaments and posted an overall record of 131-72 (67-37 C-USA). Messersmith’s .645 winning percentage at the school is the highest in program history.

The Blazers posted two AVCA All-Midwest Region selections in Sam Serley (first team) and Heather Thomas (honorable mention) during the 2011 campaign. Serley and Thomas were also recognized by the conference, earning first and second team honors, respectively. In addition, six times a player won C-USA Player of the Week accolades, five coming on defense.

Messersmith has guided numerous players to notch a spot in several statistics in the UAB record book. Most recently, Thomas, a 2012 graduate, set both the single season (631) and career (2,131) records for digs and finished fourth all-time in C-USA last season.

Her inaugural UAB squad made an immediate breakthrough in 2006, winning the program’s first C-USA Championship and advancing to its first NCAA tournament. The team’s 27 wins were the most by a Blazer squad since 1991.

Messersmith earned her 500th career win in the 2006 conference tournament semifinals, and another victory the next day sealed an NCAA trip. The Blazers lost in the first round to fourth-ranked UCLA, but they would be back.

Following a 24-win campaign in 2007 and a conference tournament runner-up finish that left the team just shy of another postseason berth, UAB posted its best season ever in 2008.

At 27-8, the 2008 UAB squad set a program record for winning percentage (.771) and won a school-record 16 straight match-

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matches. Under Messersmith, the Eagles finished 21-11 and were 14-6 in SoCon play in 2001, her first season at GSU. That effort came only a year after Georgia Southern was 11-19 overall and just 5-15 in league action.

But UAB was rewarded for its strong regular season with an NCAA tournament at-large berth and a trip to Lincoln, Neb. The Blazers swept Missouri State, 3-0, on Dec. 5 for the first NCAA tourney win in program history before falling in the second round to No. 4 overall seed Nebraska on the Huskers’ home floor at the historic NU Coliseum. UAB finished the year at No. 22 in the final RPI.

For the 2002 and 2003 seasons, the Eagles were a combined 53-18 overall and 35-3 in conference matches.

GSU won Southern Conference tournament titles and earned NCAA tournament berths in 2001 and 2003, while also capturing the league’s regular season title in both 2002 and 2003.

The 2008 team was led by a pair of AVCA honorable mention All-Americans in Ivana Bozic (for the second time) and Nevena Stefanov, who was also the C-USA Setter of the Year. Three seasons later in 2011, Sam Serley (another two-time selection) became Messersmith’s fifth Blazer All-American, while the coach has also tutored eight all-region selections and 11 all-conference players at UAB. Serley (2010) and current assistant coach Casey Dent (three times; 2006-2008) also earned Academic All-District honors under Messersmith’s guidance.

In 2009, Messersmith coached C-USA Newcomer of the Year Michelle Uzoh and All-Freshman team member Serley, who went on to earn second-team all-league honors in 2010. Messersmith led UAB to another winning season in 2009 with a 17-16 overall record and a 9-7 mark in league play. Her 2010 team went 13-19 but closed with wins in its final five matches and eight of its last 11 to post a 10-10 league mark and finish in the top half of the C-USA standings for the fifth consecutive season, every year of her tenure. UAB’s 13-7 mark in league in 2011 extended that streak to six straight years.

Her achievements at UAB are the latest in a long line of coaching successes and program turnarounds. Messersmith owns an overall coaching record of 605-324 (.651), and she took over at UAB with a proven track record of resurrecting collegiate volleyball programs.

Coming to the Blazers from Georgia Southern in December of 2005, Messersmith was the Eagles’ all-time winningest coach in her tenure at the Statesboro, Ga., school. She turned around a program that was 15-45 in the two seasons prior to her arrival in 2001.

The Casper, Wyo., native compiled an overall record of 116-52 at GSU and was 75-17 in Southern Conference

Messersmith, who earned Southern Conference Coach of the Year honors during her time at GSU, coached four players to eight first-team all-conference accolades in her five seasons with the Eagles. Four other GSU players earned second-team all-league honors during her tenure.

Her success at Georgia Southern was just another example of a program demonstrating a dramatic turnaround under her leadership. In fact, in her 23-year career as a head coach, she has guided six teams to substantial resurgences.

Prior to taking over the Eagles’ program at GSU, Messersmith spent four seasons at Arizona Western College, where she took a program that won just four matches the season before she arrived to an eighth-place finish at the NJCAA National Tournament four years later in 2000.

The Matadors finished 15-23 during her first season but then improved to 33-19 in 1998. The success would continue over the next two seasons as Arizona Western finished 38-13 in 1999 and 43-10 in Messersmith’s final year there.

Before her stint at Arizona Western, Messersmith coached for two years at her alma mater, Chadron State.

She guided the school to a combined record of 46-29 over the 1994 and 1995 seasons.

Messersmith also helped lead huge turnarounds as head coach at Allen County (Kan.) Community College, Fort Scott (Kan.) Community College and Pittsburg State University. Her coaching career began at Allen County CC in 1987. During her two seasons there, she compiled a mark of 61-23 and led the program to its first conference championship.

Messersmith is a 1986 graduate of Chadron State, where she earned her bachelor’s degree in education. Messersmith and her late husband, Hal, have two daughters, Meghan and Brynnley, and reside in Vestavia Hills, Ala.

Year-By-Year Record Year School 1987-88 Allen Co. CC 1989-90 Ft. Scott CC 1991 Pittsburg St. 1992 Pittsburg St. 1993 Pittsburg St. 1994 Chadron St. 1995 Chadron St. 1997 Ariz. Western CC 1998 Ariz. Western CC 1999 Ariz. Western CC 2000 Ariz. Western CC 2001 Ga. Southern 2002 Ga. Southern 2003 Ga. Southern 2004 Ga. Southern 2005 Ga. Southern 2006 UAB 2007 UAB 2008 UAB 2009 UAB 2010 UAB 2011 UAB 2012 UAB 2013 UAB Total 26 seasons

Record Pct. 61-23 .726 63-25 .716 22-19 .537 19-22 .463 18-17 .514 23-12 .657 23-17 .575 15-23 .395 33-19 .635 38-13 .745 43-10 .811 22-12 .647 26-9 .743 27-10 .729 20-10 .667 21-11 .656 27-10 .730 24-10 .706 27-8 .771 17-16 .515 13-19 .406 23-9 .719 20-14 .588 21-14 .600 646-352 .647

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Winning percentage in seven years at UAB, the highest for a coach in program history

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Career victories (compared to 352 losses)

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Wins in six years at UAB (compared to 112 in the 10 years before her arrival)

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Winning seasons in 24 years as a head coach

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20-win seasons in 13 years at the NCAA Division I level

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Bailey Coleman

Assistant Coach | 3rd Season Georgia Southern, 2008

Bailey Coleman enters her third season as an assistant coach at UAB for the indoor volleyball team. Coleman also serves as head coach for the Blazers’ sand volleyball team.

During her two seasons at UAB, the Blazers have finished 41-28 overall and 18-12 in Conference USA play.

Coleman comes to Birmingham from the University of Montevallo, where she spent the pervious two seasons as an assistant coach under Katie O’Brien. While with the Falcons, she assisted in all aspects of coaching, including recruiting, travel and constructing scouting reports.

Her primary focus was the team’s defense and passing, which finished tops in the Peach Belt Conference in digs-per-set in both 2010 and 2011.

During the 2010 campaign, Montevallo finished an impressive 24-13 as the Falcons made their first-ever NCAA Tournament appearance and concluded the season in the nation’s top 32 of all Division II programs.

Prior to her two-year stint at Montevallo, Coleman served as a graduate assistant coach at Oklahoma City University, an NAIA school within the Sooner Athletic Conference.

The Stars went 33-8 in her first season with the volleyball program, advancing to the SAC Tournament Semifinals. Beyond her regular coaching duties, Coleman was in charge of fundraising and monitoring the student-athletes in their academic progress.

Coleman concluded her two years at OCU by earning her Masters of Education, with a focus in Applied Behavioral Studies in June 2010.

Before embarking on her coaching career, Coleman was a four-year letterwinner in volleyball at Georgia Southern. She led the Eagles in digs (302) and digs-per-set (3.28) as a senior as she played both outside hitter and libero during her days as a student-athlete. She ranked second on the team in kills as a sophomore and finished her career with 1,108 digs, 858 kills and 60 service aces. Her career dig total ranks fourth all-time at GSU. Coleman was recruited and played her first two seasons at GSU under current UAB head coach Kerry Messersmith, prior to Messersmith leaving to coach the Blazers in 2006.

A native of Awendaw, S.C., Coleman earned a Bachelor of Science in Education from GSU in 2008 and was a member of the Dean’s List, Southern Conference Honor Roll and President of the Student Athletic Advisory Board.

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Ashley Hardee

Assistant Coach | 1st Season East Carolina, 2000

Ashley Hardee enters his first season as an assistant coach with the UAB indoor volleyball team.

Hardee joins the Blazers’ staff after serving as the head coach at the University of North Dakota for the past five seasons. During his time, he led UND to four seasons with over 22 wins, three regular season champion titles and three tournament championships. He has an overall record or 110-44 as a Division I head coach.

In his first two seasons with UND, Hardee was named Great West Conference Coach of the Year after leading his team to GWC regular season and tournament championships in 2009 and 2010. The team finished 22-6 (11-1 GWC) and 25-5 (12-0 GWC), respectively.

He saw similar results in 2011, guiding the team to its third consecutive GWC tournament championship and finishing 26-5 overall, 8-2 in conference play.

Prior to North Dakota, Hardee was an assistant coach for eight seasons at New Mexico State University under Mike Jordan. The team saw much success during those years, making five NCAA tournament appearances and three conference championships.

He helped guide New Mexico State to three 30-win seasons and recruited three All-American players. Hardee’s responsibility as an assistant included recruiting coordinator, court coaching and training, scouting opponents, coordinating summer camps, academic coordinator and Compliance with NCAA rules.

During his time at New Mexico State, he also served as head coach of the Diamondback Volleyball Club. He led that team to qualify for the Junior Olympic Nationals in 2004 and 2005.

His other coaching experience includes four years as USA Volleyball Sun Country Region head coach and two years as head volleyball coach at J. H. Rose High School in Greenville, N.C. Hardee earned his Bachelor of Science in Health and Human Performance from East Carolina in 2000. Resides in Trussville, Ala. With his wife, Dori, and two sons, Noah and Dylan.

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Shawn Matthews

Video Coordinator |1st Season Abilene Christian, 2004

Shawn Matthews enters his first season as an assistant coach at UAB for both the indoor and sand volleyball teams.

This is his first season working with the Blazers as video coordinator, and third season overall with the team.

Matthews comes to Birmingham via his home, the Lone Star State, and in 2011 finished his fifth season at Spain Park HS (Hoover, AL ) as head junior varsity and assistant varsity coach under Paula Dill.

During his time with the Jaguars, his primary duties which included attack, block, and setter training, helped the program reach the 2008 substate playoffs and a 25 match-winning record. In the high school off-season, he was active in the local club volleyball scene training athletes of all ages, while guiding his teams to top ten regional finishes each year.

Matthews began his coaching career in Odessa, Texas at the local youth league, private school/club levels, and it culminated at the University of Texas-Permian Basin with a position as the volunteer assistant in 1999. Under the mentorship of Steve Aicinena, Matthews was given both team offensive/defensive responsibilities, including serving, attacking, and blocking, as well as statistical reporting duties.

During that same year the UTPB Lady Falcons earned a 23-12 season record and achieved its first-ever Red River Athletic Conference championship in the program’s school history of NAIA division competition.

In 2001, while attending college in Abilene, Texas, Matthews began his official competitive volleyball career playing for Dyess Air Force Base as a middle blocker.

He has won and participated in both indoor/outdoor competitions all over the U.S. from New York to California and overseas including Italy, France, and England, and most recently has been a 2012 adult national indoors team finalist.

A native of Odessa, Texas, Matthews earned his B.B.A in Financial Management from ACU in 2004.

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Judy Green

Director of Operations |1st Season Western Carolina, 1984

Judy Green, a 27-year coaching veteran, joined the UAB staff as Director of Operations in . She comes to UAB after three years as the head volleyball coach at Birmingham-Southern College. There, she led the Panthers to three-straight winning seasons, including a 21-9 finish in 2013.

“We couldn’t be more excited that Judy is joining our Blazer family,” said head coach Kerry Messersmith. “Her personality and 25-plus years experience as a head collegiate coach make her a perfect fit for this job. Her strong ties in the state of Alabama and Birmingham are going to be invaluable. She has some great ideas and is definitely going to bring excitement to UAB volleyball. I can’t wait to see where she takes this position.”

Prior to Birmingham-Southern, she spent 15 years as head coach at the University of Alabama, where she amassed a 237-234 record. She announced her retirement from the program before the 2010 season.

At Alabama, Green’s first recruiting class posted a 22-8 record as seniors that went on to win the program’s first-ever SEC Western Division title in 2000. Her team won a second SEC West title in 2004, and saw three consecutive NCAA Championship appearances in 2005, 2006 and 2007. In 2008, Green collected her 600th career victory, ranking her 16th among active coaches for all-time wins.

In 1986, Green landed her first head coaching position at the University of Montevallo, where she took the Falcons to 10 straight NAIA national tournament appearances, including a fourth-place finish in 1988 and a fifth-place finish in 1994 with a 50-5 record.

While at Montevallo, Green was named 1993 National Coach of the Year by the American Volleyball Coaches Association, and was also named NAIA South Region Coach of the Year and Southeast Region Coach of the Year during her tenure. She coached 26 NAIA/AVCA All-Americans, 38 NAIA All-District players, 11 NAIA All-Southeast Region players, and eight NAIA District Player of the Year at Montevallo.

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Gabby Deshotel 5-11 | So. | OH

Daphne, Ala. | Bayside Academy

@GabbieAMD AS A FRESHMAN (2013) Played in 22 matches and 44 sets as a freshman for the Blazers ... recorded 73 kills as a freshman, recording a career-high six kills against Florida Atlantic (Oct. 13) ... tallied 26 block assists, with a career-high five blocks versus Florida Atlantic (Oct. 13).

HIGH SCHOOL Played for Coach Ann Shilling at Bayside Academy in Daphne, Ala. ... finished her high school career with 2,405 kills, 1,054 blocks, 408 digs and 237 aces in five seasons ... Mobile Press-Register co-player of the year in 2012 ... four-time Press-Register Super 12 honoree from 2008-11 ... named MVP of the State Tournament in 2010 and 2012 ... MaxPreps All-American team selection ... won State Tournament all four years at Bayside Academy ... Eastern Shore Volleyball Club team won silver in Big South ... made honors list through out high school.

PERSONAL Gabrielle Alyah Monique Deshotel ... born February 12, 1995 in Baton Rouge, La. ... daughter of Monique Adams and Robert Deshotel ... majoring in exercise science.

Career Bests Kills 11 vs. Rice (11/21/13) Total Attempts 30 vs. Tulane (11/22/13) Attack Percentage (5 kills) .536 (6-0-9) vs. East Carolina (10/4/13) Assists N/A Service Aces 1 vs. Tulane (11/1/13) Total Blocks 5 at Florida Atlantic (10/13/13) Digs 4 at FIU (10/11/13)

CAREER STATISTICS Season SP-MP K K/S E TA Pct A A/S SA SA/S SE DIG D/S RE BS BA TB B/S BE BHE Points Pts/S 2013 44-22 73 1.66 32 209 .196 0 0.00 1 0.02 12 21 0.48 0 3 26 29 0.66 2 1 90.0 2.05 TOTAL 44-22 73 1.66 32 209 .196 0 0.00 1 0.02 12 21 0.48 0 3 26 29 0.66 2 1 90.0 2.05

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Kiriana Hirini 6-1 | Sr. | MB

Tauranga, New Zealand | LB State

@Kiiwwii21 AS A JUNIOR (2013) Played in all 124 sets and started all 35 matches for the Blazers ... finished with a team-best 30 solo blocks and 109 block assists to total 139, second most on the team ... second on the team with a .336 hitting percentage (355k - 100e - 760ta) ... put down 25 service aces, which was third most on the team ... had a career-high 18 kills against Jacksonville State (Aug. 31), while also hitting a career-best .593 in that match ... member of Conference USA Commissioner’s Honor Roll.

AS A SOPHOMORE (2012) Played in 21 matches while starting four ... recorded 10 solo blocks and 35 block assists in 61 sets ... had a career-best 13 kills against Furman (Aug. 25) ... tallied 12 kills against UC-Davis (Aug. 25) ... notched a season-high eight total blocks (2bs, 6ba) against UC-Davis ... totaled 98 kills and averaged 1.61 per set ... hit .294 (98k- 33e- 221ta) for the season.

AS A REDSHIRT FRESHMAN (2011) One of the top reserves off the bench for the Blazers ... a spark for Coach Messersmith in the front row ... competed in 40 sets over the course of 19 matches, making three starts ... totaled 44 kills and averaged 1.10 per stanza ... hit .263 (44k-13e-118ta) for the season ... totaled a season-high four kills in five matches ... accounted for an impressive 62 total blocks, with 14 solo swats for a 1.55 per frame average ... added 20 digs ... posted 4.0 or more blocks in eight contests ... in first collegiate game posted four kills, hit .500 (4k-0e8ta) and added 5.0 blocks in a 3-1 win at UT Martin on Sept. 2 ... tallied 8.0 swats, including a career-high three solo blocks, in only two sets in a five-set win at Southern Miss on Oct. 2 ... stonewalled the UTEP offense with a career-best 10.0 blocks in a four-set win on Nov. 6 ... was named C-USA Defensive Player of the Week on Oct. 3 ... first UAB player to ever earn American Volleyball Scouting Report (AVSR) Global Player of the Week on Nov. 7 ... member of the Conference USA Commissioner’s Honor Roll.

Career Bests Kills 18 vs. Jacksonville State (8/31/13) Total Attempts 39 vs. Middle Tennessee (10/6/13) Attack Percentage (5 kills) .593 (18-2-27) vs. Jacksonville St. (8/31/13)

REDSHIRT SEASON (2010 AT LONG BEACH STATE) Attended Long Beach State but sat out her first collegiate season as a redshirt.

Assists 2, 2x, last vs. Houston (9/21/12)

HIGH SCHOOL Attended Bethlehem College in Tauranga, New Zealand ... led Bethlehem to three straight top 10 finishes in New Zealand’s Division I high school national championships, including an appearance in the finals as a senior ... played on New Zealand’s junior national teams for both indoor and beach volleyball ... competed in the 2009 Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB) Junior World Championships in Turkey ... played on the New Zealand Beach Volleyball Tour ... won a national club championship with the Tauranga women’s club team ... a three-sport athlete at Bethlehem, who also excelled in swimming and netball, a variant of basketball.

Service Aces 3 vs. Louisiana Tech (11/10/13)

PERSONAL Kiriana Elizabeth Hirini ... born Jan. 8, 1992 in England ... daughter of John and Jane Hirini ... has one brother, Sonny ... majoring in health care management.

Total Blocks 10 vs. UTEP (11/6/11) Digs 10 vs. Mississippi State (9/21/13)

CAREER STATISTICS Season SP-MP K K/S E TA Pct A A/S SA SA/S SE DIG D/S RE BS BA TB B/S BE BHE Points Pts/S 2011 40-19 44 1.10 13 118 .263 2 0.05 1 0.03 10 20 0.50 0 14 48 62 1.55 6 0 83.0 2.08 2012 61-21 98 1.61 33 221 .294 6 0.10 2 0.03 7 19 0.31 0 10 35 45 0.74 5 0 127.5 2.08 2013 124-35 355 2.86 100 760 .336 4 0.03 25 0.20 48 76 0.61 0 30 109 139 1.12 25 0 464.5 3.74 TOTAL 225-75 497 2.21 146 1099 .319 12 0.05 28 0.12 65 115 0.51 0 54 192 246 1.09 36 0 675.0 3.00 1 3

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Sara Rishell 6-1 | Sr. | MB

Smithsburg, Md. | American Univ.

@Sara_Rishell AS A JUNIOR (2013) Played in all 124 sets and started 34 matches this season for the Blazers ...led the team in points with 471.5 ... had the most kills this season for the Blazers with 387 totaled kills ...had a career-high 22 kills against Jacksonville State (Aug. 31) ... Also led the team in block assists, with 115 total ... set a career-high 9 blocks versus Tulsa (Sept. 29) ... Had a .350 hitting percentage, leading the team in hits on the 2013 season.

AS A FRESHMAN (2011) AT AMERICAN UNIVERSITY AVCA All-Region honorable mention ... named Patriot League Player and Rookie of the Year... All-Patriot League First Team selection ... Patriot League Tournament MVP ... three-time Patriot League Rookie of the Week and Patriot League Player of the Week ... appeared and started in all 34 matches ... recorded double-digit kills in 25 matches ... totaled 106 block assists, placing her third all-time at American in a single season ... recorded 126 total blocks on the year, placing her sixth all-time at American ... averaged 1.04 blocks per game, good for 10th all-time at AU ... posted 379 kills and 96 digs on the year ... led team with .316 hitting percentage ... set a Patriot League Tournament record with 19 blocks in tournament play ... tallied a season-high 21 kills against UTEP (9/3) ... recorded a season-best hitting percentage of .688 with 12 kills and one error against Lehigh (11/11) ... posted 10 blocks in the Patriot League Semifinals against Colgate (11/19) ... Patriot League Academic Honor Roll selection.

HIGH SCHOOL Played for Coach Rachel Brashear at Smithsburg HS ... volleyball team went undefeated and won the Maryland 1A State Championship in 2010 and 2011 ... three-year captain for both basketball and volleyball and served one year as track captain ... named a volleyball Under Armor All-American ... once posted a triple-double in a basketball game ... member of both the National Honor Society and National Business Honor Society.

PERSONAL Sara Ruth Rishell...born May 26, 1993 in Smithsburg, Md. ...daughter of E. Blair and Kim Rishell...has three borthers - Joe Rishell, Daniel Rishell and Michael Rishell...majoring in english.

Career Bests (at UAB) Kills 22 vs. Jacksonville State (8/31/13) Total Attempts 40 vs. Southern Miss (9/27/13) Attack Percentage (5 kills) .529 (10-1-17) vs. LA Tech (11/10/13) Assists 2, 2x, last vs. UTSA (11/8/13) Service Aces N/A Total Blocks 9 vs. Tulsa (9/29/13) Digs 2, 5x, last vs. Rice (11/15/13)

CAREER STATISTICS (at UAB)

Season SP-MP K K/S E TA Pct A A/S SA SA/S SE DIG D/S RE BS BA TB B/S BE BHE Points Pts/S 2013 124-35 387 3.12 102 815 .350 12 0.10 0 0.00 4 25 0.20 2 27 115 142 1.15 33 4 471.5 3.80 TOTAL 124-35 387 3.12 102 815 .350 12 0.10 0 0.00 4 25 0.20 2 27 115 142 1.15 33 4 471.5 3.80

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Emma Schroer 5-10 | R-So. | S

Ogallalla, Neb. | Ogallalla HS

@eJersey_Schroer AS A REDSHIRT FRESHMAN (2013) Appeared in 16 matches and 30 sets during the 2013 season ... tallied a total 31 digs, with a career-high of five digs against Florida Atlantic (Oct. 13).

AS A FRESHMAN (2011) Sat out the season as a redshirt.

HIGH SCHOOL Four-year letterwinner at Ogallala High School ... helped lead her team to an appearance in the final eight of the Nebraska state tournament all four seasons ... played both setter and outside hitter at Ogallala ... three-time All-Southwest Conference and all-area selection ... First Team All-Southwest Conference pick as both a junior and senior...an honorable mention all-state member, selected by the Associated Press in final season ... recorded more than 200 kills and 450 assists as a senior ... named her volleyball team’s most outstanding senior player and offensive player ... selected to compete for in the West Nebraska All-Star Volleyball Game ... also played three years of basketball and earned all-conference and all-area honors twice ... four-year letterwinner in tennis ... played at the same high school as current UAB volleyball senior Kate Morrell.

PERSONAL Emma Marie Schroer ... born December 31, 1993 in Kansas City, Mo. ... daughter of Mike Schroer and Gwen and Jim Rezac ... has three brothers - Jack, Ryder and Rock Rezac and two sisters - Syd and Kendall Schroer ... niece of UAB coach Kerry Messersmith ... majoring in health related programs.

Career Bests Kills N/A Total Attempts N/A Attack Percentage (5 kills) N/A Assists 1 vs. FIU (10/11/13) Service Aces 1 vs. Alabama A&M (10/27/13) Total Blocks N/A Digs 5, 2x, last vs. Florida Atlantic (10/13/13)

CAREER STATISTICS Season SP-MP K K/S E TA Pct A A/S SA SA/S SE DIG D/S RE BS BA TB B/S BE BHE Points Pts/S 2013 30-16 0 0.00 1 4 -.250 2 0.07 1 0.03 5 31 1.03 2 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 1.0 0.03 TOTAL 30-16 0 0.00 1 4 -.250 2 0.07 1 0.03 5 31 1.03 2 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 1.0 0.03

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Lindsay Simmons 6-0 | Sr. | OH Danville, Ala. | Danville HS

@lindsayshea11 AS A REDSHIRT SOPHOMORE (2013) Played in 13 matches and 25 sets during the 2013 season ... recorded 30 kills, setting a career-high seven kills against Alabama State (Oct. 29) ... tallied 15 block assists with a career-high three blocks versus Middle Tennessee (Oct. 6).

AS A REDSHIRT FRESHMAN (2012) Played in two matches and three sets on the season ... recorded two kills in five attempts ... tallied three block assists, all coming in two sets against Alabama A&M (Oct. 9) ... member of the Conference USA Commissioner’s Honor Roll.

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AS A FRESHMAN (2011) Redshirt ... named to the Conference USA Commissioner’s Honor Roll.

HIGH SCHOOL Played five years at Danville High School, joining the varsity team as an eighth grader ... a three-time all-state selection in Alabama’s Class 3A ... led Danville to five state tournament appearances, including three trips to the final four ... a four-time all-county, all-area and all-region selection ... a versatile player who finished her prep career with 2,532 kills, 322 blocks, 354 aces and 610 digs ... valedictorian of her senior class ... a three-time recipient of the American Volleyball Coaches Association’s Academic Award.

PERSONAL Lindsay Shea Simmons ... born Oct. 6, 1992 in Danville, Ala. ... daughter of Alan and Cindy Simmons ... has one sister, Lauren ... majoring in psychology.

Kills 7 vs. Alabama State (10/29/13) Total Attempts 17 vs. Alabama State (10/29/13) Attack Percentage (5 kills) .700 (7-0-10) vs. Alabama St. (10/29/13) Assists N/A Service Aces N/A Total Blocks 3, 3x, last vs. Middle Tenn. (10/6/13) Digs 1, 5x, last vs. Rice (11/15/13)

CAREER STATISTICS Season SP-MP K K/S E TA Pct A A/S SA SA/S SE DIG D/S RE BS BA TB B/S BE BHE Points Pts/S 2012 3-2 2 0.67 0 5 .400 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0 000 0 0 3 3 1.00 0 0 3.5 1.00 2013 25-13 30 1.20 18 90 .133 0 0.00 0 0.00 1 7 0.28 0 1 15 16 0.64 1 0 38.5 1.52 TOTAL 28-15 32 1.14 18 95 .147 0 0.00 0 0.00 1 7 0.25 0 1 18 19 0.68 1 0 42.0 1.50

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Bethanie Thomas 6-1 | Sr.| OH Madison, Ala. | South Carolina

@bethanienicole_ AS A JUNIOR (2013) Started all 35 matches this season, participating in all 124 sets for the Blazers ... finished fourth on the team in assists with 30 ... had a total 50 blocks, setting a career-high four blocks against Arkansas State (Sept. 20) ... finished the 2013 season with 261 kills, with a career-high 22 kills versus Tulsa (Sept. 29).

AS A SOPHOMORE (2012) AT SOUTH CAROLINA Started all 32 matches ... ranked second on the team with 2.22 kills per set and third with 2.51 digs a frame ... led the team with a .967 reception percentage ... tallied four double-doubles on the year, including a 10-kills, 14-dig performance against East Tennessee State (8/25) ... led the team and posted a career-best 25 digs at Alabama (11/16) ... earned placement on the Southeastern Conference Fall Academic Honor Roll.

AS A FRESHMAN (2011) AT SOUTH CAROLINA Started 26 matches and played in all 30 for the Gamecocks ... ranked fourth on the team with 2.09 kills per set and third with 2.62 digs per set ... posted double-digit kills nine times and double-figure digs on 15 occasions ... led the team in kills six times and digs four times ... posted a season-high 16 kills on a .577 hitting percentage, also her season high, in the win over Elon (9/3) ... earned MVP honors in the 2011 Gamecock Invitational ... garnered a spot on the 2011-12 SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll.

Career Bests Kills 22 vs. Tulsa (9/29/13) Total Attempts 77 vs. Tulsa (9/29/13)

HIGH SCHOOL Played two years at Bob Jones HS, earning all-state honors in both 2007 and 2008 ... finalist for national freshman and sophomore of the year by PrepVolleyball.com ... led Bob Jones to the Alabama 6A title in 2008, picking up tournament MVP honors in the process ... posted 594 kills, 312 digs, 98 blocks and 57 aces as a freshman en route to Super All-Metro honors from the Huntsville Times ... earned all-area MVP honors both seasons ... played with the Rocket City Volleyball Club exclusively during her junior and senior seasons, training under 1984 USA Olympic silver-medalist Rose Magers-Powell.

Attack Percentage (5 kills) .733 (11-0-15) vs. Alabama A&M (10/27/13)

PERSONAL Bethanie Nicole Thomas ... born February 16, 1993 in Huntsville, Ala. ... daughter of Cory and Susan Thomas ... has one older sister, Heather, who lettered four years on the UAB volleyball team ... majoring in civil engineering.

Service Aces 2, 4x, last vs. Alabama A&M (10/27/13)

Assists 5 vs. Tennessee State (9/13/13)

Total Blocks 4 vs. Arkansas State (9/20/13) Digs 15 vs. Rice (11/15/13)

CAREER STATISTICS (at UAB) Season SP-MP K K/S E TA Pct A A/S SA SA/S SE DIG D/S RE BS BA TB B/S BE BHE Points Pts/S 2013 124-35 261 2.10 94 917 .182 30 0.24 18 0.15 14 274 2.21 31 2 48 50 0.40 12 1 305.0 2.46 TOTAL 124-35 261 2.10 94 917 .182 30 0.24 18 0.15 14 274 2.21 31 2 48 50 0.40 12 1 305.0 2.46

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Amber Treace 6-0 | So. | S

Spanish Fort, Ala. | Spanish Fort HS

@Amber_treace AS A FRESHMAN Saw action in 13 matches and 37 sets this season ... had 14 kills, setting a career-high four kill against Alabama State (Oct. 29) ... finished second on the team in assists tallying 258 ... had a total 11 blocks for the Blazers.

HIGH SCHOOL Played for Coach Barclay Kercher at Spanish Fort HS ... broke the school record for set assists with 945... team made it to the elite eight of the Alabama 5A state tournament her junior and senior seasons ... recorded 312 kills, 185 aces and 945 set assists with 64 blocks and 274 digs during high school career ... member of the North/South All-Star Team.

Career Bests Kills 4 vs. Alabama State (10/29/13) Total Attempts 9 vs. Alabama A&M (10/27/13) Attack Percentage (5 kills) .667 (2-0-3) vs. Charlotte (11/17/13) Assists 43 vs. Tulane (11/1/13) Service Aces 5 vs. Alabama A&M (11/27/13) Total Blocks 3, 2x, last vs. UTSA (11/8/13) Digs 11 vs. UTSA (11/8/13)

CAREER STATISTICS Season SP-MP K K/S E TA Pct A A/S SA SA/S SE DIG D/S RE BS BA TB B/S BE BHE Points Pts/S 2013 37-13 14 0.38 2 43 .279 258 6.97 8 0.22 13 45 1.22 0 0 11 11 0.30 2 10 27.5 0.73 TOTAL 37-13 14 0.38 2 43 .279 258 6.97 8 0.22 13 45 1.22 0 0 11 11 0.30 2 10 27.5 0.73

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Leslie Ekpe 6-0 | Sr. | MB

Lewisville, Texas | Alabama A&M

@OH_thatsLESLIE AS A JUNIOR AT ALABAMA A&M (2011-2013) Named Alabama A&M Female Athlete of the Year for the 2013-14 season … Named to the All-SWAC Tournament team after helping team to title match in 2013 … Played in all 122 sets and led the team with 285 kills (2.34 per set) in 2013 … also added 88 blocks and 17 service aces … posted a seasonhigh 15 kills three times and reached double figure kills in 14 matches … had a season-high 12 digs against Alcorn State ... named Most Improved Athlete on the team as a freshman … recorded 153 kills in 127 sets played to average 1.20 kills per set … added a team-best 121 blocks (102 block assists, 19 blocks solos), 74 digs and 22 service aces … finished with a season-high 11 kills against Mississippi Valley State … had a career-high eight blocks against Southern and Jackson State … scored a career-high six service aces against Alcorn State.

HIGH SCHOOL A member of the varsity volleyball team at Lewisville High School from 2007-09 … earned Best Female Athlete award at Lewisville as a senior … named Defensive Player of the Year in 2009 … a two-time second-team all-district selection (2008, 2009) … also competed in varsity track in 2006 and 2007.

PERSONAL Born Leslie Uchenna Ekpe to parents Joel and Edith Ekpe … has three brothers, Prince, Scott and Hendrick … Scott and Hendrick both play football at Minnesota … majoring in public administration.

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Alexis Howell 5-6 | Fr. | L

Madison, Ala. | Bob Jones HS

@SimplyLex_2 HIGH SCHOOL Played varsity volleyball at Bob Jones High School under head coach April Marsh … helped team to 6A State Championship and was named team MVP for her performances … earned Huntsville Times Volleyball Player of the Year as a senior … a two-time All-State First Team selection … received MVP award as a junior … a two-time all-area selection (sophomore & junior) … given the Patriot Award as a sophomore … began playing club volleyball at age 11 and made several appearances at nationals.

PERSONAL Alexis Denise Howell was born on Oct. 12, 1995 to parents Rod and Lorna Howell … has one sister, Danielle, who played volleyball at Tennessee State from 2009-11 … majoring in biomedical engineering.

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Haley Jared 6-1 | Fr. | MB

Hartselle, Ala. | Hartselle HS

@h_jared

HIGH SCHOOL A member of the Hartselle High School varsity volleyball team for four years under head coach Tanya Lybarger … led the team in kills as a senior and blocks as a junior and senior … a two time all-county (2012, 2013) and all-area selection (2012, 2013) … named to Decatur Dailly All-State First team, received Hartselle Enquirer Player of the Year Honorable Mention and Hartselle Enquirer All-Area First team as a senior (2013).

PERSONAL Born Haley Ellen Jared on Jan. 16, 1996 to parents Matt and Kim Jared … has two brothers, Grant and Gavin … majoring in engineering.

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Gabbi Moreno 5-10 | Fr. | S

Houston, Texas | Glenda Dawson HS

@_GabbiMoreno HIGH SCHOOL A highly touted player from Glenda Dawson High School … a three-time First Team All-District selection by the Texas University Interscholastic League 24-4A (UIL) … named Texas UIL 24-4A Setter of the Year as a junior and senior … two-time Texas Girls Coaches Association (TGCA) All-State 4A selection (junior and senior) … three-time member of the Texas UIL 24-4A Academic All-District Team … helped lead team to Texas UIL 24-4A District Co-Champions both junior and senior seasons … received LoneStarVolleyball.com All-Texas Team recognition twice … finished high school career with 2,123 assists, with all but 20 coming as a junior and senior … added 101 aces, 431 kills and 794 digs … also a member of the Houston Stellar – 17 Nike Elite Team that competed at USA Junior Nationals twice.

PERSONAL Born Gabriella Michelle Moreno to parents April and Carlos Moreno … has one brother Alexander, and one sister, Hayleigh … majoring in biology.

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Sydney Nelson 6-1 | Jr. | OH

St. Charles, Mo. | Iowa Western CC

@Sydthekid637

AT IOWA WESTERN CC Ranked 19th in the nation in kills (NJCAA) with 469 … finished career with 558 kills, 88 blocks and six service aces in 247 sets played … named to the All-Region team as a sophomore (2013).

HIGH SCHOOL Played at Duchesne High School in Saint Charles, Mo. Under head coach Courtney Bland … earned honorable mention all-district … led team in blocks and kills as a senior.

PERSONAL Born Sydney Erin Nelson to parents Steve and Lee Ann Nelson … has one sister, Keely … majoring in philosophy.

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Collin Nichols 5-9 | Jr. | OPP

Huntsville, Ala. | Gadsden State CC

@CollinNichols AT GADSDEN STATE CC Played two years at Gadsden State Community College.

HIGH SCHOOL Played at Madison County High School … helped the team to 5A State Runner-up in 2012 … named to all-county and all-area during high school career.

PERSONAL Born Collin Ann Nichols … parents are Bruce and Judy Nichols … has one brother, Brad and two sisters Mary Catherine and Hannah …

Hannah plays basketball at Samford University, also in Birmingham … majoring in biology.

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Zahria Richard 5-9 | Fr. | OH

South Lyon, Mich. | South Lyon HS

@ZahrRichard

HIGH SCHOOL Played under head coach Mindy Collins at South Lyon High School after starting career at Detroit Renaissance High School under Louis Mitchell … named the Most Valuable Rookie … earned team MVP honors and Best Offensive Player award … named all-conference and all-regional … also earned Gold Champion at 2014 Bluegrass Tournament and 2014 March Madness Dunes’ Volleyball.

PERSONAL Born Zahria Pamela Martin Ri’chard to parents Pamela and Henry Richard … has three brothers, Quinterro, Vonderio and Xavier … majoring in kinesiology.

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Ashlyn Sunseri 5-11 | So. | OH

Tuscaloosa, Ala. | Tennessee

@asunseri5 AT TENNESSEE (2012-2013) Played in 10 sets, recording two digs and one block assist … did not play as a freshman (2012).

HIGH SCHOOL A four-year letterwinner and two-year captain at Northridge High School in Tuscaloosa, Ala. … earned all-conference as a freshman and sophomore (N.C.) … named to the all-area team as a junior and senior (Ala.) … a two-time Area MVP and Area Champion … earned AllState honors as a senior … a four-year All-Academic Award recipient … given Outstanding Senior Award at Northridge.

PERSONAL Born Ashlyn Arlene Sunseri to parents Sal and Roxann Sunseri … has two brothers, Tino and Vinne, and one sister, Jaclyn … Tino played football at Pittsburgh and currently plays in the CFL, while Vinnie played for Alabama and is in the NFL with the New Orlean Saints … father Sal, is the current Defensive Ends Coach at Florida State.

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Baley West 5-7 | Fr. | DS

Kennesaw, Ga. | Marietta HS

@baleywest9

HIGH SCHOOL Played four years on varsity at Marietta High School under head coach Susan Little … a two-year captain and was named MVP as a junior and senior … earned honorable mention 6A All-Area setter … named Best Defensive Player as a sophomore … earned Best All-Around as a freshman … helped lead team to Georgia State Sweet 16 during freshman season … with club team, earned Champs of Big South in 2011 … qualified for nationals.

PERSONAL Born Baley Marrie West to parents Vicki Sims and Larry West … has one brother, Drew … majoring in biomedical engineering.

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Victoria Young 6-1 | Fr. | MB

Mobile, Ala. | McGill-Toolen HS

HIGH SCHOOL Played at McGill-Toolen High School under head coach Gretchen Boykin … helped team to the Final Four and area champions in junior and senior seasons … also played club for five years … named Kiwanas Club Player of the Week twice.

PERSONAL Born Victoria Paige Young to parents John and Sonja Young … has one brother, John … majoring in pediatric nursing.

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Bartow Arena

Bartow Arena serves as the UAB volleyball team’s home court. Formerly UAB Arena, the home facility for the Blazers was later renamed to honor former athletics director and head basketball coach Gene Bartow. The UAB volleyball team is now in its 24th season at the venue.

Since becoming the first team to host intercollegiate athletic competition in the arena in 1988, UAB volleyball has hosted a number of tournaments, including the 1988 Sun Belt Conference Championship and the first Women’s Invitational Volleyball Championship in 1989. In 1993, UAB hosted the third Great Midwest Conference Championship.

Bartow Arena is a multi-purpose facility that is used for intercollegiate athletic events, as well as numerous other activities and events hosted by the university. The arena is home to the men’s and women’s basketball teams and UAB graduation ceremonies.

With 18,000-square feet of floor space, the arena has a permanent wood floor, which has three basketball courts, three volleyball courts and a portable hardwood floor for basketball. There are a total of 8,500 seats (6,500 permanent, 2,000

retractable), and there is a maximum capacity of 9,500. In addition, the arena houses athletic and administrative offices, locker rooms, the Green and Gold Room, the Blazer Club and the Champion Club.

In 2009, the arena added new scoreboards at each end and a new, four-panel, video board above mid-court. In 2011, the lower bowl of seats was replaced.

Additional changes to the building over the years have included a renovation of the administrative towers annex, a new locker room and equipment room for football and a renovation of the Green and Gold, Blazer Club and Champions Club rooms.

Specifically related to volleyball, the arena’s 15 foot by 26 foot locker room was renovated in the summer of 2007. With the upgrade came brand new spacious lockers for each student-athlete, leather couches and a 50-inch flat-screen plasma television.

The UAB volleyball program’s all-time record in Bartow Arena entering 2012 stands at 166-107 (.608).

All-Time Records vs. Opponents at Home Alabama. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Alabama A&M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Alabama State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Arkansas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Auburn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Austin Peay. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Baylor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Butler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Chattanooga. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Charlotte. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Cincinnati. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Dayton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

DePaul. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

East Carolina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

East Tennessee State. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Eastern Kentucky. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Florida A&M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Florida International . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Georgia Southern. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Georgia State. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Georgia Tech. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

George Washington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Hofstra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Houston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Iowa State. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Jackson State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

5-4 3-1 2-1 0-1 2-8 1-0 0-1 1-0 1-0 3-3 4-6 1-0 6-3 9-1 1-1 1-0 1-0 1-0 1-0 4-1 2-0 1-0 0-1 3-3 0-1 1-0

Jacksonville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-0 Jacksonville State. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-1 James Madison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-0 Lamar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-1 Lipscomb. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-0 Louisiana-Lafayette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-0 Louisiana-Monroe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-0 Louisiana Tech . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-0 Louisville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-4 Marshall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-3 Marquette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-2 Memphis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-10 Mercer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-1 Michigan State. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-0 Middle Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-1 Minnesota . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-1 Mississippi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 Missisippi State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-2 Mississippi Valley State. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-0 Montevallo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-0 Murray State. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-1 NC State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-0 Northeastern Illinois . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-0 North Texas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-0 Pittsburgh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-1 Presbyterian. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-0

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Rice. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Saint Louis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Samford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Sam Houston State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

SMU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

South Alabama. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

South Carolina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

South Florida . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Southeastern Louisiana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Southern Miss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Stephen F. Austin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Stetson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

TCU. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Tennessee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Tennessee State. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Tennessee Tech . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Texas Tech. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Troy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Tulane. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Tulsa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

UCF. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

UTEP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

UTSA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Western Kentucky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . *BOLD indicates playing at Bartow Arena in 2014

4-4 5-5 9-0 1-0 2-4 6-1 1-1 3-7 1-0 9-8 1-1 1-0 0-1 0-1 3-0 2-0 0-1 8-2 6-6 1-3 6-1 7-0 1-0 4-1

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The Conference USA

Conference USA celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2014-15, welcoming newcomer Western Kentucky University into the fold on July 1. The league has transformed through its two decades, but the commitment to excellence, integrity, leadership and its student athletes in athletics, academics and community is unwavering. Conference USA enjoys a far-reaching fan base with its 14 members: Charlotte, FIU, Florida Atlantic, Louisiana Tech, Marshall, Middle Tennessee, North Texas, Old Dominion, Rice, Southern Miss, UAB, UTEP, UTSA and WKU. Since beginning competition in 1995, Conference USA teams have combined for 83 bowl appearances in football, 100 NCAA Tournament appearances in basketball including three Final Fours, 60 NCAA baseball appearances including six College World Series berths, 71 NCAA soccer tournament appearances including four trips to the College Cup, and 35 individual national champions in track and field and cross country.

Success is not limited to athletic achievement, however, as 186 Conference USA student-athletes have garnered Academic AllAmerica honors, 651 have achieved academic all-district laurels and thousands of student-athletes have earned their college degrees.

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Conference USA sponsors competition in 19 sports – nine for men (baseball, basketball, cross country, football, golf, soccer, tennis, and indoor and outdoor track and field) and 10 for women (basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, softball, swimming and diving, tennis, indoor and outdoor track and field, and volleyball).

The league promotes the scholar-athlete ideal, honoring outstanding achievement with numerous conference-sponsored academic awards, including the Commissioner’s Honor Roll and the Commissioner’s Academic Medal as well as sport-specific All-Academic teams.

C-USA annually awards $4,000 postgraduate scholarships, along with the Sport Academic Awards, Scholar-Athletes of the Year and the Institutional Academic Excellence Award. Additionally, Conference USA presents a Spirit of Service Award three times each year, recognizing student-athletes who excel on the field, in the classroom and give back to the community through significant service efforts and participation.

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2013 Season Review Final 2013 Statistics

Name GP K K/S E TA Pct. A A/S SA SE SA/S RE Dig D/S BS BA Tot. B/S BE BHE Pts. RISHELL, Sara 124 387 3.12 102 815 .350 12 0.10 0 4 0.00 2 25 0.20 27 115 142 1.15 33 4 471.5 SKINNER, Sam 88 371 4.22 135 936 .252 6 0.07 17 43 0.19 7 147 1.67 8 40 48 0.55 4 1 416.0 HIRINI, Kiriana 124 355 2.86 100 760 .336 4 0.03 25 48 0.20 0 76 0.61 30 109 139 1.12 25 0 464.5 THOMAS, Bethanie 124 261 2.10 94 917 .182 30 0.24 18 14 0.15 31 274 2.21 2 48 50 0.40 12 1 305.0 SLAUGHTER, Ally 122 176 1.44 74 620 .165 14 0.11 44 77 0.36 29 222 1.82 4 42 46 0.38 5 0 245.0 DESHOTEL, Gabby 44 73 1.66 32 209 .196 0 0.00 1 12 0.02 0 21 0.48 3 26 29 0.66 2 1 90.0 SIMMONS, Lindsay 25 30 1.20 18 90 .133 0 0.00 0 1 0.00 0 7 0.28 1 15 16 0.64 1 0 38.5 HOWARD, Becca 102 24 0.2 14 86 .116 1172 11.49 20 12 0.20 0 234 2.29 8 44 52 0.51 9 8 74.0 TREACE, Amber 37 14 0.38 2 43 .279 258 6.97 8 13 0.22 0 45 1.22 0 11 11 0.30 2 10 27.5 FAIRBANKS, Rachel 124 4 0.03 4 35 .000 60 0.48 28 61 0.23 24 609 4.91 0 0 0 0.00 0 3 32.0 MCCALLUM, Mariah 72 1 0.01 0 1 1.000 1 0.01 2 3 0.03 9 97 1.35 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 3.0 KOWAL, Hannah 1 0 0.00 0 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0 0.00 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0.0 SCHROER, Emma 30 0 0.00 1 4 -.250 2 0.07 1 5 0.03 2 31 1.03 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 1.0 TEAM 14 UAB TOTALS Opponents

124 1696 13.68 576 4516 .248 1559 12.57 164 293 1.32 118 1788 14.42 83 450 308.0 2.48 93 28 2168.0 124 1603 12.93 695 4402 .206 1498 12.08 119 191 0.96 164 1938 15.63 77 367 260.5 2.10 62 37 1982.5

2013 Results Overall: 21-14 Date Aug. 20 Aug. 30 Aug. 31 Aug. 31 Sept. 4 Sept. 6 Sept. 7 Sept. 7 Sept. 10 Sept. 13 Sept. 14 Sept. 14 Sept. 17 Sept. 20 Sept. 21 Sept. 21 Sept. 27 Sept. 29 Oct. 4 Oct. 6 Oct. 11 Oct. 13 Oct. 18 Oct. 20 Oct. 25 Oct. 27 Oct. 29 Nov. 1 Nov. 5 Nov. 8 Nov. 10 Nov. 15 Nov. 17 Nov. 21 Nov. 22

C-USA: 7-7

Opponent Mercer!

Minnesota!

Presbyterian!

Jacksonville State!

Samford North Dakota^ Austin Peay^ Virginia Tech^ Georgia State Tennessee State# Wyoming# Indiana# Chattanooga Arkansas State% Mississippi State% Belmont% Southern Miss* Tulsa* East Carolina* Middle Tennessee* FIU* Florida Atlantic* North Texas* Marshall* UTEP* Alabama A&M Alabama State Tulane* Alabama UTSA* Louisiana Tech* Rice* Charlotte* vs. Rice vs. Tulane

Home: 8-6

Result W L W W W W W L W W W L W W L L W L W L L W W L W W W L L L W L W W L

Away: 7-5

Neutral: 6-3

Score Set-by-Set Score 3-0 25-20, 25-16, 25-18 0-3 19-25, 14-25, 17-25 3-0 2-15, 25-22, 25-14 3-1 25-23, 21-25, 25-18, 25-16 3-0 25-16, 25-21, 25-14 3-0 25-23, 25-18, 25-21 3-0 25-18, 25-23, 25-16 1-3 25-13, 20-25, 22-25, 23-25 3-0 26-24, 25-23, 25-12 3-0 25-21, 25-20, 25-14 3-2 23-25, 25-17, 16-25, 27-25, 15-13 0-3 13-25, 24-26, 14-25 3-1 18-25, 25-17, 25-17, 25-19 3-0 25-14, 25-20, 25-18 2-3 25-20, 23-25, 19-25, 25-20, 12-15 2-3 25-13, 21-25, 25-17, 19-25, 13-15 3-2 25-15, 23-25, 25-22, 22-25, 15-8 2-3 30-28, 25-23, 12-25, 22-25, 15-17 3-1 25-22, 23-25,25-21, 25-16 1-3 25-20, 18-25, 18-25, 23-25 0-3 23-25, 15-25, 24-26 3-0 28-26, 25-21, 25-19 3-0 25-22, 27-25, 25-20 0-3 26-28, 20-25, 22-25 3-1 20-25,25-20, 25-23, 25-20 3-0 25-22, 25-17, 25-18 3-0 25-16, 25-15, 25-17 1-3 26-28, 26-24, 19-25, 22-25 0-3 23-25, 17-25, 22-25 0-3 15-25, 20-25, 20-25 3-0 25-18, 25-20, 25-19 0-3 21-25, 21-25, 23-25 3-1 22-25, 25-21, 25-21, 25-23 3-0 25-20, 25-22, 25-23 1-3 25-19, 20-25, 22-25, 23-25

Rachel Fairbanks was named Conference USA Libero of the Year after averaging 4.91 digs/set.

Sara Rishell was named SecondTeam All-C-USA and led UAB with 1.15 blocks/set.

!UAB/Samford Volleyball Challenge ^Middle Tennessee Invitational #Hoosier Classic %Bruin Classic *Conference USA

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Final 2013 Conference USA Standings

C-USA All Matches Team W-L Pct. Streak W-L Pct. Home Away Neutral Last 10 UTSA^ 13-1 .929 L1 24-8 .750 10-3 8-3 6-2 9-1 Tulane 12-2 .857 L1 28-4 .875 12-2 11-1 5-1 8-2 Tulsa 12-2 .857 L1 24-7 .774 9-3 7-3 8-1 7-3 Middle Tennessee 8-6 .571 L3 17-13 .567 9-6 5-6 3-1 4-6 North Texas 8-6 .571 L1 17-15 .531 11-2 3-8 3-5 5-5 Marshall 8-6 .571 L1 16-16 .500 7-4 5-8 4-4 5-5 UAB 7-7 .500 L1 21-14 .600 8-6 7-5 6-3 5-5 Southern Miss 7-7 .500 L1 17-14 .548 8-4 4-6 5-4 6-4 UTEP 7-7 .500 L3 14-16 .467 8-4 4-9 2-3 2-8 Rice 7-7 .500 L1 11-19 .367 6-8 5-6 0-5 5-5 FIU 6-8 .429 L1 13-17 .433 8-6 3-8 2-3 4-6 Florida Atlantic 4-10 .286 L2 13-17 .433 7-7 4-8 2-2 4-6 East Carolina 3-11 .214 L3 13-19 .406 6-5 5-10 2-4 3-7 Charlotte 2-12 .143 L2 12-17 .414 4-7 4-7 4-3 2-8 Louisiana Tech 1-13 .071 L11 7-22 .241 4-9 1-10 2-3 0-10 ^ 2013 C-USA Regular Season Champion

2013 C-USA Stat Leaders Kills Per Set 1. M. Adams, UTSA (5.78) 2. X. Herrera, UTEP (4.29) 3. S. Skinner, UAB (4.22) 4. C. Dillard, NT (4.19) 5. Q. Hayward, USM (4.11) Assists Per Set 1. M. Mandelbaum, TUL (11.78) 2. B. Howard, UAB (11.49) 3. K. Fleming, USM (11.28) 4. S. Bane, MAR (10.63) 5. A. Henard, NT (10.55) Digs Per Set 1. M. Hovey, CHAR (5.25) 2. A. Kunes, UTSA (4.96) 3. R. Fairbanks, UAB (4.91) 4. M. Pursell, USM (4.79) 5. B. Berryhill, Tulsa (4.67)

2013 C-USA Awards First Team Laura Der, Marshall Tyler Richardson, Middle Tennessee Carnae Dillard, North Texas Cori Martone, Tulane Tea Juric, Tulane Mel Mandelbaum, Tulane Kellie Culbertson, Tulsa Sam Skinner, UAB Xitlali Herrera, UTEP McKenzie Adams, UTSA Dajana Boskovic, UTSA

Second Team Amanda Videmsek, Charlotte Nicole Willis, East Carolina Sacha Byous-McConnell, Marshall Sammie Bane, Marshall Karissa Flack, North Texas Sara Blasier, Rice Quinci Hayward, Southern Miss Brooke Berryhill, Tulsa Becca Howard, UAB Rachel Fairbanks, UAB Sara Rishell, UAB

All-Freshman Team Jale Hervey, Middle Tennessee Amy Henard, North Texas Sara Blasier, Rice Tea Juric, Tulane Brooke Berryhill, Tulsa Erica Bohannon, Tulsa Dajana Boskovic, UTSA

Specialty (of the year) Awards Player: McKenzie Adams, UTSA Setter: Mel Mandelbaum, Tulane Libero: Rachel Fairbanks, UAB Freshman: Tea Juric,Tulane Coach: Sinisa Momic, Tulane

2012 Donald W. Reynolds Center, Tulsa, Okla.

QF -- (4) UAB def. (5) UTEP, 3-0 SF -- (1) Tulsa def. (4) UAB, 3-0 2009 Tudor Fieldhouse, Houston, Texas 1ST -- (2) Tulsa def. (7) UAB, 3-1 2008 (Runner-up) Elma Roane Fieldhouse, Memphis, Tenn.

QF -- (2) UAB def. (10) Marshall, 3-0 SF -- (2) UAB def. (3) Rice, 3-1 FIN -- (1) Tulane def. (2) UAB, 3-2 2007 (Runner-up) Cam Henderson Center, Huntington, W.Va. QF -- (3) UAB def. (11) Southern Miss, 3-0 SF -- (3) UAB def. (2) Tulane, 3-1 FIN -- (4) Tulsa def. (3) UAB, 3-2 2006 (Champion) Hofheinz Pavilion, Houston, Texas 1ST -- (5) UAB def. (12) UCF, 3-1 QF -- (5) UAB def. (4) Tulane, 3-1 SF -- (5) UAB def. (1) Tulsa, 3-1 FIN -- (5) UAB def. (3) Memphis, 3-1 2005 Autry Court, Houston, Texas 1ST -- (7) SMU def. (10) UAB, 3-1 2004 Cardinal Arena, Louisville, Ky. Did not qualify 2003 Fogelman Arena, New Orleans, La. 1ST -- (10) TCU def. (7) UAB, 3-0 2002 DePaul Athletic Center, Chicago, Ill. 1ST -- (8) Southern Miss def. (9) UAB, 3-1 2001 Hofheinz Pavilion, Houston, Texas Did not qualify 2000 Halton Arena, Charlotte, N.C. 1ST -- (5) DePaul def. (12) UAB, 3-0

Blocks Per Set 1. C. Windham, NT (1.22) 2. T. Richardson, MT (1.18) 3. K. Schott, UTSA (1.16) 4. K. Smith, FIU (1.15) 5. S Rishell, UAB (1.15) Hitting Pct. 1. T. Richardson, MT (.414) 2. S. Strasner, Tulane (.380) 3. S. Byousmcconnell, MAR (.367) 4. E. Ames, USM (.366) 5. S. Rishell, UAB (.350)

2013 Alumni Memorial Gym, Murfreesboro, Tenn.

1ST - (7) UAB def. (10) Rice, 3-0 QF - (2) Tulane def. (7) UAB, 3-1

1999 The Sun Dome, Tampa, Fla. 1ST -- (12) UAB def. (5) St. Louis, 3-1 QF -- (4) DePaul def. (12), UAB 3-1 1998 Shoemaker Center, Cincinnati, Ohio 1ST -- (5) Houston def. (12) UAB, 3-0

2013 NCAA Tournament NCAA First Round (Austin, Texas) Texas A&M def. UTSA, 3-0

1997 Hofheinz Pavilion, Houston, Texas 1ST -- (7) Memphis def. (10) UAB, 3-1 1996 Cardinal Arena, Louisville, Ky. 1ST -- (8) UAB def. (9) Southern Miss, 3-0 QF -- (1) USF def. (8) UAB, 3-0 1995 Cardinal Arena, Louisville, Ky. 1ST -- (7) UAB def. (10) Charlotte, 3-0 QF -- (2) USF def. (7) UAB, 3-0

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Season Records NCAA Career Record

Kills 1.

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8.

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Tonya Larson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Tonya Larson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Ivana Bozic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Mellissa Cobb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Julie Myers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Laura Opperman. . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Mellissa Cobb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Mellissa Cobb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Danielle Reaves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Martina Shields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Julie Myers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Total Attempts

Tammy Robertson

During her four-year stint at UAB (198992), Tammy Robertson started in all 171 matches and played all but two of 622 games, becoming the UAB career leader in assists (6,650) and attack percentage (.389).

Entering the 1992 season 16th among the all-time national career assist leaders, Robertson was the top returning player in the nation with 5,066. She needed 1,530 for the record.

Robertson broke the national record (formerly held by Michelle Jaworski of Penn State since 1989 at 6,596) during a postseason match against Cornell at the Women’s Invitational Volleyball Championship. Recording 64 assists during the match, Robertson surpassed the record at 6,615. In a subsequent match, she increased her total to 6,650 career assists, making her No. 1 in NCAA history.

Robertson led UAB to a 113-58 record, three conference championships and four bids to the WIVC during her career.

She twice led the conference (Sun Belt in 1990 and Great Midwest in 1992) in assist average. She finished second in the Sun Belt as a freshman (1989) and in the Great Midwest as a junior (1991).

In 1989, Robertson became the first freshman in the history of the Sun Belt Conference to earn first-team all-conference honors. She repeated first-team recognition as a sophomore as she set UAB’s single-match mark for assists with 78 in a five-game victory over Tennessee. As a junior, Robertson set the singleseason record for assists at UAB with 1,763.

Robertson graduated magna cum laude, earning her undergraduate degree in early childhood education in June 1992. She earned conference academic recognition in each of her four years, as well.

1. Tonya Larson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

2. Ivana Bozic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

3. Tonya Larson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

4. Mellissa Cobb . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

5. Ivana Bozic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

6. Denise Feer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

7. Mellissa Cobb . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

8. Martina Shields . . . . . . . . . . . . .

9. Trisha Eddy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

10. Mellissa Cobb . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

668 (1996) 663 (1997) 656 (2006) 565 (1991) 525 (1989) 514 (1983) 504 (1990) 501 (1989) 477 (1990) 457 (2002) 457 (1988)

1,723 (1996) 1,684 (2006) 1,605 (1997) 1,275 (1991) 1,267 (2008) 1,185 (1999) 1,181 (1989) 1,179 (2003) 1,171 (1998) 1,168 (1988)

Attack Percentage

(Minimum of 500 attempts) 1. Laura Opperman. . . . . . . . . . . .

2. Lisa Watts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

3. Sam Serley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

4. Danielle Reaves . . . . . . . . . . . . .

5. Casey Dent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

6. Julie Myers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

7. Sara Rishell. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

8. Casey Dent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

9. Mellissa Cobb . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

10. Kiriana Hirini . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Assists 1.

2.

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5.

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8.

9.

10.

Tammy Robertson. . . . . . . . . . .

Tammy Robertson. . . . . . . . . . .

Nevena Stefanov. . . . . . . . . . . . .

Jill Gilmour. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Tammy Robertson. . . . . . . . . . .

Tammy Robertson. . . . . . . . . . .

Patti Schroder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Nevena Stefanov. . . . . . . . . . . . .

Heather Dillard . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Heather Dillard . . . . . . . . . . . . .

.424 (1983) .404 (1983) .380 (2012) .379 (1990) .365 (2008) .355 (1989) .350 (2013) .347 (2006) .340 (1990) .336 (2013) 1,763 (1991) 1,746 (1990) 1,739 (2006) 1,600 (1988) 1,584 (1992) 1,557 (1989) 1,496 (1985) 1,467 (2008) 1,397 (1994) 1,388 (1993)

Block Solos 1.

2.

5.

6.

7.

8.

10.

Julie Myers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Hilary Beck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Janet McCrary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Sam Serley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Terri Steeb. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Julie Myers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Shondra Bonovitch. . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Chelsea Bishop. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Michele Moses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Sam Serley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Block Assists 1.

2.

3.

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6.

8.

9.

10.

Terri Steeb. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142 (1996) Sam Serley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138 (2012) Hailey Isham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 (1997) Sam Serley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 (2011) Hilary Beck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 (1991) Chelsea Bishop. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 (1993) Sara Rishell. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 (2013) Toni Herron. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 (1991) Hilary Beck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 (1992) Hailey Isham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 (1995)

Total Blocks 1.

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5.

7.

8.

9.

Sam Serley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Julie Myers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Terri Steeb. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Hailey Isham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Sam Serley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Hilary Beck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Chelsea Bishop. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Hilary Beck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Hailey Isham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Terri Steeb. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Toni Herron. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

8.

9.

10.

Rachel Fairbanks . . . . . . . . . . . . 653 (2012) Heather Thomas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 631 (2011) Rachel Fairbanks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609 (2013) Heather Thomas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 607 (2010) Brianna Galvin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 592 (2006) Heather Thomas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 586 (2009) Brianna Galvin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518 (2007) Danielle Reaves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 476 (1990) Julie Myers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458 (1987) Ivana Bozic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453 (2008)

Digs

Service Aces 1.

2.

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4.

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7.

8.

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Mellissa Cobb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 (1990) Mellissa Cobb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 (1991) Patti Schroder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 (1985) Ashley Sargent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 (1984) Julie Myers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 (1988) Danielle Reaves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 (1990) Mellissa Cobb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 (1988) Julie Myers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 (1989) Ginny Alexander . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 (1985) Mellissa Cobb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 (1989)

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73 (1989) 47 (1990) 47 (1984) 47 (2012) 46 (1995) 43 (1988) 43 (1985) 38 (1993) 37 (1985) 36 (2010)

Brianna Galvin

185 (2012) 175 (1989) 168 (1996) 166 (1997) 154 (2011) 154 (1990) 153 (1993) 149 (1992) 146 (1995) 146 (1995) 146 (1991)

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Career Records ills K 1. Mellissa Cobb . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,029 (1988-91) 2. Tonya Larson. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,982 (1994-97) 3. Ivana Bozic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,874 (2005-08) 4. Danielle Reaves . . . . . . . . . . . 1,616 (1988-91) 5. Julie Myers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,463 (1986-89) 6. Wendy Huber . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,450 (1990-93) 7. Martina Shields . . . . . . . . . . . 1,427 (2000-03) 8. Hilary Beck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,420 (1988-92) 9. Casey Dent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,284 (2005-08) 10. Sam Serley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,245 (2009-12)

Total Attempts 1.

2.

3.

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5.

6.

7.

8.

9.

10.

Tonya Larson. . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,060 (1994-97) Ivana Bozic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,954 (2005-08) Mellissa Cobb . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,705 (1988-91) Danielle Reaves . . . . . . . . . . . 4,021 (1988-91) Martina Shields . . . . . . . . . . . 3,756 (2000-03) Julie Myers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,600 (1986-89) Wendy Huber . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,480 (1990-93) Hilary Beck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,316 (1988-92) Trisha Eddy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,145 (1995-98) Toni Herron. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,075 (1991-94)

Attack Percentage

Block Solos 1.

2.

4.

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7.

8.

9.

10.

Julie Myers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 (1986-89) Hilary Beck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 (1988-92) Sam Serley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 (2009-12) Hailey Isham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 (1995-98) Shondra Bonovitch. . . . . . . . . . 108 (1984-87) Jennifer Johnson. . . . . . . . . . . . 103 (1986-88) Terri Steeb. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 (1995-98) Toni Herron. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 (1991-94) Michele Moses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 (1983-85) Karen Boyd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 (2000-03) Ginny Alexander . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 (1983-85)

Block Assists 1.

2.

4.

5.

6.

7.

9.

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Sam Serley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428 (2009-12) Hailey Isham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411 (1995-98) Hilary Beck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411 (1988-92) Terri Steeb. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352 (1995-98) Wendy Huber . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316 (1990-93) Shaniquwa Cooper. . . . . . . . . . 307 (2004-07) Karen Boyd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274 (2000-03) Kim Arnold. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274 (1991-95) Toni Herron. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271 (1991-94) Casey Dent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .268 (2005-08)

(Minimum 1,000 attempts) 1. Tammy Robertson. . . . . . . . . .389 (1989-92) 2. Sam Serley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .340 (2009-12) 3. Casey Dent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .333 (2005-08) 4. Danielle Reaves . . . . . . . . . . . .308 (1988-91) 5. Lilly Domingos . . . . . . . . . . . .305 (2007-08) 6. Mellissa Cobb . . . . . . . . . . . . .279 (1988-91) 7. Hilary Beck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .275 (1988-92) 8. Tonya Larson. . . . . . . . . . . . . .259 (1994-97) 9. Kirsten Gallagher. . . . . . . . . . . .247 (2009-12) 10. Shondra Bonovitch. . . . . . . . . .243 (1984-87)

Total Blocks

Assists

Digs

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Tammy Robertson. . . . . . . . . 6,650 (1989-92) Nevena Stefanov. . . . . . . . . . . 5,839 (2005-08) Abby Thatcher. . . . . . . . . . . . 4,872 (1995-98) Alison Woods. . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,707 (2009-12) Jill Gilmour. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,948 (1987-88) Heather Dillard . . . . . . . . . . . 2,785 (1993-94) Patti Schroder. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,480 (1985-86) Becca Howard . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,411 (2010-13) Bree Barnard . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,375 (1992-95) Heather Dempsey. . . . . . . . . 2,284 (1997-00)

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Julie Myers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Danielle Reaves . . . . . . . . . . . .

Tammy Robertson. . . . . . . . . .

Wendy Huber . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Tonya Larson. . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Ginny Alexander . . . . . . . . . . .

Ivana Bozic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Suzie Johnson. . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Ashley Sargent. . . . . . . . . . . . .

388 (1988-91) 263 (1986-89) 225 (1988-91) 224 (1989-92) 218 (1990-93) 210 (1994-97) 206 (1983-85) 203 (2005-08) 195 (1989-92) 195 (1983-86)

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Sam Serley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Hilary Beck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Hailey Isham . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Terri Steeb. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Julie Myers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Shondra Bonovitch. . . . . . . . . .

Toni Herron. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Shaniquwa Cooper. . . . . . . . . .

Wendy Huber . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Karen Boyd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Danielle Reaves . . . . . . . . . . . .

Mellissa Cobb . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Tammy Robertson. . . . . . . . . .

Julie Myers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Hilary Beck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Wendy Huber . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Tonya Larson. . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Ashley Sargent. . . . . . . . . . . . .

Suzie Johnson. . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Gina Doss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Player Mellissa Cobb (1988-91) Tonya Larson (1994-97) Ivana Bozic (2005-08) Danielle Reaves (1988-91) Julie Myers (1986-89) Wendy Huber (1990-93) Martina Shields (2000-03) Toni Herron (1991-94) Trisha Eddy (1995-98)

Kills Digs 2,029 1,533 1,982 1,233 1,874 1,394 1,616 1,651 1,463 1,413 1,450 1,263 1,427 1,093 1,198 1,065 1,031 1,052

564 (2009-12) 547 (1988-92) 535 (1995-98) 452 (1995-98) 388 (1986-89) 356 (1984-87) 352 (1991-94) 347 (2004-07) 336 (1990-93) 327 (2000-03)

Heather Thomas. . . . . . . . . . . 2,131 (2008-11) Danielle Reaves . . . . . . . . . . . 1,651 (1988-91) Brianna Galvin. . . . . . . . . . . . 1,650 (2005-07) Mellissa Cobb . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,533 (1988-91) Julie Myers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,413 (1986-89) Ivana Bozic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,394 (2005-08) Aleksandra Vujovic. . . . . . . . . 1,381 (2005-08) Rachel Fairbanks . . . . . . . . . . 1,372 (2010-13) Tammy Robertson. . . . . . . . . 1,334 (1989-92) Wendy Huber . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,263 (1990-93)

Games/Sets Played

1,000 Kill/Dig Club

Terri Steeb

630 (1988-91) 622 (1988-91) 621 (1989-92) 595 (1986-89) 573 (1988-92) 566 (1990-93) 550 (1994-97) 544 (1983-86) 540 (1989-92) 538 (1984-87) Tonya Larson

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Ivana Bozic 2006, 2008 AVCA All-America Honorable Mention

Nevena Stefanov 2008 AVCA All-America Honorable Mention

Rachel Fairbanks (second team)

Becca Howard (second team)

Sara Rishell (second team) 2012. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sam Serley (first team)

Rachel Fairbanks (second team)

Sam Skinner (second team) 2011. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sam Serley (first team)

Heather Thomas (second team) 2010. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Sam Serley (second team) 2008. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ivana Bozic (first team)

Casey Dent (first team)

Nevena Stefanov (first team)

Lilly Domingos (second team) 2007. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nevena Stefanov (first team)

Fernanda Domingos (second team)

Casey Dent (second team) 2006. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ivana Bozic (first team) 2005. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Ivana Bozic (third team) 2003. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Martina Shields (second team) 2002. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Martina Shields (third team) 1997. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tonya Larson (second team) 1996. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tonya Larson (second team) 1995. . . . . . . . . . . . . Tonya Larson (honorable mention)

Bree Barnard (honorable mention) Conference USA Setter of the Year 2008. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nevena Stefanov Conference USA Libero of the Year 2013. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rachel Fairbanks

Suzie Johnson 1991 CoSIDA Academic All-America Third Team

Patti Schroder 1986 CoSIDA Academic All-America Second Team

ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District IV 2008. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Casey Dent (first team) 2007. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Casey Dent (third team) 2006. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Casey Dent (third team) GTE Academic All-District 1997. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hailey Isham 1991. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Suzie Johnson

Danielle Reaves 1983. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Laura Opperman CVU.com Stellar Spikers 2008. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ivana Bozic (honorable mention) 2006. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ivana Bozic (honorable mention) AVCA All-Midwest Region 2012. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sam Serley 2011. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sam Serley

Heather Thomas (honorable mention) 2010. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sam Serley 2008. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ivana Bozic

Nevena Stefanov

Casey Dent (honorable mention) 2006. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ivana Bozic

Fernanda Domingos (honorable mention) AVCA All-Mideast Region 1991. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Danielle Reaves AVCA All-South Region 1990. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mellissa Cobb

Danielle Reaves 1989. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Julie Myers All-Conference USA 2013. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sam Skinner (first team)

Conference USA All-Freshman Team 2012. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Sam Skinner 2010. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ally Slaughter 2009. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sam Serley 2005. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ivana Bozic 2003. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bilun Gunal 1999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Denise Feer 1995 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hailey Isham Conference USA Newcomer of the Year 2009. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Michelle Uzoh 2007. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lilly Domingos 2006. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Fernanda Domingos Conference USA All-Tournament Team 2012. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sam Serley 2008. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lilly Domingos

Nevena Stefanov 2007. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Fernanda Domingos

Nevena Stefanov 2006. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ivana Bozic (MVP)

Fernanda Domingos Conference USA All-Academic Team 2013. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bethanie Thomas 2012. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sam Serley 2011. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sam Serley 2010. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sam Serley 2009. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Andrea Lalic 2008. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Casey Dent 2007. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Casey Dent 2006. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Casey Dent Conference USA Postgraduate Scholarship 1999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hailey Isham All-Great Midwest Conference 1994. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Heather Dillard 1993. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Chelsea Bishop

Heather Dillard 1992. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kim Arnold

Hilary Beck

Wendy Huber

Tammy Robertson 1991. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hilary Beck

Mellissa Cobb

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Great Midwest Player of the Year 1992. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hilary Beck Great Midwest All-Newcomer Team 1994. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tonya Larson 1993. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Chelsea Bishop Great Midwest Newcomer of the Year 1993. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Chelsea Bishop 1991. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Toni Herron All-Sun Belt Conference 1990. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mellissa Cobb

Danielle Reaves

Tammy Robertson 1989. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mellissa Cobb

Julie Myers

Danielle Reaves

Tammy Robertson 1988. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mellissa Cobb

Jill Gilmour 1987. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shondra Bonovitch 1986. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Patti Schroder 1985. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Artie Pyeatt

Patti Schroder

Players of the Week CVU.com National Player of the Week 2008. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ivana Bozic (Oct. 21) AVSR Player of the Week 2011. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kiriana Hirini (Nov. 7) C-USA Player of the Week 2005. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ivana Bozic (Sept. 12) C-USA Offensive Players of the Week 2012. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sam Serley (Nov. 5) 2011. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sam Serley (Oct. 10) 2008. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Casey Dent (Sept. 29)

Ivana Bozic (Oct. 6)

Ivana Bozic (Oct. 20)

Ivana Bozic (Nov. 3) 2007. . . . . . . . . Fernanda Domingos (Aug. 27)

Aleksandra Vujovic (Nov. 5) C-USA Defensive Players of the Week 2013. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sara Rishell (Sept. 9) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rachel Fairbanks (Sept. 30) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rachel Fairbanks (Oct. 28) 2012. . . . . . . . . . . . Rachel Fairbanks (Oct. 22)

Rachel Fairbanks (Nov. 5) 2011. . . . . . . . . . . . Heather Thomas (Sept. 19)

Kirsten Gallagher (Sept. 26)

Kiriana Hirini (Oct. 3)

Heather Thomas (Nov. 7)

Heather Thomas (Nov. 28) 2010. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Michelle Uzoh (Nov. 8) 2009. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Patty Paniagua (Nov. 2) 2008. . . . . . . . . . . . . Lilly Domingos (Oct. 13) 2007. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brianna Galvin (Sept. 4) 2006. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brianna Galvin (Nov. 6) C-USA Setters of the Week 2013. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Becca Howard (Sept. 2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Becca Howard (Sept. 9) 2008. . . . . . . . . . . . Nevena Stefanov (Sept. 15)

Nevena Stefanov (Oct. 13) 2007. . . . . . . . . . . . . Nevena Stefanov (Oct. 1)

Nevena Stefanov (Oct. 15)

Nevena Stefanov (Nov. 5) 2006. . . . . . . . . . . . Nevena Stefanov (Oct. 30)

Nevena Stefanov (Nov. 6)

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Retired Jersey Patti Schroder

Following her successful two-year career at UAB, former volleyball great Patti Schroder was honored by having her No. 4 jersey retired.

Schroder is one of the most decorated players, both athletically and academically, in the history of the Blazer volleyball program.

More than two decades after her playing career ended, she still ranks sixth all-time at UAB with 2,480 assists in just two seasons (1985-86).

Her 1985 season totals of 95 aces and 1,496 assists rank third and seventh, respectively, in the Blazer record book.

Schroder was an All-Sun Belt Conference performer in both 1985 and 1986 and topped that by twice being named the Sun Belt Female Athlete of the Year.

Her strong performance on the court combined with her high marks in the classroom earned her a spot on the Sun Belt Academic Honor Roll in both of her years at UAB. Even more impressively, Schroder was named to the CoSIDA Academic All-America Second Team in 1986. To date, she remains one of two UAB volleyball players ever to earn Academic AllAmerica recognition.

1984. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Janet McCrary 1983. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Laura Opperman

Molly Shahan Sun Belt Player of the Year 1990. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Danielle Reaves 1989. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Julie Myers

Gene Bartow Scholarship 2010-11. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Michelle Uzoh 1991-92. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mellissa Cobb 1989-90. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Julie Myers 1986-87. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ashley Sargent 1983-84. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Laura Opperman

Sun Belt Tournament MVP 1990. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tammy Robertson Sun Belt Female Athlete of the Year 1987. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Patti Schroder 1986. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Patti Schroder Lillyan Fahey Scholarship 2008-09. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nevena Stefanov 2002-03. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dina Katsoulis UAB Academic Award for the Top Female Senior Student-Athlete 1998-99. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hailey Isham 1997-98. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tonya Larson

Danielle Reaves

Student-Athlete Advisory Committee Award 1998-99. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terri Steeb 1997-98. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tonya Larson

Conference USA Commissioner’s Honor Roll 2012-13: Rachel Fairbanks, Kirsten Gallagher, Becca Howard, Mariah McCallum, Kate Morrell, Emma Schroer, Sam Serley, Lindsay Simmons, Sam Skinner, Alison Woods 2011-12: Rachel Fairbanks, Kiriana Hirini, Becca Howard, Kirsten Gallagher, Mariah McCallum, Kate Morrell, Sam Serley, Lindsay Simmons, Thais Soares, Ally Slaughter, Heather Thomas, Michelle Uzoh, Alison Woods 2010-11: Daniella Cavallo, Rachel Fairbanks, Kirsten Gallagher, Becca Howard, Sam Serley, Ally Slaughter, Thais Soares, Heather Thomas, Michelle Uzoh, Alison Woods 2009-10: Emily Foreman, Rachel James, Andrea Lalic, Savannah Pegg, Sam Serley, Nevena Stefanov, Aley Tallman, Heather Thomas, Michelle Uzoh, MacKenzie Wilson, Alison Woods 2008-09: Charlayna Braxton, Ivana Bozic, Casey Dent, Emily Foreman, Kirsten Gallagher, Rachel James, Andrea Lalic, Leah Nye, Savannah Pegg, Nevena Stefanov, Aleksandra Vujovic, MacKenzie Wilson 2007-08: Haylee Adkins, Ivana Bozic, Casey Dent, Emily Foreman, Brianna Galvin, Rachel James, Andrea Lalic, Leah Nye, Angie Ping, Nevena Stefanov, Aleksandra Vujovic 2006-07: Haylee Adkins, Ivana Bozic, Casey Dent, Fernanda Domingos, Brianna Galvin, Andrea Lalic, Leah Nye, Angie Ping 2005-06: Casey Dent, Charli Lindley, Isabel Oquendo, Angie Ping, Nevena Stefanov 2004-05: Nicole Bowland, Shaniquwa Cooper, Kaitlyn Filar, Jenna Link, Cassi Ociesa, Isabel Oquendo, Angie Ping, Joanna Szeszycki 2003-04: Karen Boyd, Bilun Gunal, Lindsay Joyce, Jenna Link, Cassi Ociesa, Isabel Oquendo, Joanna Szeszycki 2002-03: Karen Boyd, Lindsay Joyce, Allison Magner, Samanta Tucillo 2001-02: Karen Boyd, Ellen Fleisher, Lindsay Joyce, Kerra Kepley, Allison Magner, Amber Sorensen 2000-01: Karen Boyd, Blair Canant, Heather Dempsey, Lindsay Joyce, Kristen Pettey 1999-00: Laura Burke, Kristen Pettey, Karen Steuer, Karla Wehrle 1998-99: Laura Burke, Kristen Petty, Terri Steeb, Karen Steuer, Karla Wehrle 1997-98: Tonya Larson, Laura Burke, Kristen Pettey, Terri Steeb, Abby Thatcher, Hailey Isham 1995-96: Bree Barnard, Denise Bailey, Kim Arnold C-USA Commissioner’s Academic Medal 2011-12: Sam Serley 2010-11: Daniella Cavallo, Sam Serley 2009-10: MacKenzie Wilson 2008-09: Andrea Lalic 2007-08: Casey Dent 2006-07: Casey Dent 2005-06: Casey Dent 2004-05: Shaniquwa Cooper, Kaitlyn Filar 2003-04: Lindsay Joyce, Joanna Szeszycki 1998-99: Hailey Isham 1997-98: Hailey Isham Great Midwest Academic Honor Roll 1994: Kim Arnold, Denise Bailey, Bree Barnard 1993: Kim Arnold, Bree Barnard, Mandy Miller 1992: Kim Arnold, Bree Barnard, Sharilee Doty 1991: Wendy Huber, Suzie Johnson, Stephanie Overfelt, Danielle Reaves, Tammy Robertson Great Midwest Academic Medal of Honor 1992: Suzie Johnson, Tammy Robertson 1991: Suzie Johnson

Mervyn Goldstein Memorial Scholarship 1998-99. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tonya Larson 1986-87. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Patti Schroder

Sun Belt Academic Honor Roll 1990: Mellissa Cobb, Wendy Huber, Suzie Johnson, Stephanie Overfelt, Danielle Reaves, Tammy Robertson 1989: Andrea Fountain, Suzie Johnson, Danielle Reaves, Tammy Robertson, Cheri Schmidt 1988: Danielle Reaves 1987: Jill Gilmour, Katrine LaCroix 1986: Patti Schroder, Renee Fangman, Ashley Sargent 1985: Terri Andrews, Patti Schroder

UAB Emerging Leaders Scholarship 1998-99. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kellyanne Gandy University of Alabama at Birmingham Sibley Scholarship 1994-95. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hailey Isham

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Kerry Messersmith 2006-Present (172-100, .632)

Allison Magner/Nikola Petrovic 2005 (14-13, .518)

Melinda Claiborne 2000-04 (46-105, .305)

Judy Sackfield 1992-99 (123-157, .439)

Brenda Williams 1980-91 (290-227, .561)

Susan Cook 1978-79 (9-40, .184)

Year-By-Year Records Year 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 1986 1985 1984 1983 1982 1981 1980 1979 1978

Record 21-14 20-14 23-9 13-19 17-16 27-8 24-10 27-10 14-13 1-24 14-20 13-20 12-17 6-24 10-21 10-25 14-21 18-18 21-18 9-25 20-18 21-11 33-10 32-16 25-19 20-26 21-23 23-16 30-18 24-27 29-15 19-21 16-16 18-20 6-22 3-18

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Conf. Record Conf. Finish 7-7 T-7th 11-5 3rd 13-7 2nd 10-10 T-6th 9-7 T-6th 13-3 2nd 12-4 3rd 10-6 5th (Tournament Champ) 5-10 8th 0-13 14th 6-7 T-7th 5-8 9th 3-13 12th 0-16 6th National Division 2-14 6th National Division 1-15 6th National Division 4-12 6th National Division 5-9 3rd Red Division 4-8 3rd Red Division 4-8 T-4th 7-5 T-3rd 9-1 T-1st (GMW Champ) 4-1 1st (GMW Champ) 9-1 1st (Sun Belt Champ) 7-3 2nd 7-5 2nd 6-4 4th -- 3rd -- 3rd -- 3rd -- 2nd -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --

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All-Time Series Records Akron. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-1 Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-15 Alabama A&M . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-1 Alabama State. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-4 Albany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-1.

Alcorn State. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-0 Appalachian State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-0.

Arizona . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-1 Arizona State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . First Meeting Arkansas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2.

Arkansas-Little Rock. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-1 Arkansas State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-5 Auburn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-24 Austin Peay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-0.

Ball State. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-1.

Baylor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-2.

Belmont. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2.

Bowling Green. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-1.

Buffalo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-0.

Butler. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-2.

Cal-Riverside. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-1.

Cal-Santa Barbara . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-1.

Cal State-Northridge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-2.

Centenary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-0.

Charleston. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-2.

Charleston Southern. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-0.

Charlotte. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-8.

Chattanooga. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-0 Chicago State. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-1.

Cincinnati. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-14 Clemson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-3.

Cleveland State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-0.

Costal Carolina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-0.

Colorado State. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-1.

Cornell. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-0.

Covenant. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-0.

Creighton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-0.

Dayton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3.

Delaware. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-0.

DePaul. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-11 Drake. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-0 Duke. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-2.

East Carolina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-4 East Tennessee State. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-2.

Eastern Illinois. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-1.

Eastern Kentucky. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-1.

Eastern Michigan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-2.

Eastern Washington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-1.

Elon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-0.

Erskine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-0.

Evansville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-1.

Florida. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-4.

Florida A&M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-0.

Florida Atlantic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-0 Florida International. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3.

Florida Southern. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-1.

Florida State. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-6.

Furman. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-2 George Mason. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-2.

George Washington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2 Georgia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-14 Georgia Southern. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-0.

Georgia State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-3.

Georgia Tech. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16-3.

Gonzaga. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-1.

Hampton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-0.

Hawaii-Hilo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-2 Hofstra. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-2 Houston. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-18 Huntingdon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-1 Idaho State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . First Meeting Indiana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-2.

Indiana State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-2 Iowa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-1 Iowa State. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-1 IUPUI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-0 Illinois. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-1

Illinois State. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-2 Jackson State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-0 Jacksonville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10-8 Jacksonville State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-8.

James Madison. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-0 Judson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-1 Kansas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-0 Kennesaw State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-0.

Kentucky. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-1 Lake City CC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-0 Lamar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-4 Lawson State CC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-0 Lipscomb. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-0 Livingston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-0 Long Island . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-0 Louisiana-Monroe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-1 Louisiana-Lafayette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-1 Louisiana Tech . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-0 LSU. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-3 Louisville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-12 Loyola (Ill.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-2.

Marquette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-8 Marshall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-7 Maryland-Baltimore County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-1 Maryland-Eastern Shore. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-0.

McNeese State. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-0 Memphis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-33 Mercer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-1 Miami-Dade CC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-1.

Miami (Fla.). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-1 Miami (Ohio). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-3 Michigan State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . First Meeting.

Middle Tennessee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-5 Milwaukee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-0.

Minnesota . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-3.

Mississippi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-20 Mississippi State. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-11 Mississippi Univ. for Women. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-9.

Mississippi Valley State. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-0.

UMKC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-1.

Missouri State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-0.

Montana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-1.

Montevallo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-10 Morehead State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-1.

Murray State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-2.

Navy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-0.

Nebraska . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-1.

Nevada. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-2.

New Mexico. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-1.

New Mexico State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-1.

New Orleans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4.

Nicholls State. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-1.

North Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-8.

North Carolina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-2.

N.C. State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-2 North Dakota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-0 North Texas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-1 Northeast Louisiana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-1 Northeastern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-0.

Nrortheastern Illinois. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-0.

Northern Arizona. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-1 Northern Iowa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-1.

Northwestern State. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-0.

Notre Dame. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-1.

Ohio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-4.

Ohio State. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . First Meeting Oklahoma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-2 Pacific. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-1.

Penn State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-1.

Pensacola JC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-0.

Pittsburgh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 Portland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-2 Portland State. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-1 Presbyterian. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-0 Providence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-1.

Purdue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-2 Rice. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-8

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Rhode Island . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-1 Rollins College. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-1 Rutgers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-0 Sacramento State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-1 Saint Louis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-11 Sam Houston State. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-5 Samford. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26-2 San Diego State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-1 San Francisco. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-1 San Jose State. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-2 Seton Hall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-0 SMU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-8 South Alabama. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-17 South Carolina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-7 South Carolina State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-0 Southeastern Louisiana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-1 Southern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-0 Southern Benedictine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-0 Southern Illinois. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-2 Southern Miss. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24-20 Southwestern Louisiana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-1 Southwest Texas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-1 Spring Hill College. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-1 Stephen F Austin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2 Stetson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-1 Stillman. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-0 Temple. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-0 Tennessee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-5 Tennessee State. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-0 Tennessee Tech. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-4 Texas A&M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-0 TCU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-7 Texas Tech. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-2 Toledo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-2 Towson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-0 Troy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22-5 Tulane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-10 Tulsa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-12 Tuskegee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-2 UC Davis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-0 UCF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-7 UCLA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-1 UNC-Ashville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-1 UNC-Greensboro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-0.

USF. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-33 Utah. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-1.

Utah State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-1.

UTEP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-2 UT-Martin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-1 UTPA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-0 UTSA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-3 Valparaiso. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-1.

Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-1.

VCU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-6.

Virginia Tech. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-3.

Wake Forest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-1.

Washington State. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-1.

Weber State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-1.

West Georgia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-0.

West Virginia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-1.

Western Carolina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-1.

Western Illinois . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-1.

Western Kentucky. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-3 Western Michigan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-1.

William & Mary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-1.

Winthrop. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2.

Wisconsin Green Bay. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-0.

Wofford. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-0.

Wright State. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-0.

Wyoming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-0.

Xavier. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-1 Youngstown State. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-0 *2014 Opponents in Bold

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All-Time Letterwinners

A Haylee Adkins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Ginny Alexander . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Terri Andrews. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Kim Arnold. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

2006-07 1983-85 1984-85 1991-95

B Denise Bailey. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1992-95 Bree Barnard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1992-95 Hilary Beck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1988-92 Kim Bigham. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1979 Chelsea Bishop. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1993 Mary Leah Boggan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1979-81 Shondra Bonovitch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1984-87 Kathy Bowditch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1994 Nicole Bowland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2004-07 Karen Boyd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2000-03 Ivana Bozic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2005-08 Deborah Burgess . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1979-81 Donna Burke. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1984 Laura Burke. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1997-00

C Blair Canant. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2000 Lindsay Carnohan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2003 Becky Carr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1979-81 Daniela Cavallo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2010 Mellissa Cobb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1988-91 Shaniquwa Cooper. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2004-07 Leann Crockett . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1986

D Donna Deason. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1980-83 Heather Dempsey. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1997-00 Casey Dent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2005-08 Gabby Deshotel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2013Heather Dillard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1992-94 Fernanda Domingos. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2006-07 Lilly Domingos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2007-08 Gina Doss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1984-87 Sharilee Doty. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1992-95

E Trisha Eddy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1995-98

F Rachel Fairbanks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2010-13 Renee Fangman. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1986-87 Molly Farrell. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1991 Denise Feer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1999 Kaitlyn Filar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2004 Leigh Fincher. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1979 Belinda Fitzsimmons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1987 Ellen Fleisher. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2001 Emily Foreman. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2007-09 Andrea Fountain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1989-90 Cassaundra Fuqua . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1988-89

G Kirsten Gallagher. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2009-12 Brianna Galvin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2003-04, 2006-07 Kellyanne Gandy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1995-98 Jill Gilmour. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1987-88 Diane Goodwin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1988 Kilee Goetz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2002 Kasey Goth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2003 Shelly Greene. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1998-01 Bilun Gunal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2003 Katrina Gunsorek. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1997-99 Tiffany Gunsorek. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1999

H Kathy Hardwick. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1982 Angie Harris. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1983 Toni Herron. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1991-94 Carolyn Higgins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1982-84 Kiriana Hirini. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2011Nanea Holmes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2002 Becca Howard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2010-13 Wendy Huber . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1990-93 Whitney Hudson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2009

I Hailey Isham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1995-98

J Rachel James . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2008-09 Jennifer Johnson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1986-88 Suzie Johnson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1989-92 Meredith Jones. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2004 Lindsay Joyce. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2000-02

K Dina Katsoulis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1999-02 Kerra Kepley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2001 Ruth King . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1982 Linda Kirschbaum. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1986-87 Hannah Kowal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2013 L Katrine LaCroix. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1987-88 Andrea Lalic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2006-09 Tonya Larson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1994-97 Kristi Lee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2001-02 Michele Lewis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1980-83 Charli Lindley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2004-05 Jenna Link. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2003-04 Jessica Liptak. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2001 Christine Lorentz. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1999

M Allison Magner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2001-02 Cheri Magsam. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1988 Chip Mahaffey. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1993-94 Mariah McCallum. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2012-13 Janet McCrary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1984 Jordan McDonald . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2008-10 Mandy Miller. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1993-96 Kate Morrell. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2010-12 Michele Moses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1983-85 Jessica Murphy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1979-81 Julie Myers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1986-89

N Vicki Norwood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1980-81 Leah Nye. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2007

O Cassi Ociesa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Isabel Oquendo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Karyn Oliver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Laura Opperman. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Stephanie Overfelt. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Sheila Owens. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

2003-04 2003-05 1996-97 1980-83 1988-91 1980-81

P Patty Paniagua. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2008-09 Savannah Pegg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2008-09 Kristen Pettey. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1997-00 Angie Ping. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2004-07 Angela Powell. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1986 Kris Procter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1983 Artie Pyeatt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1984-85 Robin Pyeatt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1985

R Janette Raczek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1994-95 Danielle Reaves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1988-91 Ashley Ricks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2011-12 Sara Rishell. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2013Tammy Robertson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1989-92 Lorraine Rogers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1979

S Ashley Sargent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1983-86 Patti Schroder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1985-86 Emma Schroer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2013Cheri Schmidt. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1989-90 Debbi Schultz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1984-85 Tammy Schultz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1984 Sam Serley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2009-12 Molly Shahan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1982-83

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Martina Shields Martina Shields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2000-03 Lindsay Simmons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2012Michele Simmons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2010-12 Sam Skinner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2012-13 Ally Slaughter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2010-13 Kristy Smith. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1998-99 Suzay Smith. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1989-92 Thais Soares. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2010-11 Amber Sorensen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2001 Veronica Starr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1982 Nevena Stefanov. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2005-08 Karen Steuer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1996-99 Tracy Strickland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1982 Terri Steeb. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1995-98 Breanne Swenson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2002-03 Joanna Szeszycki. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2004

T Libby Takenaka . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1986-87 Aley Tallman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2006, 2009 Abby Thatcher. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1995-98 Bethanie Thomas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2013Heather Thomas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2008-11 Kim Thomas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1979-81 Amber Treace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2013Samanta Tucillo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2002

U Michelle Uzoh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2009-10

V Aleksandra Vujovic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2005-08

W Jill Waddell. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1992-93 Tammy Washer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1993-94 Lisa Watts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1983 Meredith Walker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2003-04 Velissa Weatherby. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1982 Karla Wehrle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1998-99 Amy White . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2005 Beulah Williams. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1979-81 MacKenzie Wilson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2008-09 Alison Woods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2009-12 * bold indicates current players

2014 VOLLEYBALL

NCAA Tournament History 2006

2008

The First Trip

Second Time Around

After defeating Memphis in the finals of the 2006 Conference USA Championship, UAB made the first NCAA tournament appearance in program history.

The Blazers traveled to Los Angeles, Calif., for a firstround contest against No. 4 overall seed UCLA. A 3-0 loss to the Bruins capped a historic season in which the Blazers posted 27 victories, their highest win total in 15 years, to just 10 losses.

Despite a loss to Tulane in the 2008 Conference USA Championship, UAB earned the first at-large berth in program history and made its second NCAA tournament appearance in three years. A 3-0 sweep of Missouri State in the opening round marked the Blazers’ first-ever tournament win. UAB was eliminated 3-0 by host and No. 4 overall seed Nebraska in the second round. The 2008 team finished 27-8, reaching the 20-win mark for the third season in a row and ending the year rated No. 22 in the final RPI. Nebraska def. UAB 25-14, 25-15, 25-12 UAB (27-8) (Kills-aces-blocks) - Ivana Bozic 10-0-0; Savannah Pegg 8-0-1; Lilly Domingos 4-0-2; Andrea Lalic 3-0-1; Casey Dent 3-0-0; Jordan McDonald 1-0-0; Nevena Stefanov 1-0-0; Totals 30-0-2.0. (Assists) - Nevena Stefanov 26. (Dig leaders) - Nevena Stefanov 8; Ivana Bozic 7

UCLA def. UAB 30-24, 30-21, 30-23 UAB (27-10) (Kills-aces-blocks) - Ivana Bozic 12-4-0; Fernanda Domingos 12-1-1; Casey Dent 10-0-1; Aley Tallman 3-0-2; Shaniquwa Cooper 3-0-1; Nevena Stefanov 1-0-0; Totals 41-5-3.0. (Assists) - Nevena Stefanov 36. (Dig leaders) - Brianna Galvin 12; Aleksandra Vujovic 10; Ivana Bozic 8

Nebraska (29-2) (Kills-aces-blocks) - Jordan Larson 150-1; Lindsey Licht 12-0-4; Amanda Gates 7-0-3; Tara Mueller 6-1-1; Jordan Wilberger 4-0-4; Sydney Anderson 4-1-2; Totals 48-2-10.0. (Assists) - Sydney Anderson 33.

(Dig leaders) - Kayla Banwarth 13; Tara Mueller 10; Jordan Larson 10

UCLA (30-3) (Kills-aces-blocks) - Katie Carter 13-0-4; Nana Meriwether 12-0-5; Kaitlin Sather 10-0-4; Rachell Johnson 9-1-6; Ali Daley 6-1-2; Nellie Spicer 5-0-3; Becky Mehring 2-0-0; Jade Machado 0-2-0; Colby Lyman 0-3-0; Totals 57-7-12.5. (Assists) - Nellie Spicer 40. (Dig leaders) - Nellie Spicer 9; Ali Daley 8; Colby Lyman 8

Site: Lincoln, Neb. (NU Coliseum) Date: Dec. 6, 2008 Attend: 4086 Time: 1:11

Site: Los Angeles, Calif. (Pauley Pavilion) Date: Dec. 1, 2006 Attend: 887 Time: 1:30

UAB def. Missouri State 25-17, 25-21, 25-17 Missouri State (23-13) (Kills-aces-blocks) - Cara Hackmann 9-1-0; Bethany Fuller 7-0-3; Sara Staubach 7-01; Kelley Michnowicz 5-1-2; Calli Norman 4-0-2; Julia Cawthra 3-0-0; Nikki Vandepopulier 1-0-0; Totals 362-5.0. (Assists) - Julia Cawthra 26. (Dig leaders) - Cara Hackmann 14; Terri Del Conte 11 UAB (27-7) (Kills-aces-blocks) - Ivana Bozic 16-0-2; Andrea Lalic 12-2-3; Casey Dent 9-1-0; Savannah Pegg 5-00; Lilly Domingos 3-0-6; Nevena Stefanov 1-0-0; Totals 46-3-6.0. (Assists) - Nevena Stefanov 39. (Dig leaders) - Ivana Bozic 14; Aleksandra Vujovic 7 Site: Lincoln, Neb. (NU Coliseum) Date: Dec. 5, 2008 Attend: 4237 Time: 1:20

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2014 UAB Volleyball Schedule UAB/Samford Tournament Aug. 29 SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA BARTOW ARENA 10 a.m.

MICHIGAN STATE BARTOW ARENA 7 p.m.

Aug. 30 Georgia State Pete Hanna Center 2 p.m.

Residence Inn Challenge - Arizona State Sept. 5 Idaho State Phoenix, Ariz.

11 a.m.

at Arizona State Phoenix, Ariz.

3 p.m.

Sept. 6 Iowa Phoenix, Ariz.

12 p.m.

Sept. 9

CHATTANOOGA

BARTOW ARENA

7 p.m.

Magnolia Invitational - Ole Miss Sept. 11 at Ole Miss Oxford, Miss.

6:30 p.m.

Sept. 12 Jacksonville State Oxford, Miss.

10 a.m.

Mercer Oxford, Miss.

4 p.m.

Sept. 16

at Alabama

Tuscaloosa, Ala.

7 p.m.

Miami Invitational - Miami University Sept. 19 Ohio State Miami, Ohio 3 p.m.

Sept. 20 at Miami (OH) Miami, Ohio 11 a.m.

IUPUI Miami, Ohio 3:30 p.m.

Sept. 26 Sept. 28 Sept. 30 Oct. 3 Oct. 5 Oct. 10 Oct. 12 Oct. 14 Oct. 17 Oct. 24 Oct. 26 Oct. 31 Nov. 2 Nov. 7 Nov. 9 Nov. 11 Nov. 14 Nov. 16 Nov. 21-23

at Charlotte* LOUISIANA TECH* at Samford at Florida Atlantic* at FIU* UTEP* UTSA* MIDDLE TENNESSEE* at Marshall* at Southern Miss* at Rice* WESTERN KENTUCKY* NORTH TEXAS* at UTSA* at Middle Tennessee* at Alabama State SOUTHERN MISS* MARSHALL* Conference USA Tournament

* Conference USA match.

Home matches in BOLD CAPS. All times are CT and subject to change.

Charlotte, N.C. BARTOW ARENA Birmingham, Ala. Boca Raton, Fla. Miami, Fla. BARTOW ARENA BARTOW ARENA BARTOW ARENA Huntington, W. Va. Hattiesburg, Miss.

Houston, Texas BARTOW ARENA BARTOW ARENA San Antonio, Texas Murfreesboro, Tenn.

Montgomery, Ala. BARTOW ARENA BARTOW ARENA Hattiesburg, Miss.

6 p.m.

1 p.m.

7 p.m.

6 p.m.

12 p.m.

7 p.m.

12 p.m.

7 p.m.

4:30 p.m.

7 p.m.

1 p.m.

7 p.m.

1 p.m.

7 p.m.

1 p.m.

7 p.m.

7 p.m.

12 p.m.

TBD