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No. Name Pos. Ht. Yr. Hometown (Previous School) 1 Jenna Olbright S 5-10 Fr. Orange, CA (El Modena HS) 2 Alissa Beaudway MB 6-0 So. Granger, IN (Penn HS) 3 Billi Baker OH 5-10 So. Raleigh, NC (Southeast HS) 4 Lisa Fawell S 5-8 Jr. Wheaton, IL (Wheaton Warrenville South HS) 5 Samantha Kirby MB 6-2 Jr. Lenoir, NC (Averett) 6 Kaitlyn Nortz MB 5-11 Sr. Westerville, OH (Westerville South HS) 7 Luciana Shafer OH 5-9 Fr. San Juan Capistrano (JSerra HS) 8 Catherine Hanners L 5-9 Jr. Richmond, VA (Douglas Freeman HS) 9 Emily Lindborg MB 6-1 Jr. Niles, MI (St. Joseph’s HS) 10 Caley Redden OH 5-10 So.-r Stokesdale, NC (McMichael HS) 11 Branagan Fuller OH 5-10 Jr. Murrieta, CA (Murrieta Valley HS) 13 Kayleigh Knerr DS 5-6 Jr. Pittsburgh, PA (Moon Area HS) 15 Abigail Drost OH 5-11 So. High Point, NC (Youngstown State) 16 Mady Bates S 5-9 So. Buda, TX (Baylor) 17 Kayren Finney MB 6-2 So. Danville, VA (Tunstall HS) 20 Kimiko Naito S 5-10 So. San Francisco, CA (Sacred Heart Cathedral) UNIVERSITY FACTS UNIVERSITY FACTS Location ........................................................................................... Greensboro, NC Founded ........................................................................................................... 1891 Enrollment ..................................................................................................... 16,600 Nickname ....................................................................................................Spartans Colors .......................................................................................... Gold, White & Navy Stadium.................................................................................... Fleming Gym (1,833) Afliation ........................................................................................... NCAA Division I Conference ..................................................................................................Southern Chancellor ...................................................................................... Dr. Linda P. Brady Director of Athletics ........................................................................... Nelson E. Bobb Alma Mater ..................................................................................... Kent State, 1970 Athletics Dept. Phone......................................................................... 336-334-5952 Ticket Ofce Phone ............................................................................ 336-334-3250 SPORTS INFORMATION OFFICE SPORTS INFORMATION OFFICE Sports Information Director ............................................................... Mike Hirschman Email ....................................................................................... [email protected] Cell Phone........................................................................................ 336-202-5331 Assistant SID (VB Contact) ............................................................. Colleen O’Connell Email ....................................................................................... [email protected] Cell Phone........................................................................................ 336-420-7518 Assistant SID .................................................................................. Meghan Gannon Email ......................................................................................[email protected] Cell Phone........................................................................................ 336-207-2383 Sports Information Phone .................................................................. 336-334-5615 Sports Information Fax ....................................................................... 336-334-3182 Press Row Phone ............................................................................... 336-334-5625 SID Ofce Address ............................................................................. UNCG Athletics ............................................................................................................PO Box 26168 ..................................................................................... Greensboro, NC 27402-6168 Website ................................................................................ www.uncgspartans.com UNCG VOLLEYBALL INFORMATION UNCG VOLLEYBALL INFORMATION Head Coach ...........................................................................................Shawn Garus Alma Mater ...............................................................Cal State San Bernardino, 1995 Email ........................................................................................... [email protected] Record at UNCG ...........................................................................48-54 (Three Years) Career Record ........................................................................... 92-110 (Seven Years) Assistant Coach ....................................................... Skydra Orzen (Texas Tech, 2002) Student Assistant Coach ..................................................................... Katherine Hart Volleyball Ofce Phone....................................................................... 336-334-5303 2007 Overall Record ........................................................................................ 20-15 2007 SoCon Record................................................................................... 11-7 (5th) Returning/Lost ................................................................................................. 11/3 Starters Returning/Lost ......................................................................... 4 + Libero/1 Newcomers ............................................................................................................. 5 CONTENTS CONTENTS Roster/Quick Facts/Table of Contents .................................................................... 1 Coaching Staff ..................................................................................................... 2-3 Player Proles .................................................................................................... 4-17 2007 Statistics ..................................................................................................... 18 2007 Southern Conference Review........................................................................ 19 Southern Conference ....................................................................................... 20-21 Record Book .................................................................................................... 22-24 All-Time Honors .................................................................................................... 25 All-Time Results ............................................................................................... 26-29 All-Time Series Records......................................................................................... 29 All-Time Roster ..................................................................................................... 30 University Section ............................................................................................ 31-40 CREDITS CREDITS The 2008 UNC Greensboro Volleyball Media Guide was written and edited by Colleen O’Connell. This guide was designed using Adobe Creative Suite 2. Editorial assistance provided by Sports Information Director Mike Hirschman, Assis- tant Sports Information Director Meghan Gannon and volleyball head coach Shawn Garus. Photography by WG Sports, John Bell, Chris English, Jerry Wolfrod and others. Cover Design by Mike Hirschman. On the Covers On the Covers Front (left to right): Branagan Fuller, Kaitlyn Nortz and Catherine Hanners. Back: Kayleigh Knerr (lower right) and Lisa Fawell (top right). Media Note Media Note Just a reminder to please refer to our institution as UNC Greensboro (no hyphen) on the rst reference and then UNCG on the second reference.

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No. Name Pos. Ht. Yr. Hometown (Previous School)1 Jenna Olbright S 5-10 Fr. Orange, CA (El Modena HS) 2 Alissa Beaudway MB 6-0 So. Granger, IN (Penn HS)3 Billi Baker OH 5-10 So. Raleigh, NC (Southeast HS)4 Lisa Fawell S 5-8 Jr. Wheaton, IL (Wheaton Warrenville South HS)5 Samantha Kirby MB 6-2 Jr. Lenoir, NC (Averett)6 Kaitlyn Nortz MB 5-11 Sr. Westerville, OH (Westerville South HS)7 Luciana Shafer OH 5-9 Fr. San Juan Capistrano (JSerra HS)8 Catherine Hanners L 5-9 Jr. Richmond, VA (Douglas Freeman HS)9 Emily Lindborg MB 6-1 Jr. Niles, MI (St. Joseph’s HS)10 Caley Redden OH 5-10 So.-r Stokesdale, NC (McMichael HS)11 Branagan Fuller OH 5-10 Jr. Murrieta, CA (Murrieta Valley HS)13 Kayleigh Knerr DS 5-6 Jr. Pittsburgh, PA (Moon Area HS)15 Abigail Drost OH 5-11 So. High Point, NC (Youngstown State) 16 Mady Bates S 5-9 So. Buda, TX (Baylor) 17 Kayren Finney MB 6-2 So. Danville, VA (Tunstall HS)20 Kimiko Naito S 5-10 So. San Francisco, CA (Sacred Heart Cathedral)

UNIVERSITY FACTSUNIVERSITY FACTSLocation ........................................................................................... Greensboro, NCFounded ........................................................................................................... 1891Enrollment ..................................................................................................... 16,600Nickname ....................................................................................................SpartansColors .......................................................................................... Gold, White & NavyStadium.................................................................................... Fleming Gym (1,833)Affi liation ........................................................................................... NCAA Division IConference ..................................................................................................SouthernChancellor ......................................................................................Dr. Linda P. BradyDirector of Athletics ........................................................................... Nelson E. BobbAlma Mater ..................................................................................... Kent State, 1970Athletics Dept. Phone .........................................................................336-334-5952Ticket Offi ce Phone ............................................................................336-334-3250

SPORTS INFORMATION OFFICESPORTS INFORMATION OFFICESports Information Director ...............................................................Mike Hirschman Email ....................................................................................... [email protected] Cell Phone ........................................................................................ 336-202-5331Assistant SID (VB Contact) ............................................................. Colleen O’Connell Email .......................................................................................c_oconne@uncg.edu Cell Phone ........................................................................................ 336-420-7518Assistant SID .................................................................................. Meghan Gannon Email ......................................................................................megannon@uncg.edu Cell Phone ........................................................................................336-207-2383Sports Information Phone .................................................................. 336-334-5615Sports Information Fax ....................................................................... 336-334-3182Press Row Phone ...............................................................................336-334-5625SID Offi ce Address ............................................................................. UNCG Athletics............................................................................................................PO Box 26168..................................................................................... Greensboro, NC 27402-6168Website ................................................................................ www.uncgspartans.com

UNCG VOLLEYBALL INFORMATIONUNCG VOLLEYBALL INFORMATIONHead Coach ...........................................................................................Shawn GarusAlma Mater ...............................................................Cal State San Bernardino, 1995Email ...........................................................................................smgarus@uncg.eduRecord at UNCG ...........................................................................48-54 (Three Years)Career Record ...........................................................................92-110 (Seven Years)Assistant Coach ....................................................... Skydra Orzen (Texas Tech, 2002)Student Assistant Coach ..................................................................... Katherine HartVolleyball Offi ce Phone.......................................................................336-334-53032007 Overall Record ........................................................................................ 20-152007 SoCon Record ................................................................................... 11-7 (5th)Returning/Lost ................................................................................................. 11/3Starters Returning/Lost ......................................................................... 4 + Libero/1Newcomers ............................................................................................................. 5

CONTENTSCONTENTSRoster/Quick Facts/Table of Contents .................................................................... 1Coaching Staff ..................................................................................................... 2-3Player Profi les .................................................................................................... 4-172007 Statistics ..................................................................................................... 182007 Southern Conference Review ........................................................................ 19Southern Conference ....................................................................................... 20-21Record Book .................................................................................................... 22-24All-Time Honors .................................................................................................... 25All-Time Results ...............................................................................................26-29All-Time Series Records......................................................................................... 29All-Time Roster ..................................................................................................... 30University Section ............................................................................................ 31-40

CREDITSCREDITSThe 2008 UNC Greensboro Volleyball Media Guide was written and edited by Colleen O’Connell. This guide was designed using Adobe Creative Suite 2.

Editorial assistance provided by Sports Information Director Mike Hirschman, Assis-tant Sports Information Director Meghan Gannon and volleyball head coach Shawn Garus. Photography by WG Sports, John Bell, Chris English, Jerry Wolfrod and others. Cover Design by Mike Hirschman.

On the CoversOn the CoversFront (left to right): Branagan Fuller, Kaitlyn Nortz and Catherine Hanners. Back: Kayleigh Knerr (lower right) and Lisa Fawell (top right).

Media NoteMedia NoteJust a reminder to please refer to our institution as UNC Greensboro (no hyphen) on the fi rst reference and then UNCG on the second reference.

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Shawn Garus begins his fourth season at the helm of the UNC Greensboro vol-leyball program in 2008. Garus is the fi fth head coach in UNCG’s history.

UNCG continued to make signifi cant strides under Garus’ leadership in 2007. Following a 23-13 performance in 2006, Garus guided the Spartans to a 20-15 overall record, marking consecutive winning seasons in UNCG’s Division I era for the fi rst time since Tere Dail guided the Spartans to fi ve straight winning seasons from 1991-95. The team also made its second straight appearance in the Southern Conference championship game, which was a fi rst for the program.

Multiple individual and team accomplishments took place during the 2007 campaign. Branagan Fuller set a new mark for kills in a three-game match with 27 coming against Western Carolina on Oct. 14. Later in the season also against Western Carolina, Lisa Fawell put up a record 68 assists in the four-game match and the Spartans fi nished that match with 73 assists, tying the team four-game match mark. Meanwhile, Fuller and Catherine Hanners posted new single-season marks for kills and digs, respectively. Fuller tallied 543 kills on the season, surpassing The-resa Hart’s mark of 534 that was set in 2006. Hanners, who became UNCG’s single-season digs leader in 2006, upped her single-season total to 684. The Spartans also saw Kaitlyn Nortz become the seventh Spartan to reach the 1,000-kill plateau and is currently fourth all-time with 1,159 kills.

The season ended with Nortz receiving Second Team All-SoCon honors. Both Nortz and Fuller were selected to the SoCon All-Tournament Team as well as the North Carolina Sports Information Directors Association All-State volleyball team.

Garus and the Spartans had a record-breaking season in 2006 which culminated in a run to the SoCon championship match, which was quite impressive for a team that had never won a match in the SoCon tournament prior to last year. Improvement was the name of the game in 2006 as the club posted a 23-13 overall record after going 5-26 a year earlier.

UNCG set several new program marks in 2006. As a team, UNCG set a new record of kills in a three-game match, tallying 67 kills against Georgia Southern, and they also served up a new record for service aces in a three-game match by recording 16 twice during the season. Catherine Hanners and Lisa Fawell set single-season records for digs (653) and assists (1,683) while senior Theresa Hart set a new single season mark for kills with 534.

To cap the season, Hart was named to the All-SoCon fi rst team, becoming the fi rst Spartan to ever be selected to the All-SoCon team. Hart was also named to the All-Tournament team along with teammate Kaitlyn Nortz.

UNCG posted a 5-26 record during the 2005 season. At fi rst glance that mark may not look all that impressive, but just the previous season the program only won

Shawn

three matches. Improvement was also evident within the SoCon as the Spartans posted two victories in that season, compared to none in 2004.

Under the guidance of Garus in 2005, the club defeated league member Davidson for the fi rst time in eight seasons, while also sweeping The Citadel in three games. Late in the season, the Spartans showed great resiliency by coming back from a 2-0 defi cit to win a thrilling match, 3-2, at Liberty.

A 1995 graduate of California State Univer-sity, San Bernardino, Garus served as the top assistant coach on the staff at the University of San Francisco during the 2003 and 2004 seasons under head coach Jeff Nelson.

During Garus’ tenure at USF, the Dons com-piled a mark of 35-27, including the programs fi rst-ever NCAA Tournament bid in 2003. During the 2003 season, the Dons went 23-8, suffering all eight losses to teams ranked in the Top 25. In addition, the school earned its fi rst victory over a ranked-opponent, winning on the road at 19th-ranked Washington State. It was also USF’s fi rst 20-win season and followed a three-year period in-which the Dons had gone just 27-54.

Prior to USF, Garus spent one season on Nelson’s staff at Texas Tech and served as a head coach at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.

At UCCS, Garus led the NCAA Division II squad to a 44-56 mark in three-plus seasons, including its fi rst regional ranking. The Mountain Lions’ 22-9 mark in 2001 was the best record in school history and resulted in their fi rst trip to the conference tournament. He took over the program in the middle of the 1998 season after serving the fi rst half of the year as an assistant coach. In his fi rst full season (1999), he led the squad to its fi rst 10-win season in fi ve years with a 10-20 mark. The following year, the Mountain Lions went 10-14, including a school-best six

wins in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference, before their record-breaking 22-9 campaign in 2001.

He also held administrative duties as the school’s NCAA compliance director, and is still regarded as one of top coaches to have served in any sport at the University.

At Cal State San Bernardino, Garus played four years on the University’s club volleyball team (1991-94). He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in business administration with a marketing specialization in 1995.

Garus also played professionally from 1994-2003, playing in several AVP Tour events (Association of Volleyball Professionals). He was the top-ranked volleyball player in the state of Colorado from 1999-2001 and had a career-best 13th-place fi nish at the 2001 AVP Michigan Open.

Garus, who was born in Glendale, CA, and his wife, the former Cindy Bench, have a daughter, Emily, and a son, Trevor. The family resides in Greensboro.

Head Coach • Fourth Season Cal State San Bernardino ‘95

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Skydra

Skydra Orzen begins her fourth season as a full-time assistant coach at UNC Greens-boro. Orzen assists with all aspects of the program and primarily works with the setters and the Spartans defense.

In 2007, Orzen helped guide the Spartans to two feats that had not been accomplished since UNCG joined the Southern Conference. First, the Spartans had their second straight win-ning season, posting a record of 20-15. Second, UNCG ad-vanced to the SoCon champion-ship match for the second year in a row.

During her second season she helped the Spartans to a record-breaking season. UNCG posted a 23-13 record and had a run to the Southern Conference championship match after never before winning a match at the SoCon Championship.

In Orzen’s fi rst season with the team UNCG posted a 5-26 record during the 2005 season. At fi rst glance that mark may not look all that impressive, but consider that the program only won three matches the previous season. Improvement was also evident within the Southern Conference as the Spartans posted two victories, compared to none in 2004.

Orzen, a 2002 graduate of Texas Tech with a bachelor’s degree in English, is no stranger to Garus. Following the completion of her collegiate playing career, she was a student assistant coach while Garus was an assistant coach at Texas Tech.

A native of Albuquerque, NM, Orzen was a three-year starter as a setter while attending Texas Tech. She ranked among the nation’s assists per game leaders during her fi nal two seasons. Orzen averaged 14.12 assists per game during her junior season, ranking 12th in the nation. As a senior, she ranked second in assists per game with a 13.99 average. Orzen also set several records during her career with the Red Raiders. She initially set the single-season assist record (1,652) as a junior, only to break the mark a year later with 1,665 assists. Orzen also holds the single-match assist record (93 vs. Missouri). She remains the only Texas Tech player to reach the 90-assist plateau, a feat she accomplished three times in her career.

After graduating from Texas Tech, Orzen played one season professionally in Hol-land for the Amvj Club. She also spent one season helping coach the men’s Amvj club team and was a volunteer assistant at the University of New Mexico.

In high school, Orzen was a four-time all-city and a two-time all-state selection and was the Gatorade Player of the Year for the state of New Mexico in 1998 while playing at West Mesa HS.

Katherine

Katherine Hart enters her fi rst year as a student assistant coach for UNC Greensboro af-ter completing her collegiate eligibility with the Spartans last season.

In her only season for UNCG, Hart played in 127 games and appeared in all 35 matches. She totaled 320 kills on the season and averaged 2.52 kills per game, ranking third on the team in both categories. She reached double-digits in kills 17 times with a career best 21 coming against Furman. De-fensively, Hart was third on the team in total blocks with 68. She recorded a career high fi ve total blocks versus both Morgan State and Appalachian State.

Prior to UNCG, Hart played for the University of San Fran-cisco. In her three-year career with the Dons, she appeared in 82 games and 47 matches. Hart posted 112 kills and 49 total blocks.

Hart will assist in practice and match preparation as she works towards her degree in fi ne arts with an emphasis in painting.

Wins1. Tere Dail (1979-99) ..................... 4902. Pat Hielscher (1971-74) ............... 1063. Kaye Moody (1975-78) .................. 614. Shawn Garus (2005-) .................... 485. Stacy Meadows (2000-04) ............ 29

Winning Pct.1. Pat Hieslscher (1971-74) ........... .7792. Tere Dail (1979-99) ................... .6543. Shawn Garus (2005-) ................. .4714. Kaye Moody (1975-78) .............. .4245. Stacy Meadows (2000-04) ......... .180

Assistant Coach• Fourth SeasonTexas Tech ‘02

Student Asst. Coach • First Season

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2007: Continued to be an offensive power… earned All-Southern Conference second team honors, selected to the SoCon All-Tour-nament and All-Aca-demic Teams and was named to the North Carolina Collegiate Sports Information Association (NCCSIA) All-State team as a middle blocker… av-eraged 3.39 kills per game and had a team-high 1.24 blocks per game… ranks second among UNCG’s career blocking leaders (435) is third on the all-time kills list (1,159 kills)… ranks sixth on UNCG’s single-season kills list with 448 and ninth on the single-season kills per game list with 3.39… posted 165 blocks on the season, which is third on UNCG’s single-season list… recorded a season-best .692 hitting percentage with nine kills and no errors against The Citadel (10/19)… tied her career-high of 23 kills in a 3-2 loss to College of Charleston (10/20)… recorded double-digit kills in 27 matches, including a six-match streak during the middle of the season… tal-lied nine blocks on two occasions, including one in the 3-0 upset of Chattanooga (11/10)… named Southern Conference Player of the Week (11/13) for her efforts in the wins over Chattanooga (11/10) and Western Carolina (11/11)... totaled 21 blocks at the SoCon Tournament, including eight against both Furman (11/16) and

College of Charles-ton (11/18)… named to the All-Tournament Team at the Comfort Suites 49er Volley-ball Tournament after posting 52 kills and a .389

KaitlynMiddle Blocker • 5-11 • Senior Westerville, OH/Westerville South HS

hitting percentage in 15 games played... one of six players to play every match.

2006: Had a record-breaking sea-son, setting several new school re-cords... was named to the SoCon All-Tournament Team... selected to the NCCSIA All-State fi rst team as a middle blocker... also named to the SoCon All-Academic team... made 33 starts in 36 matches played... saw action in 129 games, good for third most on the team... fi nished the season second on the team with 443 kills, which ranked fi fth most in a season at UNCG... her 3.43 kills per game ranked eighth most in a season... was second on the team in points, averaging 4.43 points per game... ranked sixth in the SoCon in kills (443), fourth in blocks (149) and fi fth in points (571.5)... set a new career-high in kills with 23 in a 3-1 win over Elon (10/17)... also set a career-high with eight digs and two assists in 3-2 loss to Elon (9/12)... came up with double-digit blocks on two occasions... her 1.16 blocks per game ranked seventh most in a season... totaled 149 on the season... set a new fi ve-game match record with fi ve solo blocks against Gardner-Webb (9/9).

2005: Made an immediate impact by making 30 starts and appearing in all 31 matches in 2005... was also one of only three players to see court time in all 115 games... was a force in the middle all season and ended up with 121 blocks, which tied for fourth most in a season at UNCG... ranked fi fth in the Southern Conference with 1.05 blocks per game... ranked second on the team with 268 kills and 2.33 per game...had a season-high 20 kills in only her second collegiate match against Radford (9/3)... posted an impressive .462 hitting percentage (14-2-26) at High Point (9/6)... recorded 12 double-digit kill efforts, including 19 against Chattanooga (11/12)... tallied back-to-back 10 block efforts at Liberty (11/8) and against Chattanooga (11/12)... came up with fi ve or more blocks on 10 occasions... named to the SoCon Academic Honor Roll.

High School: Played volleyball for two years at Westerville South HS under coach Bob Price... named second team All-Ohio Capital Conference in 2004... led team to a OCC championship and District I championship... club want as far as the elite 8 in the state champion...also named team MVP as a senior... named fi rst team All-Conference and all-district three times in track... competed primarily in the long jump, high jump and 4x400 relay team... four-year scholar athlete... gar-nered the 2004 volleyball team academic state award.

Club: Played for the Central Ohio Volleyball club for one season under coach Max Miller.

Personal: Kaitlyn Elizabeth Nortz... born on March 3, 1987 in Berea, Ohio...

Nortz’s Career Match HighsKills ................................................. 23 (twice)Digs .............................. 8 (at Elon, 10/12/06)Assists ...................................... 2 (three times)Blocks ............................................. 10 (twice)Aces .........................5 (vs. Radford, 8/24/07)

Kaitlyn Nortz’s Career StatisticsYear GP-MP K K/G E TA Pct. A SA Dig D/G BS-BA-TB2005 115-31 268 2.33 180 772 .114 8 18 76 0.66 21-100-1212006 129-36 443 3.43 175 1,059 .253 7 37 87 0.67 34-115-1492007 132-35 448 3.39 144 1,023 .297 9 35 88 0.67 27-138-165TOTAL 376-102 1,159 3.08 499 2,854 .231 24 90 251 0.67 82-353-435

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2007: Followed up her outstanding fresh-man season with a solid sophomore cam-paign… one of six play-ers to see action in all 35 matches… led the team in assists (1,516) and assists per game (11.48)… her 11.48 assists per game ranks second on UNCG’s single-season list, just beneath her record of 12.65 set in 2006… ranks third on UNCG’s all-time assists list with 3,199 career assists… recorded 71 assists one two different occa-sions... broke her own record for assists in a four-game match, to-taling 68 in the 3-1 win over Western Carolina (11/11)... tallied 51 kills, 254 digs and 45 blocks on the season… had 10 games of double-digit digs, including a career-high 19 digs in the 3-1 win over Appalachian State (11/17) in the semifi nals of the Southern Conference Tournament… recorded a season-high four blocks on three occasions… posted a career-high fi ve kills in three contests, including twice in the SoCon Tournament… notched 10 assist-dig double doubles on the season.

2006: Set numerous records during her freshman campaign... broke UNCG’s single season records in assists (1,683) and assists per game (12.65) as well

LisaSetter• 5-8 • Junior Wheaton, IL/Wheaton Warrenville South HS

as broke into the games played list ranked tenth (133)... led the SoCon in assists and assists per game in all matches... had the most assists (843) and ranked second in assists per game (12.58) in conference-only matches... second on the team in service aces (0.34 per game)... set the record for assists in a four-game match (66) in UNCG’s 3-0 win over Liberty (10/10)... played in 36 matches and started 33... tallied 53 kills, 53 blocks and 257 digs on the season... recorded double-digit digs in 10 matches... had a season-high fi ve blocks on two occasions.

High School: Played two years at Wheaton Warrenville South High School in Wheaton, IL for head coach Bill Schreier... also played two years at Benet Acad-emy in Lisle, IL... an honorable mention player in the Dupage Valley Conference.

Club: Played for the Sports Performance Volleyball Club of Aurora, IL for head coach Rick Butler...team won both the 18 Club at Lone Star and Big South Quali-fi ers... team also fi nished second in 18 Club at the Junior Olympics in 2005.

Personal: Lisa Ann Fawell... born April 25, 1988 in Chicago, IL... daughter of Terry Fawell... has an older brother Alex... majoring in exercise and sports science.

Fawell’s Career Match HighsKills .......................................... 5 (three times)Digs ...... 19 (vs. Appalachian State, 11/17/07)Assists .......74 (at Georgia Southern, 10/7/06)Blocks ............................................... 5 (twice)Aces .......... 6 (vs. Tennessee Martin, 8/25/06)

Lisa Fawell’s Career StatisticsYear GP-MP K K/G E TA Pct. A SA Dig D/G BS-BA-TB2006 133-36 53 0.40 31 199 .111 1,683 45 257 1.93 0-53-532007 132-35 51 0.39 20 189 .164 1,516 20 254 1.92 2-43-45TOTAL 265-71 104 0.39 51 388 .137 3,199 65 511 1.93 2-96-98

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Member of the Bring It Promotions/USA Developmental Team that participated in the 2008 Global Challenge in Pula, Croatia during the 2008 summer.

2007: Had a breakout sophomore season setting several new records… was named to the North Carolina Sports Information As-sociation All-State team in the outside hitter position… also named to the Southern Conference All-Tourna-ment team and was named Player of the Month in September… one of six players to see action in all 35 match-es… was UNCG’s fi rst option on the offensive end and recorded 543 kills on the season, a new single-season record… her 4.05 kills per game also ranks second in UNCG’s single-season list just behind Theresa Hart’s 4.20 kills per game… set a new career-high in kills with 32 in a 3-2 win over Furman (9/29)… recorded double-digit kills in every contest with the exception of four… tallied a season-best .511 hitting percentage with 27 kills on 47 attempts with only three errors in the 3-0 win at Western Carolina (10/14)… was also con-sistent on the defensive end… set a new career-high for digs with 34 in a 3-2 win over Morgan State (9/7)… posted 21 double-doubles, including nine in UNCG’s fi rst 11 matches of the season… also ranks tenth on UNCG’s single-season list

BranaganOutside Hitter• 5-10 • Junior Murrieta, CA/Murrieta Valley HS

for games played with 134… Named to the All-Tournament Teams at both the UNCG/HPU Triad Challenge and the 2007 Courtyard by Marriott Invi-tational… led the team in kills (543) and kills per game (4.05).

2006: Played in 35 matches and made 12 starts on the season as an outside hitter...notched 321 kills, 768 digs and 48 blocks on the season... third on the team in kills with 321 on the season... averaged 2.84 kills per game good for third on the team... also ranked third on the team in points (3.15 per game) and fourth in blocks (0.39 per game)... tallied double-digit kills in four consecutive matches... had her best match of the season in UNCG’s 3-2 win over Georgia Southern (10/7) where she tallied 14 kills, nine digs and three blocks... tallied a season-high 16 kills twice.

High School: Competed for three seasons at Murrieta Valley High School for head coaches Susan Lillie and Ann Romero... was a 2005 The Californian Newspaper top-7 players to watch... named fi rst team all-league and team MVP during senior season as an outside hitter... led the Knighthawks in kills, digs and aces and was a team captain in 2005... played fi rst two years as a middle blocker... led the team as a junior in blocks and was named second team all-league... named most improved player as a sophomore... also competed in track & fi eld as a senior... 2004 team were Walt Disney World of Sports tournament champions.

Club: Played from 2004-06 with the Vintage Volleyball Club in Temecula, CA for head coach Dennis Popalitoc... was the team captain in 2005-06... won the 2005 under-17 Volleyball Festival Championship.

Personal: Branagan Lee Fuller... born July 29, 1988 in Fallbrook, CA... daughter of Tim Fuller and Kim Walker... has four siblings... majoring in business marketing at UNCG.

Branagan Fuller’s Career StatisticsYear GP-MP K K/G E TA Pct. A SA Dig D/G BS-BA-TB2006 113-35 321 2.84 182 892 .156 7 12 78 0.69 2-42-442007 134-35 543 4.05 268 1534 .179 29 43 384 2.87 10-45-55TOTAL 247-70 864 3.50 450 2426 .171 36 55 462 1.87 12-87-99

Fuller’s Career Match HighsKills ........................ 32 (vs. Furman, 9/29/07)Digs ................. 34 (vs. Morgan State, 9/7/07)Assists .......................3 (vs. Furman, 9/29/07)Blocks ............................................... 5 (twice)Aces .... 5 (vs. Winston-Salem State, 8/26/06)

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2007: Followed up her record-breaking fresh-man campaign with another record break-ing season… broke her own single-season record for digs, re-cording 684… tallied 5.14 digs per game, which ranks second on UNCG’s single-season list… led the team in digs (684) and service aces (57)… recorded a season-high 39 digs in UNCG’s 3-2 win over Furman (9/29)… tal-lied at least 20 digs in 17 contests… only had one match on the season where she didn’t register double-digit digs… served a season-high six aces against UNC Wilming-ton (8/24)… set a new career-high with fi ve assists in a 3-0 win over North Carolina A&T (9/18)… named to the UNCG/HPU Triad Challenge All-Tournament Team after tallying 79 digs in 13 games played, averaging 6.08 digs per game.

2006: Had a record-breaking freshman campaign... set the single-season record for digs with 653 and ranked fourth on the single-season list in digs per game (4.91)... played in 133 games, good for tenth on the single-season list... set two match records by recording 36 digs in UNCG’s four-game match against Liberty (10/10) and 41 in the fi ve-game match against Garnder-Webb (9/9)... played

CatherineLibero • 5-9 • Junior Richmond, VA/Douglas Freeman HS

in 36 matches and started fi ve... named to the North Carolina Colle-giate Sports Information Association All-State fi rst team in the libero po-sition... fi rst on the team in service aces per game (0.37) and digs per game (4.91)... ranked tenth in the Southern Conference in service aces (0.37 per game) and fourth in digs... anked third on the team in assists (0.20 per game)... recorded 20 consecutive matches with double-digit digs... tallied a career-high 41 digs in UNCG’s 3-2 win over Gardner-Webb (9/9)... recorded 27 kills and three blocks on the season... had a season-high 12 kills and 19.5 points against Win-ston-Salem State (8/26)... tallied one block on three occasions.

High School: A product of Douglas Freeman High School in Richmond, VA... played for coach Joe Sullivan... named district and region player of the year as an outside hitter during junior and senior seasons... also selected the Virginia state Player of the Year twice... helped guide team to a state championship in 2005.

Club: Played for the Richmond Volleyball Club in Richmond, VA for head coach Don Gresham... competed at the Junior Olympics in 2005.

Personal: Catherine L. Hanners... born November 29, 1987 in Richmond, VA… daughter of Jon and Liz Hanners... history major at UNCG.

Catherine Hanners’ Career StatisticsYear GP-MP K K/G E TA Pct. A SA Dig D/G BS-BA-TB2006 133-36 27 0.20 13 108 .130 26 49 653 4.91 0-3-32007 133-35 13 0.10 20 119 -.059 47 57 684 5.14 0-0-0TOTAL 266-71 40 0.15 33 227 .031 73 106 1,337 5.03 0-3-3

Hanners’ Career Match HighsKills ... 12 (vs. Winston-Salem State, 8/26/06)Digs ................. 41 (at Gardner-Webb, 9/9/06)Assists ...... 5 (at North Carolina A&T, 9/18/07)Blocks ...................................... 1 (three times)Aces .... 7 (vs. Winston-Salem State, 8/26/06)

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2007: Saw action in 103 games and 28 matches as a defensive specialist… totaled 206 digs... had 10 matches in double-fi gures… tal-lied a season-high 16 digs in a 3-2 loss to Duquesne (9/1)… re-corded her lone kill of the season in UNCG’s 3-2 loss to Coastal Carolina (9/8)… set a new career-high for as-sists with two against The Citadel (9/21)... served two or more aces in a single match on 11 occasions... recorded a career-high fi ve aces in the 3-0 sweep of Wof-ford (9/28).

2006: Saw action in 35 matches and started 15... played in 126 games during her freshman campaign... notched 301 digs on the season... tallied double-digit digs in 12 matches, including two matches with 20 or more digs... had a career-high 27 digs in UNCG’s 3-1 win over Liberty (10/10)... totaled 20 digs in the 3-2 victory over Davidson (10/1)... tallied two kills on the season... recorded a season-high four points against North Carolina A&T (10/31).

High School: Played four seasons at Moon Area High School in Moon Township, PA.

KayleighDefensive Specialist • 5-6 • Junior Pittsburgh, PA/Moon Area HS

Club: Played two seasons for the Renaissance Volleyball Club in Pitts-burgh, PA for coach Brian Begor... also competed with the Pittsburgh Elite club team.

Personal: Kayleigh Marie Knerr... born April 25, 1988 in Pittsburgh, PA... daugh-ter of Dianne Cipriani and Tommy and Jodi Knerr... hotel management major at UNCG.

Kayleigh Knerr’s Career StatisticsYear GP-MP K K/G E TA Pct. A SA Dig D/G BS-BA-TB2006 126-35 2 0.02 4 22 -.091 8 18 301 2.39 0-0-02007 103-28 1 0.01 6 28 -.179 9 41 206 2.00 0-0-0TOTAL 229-63 3 0.01 10 50 -.140 17 59 507 2.21 0-0-0

Knerr’s Career Match HighsKills .......................................... 1 (three times)Digs .........................27 (vs. Liberty 10/10/06)Assists .................. 2 (at The Citadel, 9/21/07)Blocks ...................................................... N/AAces .........................5 (vs. Wofford, 9/28/07)

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2007: One of UNCG’s offensive weapons, ap-pearing in 111 games and 33 matches... started in 29 match-es... fourth on the team in kills (246) and kills per game (2.22)… earned Southern Con-ference Player of the Week on September 17 after tallying a career-high 17 kills in the 3-2 win over Georgia South-ern (9/15)… reached double fi gures in kills in 10 matches, includ-ing three consecutive matches… second on the team in blocks with 73... posted a career-high six total blocks in a 3-1 win over Appala-chian State in the So-Con Tournament… also set a new career-high with four digs against Wofford (10/28)… recorded an .800 hitting percentage against The Citadel (10/19) with eight kills on 10 attempts and no errors… aver-aged 2.22 kills, 0.20 digs and 0.66 blocks per game on the season.

2006: Saw action in 41 matches... played in 17 matches and started nine... tal-lied 77 kills, 20 blocks and fi ve digs... had a season-high 10 kills in UNCG’s 3-0 win over The Citadel (11/14)... notched a season-high fi ve blocks and 12 points against South Carolina State (8/25)... averaged 1.88 kills per game... had a .191 hitting percentage.

EmilyMiddle Blocker • 6-1 • JuniorNiles, MI/St. Joseph’s HS

High School: Competed for four years and earned two letters at St. Joseph’s High School in South Bend, IN for head coach Mary Kay O’Connell... named All-Northern In-diana Conference... led the Indians to a pair of NIC titles and two state runner-up fi nishes... played one season of basketball... graduated with a high honors diploma... member of the National Honor Society.

Club: Played three years with the Midwest Juniors of South Bend, IN for coach Vince Strefl ing... team placed fi fth at Asics Nationals in back-to-back years.

Personal: Emily Ann Lindborg... born June 2, 1988 in South Bend, IN... daughter of Dave and Cindy Lindborg... sister Allison played basketball at Toledo for three years... also has an older brother, Ben, and younger brother, Tom... nutrition major at UNCG.

Emily Lindborg’s Career StatisticsYear GP-MP K K/G E TA Pct. A SA Dig D/G BS-BA-TB2006 42-18 77 1.83 42 183 .191 1 0 5 0.12 1-19-202007 111-33 246 2.22 89 551 .285 1 1 22 0.20 5-68-73TOTAL 153-51 323 2.11 131 734 .262 2 1 27 0.18 6-87-93

Lindborg’s Career Match HighsKills ...........17 (at Georgia Southern, 9/15/07)Digs ......................... 4 (at Wofford, 10/28/07)Assists ............................................... 1 (twice)Blocks .... 6 (vs. Appalachian State, 11/17/07)Aces ........................1 (vs. Furman, 11/16/07)

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2007: Was limited to only 12 matches af-ter suffering an injury against Georgia South-ern (9/15)… recorded 57 kills and 28 digs from the outside hitter position in 43 games played… reached dou-ble fi gures in kills twice on the season... totaled a career-high 13 kills in the 3-2 victory over against Austin Peay (8/25)... recorded 11 kills in the 3-2 loss at Charlotte (9/8)… tal-lied 18 total blocks on the season... notched a career-high four blocks against Austin Peay (8/25)… posted a career-high eight digs in a 3-2 loss to High Point (9/5)… averaged 1.33 kills per game and 0.65 digs per game.

2006: Sat out season as a redshirt.

High School: A product of McMichael High School... played for head coach Marty Woods... was an all conference performer as an outside hitter for the Fight-ing Phoenix... also a standout basketball and softball player at McMichael High School.

CaleyOutside Hitter • 5-10 • Sophomore-rStokesdale, NC/McMichael HS

Personal: Caley Jean Redden... born July 3, 1988 in Greensboro, NC... daughter of Jack and Jean Redden... has a younger brother Adam... ma-joring in communications at UNCG.

Caley Redden’s Career StatisticsYear GP-MP K K/G E TA Pct. A SA Dig D/G BS-BA-TB2006 Redshirted2007 43-12 57 1.33 38 193 .098 6 0 28 0.65 0-18-18TOTAL 43-12 57 1.33 38 193 .098 6 0 28 0.65 0-18-18

Redden’s Career Match HighsKills .................. 13 (vs. Austin Peay, 8/25/07)Digs ..........................8 (at High Point, 9/5/07)Assists ..2 (vs. Winston-Salem State, 9/11/07)Blocks .................4 (vs. Austin Peay, 8/25/07)Aces ......................................................... N/A

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2007: Saw action in 41 games and played in 17 matches… recorded a career-high fi ve kills on two occasions... totaled fi ve kills in the 3-0 sweep of Winston-Salem State (9/11) and then posted fi ve in the 3-2 victory over Fur-man (9/29)... also put up two assists against Winston-Salem State (9/11)... had her best hitting game of the sea-son against The Citadel (9/21) with three kills on three attempts with no errors... tallied a career-high three digs against The Citadel (9/21)… recorded 16 blocks on the season and had six matches of at least two blocks… only block solo of the season was in the 3-0 sweep of Wofford (9/28).

High School: Competed for four years at Southeast Raleigh HS for head coach Nicole Sampson where she earned one varsity letter... led the Bulldogs to back-to-back conference championships in 2005 and 2006... earned conference Play-er of the Year honors in 2005 and 2006... two-time all-conference selection... earned team MVP honors.

BilliOutside Hitter • 5-10 • SophomoreRaleigh, NC/Southeast HS

Club: Played four years for the North Carolina Challengers/CCVC for coach Sandy Merkel-Dejames.

Personal: Billi Rai Baker... born April 9, 1989 in Raleigh, NC... daughter of Robert and Brenda Baker... has three siblings, Brandi, Bobbi and Toriano... unde-cided on major at UNCG.

Billi Baker’s Career StatisticsYear GP-MP K K/G E TA Pct. A SA Dig D/G BS-BA-TB2007 41-17 41 1.00 20 119 .176 8 0 14 0.34 1-15-16TOTAL 41-17 41 1.00 20 119 .176 8 0 14 0.34 1-15-16

Baker’s Career Match HighsKills ...........................5 (vs. Furman, 9/29/07)Digs ...................... 3 (at The Citadel, 9/21/07)Assists ..2 (vs. Winston-Salem State, 9/11/07)Blocks .........................................2 (fi ve times)Aces ......................................................... N/A

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2007: One of UNCG’S most consistent fresh-men… saw action in 69 games and 28 matches on the season… re-corded 83 kills on the season, including four games in double-dig-its… had a career-high 15 kills in a 3-0 win over Winston-Salem State (9/11)… posted career-highs for hit-ting percentage (.667) and assists (three) in the 3-0 win against The Citadel (10/19)… connected on 10 kills off 12 total attack with two errors in the match against The Citadel... tallied a career-high seven digs against North Carolina A&T (8/25), wher second collegiate outing… re-corded 12 block assists on the season... posted a career-high three block assists against Appalachian State (11/3).

High School: A product of Penn High School in Granger, IN... played for coach Lisa Pawlik... named to the 2006 Class 4A All-State fi rst team in the middle posi-tion... was a four-year starter for the Kingsmen... helped guide the team to the Indiana state fi nals in 2004... also competed in track (high jump)... three-time all-state track team selection and four-time All-Northern Indiana Conference team selection... three-time sectional, regional and conference champion.

AlissaMiddle Blocker • 6-0 • SophomoreGranger, IN/Penn HS

Club: Played for the Dunes Volleyball Club in Michigan City, IN for head coach Rick Ashmore... team won 18 Ameican Division in 2007... fi nished third at the 2005 U.S Nationals Open Division.

Personal: Alissa S. Beaudway... born June 9, 1988 in South Bend, IN... daughter of Mark and Cindy Beaudway... undecided on a major at UNCG.

Alissa Beaudway’s Career StatisticsYear GP-MP K K/G E TA Pct. A SA Dig D/G BS-BA-TB2007 69-28 83 1.20 33 221 .226 7 3 36 0.52 0-12-12TOTAL 69-28 83 1.20 33 221 .226 7 3 36 0.52 0-12-12

Beaudway’s Career Match HighsKills ....15 (vs. Winston-Salem State, 9/11/07)Digs .........7 (vs. North Carolina A&T, 8/25/07)Assists ............... 3 (vs. The Citadel, 10/19/07)Blocks ....... 3 (at Appalachian State, 11/3/07)Aces ........2 (vs. North Carolina A&T, 8/25/07)

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2007: Saw action in 49 games and 22 match-es… led the team in hitting percentage with a .362 percent-age, which is fi fth on UNCG’s single-season list… was fi fth on the team in kills with 142 and third in kills per game (2.90)… record-ed double-digit kills four times on the sea-son... totaled a career-high 14 kills against both The Citadel (9/21) and College of Charleston (11/18)… tallied perfect hitting percentages twice on the season… fi nished sixth on the team in blocks... recorded a season-high six total blcoks in the Southern Conference Champion-ship match against College of Charleston.

High School: Competed for four seasons at Tunstall High School in Danville, VA for head coach Jackie Hardy... named the 2006 Piedmont District Player of the Year and the 2006 Region IV Player of the Year... also earned fi rst team All-Dis-trict and All-Regional honors during her prep career... currently holds the Virginia high school career kills record... was also a 2006 Wendy’s High School Heisman nominee.

KayrenMiddle Blocker • 6-2 • SophomoreDanville, VA/Tunstall HS

Club: Played for the Piedmont Vol-leyball Club for head coach Blaine Tendler... team was Big South Tour-nament qualifi er champions and Big South Tournament champions in 2007.

Personal: Kayren Diane Finney... born November 9, 1988 in Danville, VA... daughter of Michael and Valerie Finney... has three siblings, Asheley, Jehri and Cam’ron... expects to major in biology.

Kayren Finney’s Career StatisticsYear GP-MP K K/G E TA Pct. A SA Dig D/G BS-BA-TB2007 49-22 142 2.90 48 260 .362 0 0 3 0.06 8-38-46TOTAL 49-22 142 2.90 48 260 .362 0 0 3 0.06 8-38-46

Finney’s Career Match HighsKills ................................................. 14 (twice)Digs .......................................... 1 (three times)Assists ...................................................... N/ABlocks 6 (vs. College of Charleston, 11/18/07)Aces ......................................................... N/A

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2007: Saw action in 64 games and 26 matches as a setter… second on the team in assists (206) and assists per game (3.22)… had eight matches with double fi gure assists, including three with 20 or more... put up a ca-reer-high 29 assists in the 3-1 victory at Wof-ford (10/28)… notched 20 assists in the 3-0 sweep of Winston-Sa-lem State (9/11)... tallied 22 assists in the 3-1 loss to Elon (10/2)... only kill of the season came in the 3-1 loss to Elon (10/2)… posted a career-high 12 digs in the 3-1 loss to Appalachian State (11/4)... served two aces against in the vic-tories over North Carolina A&T (8/25), Furman (11/16) and Appalachian State (11/17)... had two block assists on the season with one against Winston-Salem State (9/11) and the other at Wofford (10/28).

High School: A product of Sacred Heart Cathedral Prepatory in San Francisco, CA... played for Margi Beima... earned three varsity letters for the Fightin’ Irish... was named West Catholic Athletic League second-team all league in 2006-07... was the WACL assist leader in 2005-06... during the 2004-05 season led team to DIII Central Coast Section Championship, Northern California Championship...

KimikoSetter • 5-10 • SophomoreSan Francisco, CA/Sacred Heart Cathedral

was named California State runner-up with a 38-7 record.

Club: Played for the San Francisco Juniors Volleyball Club... played for a team that advanced to the Junior Olympics in 2005 and 2007.

Personal: Kimiko K. Naito... born December 11, 1988 in San Francisco, CA... daughter of Suzanne Naito... undecided on a major at UNCG.

Kimiko Naito’s Career StatisticsYear GP-MP K K/G E TA Pct. A SA Dig D/G BS-BA-TB2007 64-26 1 0.02 0 14 .071 206 14 88 1.38 0-2-2TOTAL 64-26 1 0.02 0 14 .071 206 14 88 1.38 0-2-2

Naito’s Career Match HighsKills ................................1 (vs. Elon, 10/2/07)Digs ......... 12 (at Appalachian State, 11/3/07)Assists ...................29 (at Wofford, 10/28/07)Blocks ............................................... 1 (twice)Aces ......................................... 2 (three times)

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2007 (at Averett): Named American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Division III third team All-American… fi nished the season with the nation’s top hitting percentage (.425) and ranked 20th in kills per game (4.79)… selected to the All-South Region Team by the AVCA… named to the VaSID All-State team... only Averett player to receive fi rst team All-USA South Athletic Conference honors… two-time Player of the Week selection... led Averett in kills (647), kills per game (4.79), hitting percentage (.425) total blocks (159) and blocks per game (1.18)… only USA South player to tally an overall hitting percentage higher than .400… led USA South in hitting percentage (.447) and kills per game (5.38) in conference only matches… one of six players to start in all 39 matches… had double-digit kills in all matches but two… posted 20 or more kills in 12 matches… tallied a career-high 27 kills in the 3-1 wins over both Methodist (9/15) and St. Mary’s of Maryland (10/13)… recorded 12 kills off 15 attack for a season-best .800 hitting percentage in the 3-1 loss to Birmingham-Southern (9/7)… served 10 aces in the 3-0 sweep of Meredith (9/29)… posted a career-high eight block solos versus Roanoke (9/2)… totaled a career-high nine block assists in the 3-1 victory over Ogelthorpe (9/7)… posted a career-high 12 total blocks twice, with the fi rst coming against Ogelthorpe (9/7) and the second in the USA South Conference semifi nals versus Greensboro (11/2)… named to the USA South All-Tournament Team after tallying 42 kills off 75 total attack, a .507 hitting percentage and 16 total blocks… had four error-free matches.

2006 (at Averett): Helped the Cougars reach the 2006 NCAA Division III Tournament… named Honorable Mention All-South Region Team by AVCA… named Rookie of the Year by both USA South and VaSID… tabbed fi rst team All-USA South… member of the USA South All-Tournament Team... ranked seventh in the nation for hitting percentage (.409)… led the conference in hitting percentage for all matches and conference-only matches (.483)… only USA South player to have a hitting percentage over .450 in conference-only matches… six-time USA Souther Rookie of the Week selection... named Cougar Classic MVP... recorded six error-free matches… tallied 10 kills off 11 attack for a career-best .909 hitting percentage in the 3-0 sweep of Salem College (9/6)… notched a season-high 24 kills in the 3-2 win over Greensboro College (10/28)… reached double fi gures in kills in 27 matches… recorded a season-best seven total blocks on three occasions.

High School: Three-time letterwinner in volleyball at Hibriten High School, playing for head coach Byron Tolbert... garnered All-County, All-Conference and team MVP honors... also played soccer for one year... member of the competitive dance team... was a Junior Marshall.

Club: Competed for Foothills Fury and head coach Jamie Ward for three years... part of the team that won the Southern Classic Championship.

Personal: Samantha Lillian Kirby... born September 11, 1988 in Tupelo, MS... daughter of John and Melinda Kirby... majoring in elementary education.

Samantha Kirby’s Career Statistics at AverettYear GP-MP K K/G E TA Pct. A SA Dig D/G BS-BA-TB2006 122-36 450 3.69 81 903 .409 2 6 40 0.33 68-43-1112007 135-39 647 4.79 115 1,252 .425 8 53 99 0.73 84-75-159TOTAL 257-75 1,097 4.27 196 2,155 .418 10 59 139 0.54 152-118-270

SamanthaMiddle Blocker • 6-2 • JuniorLenoir, NC/Averett University

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2007 (at Youngstown State): Appeared in 94 games… totaled 164 kills, 26 aces, 226 digs and 25 blocks… recorded a career-high 13 kills versus Green Bay (9/29)… notched 12 kills on four occasions… reached double fi gures in digs in each 12-kill match… posted double-doubles in the 3-0 win over Lehigh (8/24) and 3-2 victory over West Virginia (10/23)… served four aces in the 3-0 sweep of Rider (8/25)… had a career-high 22 digs in the 3-0 loss to North Dakota (9/1)... named to the Temple Invitational All-Tournament team.

High School: Earned three letters at Wesleyan Christian Academy her freshman, sophomore and junior seasons... lettered in her only season at Southwest Guilford under head coach Cindy Seymour... helped Southwest Guilford to a 3A NCHSAA state championship in 2006... garnered All-Conference and Greensboro News-Record All-Area Player of the Year honors while at Southwest Guilford... three-time All-Conference selection at Wesleyan Christian Academy... named All-State, fi rst team All-Area, and team MVP her sophomore and junior seasons... selected as Conference Player of the year her junior season.

Club: Played for Piedmont and head coach Kim Mansfi eld for fi ve years... member of the USA Volleyball A3 Team and USA Volleyball Holiday Camp in 2005... club team participated at nationals two years.

Personal: Abigail Jane Drost... born April 26, 1989 in Madison, WI... daughter of Dirk and Sue Drost... majoring in communications.

AbigailOutside Hitter • 5-11 • SophomoreHigh Point, NC/Youngstown State

Abigail Drost’s Career Statistics at Youngstown StateYear GP-MP K K/G E TA Pct. A SA Dig D/G BS-BA-TB2007 94-25 164 1.74 121 588 .073 25 26 226 2.40 4-21-25TOTAL 94-25 164 1.74 121 588 .073 25 26 226 2.40 4-21-25

2007 (at Baylor): Appeared in 22 games… recorded four assists, eight service aces and nine digs… all four of her assists came in the 3-1 win over Sam Houston State (9/7)… posted a career-high of four aces in the Bears’ 3-0 loss to Texas A&M… served two aces at No. 22 Oklahoma (11/14)… tallied a career-high three digs against No. 12 Kansas State (11/10).

High School: Earned three varsity letters at Jack C. Hays High School under head coach Michael Kane... part of the Jack C. Hays team that were area champions and regional fi nalist her senior season... All-State selection... fi rst team All-16-5A District selection... member of the All-Tournament teams at the Georgetown Invitational and Rebel Bash... All-Star selection... named Newcomer of the Year for 16-5A District... named Academic All-District.

Club: Played for Austin Juniors for four years... qualifi ed for Junior Olympics for four years.

Personal: Madeleine Kellie Bates... born February 19, 1989 in Austin, TX... daughter of Bill Bates and Debbie Bates... exercise and sports science major.

MadySetter • 5-9 • SophomoreBuda, TX/Baylor University

Mandy Bates’ Career Statistics at BaylorYear GP-MP K K/G E TA Pct. A SA Dig D/G BS-BA-TB2007 22-11 0 0.00 0 1 .000 1 1 9 0.41 0-0-0TOTAL 22-11 0 0.00 0 1 .000 1 1 9 0.41 0-0-0

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Jenna

High School: Four-time letterwinner at El Modena HS for Beth Cindery… named both the Century League and team MVP as well as was selected to the Orange County All-Star Game her senior season… all-league selection three years… re-cipient of the All Sports Athlete award at El Modena… also lettered in track and fi eld.

Club: Played for both Golden West and Locals Only… part of the 15s Golden West team that won the gold medal at the Kentucky JO Invitational.

Personal: Jenna Helen Olbright… born April 26, 1990 in Long Beach, CA… daughter of Dave and Pattie Olbright… dad Dave played volleyball for four years at UCLA, while mom Pattie played volleyball for four years at th University of Hous-ton… also has a brother Connor… undecided on major

Luciana

High School: Played at JSerra Catholic HS for coach Troy Tanner and lettered all four years… two-time fi rst team All-Trinity League honoree… named top offensive player as a senior… selected MVP junior season...was a Scholar-Athlete all four years.

Club: Played for Golden West Volleyball Club/Roxy Beach for coach Jimmy Mu-noz… part of the team that won the silver medal at the Junior Olympics 17s na-tional division… also received All-Tournament honors at the Junior Olympics in the 17s division… helped 16s team fi nish in the top four at the Reno Volleyball Festival.

Personal: Luciana Cristina Shafer… born July 10, 1990 in Orange, CA… daughter of Rick and Lena Shafer… has a sister named Alexa… undecided on major.

Setter• 5-10 • FreshmanOrange, CA/El Modena HS

Outside Hitter • 5-9 • FreshmanSan Juan Capistrano/JSerra HS

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Overall record: 20-15 Southern Conference: 11-7 Home: 11-4 Away: 6-8 Neutral: 3-3

ATTACK SET SERVE DIG BLOCKING## Name GP MP-MS K K/G E TA Pct A A/G SA SA/G SE RE DIG D/G BS BA Total B/G BE BHE17 Kayren Finney 49 22-8 142 2.90 48 260 .362 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0 3 0.06 8 38 46 0.94 7 05 Elizabeth Flattery 32 19-0 1 0.03 0 3 .333 4 0.12 2 0.06 4 5 35 1.09 0 0 0 0.00 0 06 Kaitlyn Nortz 132 35-33 448 3.39 144 1,023 .297 9 0.07 35 0.27 48 2 88 0.67 27 138 165 1.25 41 59 Emily Lindborg 111 33-29 246 2.22 89 551 .285 1 0.01 1 0.01 1 0 22 0.20 5 68 73 0.66 12 12 Alissa Beaudway 69 28-4 83 1.20 33 221 .226 7 0.10 3 0.04 1 6 36 0.52 0 12 12 0.17 3 31 Katherine Hart 127 35-30 320 2.52 140 867 .208 32 0.25 8 0.06 10 2 132 1.04 4 64 68 0.54 5 511 Branagan Fuller 134 35-34 543 4.05 268 1,534 .179 29 0.22 43 0.32 78 63 384 2.87 10 45 55 0.41 10 23 Billi Baker 41 17-5 41 1.00 20 119 .176 8 0.20 0 0.00 1 0 14 0.34 1 15 16 0.39 3 14 Lisa Fawell 132 35-33 51 0.39 20 189 .164 1,516 11.48 20 0.15 26 2 254 1.92 2 43 45 0.34 4 777 Lauren Keiser 133 35-25 135 1.02 66 517 .133 39 0.29 32 0.24 26 29 358 2.69 3 46 49 0.37 7 510 Caley Redden 43 12-4 57 1.33 38 193 .098 6 0.14 0 0.00 0 2 28 0.65 0 18 18 0.42 2 220 Kimiko Naito 64 26-2 1 0.02 0 14 .071 206 3.22 14 0.22 15 0 88 1.38 0 2 2 0.03 0 118 Catherine Hanners 133 35-1 13 0.10 20 119 -.059 47 0.35 57 0.43 68 56 684 5.14 0 0 0 0.00 0 113 Kayleigh Knerr 103 28-2 1 0.01 6 28 -.179 9 0.09 41 0.40 35 26 206 2.00 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 TEAM 14 UNCG................ 137 35-35 2,082 15.20 892 5,638 .211 1,913 13.96 256 1.87 313 207 2,332 17.02 60 489 304.5 2.22 94 113 Opponents........... 137 35-35 1,790 13.07 899 5,424 .164 1,648 12.03 207 1.51 294 256 2,214 16.16 92 394 289.0 2.11 81 80

Date Opponent Score Score-by-game&Aug 24, 2007 RADFORD W, 3-0 31-29,30-22,30-18&Aug 24, 2007 UNC WILMINGTON W, 3-1 28-30,30-17,30-20,30-13&Aug 25, 2007 AUSTIN PEAY W, 3-2 25-30,30-26,25-30,34-32,15-13&Aug 25, 2007 NORTH CAROLINA A&T W, 3-0 30-10,30-21,30-17Aug 28, 2007 at East Carolina L, 1-3 24-30,20-30,30-18,24-30!Aug 31, 2007 vs Youngstown State L, 1-3 22-30,23-30,30-25,16-30!Sep 01, 2007 at Duquesne L, 2-3 23-30,28-30,30-22,30-26,14-16!Sep 01, 2007 vs Bucknell L, 0-3 23-30,28-30,28-30Sep 05, 2007 at High Point L, 2-3 30-25,24-30,28-30,30-26,15-17#Sep 07, 2007 vs Morgan State W, 3-2 28-30,28-30,30-28,30-28,16-14#Sep 08, 2007 vs Coastal Carolina L, 2-3 29-31,30-25,30-28,24-30,13-15#Sep 08, 2007 at Charlotte L, 2-3 22-30,21-30,30-23,30-25,12-15Sep 11, 2007 WINSTON-SALEM STATE W, 3-0 30-8,30-10,30-15*Sep 15, 2007 at Georgia Southern W, 3-2 27-30,30-14,23-30,30-15,15-13Sep 18, 2007 at North Carolina A&T W, 3-0 32-30,30-23,30-21*Sep 21, 2007 at The Citadel W, 3-0 30-16,30-20,30-17*Sep 22, 2007 at College of Charleston L, 1-3 24-30,30-25,22-30,26-30*Sep 28, 2007 WOFFORD W, 3-0 30-12,30-26,30-14*Sep 29, 2007 FURMAN W, 3-2 30-28,30-26,30-32,31-33,15-9*Oct 02, 2007 ELON L, 1-3 30-32,28-30,30-20,23-30*Oct 06, 2007 APPALACHIAN STATE L, 2-3 30-28,25-30,22-30,36-34,8-15*Oct 07, 2007 DAVIDSON W, 3-0 30-17,30-24,30-16*Oct 13, 2007 at Chattanooga L, 0-3 23-30,26-30,29-31*Oct 14, 2007 at Western Carolina W, 3-0 30-26,30-20,30-19*Oct 19, 2007 THE CITADEL W, 3-0 30-26,30-20,30-16*Oct 20, 2007 COLLEGE OF CHALESTON L, 2-3 28-30,30-20,30-20,27-30,12-15*Oct 27, 2007 at Furman L, 1-3 14-30,22-30,30-20,15-30*Oct 28, 2007 at Wofford W, 3-1 22-30,30-27,30-24,30-23*Nov 03, 2007 at Appalachian State L, 1-3 35-33,18-30,28-30,24-30*Nov 04, 2007 at Davidson W, 3-0 30-24,30-22,30-28*Nov 10, 2007 CHATTANOOGA W, 3-0 35-33,30-26,30-28*Nov 11, 2007 WESTERN CAROLINA W, 3-1 30-27,27-30,30-19,30-25^Nov 16, 2007 vs Furman W, 3-1 28-30,32-30,30-24,30-28^Nov 17, 2007 vs #2 Appalachian State W, 3-1 30-27,30-28,28-30,30-22^Nov 18, 2007 vs #1 Coll. of Charleston L, 1-3 21-30,27-30,30-28,23-30

* Southern Conference Match& UNCG/HPU Triad Challenge (Greensboro, NC)! Courtyard by Marriott Invitational (Pittsburgh, PA)# Comfort Suites 49ers Volleyball Tournament (Charlotte, NC)^ Southern Conference Tournament (Chattanooga, TN)

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SoCon Matches Overall Matches Team W-L Games For Games Opp. Pct. W-L Games For Games Opp. Pct.College of Charleston*# 16-2 54 16 .889 26-8 84 38 .765Appalachian State 14-4 48 20 .778 19-14 70 55 .576Furman 13-5 46 23 .722 20-9 69 46 .690Chattanooga 13-5 43 26 .722 19-14 72 59 .576UNC Greensboro 11-7 41 27 .611 20-15 79 58 .571Elon 11-7 40 30 .611 17-16 62 60 .515Davidson 7-11 25 40 .389 12-20 44 69 .375Georgia Southern 7-11 28 36 .389 10-21 42 68 .323Western Carolina 4-14 19 45 .222 9-24 35 77 .273Wofford 2-16 19 51 .111 9-22 41 73 .290The Citadel 1-17 8 53 .056 6-28 28 89 .176

*SoCon Regular Season Champions#SoCon Tournament Champions

TeamHitting Percentage1. Furman ................................................................ .2442. College of Charleston .......................................... .2393. Appalachian State. ............................................. .2284. UNCG .................................................................. .2115. Elon .................................................................... .188

Kills per game1. College of Charleston ......................................... 15.782. Appalachian State ............................................. 15.443. UNCG ................................................................. 15.204. Furman .............................................................. 14.985. Chattanooga ...................................................... 14.29

Assists per game1. College of Charleston ......................................... 14.522. UNCG ................................................................. 13.963. Appalachian State ............................................. 13.904. Furman .............................................................. 13.585. Chattanooga ...................................................... 12.90

Blocks per game1. Furman .................................................................3.162. College of Charleston ........................................... 2.653. Davidson .............................................................. 2.404. Western Carolina .................................................. 2.285. Appalachian State ............................................... 2.26

Service Aces per game1. Elon ..................................................................... 1.972. UNCG ................................................................... 1.873. Furman ................................................................ 1.724. Davidson .............................................................. 1.655. Wofford ................................................................ 1.61

Digs per game1. Chattanooga.. .................................................... 22.632. Wofford ...............................................................17.593. College of Charleston ..........................................17.194. UNCG ..................................................................17.025. Georgia Southern ............................................... 16.74

First Team All-ConferenceBrittany Zahn, Appalachian StateTiffany Blum, College of CharlestonLindsey Kane, College of CharlestonChibuzo Aguocha, FurmanNicole Palazzo, FurmanLeslee Ball, Chattanooga

Second Team All-ConferenceDianna Thomas, Appalachian StateAnnie Uthe, College of CharlestonCourtney Stewardson, FurmanAllison West, FurmanKaitlyn Nortz, UNC GreensboroLara Newberry, Chattanooga

Player of the YearBrittany Zahn, Appalachian State

Rayna Taylor Freshman of the YearCole Dawley, College of Charleston

Libero of the YearLara Newberry, Chattanooga

Coach of the YearMatt Ginipro, Appalachian State

All-Tournament TeamLara Newberry, ChattanoogaLorelle Rau, Appalachian StateKaitlyn Nortz, UNC GreensboroBranagan Fuller, UNC GreensboroLindsey Kane, College of CharlestonEmily Sawin, College of Charleston

Most Outstanding PlayerTiffany Blum, College of Charleston

IndividualHitting Percentage1. Nicole Palazzo, Furman ........................................ .3542. Leslee Ball, Chattanooga ..................................... .3173. Michelle Uzoh, Georgia Southern .......................... .3164. Tiffany Blum, College of Charleston ...................... .3155. Katie Hennessey, Western Carolina ....................... .312

Kills per game (Min. 2.00 per game)1. Brittany Zahn, Appalachian State ......................... 4.922. Leslee Ball, Chattanooga ..................................... 4.493. Chibuzo Aguocha, Furman .................................... 4.094. Branagan Fuller, UNCG .....................................4.055. Rachel Sanders, The Citadel ................................. 3.69

Assists per game1. Lindsey Kane, College of Charleston ................... 12.042. Courtney Stewardson, Furman ............................ 11.893. Lisa Fawell, UNCG ..........................................11.484. Lorelle Rau, Appalachian State........................... 11.395. Bethany Herndon, Chattanooga ...........................11.18

Blocks per game1. Nicole Palazzo, Furman ........................................ 1.452. Tiffany Blum, College of Charleston ...................... 1.293. Kaitlyn Nortz, UNCG ..........................................1.254. Carla Durham, Appalachian State......................... 1.255. Emily Lucci, Elon ...................................................1.17

Service Aces per game1. Emily Hill, The Citadel ........................................... 0.602. Katie Pierucci, Davidson ....................................... 0.513. Jamie Engel, Chattanooga .................................... 0.464. Allison West, Furman ............................................ 0.455. Heather Kale, Appalachian State .......................... 0.43

Digs per game1. Lara Newberry, UTC ...............................................7.192. Liz Rondone, WCU ................................................ 5.233. Catherine Hanners, UNCG.................................5.144. Kelly Blakewood, Elon .......................................... 4.395. Lindsey Woeste, Davidson .................................... 3.91

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The Southern Conference, which began its 88th season of intercollegiate competition in 2008, is a national leader in emphasizing the development of the student-athlete and in helping to build lifelong leaders and role models.

The Southern Conference has been on the forefront of innovation and originality in developing creative solutions to address issues facing intercollegiate athletics. From establishing the fi rst conference basketball tournament (1921), tackling the issue of freshmen eligibility (1922), developing women’s championships (1984) and becoming the fi rst conference to install the three-point goal in basket-ball (1980), the Southern Conference has been a pioneer.

The Southern Conference is the nation’s fi fth-oldest NCAA Division I collegiate athletic association. Only the Big Ten (1896), the Missouri Valley (1907), the Pacifi c 10 (1915) and the Southwestern Athletic (1920) conferences are older in terms of origination.

Academic excellence has been a major part of the Southern Conference’s tradition. Hundreds of Southern Conference student-athletes have been recognized on ESPN The Magazine/CoSIDA Academic All-America and all-district teams. A total of 19 Rhodes Scholarship winners have been selected from conference institutions.

The Conference currently consists of 12 members in fi ve states throughout the Southeast and sponsors 19 var-sity sports and championships that produce participants for NCAA Division I Championships.

The Southern Conference offi ces are located in the his-toric Beaumont Mill in Spartanburg, S.C. A textile mill that was in operation from 1880 until 1999, Beaumont Mill was renovated in 2004 and today offers the league fi rst class meeting areas and offi ces as well as a spacious library for storage of the conference’s historical documents.

On Feb. 25, 1921, representatives from 14 of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association’s (SIAA) 30 members met at Atlanta’s Piedmont Hotel to establish the Southern Intercollegiate Conference. On hand at the inaugural meeting were offi cials from Alabama, Alabama Polytechnic Institute (Auburn), Clemson, Georgia, Georgia School of Technology (Georgia Tech), Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi A&M (Mississippi State), North Carolina, North Carolina State, Tennessee, Virginia, Virginia Polytechnic In-stitute (Virginia Tech) and Washington & Lee.

Dr. S.V. Sanford of Georgia was chosen as acting chair-man and N.W. Dougherty of Tennessee was named secre-tary. The decision to form a new athletic conference was motivated by the desire to have a workable number of con-ference games for each league member. With 30 schools in the SIAA by the early 1920s, it was impossible to play every school at least once during the regular season and many schools went several years between playing some confer-ence members. In addition, in 1920, the SIAA voted down proposed rules that an athlete must be in a college a year before playing on its teams and refused to abolish a rule permitting athletes to play summer baseball for money.

Play began in the fall of 1921 and a year later, six more schools joined the fl edgling league including Tulane (which had attended the inaugural meeting but had elected not to join), Florida, Louisiana (LSU), Mississippi, South Carolina and Vanderbilt. VMI joined in 1925 and Duke was added in 1929.

By the 1930s, membership in the Southern Conference had reached 23 schools. C.P. “Sally” Miles of Virginia Tech, president of the Southern Conference, called the annual league meeting to order on Dec. 9, 1932 at the Farragut Ho-tel in Knoxville, Tenn. Georgia’s Dr. Sanford announced that 13 institutions west and south of the Appalachian Moun-tains were reorganizing as the Southeastern Conference. Members of the new league included Alabama, Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Florida, Georgia, Georgia School of Technology, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Mississippi A&M, University of the South, Tennessee, Tulane and Van-derbilt.

According to the minutes of the meeting, Dr. Sanford

stated that the division was made along geographical lines. Florida’s Dr. J.J. Tigert, acting as spokesman for the with-drawing group, regretted the move but believed it was nec-essary as the Southern Conference had grown too large. The resignations were accepted and the withdrawing schools formed the new league which began play in 1932.

The Southern Conference continued with member-ship of 10 institutions including Clemson, Duke, Maryland, North Carolina, North Carolina State, South Carolina, Vir-ginia, VMI, Virginia Tech and Washington & Lee.

The second major shift occurred some 20 years later. By 1952, the Southern Conference included 17 colleges and universities. Another split occurred when seven schools including Clemson, Duke, Maryland, North Carolina, North Carolina State, South Carolina and Wake Forest departed to form the Atlantic Coast Conference which began play in 1953. The revamped Southern Conference included mem-bers The Citadel, Davidson, Furman, George Washington, Richmond, VMI, Virginia Tech, Washington & Lee, West Vir-ginia and William & Mary.

Today, the league continues to thrive with a member-ship that includes 12 institutions and a footprint that spans fi ve states: Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama and Georgia. Current league members are Appa-lachian State, College of Charleston, The Citadel, Davidson, Elon, Furman, Georgia Southern, UNC Greensboro, Sam-ford, Chattanooga, Western Carolina and Wofford.

John Iamarino was offi cially named commissioner of the conference on January 2, 2006. Iamarino has promoted the Southern Conference through an ambitious agenda which has improved competition, upgraded compliance-related matters and increased the marketing and brand awareness of the conference and its member institutions.

The Southern Conference named its fi rst commissioner in December 1950. Duke head football coach Wallace Wade made the transition from Blue Devil football coach to athletics administration as the fi rst person at the helm of the conference.

Lloyd Jordan replaced Wade as the commissioner in 1960 and served a 14-year term until Ken Germann became the league head in 1974. Germann was the commissioner for 13 years and orchestrated the league’s expansion to include women’s athletics. In 1987, he was succeeded by Dave Hart who spearheaded the transfer of the league offi ce from Charlotte, N.C., to Asheville, N.C.

Wright Waters succeeded Hart upon his retirement in 1991. Under Waters’ leadership, the Southern Conference expanded to 12 members, added three women’s sports and posted record revenue from the basketball tournament. Wa-ters, who is currently the commissioner of the Sun Belt Con-ference, was followed by Alfred B. White in 1998. White, a veteran member of the NCAA offi ce, introduced the current conference logo and elevated the conference’s commitment to marketing and development of corporate partners.

Danny Morrison headed the conference from 2001-2005 and orchestrated the league’s move from Asheville, N.C. to Spartanburg, S.C. Under Morrison’s leadership, the conference increased its marketing and promotional ef-forts.

The fi rst Southern Conference Championship was the league basketball tournament held in Atlanta in 1922. The North Carolina Tar Heels won the tournament to become the fi rst recognized league champion in any sport. The Southern Conference Tournament remains the oldest of its kind in col-lege basketball.

Commissioner Germann spearheaded the Southern Conference’s expansion to include women’s athletics dur-ing the 1983-84 season. That year, league championships were held in volleyball, basketball and tennis. Cross country joined the mix in 1985 and the league began holding indoor and outdoor track championships in 1988. Most recently, the conference instituted golf and softball championships in the spring of 1994 and added soccer in the fall of 1994.

The Germann Cup, named in honor of the former com-

missioner, annually recognizes the top women’s athletics programs in the conference. From its humble beginnings, women’s athletics have become an integral part of the Southern Conference and its success.

The Southern Conference declares champions in 10 men’s sports - football, soccer, cross country, basketball, indoor track and fi eld, outdoor track and fi eld, wrestling, baseball, tennis and golf - and nine women’s sports - soc-cer, volleyball, cross country, basketball, indoor track and fi eld, outdoor track & fi eld, tennis, golf and softball.

The Southern Conference has also excelled as the premier Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) confer-ence. Southern Conference member Appalachian State has won the last three FCS titles becoming the fi rst team to do so. The league boasts more than 250 players who have garnered All-America recognition and numerous national player or coach of the year awards. The conference has had at least one team in the Top 10 of the fi nal FCS poll for 23 consecutive years with at least two teams fi nishing in the Top 20 in every season since 1982.

The conference has placed multiple representatives in the FCS Playoffs in 21-of-25 seasons, with 16 Champi-onship Game appearances and eight national titles. The Southern Conference has had at least one team reach the semifi nals in nine of the last 10 years and in 15 of the last 17 seasons.

In 2007, Appalachian State became the fi rst FCS team to defeat a nationally-ranked Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) team when the Mountaineers defeated No. 5-ranked Michigan, 34-32, on Sept. 1 before a sellout crowd at Mich-igan Stadium.

Prior to the conference’s reclassifi cation in 1981, Southern Conference football teams appeared in a total of 34 bowl games, posting a record of 16-17-2. There are nearly 40 former Southern Conference players in the Col-lege Football Hall of Fame. One of the most recognizable of these names is former North Carolina running back Charlie “Choo Choo” Justice who helped guide North Carolina to three bowl appearances. He was a fi rst team All-America selection in 1948 and 1949. In 1949, Justice earned fi rst team all-conference honors for the fourth consecutive sea-son, becoming the fi rst player in league history to achieve that feat.

Another of the league’s football products that made it to the College Football Hall of Fame is Sam Huff of West Vir-ginia. Huff was a three-year starter on both the offensive and defensive lines for the Mountaineers. In 1955, Huff earned fi rst team All-America honors on the fi eld and was a fi rst team Academic All-America for his work in the classroom. He played 12 seasons in the National Football League for the New York Giants and the Washington Redskins. He was a fi ve-time All-Pro defensive lineman and is also a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

In recent years, the Southern Conference has contin-ued to produce outstanding student-athletes. In 1999, Georgia Southern’s Adrian Peterson captured the Walter Payton Award presented annually to the Football Champi-onship Subdivision’s most outstanding offensive player. Furman’s Louis Ivory was awarded the honor in 2000 and Georgia Southern’s Jayson Foster was presented with the 2007 trophy.

Appalachian State’s Dexter Coakley was a three-time

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all-conference selection and consensus All-America in 1994, ’95 and ’96 before going on to stardom with the Dal-las Cowboys. Coakley won a pair of Buck Buchanan Awards, given to Football Championship Subdivision’s top defensive player each year. Terrell Owens went from catching passes at Chattanooga to a stellar NFL career. Western Carolina’s David Patten and Appalachian State’s Matt Stevens were both members of the New England Patriots Super Bowl Champion team in 2002 and Patten also earned Super Bowl rings with the Patriots in 2004 and ’05.

Men’s basketball was the fi rst sport in which the con-ference held a championship. The league tournament is the nation’s oldest, with the inaugural championship held at Atlanta’s City Auditorium in 1922 and was won by North Carolina.

Not only was the Southern Conference Tournament the fi rst of its kind, the league also helped change the face of college basketball. In 1980, the league began a season-long experiment with a 22-foot three-point fi eld goal with the approval of the NCAA Rules Committee. Ronnie Carr of Western Carolina made the fi rst three-point fi eld goal in col-lege basketball history in a game against Middle Tennessee State on Nov. 29, 1980.

Another college basketball tradition that originated in the Southern Conference is the traditional cutting of the nets by the winning team. According to USA Today, the prac-tice of net cutting originated in 1947 with North Carolina State head coach Everett Case. As a fi rst-year head coach, Case led the Wolfpack to the Southern Conference Tourna-ment title. Case celebrated by claiming the nets as a souve-nir of the win to commemorate the event.

Basketball coaching legend Red Auerbach gives credit to former George Washington coach Bill Reinhart, who coached in the conference for nearly 30 years, as one of the originators of the modern fast-break.

West Virginia’s 10 tournament championships are still the most in league history. The Mountaineers were led by the incomparable Jerry West from 1958 through ’60. West, a two-time All-America selection, spurred West Virginia to the Final Four in 1959. The Mountaineers lost in the cham-pionship game that season to California, 71-70, but West earned Final Four Most Valuable Player honors. West was a three-time Southern Conference tournament MVP, a two-time league regular season MVP, and was twice named the conference’s Athlete of the Year. He went on to a spectacu-lar career with the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Bas-ketball Association and was inducted into the Naismith Me-morial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1979. He was a 14-time NBA All-Star while with the Lakers. It is West’s silhouette that comprises the NBA’s globally recognized logo.

Selvy set the NCAA record for points in a game while at Furman. On Feb. 13, 1954, the senior scored 100 points in a game against Newberry, a record that still stands. Selvy was the Southern Conference Most Valuable Player in 1953 and 1954 and the league’s Athlete of the Year in 1954. He went on to a 10-year career in the NBA.

Rod Hundley was another West Virginia star during the 1950s. “Hot Rod” made a name for himself as one of the most spectacular players to tour the league during his era. Hundley averaged 24.5 points per game in his three sea-sons as a Mountaineer and was an all-conference and all-tournament performer in each of those three years. He was the Southern Conference Most Valuable Player and Athlete of the Year as a senior in 1957. He was the fi rst player se-lected in the 1957 NBA draft and enjoyed a six-year career in that league.

East Tennessee State’s Keith “Mister” Jennings made his mark on the college basketball world in the early 1990s. Despite standing less than six feet tall, Jennings was a two-time all-conference choice and the league’s Player of the Year and Athlete of the Year in 1991. Jennings played with the Golden State Warriors of the NBA.

Besides West Virginia’s team in 1959, the Southern Conference has been represented in the Final Four on two

other occasions. North Carolina advanced to the NCAA championship game in 1943 before falling 43-40 to Okla-homa State. North Carolina State fi nished third in the tour-nament in 1950.

Davidson continued the record of success by advanc-ing to the NCAA Tournament’s Elite Eight in 2008 and coach Bob McKillop’s Wildcats came within a basket of making the Final Four behind the play of sophomore guard Stephen Curry.

Women’s basketball competition began in the South-ern Conference in 1983-84 with seven teams. In the sport’s history, seven schools have won the league’s tournament at least once with Chattanooga winning 12 and Appalachian State owning six titles. UNC Greensboro won the 1998 tour-nament as head coach Lynne Agee became the fi rst coach to take a team to the NCAA Tournament in all three Divisions - I, II and III. In 2001, Chattanooga head coach Wes Moore became the fi rst coach in NCAA history to take three differ-ent teams to the NCAA Tournament in all three Divisions.

Since 1984, seven different teams have claimed at least a share of the regular season crown. Chattanooga has the most overall titles with 13, six of them shared. Chatta-nooga owns the most outright championships with seven. Only four players have won the conference Player of the Year award twice: East Tennessee State’s DeShawne Blocker in 1992-93 and 1994-95; Furman’s Jackie Smith, 1997-98 and 1998-99; Chattanooga’s Damita Bullock, who won the award in 2000 and 2001; and Chattanooga’s Alex Ander-son in 2007 and 2008.

In baseball, Wake Forest advanced to the champion-ship game of the NCAA College World Series in 1949. De-mon Deacon second baseman Charles Teague was named the College World Series Most Valuable Player. The Citadel made history in 1990 by becoming the fi rst military school to make an appearance at the College World Series. The Bulldogs were joined that season at the College World Se-ries by current conference member Georgia Southern.

One of the Southern Conference’s more famous base-ball alums is Duke’s Dick Groat. The Blue Devil shortstop, who was also a basketball standout, was the conference’s Athlete of the Year in 1951 and 1952. He went on to a 14-year career in the major leagues. In 1960, he was named the National League MVP after he led the league in batting with a .325 average for the World Champion Pittsburgh Pi-rates.

Among Southern Conference alums to grace Major League Baseball fi elds have been Atlee Hammaker (East Tennessee State), Jeff Montgomery (Marshall) and Mike Ramsey (Appalachian State). Other SoCon players to go on to a career in the major leagues include Angels third base-man Dallas McPherson (The Citadel), pitchers Britt Reames (The Citadel) and Ryan Glynn (VMI) who both pitched with Oakland in 2005, Furman’s Tom Mastny, a pitcher with the Cleveland Indians (2007) and Georgia Southern’s Brian Rogers, who pitched with the Pittsburgh Pirates in 2007.

Arnold Palmer, perhaps the world’s most famous golf-er, competed under the Southern Conference banner as a collegian at Wake Forest. He took medalist honors at the Southern Conference Tournament in 1948 and 1949 and was the tournament’s runner-up in 1950. Palmer was the medalist at the NCAA Golf Championships in 1949 and 1950. He went on to become one of the most accomplished golfers to play on the professional tour. Palmer won 60 tour-naments while competing on the PGA Tour and has added 10 more victories as a member of the Senior PGA Tour. He has also won eight major championships - four Masters, two British Opens, one U.S. Open and one U.S. Amateur.

Furman golfer Dottie Pepper was named the Southern Conference Women’s Athlete of the Decade in the 1980s and was honored as part of the league’s 25th anniversary of women’s championships celebration in 2007-08. Appala-chian State’s Mary Jayne Harrelson won the NCAA Outdoor title at 1,500 meters in 1999 and 2001. Furman’s Brandi Jackson won the NCAA Women’s Golf East Regional in the

spring of 2003.The Southern Conference has also been a breed-

ing ground for some of college athletics’ most recognized coaches and administrators.

Legendary basketball coaches Adolph Rupp of Ken-tucky and Everett Case of North Carolina State both worked the sidelines in the Southern Conference. Rupp guided the Wildcats to a 30-5 mark during the 1931 and 1932 seasons. Yet, for all his coaching accomplishments, Rupp never led Kentucky to a Southern Conference tournament championship. Case mentored the Wolfpack to six consecu-tive Southern Conference Tournament championships from 1947 through 1952.

Lefty Driesell coached Davidson to three Southern Conference Tournament championships in 1966, 1968 and 1969. Driesell also won the league’s Coach of the Year award four straight times from 1963 through 1966. Former Georgia Tech coach Bobby Cremins earned league Coach of the Year honors three times in the late ’70s and early ’80s while at Appalachian State and is now the head coach at the College of Charleston.

Terry Holland saw his basketball coaching career take off at Davidson when he returned to his alma mater in 1970. Holland was honored as the Southern Conference Coach of the Year for three consecutive seasons from 1970-72 and led the Wildcats to the conference tournament title and an appearance in the NCAA Tournament in 1970. J. Dallas Shirley, a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame, spent 21 years as the assistant to the commissioner and supervisor of offi cials in the Southern Conference. He also served as president of the International Association Basketball Offi -cials and the United States Olympic Basketball Committee.

The legendary Paul “Bear” Bryant got his coaching start in the Southern Conference as he guided the Maryland Terrapins in 1945. A legendary Southern Conference foot-ball coach is the late Frank Howard of Clemson, who guided the Tigers as a league member from 1940-52. The incom-parable Howard won 69 Southern Conference games.

The Southern Conference has been represented on the sidelines at fi ve Super Bowls in recent years. Bobby Ross, who piloted the San Diego Chargers to the 1996 Super Bowl, was the head coach at The Citadel from 1973-77. For-mer Buffalo Bills head coach Marv Levy directed William & Mary from 1964-68. He was succeeded at William & Mary by Lou Holtz. William & Mary competed in the Southern Conference from 1936-77.

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Hitting Percentage (Min. 200 Kills)1. Julie Parish ......................1990 .......................... .4512. Lisa Beverly .....................1984 ......................... .4343. Lisa Beverly .....................1983 ......................... .3894. Julie Parish ......................1989 .......................... .3785. Tammy Tindall..................1995 ......................... .3606. Melanie Trexler ................1992 ......................... .3397. Missi Olson......................1990 ......................... .3368. Kathy Quaintance ............1989 ......................... .325 Stacy Meadows ...............1995 ......................... .32510. Lisa Beverly .....................1982 ......................... .320

Kills1. Branagan Fuller ...............2007 ........................... 5432. Theresa Hart ....................2006 ........................... 5343. Missi Olson......................1992 ........................... 5244. Kathy Quaintance ............1989 .......................... .4895. Missi Olson......................1990 ........................... 4756. Kaitlyn Nortz ....................2007 ........................... 4487. Kaitlyn Nortz ....................2006 ........................... 4438. Julie Parish ......................1989 ............................419 Becky Moore ...................2000 ............................41910. Julie Parish ......................1990 ........................... 407

Kills Per Game1. Theresa Hart ....................2006 .......................... 4.202. Branagan Fuller ...............2007 .......................... 4.053. Kathy Quaintance ............1989 .......................... 3.884. LaJean Morrow ................2003 .......................... 3.685. Becky Moore ...................2000 .......................... 3.646. Missi Olson......................1992 .......................... 3.567. Missi Olson......................1990 .......................... 3.498. Robin Schuller .................1996 .......................... 3.489. Kaitlyn Nortz ....................2006 .......................... 3.4310. Kaitlyn Nortz ....................2007 .......................... 3.39

Assists1. Lisa Fawell ......................2006 ........................ 1,6832. Lisa Fawell ......................2007 .........................1,5163. Liz Gremillion...................1994 ........................ 1,3324. Liz Gremillion...................1992 ........................ 1,2765. Jessica Chappell ..............1997 ........................ 1,2536. Tanya Edmunds ...............1989 ........................ 1,2407. Liz Gremillion...................1993 ........................ 1,1538. Adrian Hicks ....................2005 ........................ 1,1009. Robyn Jameson ...............2000 ........................ 1,01910. Liz Gremillion...................1995 ........................... 990*stats not available before 1987

Assists Per Game1. Lisa Fawell ......................2006 ........................ 12.652. Lisa Fawell ......................2007 ........................ 11.483. Liz Gremillion...................1994 ........................ 11.394. Liz Gremillion...................1995 ........................ 10.535. Liz Gremillion...................1992 ........................ 10.466. Tanya Edmunds ...............1989 .......................... 9.927. Jessica Chappell ..............1997 .......................... 9.718. Adrian Hicks ....................2005 .......................... 9.579. Jessica Chappell ..............1996 .......................... 9.3910. Robyn Jameson ...............1998 .......................... 9.39

Digs1. Catherine Hanners ...........2007 ........................... 6842. Catherine Hanners ...........2006 ........................... 6533. Julie Parish ......................1990 ........................... 6414. Rebekah Faulise ..............2004 ........................... 6155. Missi Olson......................1991 ........................... 5786. Julie Parish ......................1989 ........................... 5517. Missi Olson......................1990 ........................... 5318. Christie Ayscue ................1991 ........................... 4949. Kathy Quaintance ............1989 ........................... 48610. Lauren Yarish ...................1991 ........................... 479

Digs Per Game1. Missi Olson......................1991 ...........................5.162. Catherine Hanners ...........2007 ...........................5.143. Rebekah Faulise ..............2004 .......................... 5.084. Catherine Hanners ...........2006 .......................... 4.915. Julie Parish ......................1990 .......................... 4.866. Cristine Ayscue ................1991 .......................... 4.577. Julie Parish ......................1989 .......................... 4.418. Lauren Yarish ...................1991 .......................... 4.209. Robin Schuller .................1996 .......................... 3.9510. Missi Olson......................1990 .......................... 3.90

Service Aces1. Kathy Quaintance ............1989 ..............................912. Lisa Beverly .....................1984 ............................. 873. Tanya Edmunds ...............1989 ............................. 774. Missi Olson......................1990 ............................. 695. Becky Moore ...................1999 ............................. 696. Julie Parish ......................1989 ............................. 617. Gia Orlando .....................1987 ............................. 608. Kathy Quaintance ............1990 ............................. 609. Tanya Edmunds ...............1990 ............................. 6010. Becky Moore ...................2000 ............................. 57 Catherine Hanners ...........2007 ............................. 57

Service Aces Per Game1. Lisa Beverly .....................1984 .......................... 0.842. Kathy Quaintance ............1989 .......................... 0.723. Becky Moore ...................1999 .......................... 0.714. Tanya Edmunds ...............1989 .......................... 0.625. Gia Orlando .....................1987 .......................... 0.586. Missi Olson......................1989 .......................... 0.567. Missi Olson......................1990 .......................... 0.518. Becky Moore ...................2000 ......................... 0.509. Julie Parish ......................1989 .......................... 0.4910. Robin Schuller .................1996 ......................... 0.48

Blocks1. Lisa Beverly .....................1984 ........................... 1982. Melanie Trexler ................1992 ........................... 1693. Kaitlyn Nortz ....................2007 ........................... 1654. Melanie Trexler ................1993 ........................... 1635. Julie Parish ......................1990 ........................... 1556. Kaitlyn Nortz ....................2006 ........................... 1497. Lorie Beam ......................1986 ........................... 1428. Jen Emery ........................1986 ........................... 1399. Rayna Taylor ....................1998 ........................... 12310. Jen Yarborough ................1992 ........................... 121 Kaitlyn Nortz ....................2005 ........................... 121

Blocks Per Game1. Lisa Beverly .....................1984 .......................... 1.902. Lorie Beam ......................1986 .......................... 1.613. Melanie Trexler ................1993 .......................... 1.544. Jen Emery ........................1986 .......................... 1.455. Jen Emery ........................1984 .......................... 1.426. Kaitlyn Nortz ....................2007 .......................... 1.257. Julie Parish ......................1990 ...........................1.17 Melanie Trexler ................1992 ...........................1.179. Kaitlyn Nortz ....................2006 ...........................1.1610. Kelly Boerstler .................1997 ...........................1.15

Games Played1. Tanya Edmunds ...............1992 ........................... 1482. Missi Olson......................1992 ............................1473. Malanie Trexler ................1992 ........................... 1444. Lauren Yarish ...................1992 ........................... 1435. Tanya Edmunds ...............1990 ........................... 1386. Kathy Quaintance ............1990 ........................... 137 Casey Seeger ...................1992 ........................... 1378. Missi Olson......................1990 ........................... 136 Tiffany Wilson ..................1992 ........................... 13610. Branagan Fuller ...............2007 ........................... 134

Catherine Hanners

Branagan Fuller

Rebekah Faulise

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Hitting Percentage (Min. 200 kills)1. Lisa Beverly .....................1982-84 .................... .3762. Julie Parish ......................1987-90 .................... .3323. Kathy Quaintance ............1989-90 .................... .3144. Tammy Tindall..................1992-95 .................... .3075. Jen Emery ........................1983-84, 86 ............. .2926. Christie Ayscue ................1988-91 .................... .2827. Brenda Suits....................1982 .......................... .2818. Missi Olson......................1989-92 .................... .2789. Melanie Trexler ................1990-93 .................... .27410. Kim Michels ....................1988 ......................... .265

Kills1. Missi Olson......................1989-92 .................. 1,6002. Julie Parish ......................1987-90 ................... 1,4323. Robin Schuller .................1993-96 .................. 1,3324. Kaitlyn Nortz ....................2005-present ........... 1,1595. Becky Moore ...................1997-00 ................... 1,1276. Kelley Evans ....................1996-99 ...................1,1167. Lauren Yarish ...................1990-93 ...................1,1078. Hillary Overby ..................2003-06 ..................... 9779. Stacy Meadows ...............1992-95 ..................... 95610. Melanie Trexler ................1990-93 ..................... 903

Kills Per Game1. Theresa Hart ....................2006 .......................... 4.202. Branagan Fuller ...............2006-present ............. 3.503. Missi Olson......................1989-92 .................... 3.274. Kathy Quaintance ............1989-90 .................... 3.205. Kaitlyn Nortz ....................2005-present ............. 3.086. Julie Parish ......................1987-90 ..................... 3.04 Cindy VanDervoort ...........2004 .......................... 3.048. Robin Schuller .................1993-96 .................... 2.979. Becky Moore ...................1997-00 ..................... 2.9510. LaJean Morrow ................2000-03 .................... 2.70

Assists1. Liz Gremillion...................1992-95 .................. 4,7512. Robyn Jameson ...............1998-01 ................... 3,6413. Lisa Fawell ......................2006-present ........... 3,1994. Adrian Hicks ....................2002-05 ...................3,1415. Tanya Edmunds ...............1989-92 .................. 2,7386. Jessica Chappell ..............1996-97 ................... 2,0217. Liz Penn ...........................1987-88 ................... 1,1088. Pam Johnson ...................1987-88 ................... 1,0719. Juliet Pack .......................2001-02...................... 71310. Stephanie Elbe ................2003-04 ..................... 712

Assists Per Game1. Lisa Fawell ......................2006-present ........... 12.072. Liz Gremillion...................1992-95 .................. 10.423. Jessica Chappell ..............1996-97 ..................... 9.624. Robyn Jameson ...............1998-01 ..................... 8.715. Adrian Hicks ....................2002-05 .................... 8.926. Stephanie Elbe ................2003-04 .................... 8.57

Digs1. Missi Olson......................1989-92 .................. 1,9322. Lauren Yarish ...................1990-93 .................. 1,6603. Robin Schuller .................1993-96 .................. 1,4934. Christie Ayscue ................1988-91 ................... 1,3495. Catherine Hanners ...........2006-present ........... 1,3376. Julie Parish ......................1987-90 ................... 1,3057. Kelley Evans ....................1996-99 .................. 1,2568. Rebekah Faulise ..............2001-04................... 1,2499. Stacy Meadows ...............1992-95 .................. 1,21510. Ellen Gallagher ................1993-96 .................. 1,153

Missi Olson

Digs Per Game1. Catherine Hanners ...........2006-present ............. 5.032. Missi Olson......................1989-92 .................... 3.953. Christie Ayscue ................1988-91 ..................... 3.664. Rebekah Faulise ..............2001-04..................... 3.485. Robin Schuller .................1993-96 .................... 3.336. Lauren Yarish ...................1990-93 .................... 3.297. Kathy Quaintance ............1989-90 .................... 2.998. Stacy Meadows ...............1992-95 .................... 2.959. Alysia Rosvold .................2004-05 .................... 2.9110. Kelley Evans ....................1996-99 .................... 2.84

Service Aces1. Missi Olson......................1989-92 ..................... 2212. Tanya Edmunds ...............1989-92 ..................... 2153. Robin Schuller .................1993-96 ..................... 1734. Lauren Yarish ...................1990-93 ......................1715. Becky Moore ...................1997-00 ...................... 1556. Gia Orlando .....................1986-88 ..................... 1527. Kathy Quaintance ............1989-90 ......................1518. Liz Gremillion ..................1992-95 ..................... 1459. Kelley Evans ....................1996-99 ..................... 14210. Stacy Meadows ...............1992-95 ..................... 119

Service Aces Per Game1. Kathy Quaintance ............1989-90 .................... 0.572. Gia Orlando .....................1986-88 ................... 0.483. Missi Olson......................1989-92 ................... 0.454. Tanya Edmunds ...............1989-92 .................... 0.41 Becky Moore ...................1997-00 ..................... 0.416. Catherine Hanners ...........2005-present ............. 0.407. Robin Schuller .................1993-96 ................... 0.398. Stephanie Kuebler ...........2004-05 .................... 0.389. Lauren Yarish ...................1990-93 ................... 0.3410. Kelley Evans ....................1996-99 ................... 0.32 Liz Gremillion...................1992-95 ................... 0.32

Blocks1. Melanie Trexler ................1990-93 ..................... 5222. Kaitlyn Nortz ....................2005-present .............. 4353. Julie Parish ......................1987-90 ...................... 3944. Tammy Tindall .................1992-95 ..................... 3135. Stacy Meadows ...............1992-95 ..................... 3056. Lauren Yarish ...................1990-93 ..................... 3367. Lauren Richards ..............2002-05 ..................... 3138. Jen Emery ........................1983-84, 86 ............... 3009. Liz Gremillion...................1992-95 ..................... 24310. Dawn Bright .....................2000-02 ..................... 238

Blocks Per Game1. Kaitlyn Nortz ....................2005-present ..............1.162. Melanie Trexler ................1990-93 .....................1.113. Rayna Taylor ....................1998-99 .................... 1.064. Kelly Boerstler .................1996-97 ..................... 0.995. Tammy Tindall..................1992-95 .................... 0.986. Samika Hawkins ..............1998-99 .................... 0.967. Julie Parish ......................1987-90 ..................... 0.848. Lauren Richards ..............2002-05 .................... 0.839. Dawn Bright .....................2000-02 .................... 0.7610. Maribeth Lessner .............1994-97 ..................... 0.74

Games Played1. Tanya Edmunds ...............1989-92 ..................... 5212. Lauren Yarish ...................1990-93 ..................... 5053. Missi Olson......................1989-92 ..................... 4894. Julie Parish ......................1987-90 .......................4715. Melanie Trexler ................1990-93 ..................... 4696. Liz Gremillion...................1992-95 ..................... 4567. Robin Schuller .................1993-96 ..................... 4488. Kelley Evans ....................1996-99 ..................... 4439. Deetra Bryant ..................1994-97 ...................... 43810. Lauren Keiser ..................2004-07 ......................419

Theresa Hart

Liz Gremillion

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Hitting PercentageThree-Game Match.857 .............Lauren Richards vs. Gardner-Webb (10/26/04)Four-Game Match.560 ............................. Stacy Meadows at VCU (9/17/94)Five-Game Match.550 ................................Kelley Evans vs. Drexel (9/7/96)

KillsThree-Game Match27 .......... Branagan Fuller at Western Carolina (10/14/07)Four-Game Match26 ..............................Theresa Hart vs. Liberty (10/10/06)Five-Game Match34 ......................Becky Moore vs. Chattanooga (10/4/97)

Attack AttemptsThree-Game Match51.............................Robin Schuller at Liberty (10/25/94)Four-Game Match75 .................... Missi Olson vs. UNC Asheville (10/14/92)Five-Game Match84 ......................Becky Moore vs. Chattanooga (10/3/97)

AssistsThree-Game Match56 ............................. Liz Gremillion at Liberty (10/25/94)Four-Game Match68 .................Lisa Fawell vs. Western Carolina (11/11/07)Five-Game Match75 ...........................Liz Gremillion at Campbell (9/30/94)

Service AcesThree-Game Match8 .................................Sarah Bosch vs. Furman (10/9/01)Four-Game Match8 ........................................................Becky Moore (Twice)Five-Game Match6 .............................................................................. Twice

Block SoloThree-Game Match5 .............................................................................. TwiceFour-Game Match5 ...................................................................... Four TimesFive-Game Match5 ......................... Kaitlyn Nortz vs. Gardner-Webb (9/9/06)

Block AssistsThree-Game Match10 ...........................Dawn Bright at The Citadel (10/6/02)Four-Game Match8 ..................................................................... Eight TimesFive-Game Match10 ......................... Jenny Yarborough at Liberty (9/15/92)

Total BlocksThree-Game Match11 ...........................Dawn Bright at The Citadel (10/6/02)Four-Game Match12 .........................Kelly Boerstler vs. Radford (10/25/96)Five-Game Match12 ............................................................................ Twice

DigsThree-Game Match24 ............................................................................ TwiceFour-Game Match36 .................... Catherine Hanners vs. Liberty (10/10/06)Five-Game Match41...................... Catherine Hanners vs. Gardner-Webb (9/9/06)

Hitting PercentageThree-Game Match.514...... vs. Virginia Commonwealth (September 22, 1995)Four-Game Match.465 .................................at Campbell (October 15, 1993)Five-Game Match.349 .............................. at The Citadel (October 27, 2001)

KillsThree-Game Match67 .........................vs. Georgia Southern (October 7, 2006)Four-Game Match78 ..................................... vs. Wofford (October 21, 1997)Five-Game Match91 ...............................at Campbell (September 30, 1994)

Attack AttemptsThree-Game Match192 ......................................at Liberty (October 25, 1994)Four-Game Match246 ................at North Carolina State (November 9, 1994)Five-Game Match260 ............................... vs. Radford (November 13, 1993)

AssistsThree-Game Match64 ........................................at Liberty (October 25, 1994)Four-Game Match73 ............................................................................ TwiceFive-Game Match85 ....................................at Campbell (October 27, 2001)

Service AcesThree-Game Match16 ............................................................................ TwiceFour-Game Match19 .............................. vs. Hampton (September 10, 1999)Five-Game Match17 .......................vs. Western Carolina (November 6, 2004)

Block SoloThree-Game Match12 ...................................at Dayton (September 25, 1992)Four-Game Match11 ................................. at Radford (September 25, 1991)Five-Game Match9 ....................at College of Charleston (October 30, 1999)

Block AssistsThree-Game Match31 ............................................................................ TwiceFour-Game Match26 ................. at Appalachian State (September 22, 1998)Five-Game Match32 ................................... at Liberty (September 15, 1992)

Total BlocksThree-Game Match36 .......................................at Elon (September 29, 1999)Four-Game Match29 ............................................................................ TwiceFive-Game Match39 ................................. at Campbell (September 4, 1997)

DigsThree-Game Match85 ........................................at Liberty (October 25, 1994)Four-Game Match130 ................at North Carolina State (November 9, 1994)Five-Game Match154 ................................vs. Radford (November 13, 1993)

Lisa Fawell

Becky Moore

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Southern Conference (1997-present)

All-Southern Conference 2006 Theresa Hart ....................................First Team 2007 Kaitlyn Nortz ...............................Second Team

All-Southern Conference Tournament 2006 ............................................................ Theresa Hart ....................................................................Kaitlyn Nortz

2007 ....................................................... Branagan Fuller ....................................................................Kaitlyn Nortz

SoCon Freshman of the Year 1998 ............................................................ Rayna Taylor

Academic All-District III presented by CoSIDA 2005 .............................................................. Lori Collins

Big South (1992-96)

All-Big South 1992 Missi Olson .................................... First Team 1993 Lauren Yarish ................................. First Team Melanie Trexler ...........................Second Team 1994 Liz Gremillion ................................. First Team Robin Schuller ............................... First Team Stacy Meadows .........................Second Team 1995 Liz Gremillion ................................. First Team Stacy Meadows .............................. First Team Robin Schuller ............................... First Team 1996 Ellen Gallagher...........................Second Team Robin Schuller ...........................Second Team

All-Big South Tournament 1992 ............................................................. Missi Olson 1993 .......................................................... Liz Gremillion ...................................................................Lauren Yarish

1994 .......................................................... Liz Gremillion .................................................................Robin Schuller

1995 .......................................................... Liz Gremillion ................................................................. Tammy Tindall

Big South Tournament MVP 1994 .......................................................... Liz Gremillion

Big South Player of the Year 1995 .......................................................... Liz Gremillion

Big South Volleyball Scholar-Athlete of the Year 1996 .......................................................... Liz Gremillion

Big South Coach of the Year 1995 ..................................................................Tere Dail

Division II-Independent (1988-1991)

Academic All-America presented by CoSIDA 1990 ........................................................Tanya Edmunds

Dixie Conference (1981-1987)

All-Dixie Conference 1981 Maggie Hayes ................................ First Team Sandra Smith ................................. First Team Brenda Suits .................................. First Team 1982 Lisa Beverly .................................... First Team Maggie Hayes ................................ First Team Brenda Suits .................................. First Team Shirese Moore ............................Second Team 1983 Lisa Beverly ................................... First Team Maggie Hayes ................................ First Team Shirese Moore ............................Second Team 1984 Lisa Beverly .................................... First Team Maggie Hayes ................................ First Team Shirese Moore ............................Second Team Sandra Smith .............................Second Team 1985 Jen Emery ...................................... First Team Sarah Farlow ..............................Second Team Liz enn .......................................Second Team Georgeanne Wyrick ....................Second Team 1986 Jen Emery ...................................... First Team Georgeanne Wyrick ....................Second Team 1987 Gia Orlando.................................... First Team Laura Larson ..............................Second Team

All-Dixie Tournament 1981 ............................................................. Lisa Beverly ..................................................................Maggie Hayes ................................................................. Sherrie Moore ................................................................... Brenda Suits

1982 ........................................................... Brenda Suits ..................................................................... Lisa Beverly ..................................................................Maggie Hayes ................................................................. Shirese Moore

1983 ............................................................. Lisa Beverly ..................................................................Maggie Hayes ................................................................. Shirese Moore

1984 ..........................................................Maggie Hayes ..................................................................... Lisa Beverly ................................................................. Shirese Moore

1985 ........................................................... Sarah Farlow 1986 ................................................................Jen Emery

Dixie Conference Tournament MVP 1982 ........................................................... Brenda Suits 1983 ............................................................. Lisa Beverly 1984 ..........................................................Maggie Hayes

Dixie Conference Coach of the Year 1982 ..................................................................Tere Dail 1984 ..................................................................Tere Dail 1985 ..................................................................Tere Dail

Rayna Taylor

Robin Schuller

Tere Dail

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1980 Record: 28-11Head Coach: Tere Dail

9/10 NORTH CAROLINA STATE L 0-39/15 NORTH CAROLINA L 1-39/18 WINSTON-SALEM STATE W 2-09/22 vs. Winston-Salem State W 2-09/22 at High Point W 2-19/25 at Wake Forest W 2-19/25 vs. Catawba W 2-09/30 UNC ASHEVILLE W 2-09/30 GUILFORD W 2-010/1 at North Carolina A&T W 2-010/1 vs. Bennett W 2-010/7 vs. Catawba W 2-110/7 at Winston-Salem State W 2-110/9 APPALACHIAN STATE L 0-210/9 HIGH POINT W 2-110/10 vs. East Carolina W 2-010/10 vs. Baptist W 2-010/11 vs. College of Charleston L 0-210/11 vs. Pembroke State W 2-110/11 at Francis Marion L 1-210/14 NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL W 3-010/24 at Virginia Tech L 1-210/24 vs. Christopher Newport W 2-010/28 WAKE FOREST L 1-210/30 vs. Mars Hill W 2-010/30 at Lenoir-Rhyne W 2-011/4 NORTH CAROLINA A&T W 2-011/4 ST. AUGUSTINE’S W 2-111/5 at Western Carolina L 1-211/5 vs. Gardner-Webb W 2-111/7 at Guilford W 2-111/12 vs. Charlotte L 0-211/12 at Elon W 2-111/14 vs. Elon W 2-011/14 vs. Western Carolina L 0-211/14 vs. Lenoir-Rhyne W 2-011/15 vs. High Point W 2-011/15 vs. Charlotte W 2-011/15 vs. Western Carolina L 1-2

1981 Record 21-17 (5-3 Dixie, 2nd)Head Coach: Tere Dail

9/15 at Duke L 0-39/17 at Wingate W 3-19/22 vs. St. Andrews# W 2-09/22 at Greensboro# W 2-09/25 vs. UNC Wilmington W 2-09/25 at Guilford L 1-29/26 at NC Wesleyan# L 0-39/28 METHODIST# W 2-19/28 BENNETT W 2-010/1 at Atlantic Christian W 2-110/1 vs. Fayetteville State W 2-010/5 GREENSBORO L 1-210/5 NORTH CAROLINA A&T W 2-010/7 vs. Gardner-Webb W 2-110/7 at Catawba W 2-010/9 vs. Baptist L 0-210/9 at Francis Marion L 0-210/10 vs. Winthrop L 0-210/10 vs. Gardner-Webb W 2-010/10 vs. College of Charleston L 0-210/10 vs. Furman L 0-210/12 vs. Bennett W 2-010/12 at Meredith W 2-010/13 LENOIR-RHYNE L 0-210/13 HIGH POINT W 2-010/15 VIRGINIA TECH L 1-210/15 GUILFORD L 0-210/22 vs. Western Carolina L 0-210/22 at Charlotte L 0-210/26 vs. NC Wesleyan# L 0-210/26 at St. Andrews# W 2-011/2 at Methodist# W 3-111/3 vs. Queens (NC) W 2-011/3 at Greensboro# W 2-011/5 vs. UNC Wilmington L 1-211/5 at Wake Forest L 0-211/6 vs. St. Andrews+ W 3-011/7 at NC Wesleyan+ W 3-2

* Dixie Conference match# USC Spartanburg Tourn. (Spartanburg, SC)+ Dixie Conference Tourn. (Newport News, VA)DIAC Tournament Champions

1982 Record: 32-10 (9-1 Dixie, 1st)Head Coach: Tere Dail

9/14 at Duke L 1-29/16 at Greensboro* W 3-19/16 vs. Winston-Salem State W 2-09/20 vs. Elon W 2-09/20 at North Carolina A&T W 2-09/21 NC WESLEYAN* L 0-29/21 MEREDITH W 2-09/23 ATLANTIC CHRISTIAN W 2-09/23 RADFORD W 2-19/24 vs. Wofford# W 2-09/24 vs. South Carolina State# W 2-09/25 at USC Spartanburg# W 2-09/25 vs. Gardner-Webb# W 2-09/25 vs. Columbia College# W 2-19/25 vs. Wake Forest# L 0-29/28 at Liberty L 1-39/29 at Lenoir-Rhyne L 1-29/29 vs. Mars Hill L 1-29/30 METHODIST* W 2-09/30 WINGATE W 2-010/1 at Mary Washington W 2-110/2 at Christopher Newport* W 3-010/4 at High Point L 1-210/4 vs. Elon W 2-110/5 ST. ANDREWS* W 2-010/5 AVERETT* W 2-010/7 at NC Wesleyan* W 3-210/12 vs. UNC Wilmington W 2-010/12 at Methodist* W 2-010/13 vs. Charlotte W 2-110/13 at Virginia Tech L 0-210/21 at Elon W 3-210/24 CHRISTOPHER NEWPORT* W 3-110/25 GREENSBORO* W 2-010/25 CATAWBA W 2-010/27 WAKE FOREST L 0-310/28 at St. Andrews* W 2-110/28 vs. Coastal Carolina W 2-111/3 at Guilford W 3-211/5 vs. St. Andrews+ W 3-111/6 vs. NC Wesleyan+ W 3-111/20 vs. Ohio Northern! L 0-3

* Dixie Conference match# USC Spartanburg Tourn. (Spartanburg, SC)+ Dixie Conference Tourn. (Newport News, VA)! NCAA Tournament First-Round (Ada, OH)DIAC Regular Season ChampionsDIAC Tournament Champions

1983 Record: 29-6 (10-2 Dixie, 1st)Head Coach: Tere Dail

9/13 vs. Greensboro W 2-09/13 vs. UNC Wilmington W 2-19/20 GREENSBORO* L 0-39/27 at Methodist* W 3-09/28 NC WESLEYAN* W 3-19/28 GUILFORD L 0-29/29 AVERETT* W 3-010/1 at Radford L 0-210/1 vs. University of D.C. W 2-010/3 LIBERTY W 2-010/3 ELON W 2-010/4 ST. ANDREWS* W 3-110/4 LENOIR-RHYNE W 2-010/6 at NC Wesleyan* W 3-010/6 vs. Mary Washington W 2-010/11 METHODIST* W 3-010/12 at Averett* W 3-010/20 at Christopher Newport* W 3-010/21 at Salisbury State# W 2-010/21 vs. Messiah# L 0-210/22 vs. Elon# W 2-110/22 vs. Kean# W 2-010/22 vs. Catholic# W 2-010/22 vs. Galaudet# W 2-010/25 at Wake Forest W 2-110/27 at Greensboro* W 3-010/27 vs. North Carolina A&T W 2-010/30 CHRISTOPHER NEWPORT* W 3-010/31 at St. Andrews L 0-310/31 vs. Coastal Carolina W 2-011/2 at Roanoke W 2-011/2 vs. Eastern Mennonite W 2-011/5 CHRISTOPHER NEWPORT+ W 2-011/5 GREENSBORO+ W 3-011/18 at Western Maryland! L 1-3

* Dixie Conference match# Salisbury State Tournament (Salisbury, MD)+ Dixie Conference Tournament (Greensboro, NC)! NCAA Tournament First-Round (Westminster, MD)

DIAC Regular Season ChampionsDIAC Tournament Champions

1984 Record: 34-4 (12-0 Dixie, 1st)Head Coach: Tere Dail

9/12 METHODIST* W 3-09/12 NORTH CAROLINA A&T W 2-09/13 at Charlotte W 3-09/17 vs. Gardner-Webb W 2-09/17 at Catawba W 2-19/19 at Greensboro* W 3-19/19 vs. Longwood W 2-09/25 AVERETT* W 3-09/25 ROANOKE W 2-09/27 at NC Wesleyan* W 3-19/27 vs. Mary Washington W 2-09/30 CHRISTOPHER NEWPORT* W 3-010/2 at Guilford W 2-010/2 vs. Gardner-Webb W 2-010/3 ST. ANDREWS* W 3-010/5 vs. Millikan# W 2-110/5 vs. Cortland State# W 2-010/6 vs. Shippensburg# L 0-210/6 vs. Thiel# W 2-110/6 vs. Greensboro# W 2-010/6 vs. Brooklyn# W 2-010/6 vs. Shippensburg# L 0-210/8 WAKE FOREST W 3-110/9 NC WESLEYAN* W 3-010/11 at Methodist* W 3-010/11 vs. Meredith W 2-010/19 at Christopher Newport* W 3-010/20 vs. Christopher Newport^ W 2-110/20 vs. Randolph-Macon^ W 2-110/20 vs. Bridgewater State^ W 2-010/20 vs. Radford^ L 0-210/23 at Averett* W 3-010/24 GREENSBORO* W 3-110/29 at St. Andrews* W 3-111/3 vs. Methodist+ W 3-011/3 vs. St. Andrews+ W 3-111/17 BROOKLYN! W 3-111/30 at Calvin% L 1-3

* Dixie Conference match# Juniata College Tournament (Huntingdon, PA)^ Longwood Tournament (Farmville, VA)+ Dixie Conference Tournament (Greensboro, NC)! NCAA Tourn. First-Round (Greensboro, NC)% NCAA Tourn. Second-Round (Grand Rapids, MI)DIAC Regular Season ChampionsDIAC Tournament Champions

1985 Record: 16-15 (9-3 Dixie, 1st)Head Coach: Tere Dail

9/11 at Methodist* L 1-39/11 vs. UNC Wilmington L 1-29/13 at Wake Forest L 1-39/16 at NC Wesleyan* W 3-09/18 GREENSBORO* W 3-09/20 ELON W 3-19/23 CHARLOTTE L 2-39/26 AVERETT* W 3-09/29 CHRISTOPHER NEWPORT* L 2-310/2 NC WESLEYAN* W 3-010/4 vs. Eastern Mennonite# W 2-010/4 vs. Western Maryland# L 0-210/5 vs. Grove City# L 0-210/5 vs. Brockport State# W 2-110/5 vs. Ithaca# L 0-210/8 at Greensboro* W 3-110/10 ST. ANDREWS* W 3-110/14 at Averett* W 3-010/16 vs. Elon W 2-010/16 at North Carolina A&T L 0-210/24 at Christopher Newport* W 3-010/26 vs. Gettysburg! L 1-210/26 vs. Gallaudet! L 0-210/26 vs. York! L 1-210/26 vs. Mary Washington! W 2-110/28 at St. Andrews* L 1-210/30 METHODIST* W 3-110/30 CATAWBA W 2-011/1 vs. Averett+ W 3-011/2 vs. Christopher Newport+ L 2-311/6 GUILFORD L 1-3

* Dixie Conference match# Juniata College Tournament (Huntingdon, PA)! Western Maryland Tournament (Westminster, MD)+ Dixie Conference Tournament (Newport News, VA)DIAC Co-Regular Season Champions

1986 Record: 17-21 (7-5 Dixie, 4th)Head Coach: Tere Dail

9/11 at Guilford W 3-19/16 at Charlotte L 0-39/18 METHODIST* L 2-39/19 vs. St. Mary’s (MN)# L 0-29/19 at Illinois Benedictine# L 0-29/20 vs. Wheaton (IL)# L 0-29/20 vs. Quincy# L 0-29/23 at St. Andrews* L 2-39/26 NC WESLEYAN* W 3-19/27 CHRISTOPHER NEWPORT* W 3-19/29 at Elon W 0-29/29 vs. High Point L 0-210/1 at Greensboro* L 1-310/7 at Catawba L 1-210/7 vs. Pfeiffer L 0-210/10 CATAWBA^ W 2-010/10 vs. Meredith^ W 2-010/10 GREENSBORO^ L 0-210/11 vs. Elizabethtown^ L 0-210/11 vs. Mary Washington^ L 0-210/13 ST. ANDREWS* L 1-310/15 GREENSBORO* L 1-310/16 at Averett* W 2-010/21 DAVIDSON W 3-010/23 at Christopher Newport* W 3-010/24 vs. Dickinson! W 2-110/25 vs. Glassboro State! W 2-010/25 vs. Gallaudet! W 2-010/25 vs. Gettysburg! L 1-210/25 at Western Maryland! L 0-210/25 vs. Eastern Mennonite! L 0-210/28 at NC Wesleyan* W 3-110/30 at Methodist* W 3-111/4 AVERETT* W 3-011/4 GUILFORD W 2-011/5 WAKE FOREST L 1-311/7 vs. Christopher Newport+ W 3-011/8 vs. Greensboro+ L 1-3

* Dixie Conference match# Illinois Benedictine Tournament (Lisle, IL)^ UNCG/GC Tournament (Greensboro, NC)! Western Maryland Tournament (Westminster, MD)+ Dixie Conference Tournament (Newport News, VA)

1987 Record: 19-17 (9-3 Dixie, 2nd)Head Coach: Tere Dail

9/15 METHODIST* W 3-09/17 ELON W 3-09/21 at NC Central L 1-39/22 ST. ANDREWS* W 3-19/24 at NC Wesleyan* W 3-09/27 CHRISTOPHER NEWPORT* W 3-09/29 GREENSBORO* W 3-010/1 at Ferrum W 2-010/1 vs. Roanoke W 3-010/2 vs. Loyola (MD)# L 0-210/2 vs. Illinois Benedictine# L 1-210/3 at Juniata# L 0-210/3 vs. Eastern Mennonite# L 0-210/5 AVERETT* W 3-010/6 at Methodist* L 0-310/9 vs. Atlantic Christian^ L 1-210/9 CATAWBA^ L 1-210/9 FERRUM^ W 2-010/10 MARYVILLE (TN)^ W 2-110/10 GREENSBORO^ W 2-110/10 vs. Randolph-Macon^ W 2-010/10 vs. Catawba^ L 1-210/12 NC WESLEYAN* W 3-110/14 at St. Andrews* L 1-310/20 CATAWBA L 1-310/22 at Christopher Newport* W 3-010/23 vs. Gallaudet! L 0-210/23 vs. Dickinson! W 2-010/24 vs. Glassboro State! L 0-210/24 at Western Maryland! L 0-210/26 at Davidson W 3-210/29 at Greensboro* L 1-311/3 at Averett* W 3-011/6 vs. Christopher Newport+ W 3-011/7 vs. Greensboro+ L 0-3

* Dixie Conference match# Juniata College Tournament (Huntingdon, PA)^ UNCG/GC Tournament (Greensboro, NC)! Western Maryland Tournament (Westminster, MD)+ Dixie Conference Tournament (Rocky Mount, NC)

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1988 Record: 22-12Head Coach: Tere Dail

9/13 NORTH CAROLINA CENTRALW 3-09/15 at Pfeiffer W 3-09/21 at St. Augustine’s W 3-29/23 at East Carolina L 2-39/26 WINSTON-SALEM STATE W 3-19/28 at Johnson C. Smith W 3-09/30 at Elon W 3-010/3 at Fayetteville State W 3-010/4 LIVINGSTONE W 3-010/7 vs. St. Augustine’s# W 2-010/7 vs. Alabama-Huntsville# W 2-010/8 at UNC Asheville# W 2-010/8 vs. Davidson# W 2-010/8 vs. Georgia State# L 0-210/8 vs. St. Augustine’s# W 2-110/8 vs. Georgia State# L 2-310/11 GUILFORD W 3-010/14 vs. Saint Joseph’s (IN)^ L 1-310/14 vs. Florida Atlantic^ L 1-310/15 vs. Southeast Missouri^ L 1-310/15 at Tampa^ L 0-310/15 vs. Bellarmine^ W 3-210/19 at Winston-Salem State W 3-110/21 NORTH CAROLINA A&T W 3-010/25 ST. AUGUSTINE’S W 3-110/27 at Catawba L 1-310/28 DAVIDSON W 3-111/2 at Greensboro L 2-311/4 vs. Jacksonville State (AL)+ W 3-211/4 vs. North Alabama+ L 1-311/5 vs. Alabama-Huntsville+ W 3-011/5 vs. Mississippi Women+ L 0-311/8 RADFORD W 3-211/12 at Davidson L 2-3

# UNC Asheville Tournament (Asheville, NC)^ Tampa Tournament (Tampa, FL)+ West Georgia Invitational (Carrollton, GA)

1989 Record: 34-3Head Coach: Tere Dail

9/8 vs. Augusta State# W 3-09/8 vs. Campbell# W 3-09/8 vs. Virginia Tech# L 0-39/9 vs. Davidson# W 3-19/12 at North Carolina A&T W 3-09/15 JACKSONVILLE STATE (AL)^ W 3-19/15 WOFFORD^ W 3-19/15 LENOIR-RHYNE^ W 3-09/16 NC CENTRAL^ W 3-09/16 WEST GEORGIA^ W 3-29/16 JACKSONVILLE STATE (AL)^ L 0-39/20 at Radford W 3-09/22 at St. Augustine’s W 3-19/26 CHARLOTTE W 3-19/28 JOHNSON C. SMITH W 3-010/2 at North Carolina Central W 3-110/4 ELON W 3-010/8 UNC WILMINGTON W 3-010/10 at Appalachian State W 3-010/11 WINSTON-SALEM STATE W 3-110/13 FAYETTEVILLE STATE W 3-010/17 EAST CAROLINA W 3-010/21 CAMPBELL% W 3-010/21 COASTAL CAROLINA% W 3-010/21 DAVIDSON% W 3-010/21 WINTHROP% W 3-010/23 at Winston-Salem State W 3-010/26 CAMPBELL W 3-110/28 ST. AUGUSTINE’S W 3-011/3 vs. Livingston (AL)+ W 3-211/3 at West Georgia+ W 3-111/4 vs. Jacksonville State (AL)+ W 3-011/4 vs. Rollins+ W 3-011/4 vs. North Alabama+ L 0-311/7 RADFORD W 3-011/9 DAVIDSON W 3-1

# Coastal Carolina Tournament (Conway, SC)^ UNCG Invitational (Division II teams)% UNCG Invitational (Division I teams)+ West Georgia Invitational (Carrollton, GA)

1990 Record: 32-6Head Coach: Tere Dail

9/5 at St. Augustine’s W 3-09/7 vs. Nebraska-Omaha# L 1-39/8 vs. C.W. Post# W 3-09/8 vs. Indiana (PA)# W 3-29/11 at Winthrop W 3-09/14 NAVY^ W 3-09/14 SLIPPERY ROCK^ W 3-09/15 ST. AUGUSTINE’S^ W 3-09/15 WOFFORD^ W 3-09/19 at Davidson W 3-19/20 NORTH CAROLINA A&T W 3-09/25 at Charlotte W 3-09/27 LENOIR-RHYNE W 3-09/30 at Clemson L 0-310/2 at Liberty L 1-310/3 ST. AUGUSTINE’S W 3-010/5 vs. Northern Kentucky! W 3-110/6 vs. Navy! W 3-110/6 at Clarion (PA)! W 3-210/6 vs. New York Tech! W 3-010/6 vs. Ashland (OH)! L 1-310/9 CAMPBELL W 3-010/11 at Lenoir-Rhyne W 3-010/18 at Appalachian State W 3-210/24 CATAWBA W 3-010/26 EAST CAROLINA% W 3-110/26 APPALACHIAN STATE% W 3-110/27 UNC WILMINGTON% W 3-110/27 WINTHROP% W 3-110/27 COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON% W 3-110/30 DAVIDSON W 3-111/2 vs. Livingston (AL) W 3-011/2 vs. Mercer W 3-111/3 vs. Mississsippi-Women W 3-111/3 vs. Jacksonville State (AL) L 1-311/6 at East Carolina W 3-211/8 USC SPARTANBURG W 3-111/23 vs. Tampa* L 0-3

# Navy Trident Tournament (Annapolis, MD)^ UNCG Invitational (Division II teams)! Clarion Elite Invitational (Clarion, PA)% UNCG Invitational (Division I teams)+ West Georgia Invitational (Carrollton, GA)* NCAA DII Championship fi rst-round match

1991 Record: 20-12Head Coach Tere Dail

9/6 vs. Providence# L 1-39/6 vs. St. Peters# W 3-19/7 vs. Army# L 2-39/7 vs. Siena# W 3-09/9 CAMPBELL W 3-09/12 APPALACHIAN STATE W 3-09/17 at Virginia Tech L 0-39/19 at Charlotte L 1-39/24 NORTH CAROLINA STATE L 2-39/25 at Radford L 1-39/27 at Southwest Texas St.^ L 0-39/28 vs. Texas A&M^ L 0-39/28 vs. Lamar^ L 0-310/2 DAVIDSON W 3-110/8 at Appalachian State W 3-110/10 at East Carolina W 3-010/16 LIBERTY W 3-010/19 vs. Lake Erie! W 3-110/19 vs. Georgia Tech! L 0-310/20 vs. Winthrop! W 3-010/20 vs. College of Charleston! W 3-110/20 at Davidson! W 3-010/24 WINTHROP W 3-110/25 UT MARTIN+ W 3-010/25 RADFORD+ W 3-010/26 CHARLESTON SO.+ W 3-010/26 COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON+ W 3-110/30 EAST CAROLINA L 2-311/4 CHARLOTTE W 3-211/5 at Davidson W 3-011/8 at Furman W 3-211/12 VIRGINIA TECH L 0-3

# Hartford Tournament (Hartford, CT)^ SW Texas Tournament (San Marcos, TX)! Davidson Tournament (Davidson, NC)+ UNCG Tournament (Greensboro, NC)

1992 Record: 22-16 (5-4 Big South, 5th)Head Coach: Tere Dail

9/4 vs. Florida International# W 3-19/4 at Coastal Carolina# W 3-09/5 vs. Georgia Tech# L 1-39/5 vs. VCU# L 2-39/8 EAST CAROLINA W 3-19/10 at Appalachian State W 3-19/15 at Liberty W 3-29/16 at UNC Asheville* L 1-39/18 EAST CAROLINA^ W 3-19/18 UNC WILMINGTON^ L 2-39/19 NORTH CAROLINA A&T^ W 3-09/19 UNC ASHEVILLE^ W 3-29/22 at North Carolina State L 1-39/25 at Dayton! L 0-39/25 vs. Northeastern Illinois! W 3-29/26 vs. Xavier! L 0-39/26 vs. Furman! L 2-39/29 RADFORD W 3-010/1 APPALACHIAN STATE L 2-310/2 DAVIDSON W 3-010/6 at East Carolina L 0-310/9 vs. Towson* W 3-010/10 at UMBC* L 2-310/10 vs. Liberty* W 3-110/13 at Campbell W 3-210/16 at Campbell* W 3-010/17 vs. UNC Asheville* L 2-310/17 vs. Coastal Carolina* W 3-010/23 FURMAN W 3-210/27 at Radford* L 0-310/30 APPALACHIAN STATE L 0-310/31 LIBERTY W 3-110/31 GEORGIA STATE W 3-011/3 CAMPBELL W 3-111/4 CHARLOTTE L 1-311/9 at Winthrop* W 3-111/13 vs. Radford+ W 3-111/14 vs. UNC Asheville+ L 1-3

* Big South Conference match# Coastal Carolina Tournament (Conway, SC)^ UNCG Fall Tournament (Greensboro, NC)! Dayton Tournament (Dayton, OH)+ Big South Tournament (Conway, SC)

1993 Record: 25-8 (7-2 Big South, 1st)Head Coach: Tere Dail

9/1 NORTH CAROLINA A&T W 3-09/5 at Eastern Kentucky# L 2-39/5 vs. Chicago State# W 3-09/6 vs. Eastern Michigan# L 0-39/6 vs. ETSU# L 0-39/8 at East Carolina W 3-09/11 JAMES MADISON W 3-09/14 at Liberty W 3-19/17 EAST CAROLINA W 3-19/18 GEORGIA STATE W 3-09/20 at Appalachian State L 2-39/22 RADFORD W 3-09/27 at North Carolina A&T W 3-09/28 CAMPBELL W 3-110/1 at Towson* L 0-310/2 vs. UMBC* L 0-310/2 vs. Liberty* W 3-010/5 at Campbell W 3-110/8 WINTHROP W 3-010/13 EAST CAROLINA W 3-010/15 vs. Campbell* W 3-110/16 vs. Coastal Carolina* W 3-010/16 vs. UNC Asheville* W 3-110/21 at Radford L 1-310/27 APPALACHIAN STATE W 3-110/29 RADFORD* W 3-210/30 CHARLESTON SOUTHERN* W 3-210/30 WINTHROP* W 3-111/2 NORTH CAROLINA STATE W 3-211/4 at Davidson W 3-111/8 at UNC Wilmington W 3-211/12 vs. Campbell+ W 3-011/13 vs. Radford+ L 2-3

* Big South Conference match# EKU Labor Day Volleyfest (Richmond, KY)+ Big South Tournament (Rock Hill, SC)

1994 Record: 23-11 (6-2 Big South, 3rd)Head Coach: Tere Dail

9/2 vs. Alabama State# W 3-09/2 vs. Western Carolina# W 3-09/3 vs. Campbell# L 2-39/3 vs. UT Martin# W 3-19/7 APPALACHIAN STATE W 3-19/12 NORTH CAROLINA A&T W 3-09/15 CAMPBELL W 3-09/16 vs. St. Francis^ W 3-09/16 vs. Lehigh^ W 3-09/17 vs. UNC Asheville^ W 3-09/17 at VCU^ L 1-39/21 at East Carolina W 3-09/23 at Butler! L 1-39/24 vs. Dayton! L 1-39/24 vs. Chicago State! W 3-09/27 at Charlotte L 0-39/30 at Campbell L 2-310/4 UNC ASHEVILLE* W 3-010/6 UNC WILMINGTON W 3-210/10 WINTHROP* W 3-010/14 HOFSTRA W 3-110/19 at Radford* W 3-010/21 UMBC* L 1-310/22 TOWSON* W 3-210/25 at Liberty* W 3-010/27 DAVIDSON W 3-010/30 CLEMSON L 0-311/4 at Coastal Carolina* W 3-011/5 at Charleston Southern* L 2-311/7 EAST CAROLINA L 1-311/9 at North Carolina State W 3-111/11 COASTAL CAROLINA+ W 3-011/12 RADFORD+ W 3-211/12 TOWSON+ L 0-3

* Big South Conference match# North Carolina A&T Tourn. (Greensboro, NC)^ VCU Tournament (Richmond, VA)! Butler Invitational (Indianapolis, IN)+ Big South Tournament (Greensboro, NC)

1995 Record: 24-4 (7-0 Big South, 1st)Head Coach: Tere Dail

9/5 at North Carolina L 0-39/6 at South Carolina L 0-39/13 at Appalachian State W 3-09/18 at Davidson W 3-09/22 VCU# W 3-09/23 CAMPBELL# W 3-19/23 UNC WILMINGTON# W 3-09/27 EAST CAROLINA W 3-09/29 vs. Florida International^ W 3-09/29 at College of Charleston^ W 3-19/30 vs. Chattanooga^ W 3-09/30 vs. Jacksonville State^ W 3-09/30 vs. Appalachian State^ W 3-010/4 at UNC WILMINGTON L 2-310/7 CHARLESTON SOUTHERN* W 3-110/8 UNC ASHEVILLE* W 3-110/11 at Winthrop* W 3-010/12 at North Carolina A&T W 3-010/18 RADFORD* W 3-110/21 at UMBC* W 3-110/24 LIBERTY* W 3-010/26 at Campbell W 3-010/30 APPALACHIAN STATE W 3-110/31 at East Carolina W 3-011/3 COASTAL CAROLINA* W 3-011/10 CHARLESTON SOUTHERN+ W 3-011/11 WINTHROP+ W 3-011/11 UMBC+ L 2-3

* Big South Conference match# UNCG Fall Tournament (Greensboro, NC)^ College of Charleston Invite (Charleston, SC)+ Big South Tournament (Greensboro, NC)

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1996 Record: 14-17 (8-6 Big South, 3rd)Head Coach: Tere Dail

9/3 at Campbell W 3-09/6 vs. VCU# W 3-29/6 at Virginia# L 0-39/7 vs. Marshall# L 1-39/7 vs. Drexel# W 3-29/10 NORTH CAROLINA L 0-39/18 at Appalachian State L 0-39/20 UNC WILMINGTON^ L 2-39/20 CHATTANOOGA^ L 2-39/21 COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON^ L 0-39/21 GEORGIA SOUTHERN^ W 3-09/25 at Duke L 0-39/27 at Charleston Southern* W 3-09/28 at Coastal Carolina* L 0-39/30 at East Carolina W 3-110/2 UNC ASHEVILLE* W 3-210/4 at UMBC* L 0-310/8 at Furman W 3-110/13 at Radford* L 0-310/15 at Liberty* L 2-310/18 CHARLESTON SOUTHERN* W 3-010/22 WINTHROP* W 3-010/23 NORTH CAROLINA STATE L 0-310/25 RADFORD* W 3-110/29 at Wake Forest L 2-310/30 at Winthrop* W 3-111/1 COASTAL CAROLINA* W 3-211/5 LIBERTY* W 3-011/7 at UNC Asheville* L 0-311/8 UMBC* L 0-311/15 vs. Radford+ L 2-3

* Big South Conference match# Virginia Jefferson Cup (Charlottesville, VA)^ UNCG Fall Tournament (Greensboro, NC)+ Big South Tournament (Catonsville, MD)

1997 Record: 17-17 (9-7 SoCon, 5th)Head Coach: Tere Dail

8/29 vs. Indiana State# L 2-38/30 vs. Missouri# L 0-38/30 vs. Chicago State# W 3-18/30 at UW-Milwaukee# L 0-39/2 at Liberty L 0-39/9 at Campbell L 2-39/11 at Wofford* W 3-09/16 at Davidson* L 2-39/19 CAMPBELL^ L 0-39/19 JACKSONVILLE STATE^ W 3-19/20 UNC WILMINGTON^ W 3-09/20 UMKC^ W 3-09/20 CHARLESTON SOUTHERN^ W 3-19/24 at Furman* L 2-39/26 ETSU* W 3-19/29 APPALACHIAN STATE* W 3-210/3 CHATTANOOGA* L 2-310/4 WESTERN CAROLINA* W 3-010/7 EAST CAROLINA W 3-010/9 at Georgia Southern* W 3-010/14 at UNC Wilmington L 2-310/17 FURMAN* L 2-310/21 WOFFORD* W 3-110/22 DAVIDSON* W 3-110/29 DUKE L 0-310/31 Appalachian State* L 1-311/2 at ETSU* L 1-311/4 WAKE FOREST W 3-211/7 at Western Carolina* W 3-111/9 at Chattanooga* L 0-311/11 at North Carolina State L 0-311/14 GEORGIA SOUTHERN* W 3-011/17 at North Carolina A&T W 3-011/21 vs. Appalachian State+ W 3-1

* Southern Conference match# UW-Milwaukee Tournament (Milwaukee, WI)^ UNCG Invitational (Greensboro, NC)+ SoCon Tournament (Statesboro, GA)

1998 Record: 16-15 (8-10 SoCon, 6th)Head Coach: Tere Dail

9/8 at Wake Forest L 1-39/11 vs. Elon# W 3-19/11 at VCU# L 1-39/12 vs. Towson# L 1-39/12 vs. Howard# W 3-0

9/15 at Davidson* L 0-39/18 HIGH POINT^ W 3-09/18 ETSU* W 3-09/19 UNC WILMINGTON^ W 3-19/19 UNC ASHEVILLE^ W 3-19/22 at Appalachian State* L 1-39/25 WESTERN CAROLINA* W 3-29/26 CHATTANOOGA* L 0-310/1 at Georgia Southern* L 2-310/2 at College of Charleston* L 2-310/7 CAMPBELL L 0-310/9 WOFFORD* W 3-010/11 FURMAN* W 3-210/13 at UNC Wilmington W 3-010/14 at North Carolina A&T W 3-210/20 DAVIDSON* L 0-310/22 APPALACHIAN STATE* W 3-010/24 at East Tennessee State* W 3-110/30 at Chattanooga* L 0-310/31 at Western Carolina* L 0-311/6 GEORGIA SOUTHERN* W 3-211/7 COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON* L 1-311/10 at Wofford* W 3-111/13 at Furman* L 1-311/16 THE CITADEL* W 3-011/20 vs. Western Carolina+ L 0-3

* Southern Conference match# VCU Tournament (Richmond, VA)^ UNCG Tournament (Greensboro, NC)+ SoCon Tournament (Boone, NC)

1999 Record: 14-17 (7-13 SoCon, 7th)Head Coach: Tere Dail

9/4 HIGH POINT W 3-09/4 CAMPBELL W 3-09/10 vs. Hampton# W 3-19/10 at VCU# L 0-39/11 vs. Elon# L 1-39/11 vs. UMES# W 3-09/14 at Furman* L 1-39/17 WESTERN CAROLINA* L 1-39/19 CHATTANOOGA* L 1-39/21 at Campbell W 3-19/24 THE CITADEL* W 3-09/25 COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON* L 0-39/29 at Elon W 3-010/2 at Georgia Southern* W 3-010/5 DAVIDSON* L 2-310/7 at East Tennessee State* L 1-310/15 WOFFORD* W 3-110/16 FURMAN* L 0-310/19 APPALACHIAN STATE* W 3-210/22 at Western Carolina* L 0-310/23 at Chattanooga* L 0-310/26 LIBERTY L 2-310/29 at The Citadel* W 3-010/30 at College of Charleston* L 2-311/2 at Davidson* L 0-311/6 GEORGIA SOUTHERN* W 3-011/8 NORTH CAROLINA A&T W 3-111/10 at Wofford W 3-111/12 ETSU* L 2-311/15 at Appalachian State* L 0-311/19 vs. Davidson+ L 0-3

* Southern Conference match# VCU Invitational (Richmond, VA)+ SoCon Tournament (Cullowhee, NC)

2000 Record: 9-23 (6-14 SoCon, 8th)Head Coach: Stacy Meadows

9/1 vs.Idaho# L 0-39/2 at Iowa State# L 1-39/2 vs. Creighton# L 1-39/5 WOFFORD* W 3-19/8 vs. UAB^ L 0-39/8 at Georgia State^ L 0-39/9 vs. Charleston Southern^ W 3-19/9 vs. Northwestern State^ L 0-39/14 at Chattanooga* L 0-39/15 at Western Carolina* L 0-39/19 at High Point W 3-09/21 at The Citadel* W 3-09/22 at College of Charleston* L 0-39/26 at Davidson* L 2-39/28 at North Carolina A&T L 1-39/30 GEORGIA SOUTHERN* L 1-310/2 CAMPBELL L 1-310/6 ETSU* W 3-210/7 APPALACHIAN STATE* W 3-110/11 at Wofford* L 0-310/17 at Furman* L 1-3

10/21 WESTERN CAROLINA* L 1-310/22 CHATTANOOGA* L 0-310/26 ELON W 3-110/27 THE CITADEL* W 3-010/28 COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON* L 1-311/2 FURMAN* L 0-311/3 at Georgia Southern* W 3-211/7 DAVIDSON* L 0-311/10 at East Tennessee State* L 1-311/11 at Appalachian State* L 1-311/17 vs. Davidson+ L 1-3

* Southern Conference match# Iowa State Invitational (Ames, IA)^ Ethan Allen/Lady Panther Invit. (Atlanta, GA)+ SoCon Tournament (Charleston, SC)

2001 Record: 2-29 (2-18 SoCon, 10th)Head Coach: Stacy Meadows

8/3 at Colgate# L 0-38/31 vs. Siena# L 0-39/1 vs. Fordham# L 0-39/1 vs. UC Riverside# L 1-39/5 at Wofford* L 0-39/7 vs. West Virginia^ L 0-39/8 at Duke^ L 1-39/8 vs. Duquesne^ L 0-39/18 ELON L 2-39/21 COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON* L 0-39/22 THE CITADEL* W 3-09/25 at Davidson* L 2-39/27 NORTH CAROLINA A&T L 2-39/28 at Georgia Southern* L 0-39/30 WESTERN CAROLINA* L 1-310/2 at Wake Forest L 0-310/5 at Appalachian State* L 1-310/6 at East Tennessee State* L 0-310/9 FURMAN* L 0-310/11 at Furman* L 0-310/16 WOFFORD* L 1-310/19 at Chattanooga* L 1-310/20 at Western Carolina* L 0-310/26 at College of Charleston* L 0-310/27 at The Citadel* W 3-210/29 at Liberty L 0-311/2 GEORGIA SOUTHERN* L 0-311/5 CHATTANOOGA* L 0-311/6 DAVIDSON* L 0-311/9 APPALACHIAN STATE* L 0-3 11/10 ETSU* L 1-3

* Southern Conference match# Colgate-White Eagle Invite (Hamilton, NY)^ Duke Classic (Durham, NC)

2002 Record: 7-25 (5-15 SoCon, 10th)Head Coach: Stacy Meadows

8/30 at Winthrop# L 0-38/30 vs. Jacksonville State# L 0-38/31 vs. Gardner-Webb# L 1-38/31 vs. VCU# L 1-39/6 MARSHALL^ L 0-39/7 WINTHROP^ L 1-39/7 HIGH POINT^ W 3-29/11 WOFFORD* L 1-39/14 at Auburn! W 3-19/14 vs. Wyoming! L 0-39/15 vs. Middle Tennessee State! L 0-39/17 FURMAN* L 1-39/20 at Western Carolina* L 0-39/21 at Chattanooga* L 0-39/24 DAVIDSON* L 0-39/27 EAST CAROLINA L 1-39/28 GEORGIA SOUTHERN* L 0-310/1 LIBERTY L 0-310/5 at College of Charleston* L 0-310/6 at The Citadel* W 3-010/11 ETSU* W 3-210/12 APPALACHIAN STATE* L 0-310/16 at Wofford* L 0-310/22 at Furman* L 0-310/26 WESTERN CAROLINA* L 0-310/27 CHATTANOOGA* W 3-011/1 THE CITADEL* W 3-011/2 COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON* L 0-311/5 at Davidson* L 0-311/9 at Georgia Southern* L 0-311/15 at East Tennessee State* W 3-211/16 at Appalachian State* L 0-3* Southern Conference match# Winthrop Tournament (Rock Hill, SC)^ UNCG Microtel Invitational (Greensboro,NC)! Auburn War Eagle Tournament (Auburn, AL)

2003 Record: 8-24 (3-15 SoCon, 6th-N)Head Coach: Stacy Meadows

8/29 at East Carolina# L 0-38/30 vs Radford# W 3-28/30 vs. Lipscomb# W 3-19/9 at High Point L 1-39/12 vs. Charleston Southern^ W 3-19/12 at Mercer^ L 1-39/13 vs. Louisiana Monroe^ L 0-39/19 TENNESSEE TECH! L 1-39/19 GEORGIA STATE! L 1-39/20 UW-GREEN BAY! L 0-39/20 WINTHROP! L 0-39/23 at Elon* W 3-19/27 FURMAN* L 0-39/28 WOFFORD* W 3-09/30 CAMPBELL W 3-010/2 at Western Carolina* L 0-310/3 at Appalachian State* L 0-310/10 ETSU* L 2-310/11 CHATTANOOGA* L 0-310/17 THE CITAEL* W 3-010/18 COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON* L 0-310/21 at Furman* L 0-310/25 at Davidson* L 0-310/26 at Georgia Southern* L 0-310/28 ELON* L 0-310/30 at Liberty L 0-311/4 at Wofford* L 0-311/7 APPALACHIAN STATE* L 0-311/8 WESTERN CAROLINA* L 0-311/11 at Gardner-Webb W 3-211/14 at East Tennessee State* L 0-311/15 at Chattanooga* L 0-3

* Southern Conference match# East Carolina Tournament (Greenville, NC)^ UNCG-Courtyard by Mariott Invitational! Mercer Tournament (Macon, GA)

2004 Record: 3-31 (0-16 SoCon, 6th-N)Head Coach: Stacy Meadows

9/3 at Gardner-Webb# L 2-39/4 vs. Lipscomb# W 3-29/4 vs. UT Martin# L 1-39/10 vs. Belmont^ L 0-39/11 vs. East Carolina^ L 0-39/11 at Winthrop^ L 0-39/17 vs. Dayton! L 0-39/17 at Toledo! L 0-39/18 vs. Oakland! L 0-39/18 vs. UW-Green Bay! L 1-39/22 HIGH POINT L 1-39/24 vs. Morgan State W 3-09/24 UNC ASHEVILLE L 0-39/25 vs. Memphis L 1-39/25 FLORIDA ATLANTIC L 0-39/28 at Furman* L 0-310/1 at Appalachian State* L 0-310/2 at Western Carolina* L 0-310/6 WOFFORD* L 2-310/9 ETSU* L 2-310/10 CHATTANOOGA* L 2-310/16 DAVIDSON* L 0-310/17 GEORGIA SOUTHERN* L 1-310/19 at Campbell L 2-310/23 at The Citadel* L 1-310/24 at College of Charleston* L 0-310/26 GARDNER-WEBB W 3-010/29 ELON* L 0-311/2 at Elon* L 0-311/5 APPALACHIAN STATE* L 0-311/6 WESTERN CAROLINA* L 2-311/9 LIBERTY L 0-311/12 at ETSU L 0-311/13 at Chattanooga L 1-3

* Southern Conference match# Gardner-Webb Tournament (Boiling Springs, NC)^ Winthrop Tournament (Rock Hill, SC)! Toledo Tournament (Toledo, OH)

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2005 Record: 5-26 (2-16 SoCon, 10th)Head Coach: Shawn Garus

9/2 vs. East Tennessee State# L 2-39/3 vs. RADFORD# L 2-39/3 at Virginia Commonwealth# L 0-39/6 at High Point L 0-39/9 at Charleston Southern^ W 3-19/9 vs. South Alabama^ L 2-39/10 vs. Stetson^ L 0-39/13 CAMPBELL L 0-39/17 vs. Marquette! L 0-39/17 vs. UAB! L 1-39/20 THE CITADEL* W 3-09/23 ELON* L 1-39/24 GEORGIA SOUTHERN* L 0-310/1 at Appalachian State* L 0-310/2 at Davidson* L0-310/8 FURMAN* L 1-310/9 WOFFORD* L 1-310/11 at College of Charleston* L 0-310/15 at Chattanooga* L 0-310/16 at Western Carolina* L 0-310/22 at Georgia Southern* L 1-310/25 NORTH CAROLINA A&T W 3-010/29 APPALACHIAN STATE* L 1-310/30 DAVIDSON* W 3-211/1 at Elon* L 1-311/5 at Furman* L 1-311/6 at Wofford* L 0-311/8 at Liberty W 3-211/12 CHATTANOOGA* L 2-311/13 WESTERN CAROLINA* L 1-311/17 vs. Western Carolina+ L 0-3

* Southern Conference match# VCU Invitational (Richmond, VA)^ Charleston Southern Invitational (Charleston, SC)! EKU/Nike Invitational (Richmond, KY) + SoCon Tournament (Statesboro, GA)

2006 Record: 23-13 (9-9 SoCon, T-6th)Head Coach: Shawn Garus

8/25 vs. Tennessee-Martin# W 3-18/25 vs. South Carolina State# W 3-08/26 vs. Winston-Salem State# W 3-08/26 at UNC Wilmington W 3-08/29 at Campbell W 3-09/1 vs. East Tennessee State^ L 0-39/2 at UNC Asheville^ W 3-29/2 vs. Cleveland State^ L 0-39/5 HIGH POINT W 3-29/8 vs. Robert Morris+ L 0-39/9 vs. North Carolina Central+ W 3-09/9 at Garnder-Webb+ W 3-29/12 at Elon * L 2-39/15 at Furman* L 2-39/19 WOFFORD* W 3-09/23 at Chattanooga* L 2-39/24 at Western Carolina* W 3-29/30 APPALACHIAN STATE* L 0-310/1 DAVIDSON* W 3-210/7 at Georgia Southern* W 3-210/10 LIBERTY W 3-110/13 at The Citadel* W 3-010/14 at College of Charleston* L 0-310/17 ELON* W 3-110/20 WESTERN CAROLINA* W 3-010/21 CHATTANOOGA* L 0-310/27 at Davidson* L 0-310/28 at Appalachian State L 0-310/31 at North Carolina A&T W 3-211/4 GEORGIA SOUTHERN* W 3-011/10 THE CITADEL W 3-011/11 COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON W 3-111/16 vs. The Citadel! W 3-011/17 vs. Furman! W 3-011/18 vs. Appalachian State! W 3-111/19 vs. College of Charleston! L 1-3

* Southern Conference match# Battle at the Beach (Wilmington, NC)^ UNCA Volleyball Classic (Asheville, NC)+ Runnin’ Bulldog Invitational (Boiling Springs, NC) ! SoCon Tournament (Boone, NC)

2007 Record: 20-15 (11-7 SoCon, 5th)Head Coach: Shawn Garus

8/24 RADFORD& W 3-08/24 UNC WILMINGTON& W 3-18/25 AUSTIN PEAY& W 3-28/25 NORTH CAROLINA A&T& W 3-08/28 at East Carolina L 1-38/31 vs. Youngstown State! L 1-39/1 at Duquesne! L 2-39/1 vs. Bucknell! L 0-39/5 at High Point L 2-39/7 vs. Morgan State# W 3-29/8 vs. Coastal Carolina# L 2-39/8 at Charlotte# L 2-39/11 WINSTON-SALEM STATE W 3-09/15 at Georgia Southern* W 3-29/18 at North Carolina A&T W 3-09/ 21 at The Citadel* W 3-09/22 at College of Charleston* L 1-39/28 WOFFORD* W 3-09/29 FURMAN* W 3-210/2 ELON* L 1-310/6 APPALACHIAN STATE* L 2-310/7 DAVIDSON* W 3-010/13 at Chattanooga* L 0-310/14 at Western Carolina* W 3-010/19 THE CITADEL* W 3-010/20 COLLEGE OF CHALESTON* L, 2-310/27 at Furman* L 1-310/28 at Wofford* W 3-111/3 at Appalachian State* L 1-311/4 at Davidson* W 3-011/ 10 CHATTANOOGA* W 3-011/11 WESTERN CAROLINA* W 3-111/16 vs. Furman^ W 3-111/17 vs. Appalachian State^ W 3-111/18 vs. College of Charleston^ L 1-3

* Southern Conference Match& UNCG/HPU Triad Challenge (Greensboro, NC)! Courtyard by Marriott Invitational (Pittsburgh, PA)# Comfort Suites 49ers Volleyball Tournament (Charlotte, NC)^ Southern Conference Tournament (Chattanooga, TN)

Team W-LAlabama State ................................... 1-0Appalachian State .......................15-18Army .................................................. 0-1Auburn ............................................... 1-0Austin Peay ........................................ 1-0Belmont ............................................. 0-1Bucknell ............................................ 0-1Butler ................................................ 0-1Cal State Fullerton ............ First MeetingCampbell ......................................... 15-8Charleston Southern ........................ 10-1Charlotte.........................................1-4Chattanooga .................................3-21Chicago State .................................... 3-0Clemson ............................................ 0-1Cleveland State ................................. 0-1Coastal Carolina ................................ 7-2Colgate .............................................. 0-1College of Charleston .....................8-13Creighton ........................................... 0-1Davidson ..................................... 10-17Dayton ............................................... 0-3Delaware .......................... First MeetingDrexel ................................................ 1-0Duke .................................................. 0-3Duquesne .......................................... 0-2East Carolina .................................11-7Eastern Kentucky ............................... 0-1Eastern Michigan ............................... 0-1East Tennessee State ....................... 6-12Elon ................................................5-9Florida Atlantic .................................. 0-1Florida International .......................... 2-0Fordham ............................................ 0-1Furman .........................................9-17Gardner-Webb ................................... 3-2George Washington ........... First MeetingGeorgia Southern.........................10-10Georgia State .................................... 3-1Georgia Tech ...................................... 0-2Hampton ........................................... 1-0High Point .......................................5-4Hofstra .............................................. 1-0Howard .............................................. 1-0Idaho ................................................. 0-1Indiana State ..................................... 0-1Iowa State ......................................... 0-1Jacksonville State .............................. 2-1James Madison .................................. 1-0Lake Erie ............................................ 1-0Lamar ................................................ 0-1Lehigh ............................................... 1-0Liberty ............................................. 10-7Lipscomb ........................................... 2-0Louisiana Monroe .............................. 0-1

Team W-LMarist .............................. First MeetingMarshall ........................................... 0-2Marquette ......................................... 0-1Memphis ........................................... 0-1Mercer ............................................... 0-1Middle Tennessee State ..................... 0-1Missouri ............................................ 0-1Missouri Kansas-City ......................... 1-0Missouri State .................. First MeetingMorgan State ..................................... 2-0North Carolina ................................... 0-2North Carolina A&T ........................12-2North Carolina Central ....................... 1-0North Carolina State .......................... 2-4Northeastern Illinois .......................... 1-0Northwestern State ............................ 0-1Oakland ............................................. 0-1Pepperdine ...................... First MeetingProvidence ......................................... 0-1Radford ........................................... 10-8Robert Morris ..................................... 0-1St. Francis ......................................... 1-0St. Peter’s .......................................... 1-0Samford ........................... First MeetingSiena ................................................. 1-1South Alabama .................................. 0-1South Carolina ................................... 0-1South Carolina State ........................1-0Southwest Texas State ....................... 0-1Stetson .............................................. 0-1Tennessee-Martin .............................. 3-1Tennessee Tech .................................. 0-1Texas A&M ......................................... 0-1The Citadel ....................................16-1Toledo ............................................... 0-1Towson State ..................................... 2-2UAB ................................................... 0-2UC Riverside ...................................... 0-1UMBC .............................................1-5UMES ................................................ 1-0UNC Asheville .................................... 8-5UNC Wilmington ................................ 7-4Virginia .............................................. 0-1Virginia Commonwealth ..................... 2-6Virginia Tech ...................................... 0-2Wake Forest ....................................... 1-3Western Carolina ...........................7-16West Virginia ...................................0-1Winston-Salem State ......................... 2-0Winthrop .......................................... 10-4Wisconsin-Green Bay ......................... 0-2Wofford .........................................12-9Youngstown State .............................. 0-1

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Rayna Taylor(1980-2000)

ers in kills, digs and blocks (her 123 blocks represent the seventh best single-season total in school history). For her efforts she was named SoCon Freshman of the Year. On May, 25 2000, the SoCon vol-leyball committee recomended naming the Freshman of the Year Award in Taylor’s memory, and it is now known as the Rayna Taylor Southern Conference Freshman of the Year award.

Rayna Tay-lor was an o u t s t a n d -ing player f o r U N C Greensboro during the

1998 and 1999 seasons. After her sophomore season, Taylor took ill, and while at home in Ohio, died of natural causes on February 8, 2000. During her freshman year, she was among the Southern Conference lead-

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AAADebra Abshire ......................... 1970Candy Albergine ...................... 1970Rexanne Allman ................. 1977-79Rebecca Anderson ........1971, 73-74Donna Andrews ........................1977Beth Arnn ............................... 1986Jeanie Augustine ..................... 1979Christine Ayscue ................ 1988-91

BBBBilli Baker ...................2007-presentMontressa Barbie ................... 1975Wendy Barricks ....................... 1979Lorie Beam ........................1985-86Alissa Beaudway .........2007-presentElizabeth Benforado ................ 1975Suzie Benforado ......................1977Liz Benzschawel .................2005-06Betty Berry ...............................1977Lisa Beverly .......................1982-84Kelly Boerstler ................... 1996-97Sarah Bosch ......................2000-01Andrea Bostain ....................... 1987Laura Boyd ............................. 1984Deborah Bowman .............. 1972-75Shaaron Boyles ....................... 1990A. Branton .............................. 1989Dawn Bright .......................2000-02Cathy Brooks .......................... 1979Lori Brooks ........................2001-03Deetra Bryant .................... 1994-97Mitzi Bull ................................ 1975Cathy Burke ............................ 1975Linda Burroughs ......................1976

CCCAlycia Carroll .......................... 1993Tracy Case .............................. 1986Beth Caywood ............... 1970, 1972Kimberly Chapman.............2004-05Jessica Chappell ................ 1996-97Lori Collins .........................2002-05Terry Combs ............................ 1979Diane Condor ..................... 1970-73Betsy Cooper ...........................1971Eva Cowan ...............................1977Linda Crowell .......................... 1975

DDDKim Dayton ........................2000-03Janele Degree .................... 1973-76Elisabeth Derby ....................... 1998Juie Dingman .....................1994-96Betsy Dowell ...................... 1977-79Carol Dixon ........................ 1972-74(?) Dunham ............................. 1982Starr Dyk ................................. 1995

EEETanya Edmunds ..................1989-92Stephanie Elbe ..................2003-04Jen Emery ..........................1983-86Kelley Evans .......................1996-99

FFFSarah Farlow ......................1984-86Kara Faulise .......................1996-99Rebekah Faulise ................2001-04Betsy Farthing .................... 1970-71Lisa Fawell ................. 2006-presentSara Fetchu ............................ 1993Kayren Finney .............2007-presentElizabeth Flattery ............2006-2007Cheryl Flynn ....................... 1971-72Reneda Flynt ........................... 1998Cheryl Foster .................1997-2000Nancy Frank ................... 1974-1976Robyn Freeh .......................1998-99Donna Friesen .................... 1970-73Branagan Fuller ......... 2006-present

GGGEllen Gallagher ..................1993-96Barbara Germain .................... 1975Christine Goure .................. 1974-75Liz Gremillion .....................1992-95

HHHMarty Hackney ................... 1973-74Michelle Hanna ....................... 1997Catherine Hanners ....... 2006-presentKatherine Hart ........................ 2007Theresa Hart ........................... 2006Samika Hawkins ................1998-99Maggie Hayes ....................1982-84Nina Heard ............................. 1979Jamie Hedin .......................2000-01Cathy Hefner ...................... 1972-73Candy Helper .......................... 1970Cristin Heverly ....................2003-06Adrian Hicks ......................2002-05Emily Hicks ............................. 1998Rae Holder .............................. 1987Karen Holleman ................. 1977-79Jill Holloran ........................ 1988-91Simona Hunt ......................1983-84

JJJClarie Jackson......................... 2002Robyn Jameson ..................2000-01Jill Jarrett ................................ 2002Laura Johnson..........................1976Pam Johnson .....................1987-88S. Johnson .............................. 1989Crystal Jones .......................... 1986

KKKLauren Keiser .................2004-2007Carol Kemp ............................. 1975Erin Klutzz ................................1991Kayleigh Knerr............ 2006-presentNicky Kossman ..................1986-87Stephanie Kuebler .............2004-05

LLL(?) Lackey ............................... 1982Laurie Landis ..................... 1970-72Kerri LaPointe ....................1994-95Laura Larson ........................... 1987Maribeth Lessner ............... 1994-97Gail Lewis .......................... 1975-77Emily Lindborg ........... 2006-presentLori Locascio ........................... 2002Jean Lojko.......................... 1976-79Holly Long ..........................2001-02Artrice Lynch ......................1984-86

MMM(?) Malpass........................1982-83Beth McCord .......................... 1990(?) McCrary ............................. 1983Kathy McDaniel.................. 1977-79Katy McNeill ..................1997-2000Katie MacPhail ..................1996-99Stacy Meadows ..................1992-95Abbi Meyer ............................. 2003Kim Michels ............................ 1988Kim Millar ................................1977Raye Mitchell .......................... 1970Sue Moon ................................1977Becky Moore ..................1997-2000Shirese Moore ...................1982-84Laura Morris ......................1983-84LaJean Morrow ...................2000-03Karen Moose ..................... 1970-71(?) Mullins .........................1982-83

NNNKimiko Naito ...............2007-presentKaitlyn Nortz .............. 2005-present

OOOPam Obenchain ...................... 1987Missi Olson ........................ 1989-91Gia Orlando .......................1985-88HIlary Overby......................2003-06

PPPJuliet Pack .........................2001-02Jeanne Palmer ................... 1971-72Julie Parish ........................1987-90Mayumi Patience .....................1977Liz Penn .............................1987-88Gayle Person ...................... 1970-72Liz Phillips ......................... 1972-75Kathy Poole ............................ 1987Brenda Puckett .................. 1970-71

QQQ Kathy Quaintance ..............1989-90

RRRGiny Rainwater ........................ 2003Eleanor Redding ................ 1975-77Caley Redden ............. 2006-presentMakaylah Reed ....................... 2003Jennifer Reeves ....................... 1992Faye Rodenhizer .......................1977Lauren Richards .................2002-05Amber Rigdon ......................... 2000Ann Reider .............................. 1988Alysia Rosvold ....................2004-05

SSSStaci Schram ..................... 1991-92Robin Schuller ...................1993-96Casey Seeger .......................... 1992Ashley Smith ......................2004-05Casey Smith .......................1987-88Sandra Smith .....................1982-84(?) Starnes .............................. 1983Kerry Stewart .................1998-2001Cathy Strange ................ 1974-1976Tara Stover .........................1994-95Brenda Suits ...................... 1979-82

TTTCathy Tamsberg ................. 1972-74Cora Taylor ...............................1974Debbie Taylor ...........................1977Rayna Taylor.......................1998-99Susan Tillotson ........................1977Tammy Tindall ....................1992-95Melanie Trexler...................1990-93

VVVCindy VanDervoort .................. 2004Julie Vandiver .......................... 1982Cathy Vaughn .......................... 1975

WWWLiz Wakelin.........................1984-86Pat Walters ..............................1971Sherry Watt ........................1986-89Becky Weedman ..................... 2000Jan Whelan .................... 1974-1976Cinda Wicker .......................... 1973Misha Willoughby.................... 1993Tiffany Wilson .................... 1991-92Tracy Wilson ............................ 1984H. Wiggins .............................. 1989Sandra Wingler .................. 1977-79Jennifer Wubben ..................... 1988Georgeanne Wyrick ............1983-86

YYYJenny Yarbrough ................. 1991-94Lauren Yarish .....................1990-93

ZZZMolly Zaback .......................... 1988

Kelley Evans

Rebekah Faulise

Becky Moore

Adrian Hicks

LaJean Morrow

Maggie Hayes

Lauren RichardsLiz Gremillion

Robin Schuller

Tammy Tindall

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The University of North Carolina at Greensboro was fi rst chartered back on February 18, 1891 at the State Normal and Industrial School. It was the fi rst state-supported school for the higher education of women in North Carolina. Founded by Charles Duncan McIver, it became co-educational in 1963. Today, in its 116th year of existance, the campus covers 210 acres in downtown Greensboro and has an enrollment

Charles Duncan McIver, founder of the State Normal and Industrial School (now UNCG),

decided Minerva, goddess of Wisdomand Women’s Arts, would be a good symbol for the school. Begin-

ning with the fi rst diploma in 1893, the head of Minerva has appeared on every diploma awarded by the institution.

The class of 1907 donated the original Minerva statue - made of plaster - to the University. In 2003, the class of 1953 commissioned for a replacement, made of bronze, and placed outside the Elliott University Center in the heart of campus.

Founded in 1891, UNCG is a diverse, student-centered research university, link-ing the Triad and North Carolina to the world through learning, dis-covery and service. The university is organized into a College of Arts & Sciences and six professional schools, with more than 1,000 faculty members teach-ing in programs that offer 86 undergradu-ate, 56 master’s and 25 doctoral degrees.

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UNCG Board of TrusteesMr. Stephen C. Hassenfelt, ChairmanMs. Linda Carlisle, Vice ChairmanMrs. Earlene Hardie CoxDr. Kate R. BarrettDr. Richard L. MooreMr. William J. PrattMs. Jane PreyerMs. Jean E. DavisMr. James Norman SmithDr. Carolyn R. FerreeMs. Gwynn SwinsonMr. Randall KaplanMr. John Bryant (ex-offi cio, SGA President)

UNCG’s School of Nursing, which was established in 1966, is the largest in North Carolina. It has three departments – Adult Health, Parent-Child and Community Practice – and is recognized for the excellence of its programs and the success of its graduates. The master’s program in nurse anesthesia was ranked eighth nationally by U.S. News and World Report. In addition, UNCG is the fi rst institution in the UNC system to offer a combined Master of Science in Nursing and Master of Business Administration in health management.

Despite record numbers for enrollment, UNCG still enjoys a student-faculty ratio of 17:1 with a faculty totalling 1,080. More than 2,000 bachelor’s degrees and nearly 1,000 master’s and doctoral diplomas are awarded annually. Over the last several years, 75 percent of fresh-men have returned the following year.

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UNCG has long had a reputation for academic excellence and student-athletes at UNCG are not an exception to the rule. At the end of each of the last three academic years, more than 40% of UNCG student-athletes held a grade-point-average of 3.0 or better. In 2007-08, 105 of 230 student-athletes had a 3.0 GPA or better for the academic year.

The School of Music, which was established in 1921, is rated as one of the Top 20 in the country and combines rigorous theory, history, and performance training with a broad liberal arts education. Pictured above, the University opened a $25.7 million state-of-the-art music facility in 1999. It is the only comprehensive slate of performance and music education degrees from the baccalaureate through the doctorate in North Carolina.

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The University of North Carolina at Greensboro is a diverse, student-centered research university, linking the Triad and North Carolina to the world through learning, discovery, and service. As a doctorate-granting institution, it is commit-ted to teaching based in scholarship and advancing knowledge through research. The College of Arts and Sciences and six professional schools offer challenging graduate and undergraduate programs in which students are mentored by outstanding teachers, including nationally and internationally recognized researchers and artists.

Affi rming the liberal arts as the foundation for lifelong learning, the university provides exemplary learning environments on campus and through distance education so that students can acquire knowledge, develop intellectual skills, and become more thoughtful and responsible members of a global society. Co-curricular, residential, and other programs contribute to students’ social, aesthetic, and ethical development.

The University of North Carolina at Greensboro is a community in which people of any racial or ethnic identity, age, or background can achieve an informed appreciation of their own and different cultures. It is a community of actively engaged students, faculty, staff, and alumni founded on open dialogue, shared responsibility, and respect for the distinct contributions of each member.

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Dr. Linda

Dr. Linda P. Brady, formerly the senior vice president and provost at the University of Oregon, became the 10th chancellor of UNCG this past summer. She assumed her duties August 1.

Dr. Brady was elected Chancellor of the institution by the Board of Gover-nors of the multi-campus University of North Carolina on June 12. Dr. Brady, 60, succeeded Dr. Patricia A. Sullivan, UNCG’s fi rst woman chancellor, who announced her retirement last December after almost 14 years in the post.

In recommending Dr. Brady to the Board of Governors, UNC system presi-dent Erskine Bowles said, “Over the past 25 years, Linda Brady has accumu-lated a wealth of leadership experience at highly respected public, urban uni-versities, as well as in the halls of Washington. At each step along the way, she has proven herself to be an energetic leader who promotes collaboration, creative problem-solving, and real-life commitment to scholarship, research, and public service.

“She is no stranger to North Carolina or this University system – having served for fi ve years as dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at North Carolina State University – so we consider this a homecoming of sorts. With her broad experience in higher education and federal government, her demonstrated integrity and sound judgment, and her profound understanding of the global marketplace in which our students must compete, Linda Brady will be a forceful and effective leader for UNC Greensboro. We are delighted to bring her back to North Carolina.”

In accepting the position, Dr. Brady said, “This is one of the very best jobs in American higher education. I am so grateful for this opportunity and hum-bled by the trust you have placed in me. I shall not let you down.”

As senior vice president and provost at Oregon, Dr. Brady was the universi-ty’s chief academic and operating offi cer. In that role, she was responsible for all aspects of UO’s academic mission, including academic affairs, research and graduate studies, student affairs, institutional equity and diversity, inter-national affairs, fi nance and administration, and information services.

A native of New York City and the fi rst member of her family to attend col-lege, Dr. Brady graduated from Douglass College, the women’s division of Rutgers University, in 1969 with a degree in political science. She received a master’s degree in the fi eld from Rutgers (1970) and a doctorate in political science from Ohio State University (1974). She began her academic career as an assistant professor of political science at Vanderbilt University in 1973 and joined the faculty at Goucher College in Maryland three years later.

From 1978 to 1985, Dr. Brady held several positions in the U.S. Depart-ment of State and the U.S. Department of Defense. Among other roles, she served as a political analyst in the State Department’s Offi ce of Disarmament and Arms Control and as special assistant for mutual and balanced force re-ductions in the Offi ce of the Secretary of Defense. She later served as a senior fellow in international security and arms control at the Carter Center of Emory University (1986-87) and as a distinguished professor of national security at the U.S. Military Academy (1991-92).

From 1993 to 2001, Dr. Brady led the Sam Nunn School of International

Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she was also a professor of international affairs. She joined North Carolina State University in 2001 as Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and professor of politi-cal science, and over the next fi ve years was credited with building the stature and visibility of the College, launching a number of new graduate degree pro-grams, and signifi cantly increasing external support for the humanities and so-cial sciences at NC State. She left North Carolina in 2006 to become the chief academic and operating offi cer at the University of Oregon.

Dr. Brady has authored or co-edited three books and numerous book chap-ters and scholarly articles in the fi elds of American foreign policy, international negotiation, and arms control. Among other professional organizations, she is a member of the International Studies Association, the American Political Science Association, the International Institute for Strategic Studies, and the Council on Foreign Relations. A past recipient of the Georgia Tech School of Social Sciences Teaching Award, she has earned the Superior Honor Award from the U.S. Department of State and is a two-time recipient of the Outstand-ing Civilian Service Medal from the Department of the Army. She was an Ameri-can Council on Education Fellow in 1997-98, serving her fellowship year at the University of Iowa under the mentorship of President Mary Sue Coleman and provost Jon Whitmore.

Dr. Brady is married to Gustav “Steve” Heyer, a retired Army offi cer. She has two adult stepsons and three grandchildren.

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In his 26th year as Director of Intercollegiate Athletics at UNCG, Nelson E. Bobb has developed a nationally recognized program that has cont inual ly succeeded in competition as well as in the classroom.

Bobb, the first full-time athletic director at the University, is the primary architect of a program that now features 16 NCAA Division I teams, eight for men and eight for women. Last year, he was named to NACDA’s

NCAA Division I-AAA Executive Committee as an at-large member. When he arrived in July 1983, there were eight teams competing on the Division III

level. The University authorized the shift to Division I in February 1987 and he guided the program through the unprecedented change in competitive status in only fi ve years. UNCG is one of only a dozen institutions to ever compete in all three divisions. However, no other institution has made the complete shift of all teams from Division III to Division I in that time frame.

During his tenure, he has watched over the construction or renovation of all of the Spartans’ athletic venues. He began that process by serving on the committee that built Fleming Gymnasium and the HHP Building in 1989. He then moved onto the transformation of Campus Field in 1991 into what is today UNCG Soccer Stadium – one of the premier venues in all of college soccer. In 1999, he oversaw the construction of the UNCG Baseball Stadium and the renovation and lighting of the UNCG Tennis Courts. Most recently, he added to the list the transformation of UNCG’s softball facility to become a top-of-the-line stadium venue, and the reconfi guration of seating in Fleming Gym, which added chairback seating on both sides and additional stands under one of the baskets.

Under Bobb’s guidance, Spartan student-athletes have consistently graduated at a rate equal to or higher than the general student population at UNCG. Each of the last four academic years, more than 40 percent of UNCG’s student-athletes earned a 3.0 GPA or better. Last year, 114 of 237 student-athletes earned a cumulative GPA of at least 3.0 for the academic year.

Those aspects, among others, helped earn Bobb the AstroTurf Division I Southeast Region Athletic Director of the Year Award at last summer’s NACDA convention. In addition, Bobb was also enshrined in UNCG’s Athletics Hall of Fame last February as a part of the department’s 40th anniversary celebration.

Other notable program accomplishments include completing the NCAA certifi cation process for Division I institutions twice and successfully transitioning the department’s teams into Southern Conference membership.

Under Bobb’s leadership, UNCG hosted the fi nal two rounds of the 1997 and 1998 NCAA Division I Women’s Soccer Championship, and was home to Olympic athletes from Norway for training prior to the Olympic Games in Atlanta in 1996. Several other Olympic athletes visited and trained at UNCG during the acclimation process. Bobb was also a member of the Olympic Torch run committee in Greensboro for the 1996 Games.

During his tenure, UNCG teams have won 36 conference tournament titles, 27 as an NCAA Division I member. They have also won 66 conference regular season titles, 40 of those since moving to NCAA Division I.

UNCG earned the Commissioner’s Cup for overall excellence in the Big South for three consecutive years. While Bobb was athletic director in the 1980’s, the men’s soccer team won four Division III national championships and the women’s basketball team made fi ve consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances with a third-place fi nish in 1988.

During his tenure at UNCG, Bobb has also served in various NCAA appointments, including serving on one of the fi rst NCAA Certifi cation teams. From 1995-2000, he

served on four such teams. From 1994 through 1998, Bobb served on the Division I Men’s Soccer National Committee and was on the NCAA Men’s and Women’s Soccer Rules Committee from 2000 through 2004, serving as chair in 2003 and 2004.

This academic year, Bobb will serve on three Southern Conference committees, serving on the Committee on Committees, Constitution and By-Laws and the Men’s Soccer Sport Committee, of which he is the chair.

On campus, Bobb is a member of the Chancellor’s Executive Staff and has been part of many governing bodies both inside and outside of athletics.

He is one of the original members of the Greensboro Sports Commission, having served in the body since 1989. He is also a member of the Greensboro Sports Council. He has presented twice each to the NCAA Convention and the NACDA Convention.

Bobb, a native of Gahanna, OH, oversees a staff of more than 60 full and part-time employees with administrative divisions of administration and business, student welfare, facilities and operations, external operations and integrated public affairs within the department.

Before coming to UNCG, Bobb served as an assistant athletic director at Cornell University for fi ve years. He also served as an assistant football coach at Cornell for nine seasons.

A 1970 graduate of Kent State (OH) with a bachelor’s degree in education, Bobb also holds a master’s degree in secondary education from Kent. As an undergraduate, he was a three-year letterwinner on the football team as an offensive guard and earned All-Academic recognition from the Mid-American Conference as a junior. He was an all-conference choice his senior year.

Bobb and his wife, Teresa, reside in Greensboro. He has a daughter, Reagan, and a son, Alexander.

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Terry AckermanFaculty Athletics Rep.

Sylvia MimsAssociate AD

Rod WyattAssociate AD

Dick StewartAssociate AD

Cathy RobertsAssociate AD

Christy AventAssociate AD

Stacey KosciakSpecial Asst. to AD

James ShippAssistant AD

Jennifer AguillarAssistant AD

Jackie WalshAssistant AD

Gary RossAssistant AD

Gary KluttsAssistant AD

Mark WilliamsStrength & Cond. Coach

Mike HirschmanSports Info. Director

Meghan GannonAssistant SID

Colleen O’ConnellAssistant SID

Jana HendersonCompliance Director

John ComerTicket Operations

Joanna CampAcademic Enhancement

Kwadjo SteeleAcademic Compliance

Erica ThorntonAssoc. Trainer

Daisy KovachAsst. Trainer

Emily SnowInternal Relations

Paula TerrellBusiness Offi ce

Linda PerontoStaff Secretary

Joann CozartStaff Secretary

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Endowed Athletic ScholarshipsA named endowment to support athletic scholarships may be created with a commitment of $50,000 or more. The endowment generates income that is awarded to student-athletes on an annual basis.

Six additional funds that are on their way to reaching endowment status include:Dr. Richard and Sharon Beavers Scholarship FundRich Brenner Endowed FundNathan W. and Robyn E. Jameson FundGary, Marilyn and Jordan Smith FundPatricia A. Hielscher Volleyball Athletic ScholarshipBecky Jackson Fund

Lynne C. Agee FundJames H. Allen Fund Alma W. Barrier Fund Smith Barrier FundIrwin Belk FundAaron Michael Bobb FundMike and Nancy Burke FundBobbi Carson FundMichael B. Fleming Athletic Scholarship FundRobert A. and Mary C. Fleming FundStanley and Dorothy Frank FundJ. Douglas Galyon FundEllen Griffi n FundLester Earl Gross III Athletic Scholarship Fund

Charles A. Hayes FundDavid Bates Knight EndowmentC. Thomas and Mary Martin FundKarl Mayer FundJim Melvin FundCharles C. Moyer Fund Victor M. Nussbaum, Jr. FundNancy Ann Porter FundCharles M. Reid FundRayna Matea Taylor FundH. Michael Weaver Fund

Annual ScholarshipsAn annual scholarship may be created with a commitment of $10,000 or more over a four-year period.

Dr. Richard & Sharon Beavers - Men’s Basketball Chris & Laura Bott - Men’s BasketballDavid L. and Martha P. Brown - Men’s Basketball Marc & Janis Bush - Women’s SoccerFirst Citizens Bank - Men’s Golf Randy Clarida - Women’s BasketballCarolyn and Art Green - Men’s Basketball Doug Hamilton - Men’s SoccerLeaton Harris - Women’s Soccer George Hoyle - Men’s Soccer Kurt and Joy Kronenfeld -Women’s Soccer Mayer Textile Machine Corporation - Men’s Basketball Piedmont Orthopedics - Comeback Player of the Year (two)Alan and Laura Pike - Men’s Basketball Bob and Laura Pitts - Men’s Soccer Shamrock Corporation - Men’s Tennis Shamrock Corporation - Women’s Tennis Jerry & Ellyn Steinhorn - Men’s Tennis Rod Wyatt - Cross Country

Raising scholarship funds for UNCG student-athletes

UNCG Spartan ClubPO Box 41230Greensboro, NC 27404-1230

Phone: (336) 334-5156Fax: (336) 334-5319www.spartanclub.org

Director: Mike Roach Associate Director: Donegan Root Offi ce Manager: Helen Sedwick

The Spartan Club is a non-profi t organization whose primary purpose is to secure scholarship support for the more than 225 student-athletes who compete in 16 men’s and women’s NCAA Division I athletic programs at UNCG. UNCG proudly proclaims that 100 percent of Spartan Club contributions go directly to athletic scholarships for deserving student-athletes.

Methods of GivingCash, Checks and Credit Card Gifts:Provide the yearly fi nancial resources needed to operate the athletic program. Pay-ments may be spread over the course of a fi scal year (July 1-June 30), but all pledges must be paid by June 30. The University accepts cash, checks and credit cards (American Express, MasterCard, Visa).

Employer Matching Gifts:Matching gifts double or triple the impact of your gift and increase your membership level. Be sure to enclose your matching gift form with application and donation and associate benefi ts.

Athletic Scholarship Endowments:These provide tuition, room, melas, books and fees on an annual basis for a student-athlete. Pay tribute to someone’s life and accomplishments or leave your own legacy while strengthening UNCG’s athletic program.

Planned and Estate Gifts:These gifts include life income arrangements from trusts, annuities, income funds, as well as life insurance policies and individual estate bequests, such as cash or real estate.

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Spartan Club Executive CommitteeChair: Kurt Kronenfeld ‘79 - Vice President, Senn Dunn Insurance

Jack Arehart, ‘76 - Senior Vice President, Compass Capital CorporationSamantha F. Brumbaugh ‘99 - Cairo, Ferguson, Brumbaugh, Stroupe, PLLC

Chuck Burns - Area Vice President, First Citizens BankRandy Clarida ‘98 - Investigator/CSO, Food & Drug Administration

Katie Dannemiller - Vice President of Operations, Greensboro Grasshoppers Michael H. Godwin - Schell, Bray, Aycock, Abel & Livingston, PLLC

Keith Grandberry ‘89 - President & CEO, Winston-Salem Urban LeagueCarolyn T. Green ‘70 - Executive Director, Piedmont Senior Care

Leaton Harris - Director of Business Operations, TEK SystemsGeorge Hoyle, ‘90 - Managing Partner, Compass Financial Partners, LLC

Dean Little, III - Yost & LittleKevin McCoy ‘03 - Vice President, South Atlantic Lumber

Chris Relos ‘84 - Registered Rep, Plybon & Associates, Inc.Ben Sirmons ‘74 - Assistant General Council, UNIFI, Inc.

Jeff Taylor ‘83 - CFO, Pope Companies

Ex-Offi cio MembersDr. Patti Stewart - Vice Chancellor for University Advancement, UNCG

Marc Bush - President, Greensboro Sports CommissionDick Stewart, Associate Director of Athletics, UNCG

Dr. Terry Ackerman, Faculty Athletics Rep, UNCGNelson Bobb - Director of Athletics, UNCG

AdvisorC. Thomas Martin ‘70 - Former Director of Planning, City of Greensboro

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From the North and East (Burlington, Raleigh/Durham, Richmond, VA):From I-40/85, follow I-40/Business 85 towards Greensboro/Winston-Salem. Take the Freeman Mill Road/Coliseum Area exit, and turn right on Freeman Mill Rd. Turn left at the fi rst stoplight onto Coliseum Boulevard. Follow for approximately 1.5 miles and turn right at third stoplight onto Spring Garden Street. Turn left on Stirling Street, and the Walker Avenue Parking Deck will be on your left at the corner of Stirling and Theta Streets, approximately .7 miles.

From the South (Salisbury, Charlotte, Atlanta, GA):From I-85 North, follow Business 85 towards Greensboro, then take the Holden Road exit and turn right on Holden Road. Follow Holden for approximately 4.5 miles and turn right on Market Street. Follow Market Street for approximately 1.5 miles. Turn right on Aycock Street South. At the second stoplight, turn left on Spring Garden Street. Turn left on Stirling Street, and the Walker Avenue Parking Deck will be on your left at the corner of Stirling and Theta Streets, approximately .7 miles.

From the West (Winston-Salem, Asheville, Knoxville, TN):From I-40 East, take the Wendover Avenue East exit. Follow Wendover to the exit for Market Street (3.5 miles). Turn right on Market Street and follow for less than 1 mile. Turn right on Aycock Street South. At second stoplight, turn left on Spring Garden Street. Turn left on Stirling Street, and the Walker Avenue Parking Deck will be on your left at the corner of Stirling and Theta Streets.

From the North on Highway 220 (Eden, Martinsville, Roanoke, VA):Highway 220 South becomes Battleground Avenue. Stay on Battleground until you cross the intersection of Cornwallis Drive. Immediately bear right on Westover Terrace. (Battleground Avenue and Highway 220 will bear left.) Stay on Westover as it becomes Aycock Street. At the fi fth stoplight turn left onto Spring Garden Street. Turn left on Stirling Street, and the Walker

Avenue Parking Deck will be on your left at the corner of Stirling and Theta Streets.

From the South on Highway 220 (Asheboro, Rockingham):From Highway 220 North, follow the signs to the Coliseum area. Turn left at the stoplight onto Coliseum Boulevard. Follow for approximately 1.5 miles and turn right at third stoplight onto Spring Garden Street. Turn left on Stirling Street, and the Walker Avenue Parking Deck will be on your left at the corner of Stirling and Theta Streets, approximately .7 miles.

From the North on Highway 29 (Reidsville, Danville, VA):From Highway 29 South take the Wendover Avenue West/Hospital Exit. Follow Wendover for approximately 2.6 miles and take the Westover Terrace exit. Follow the exit to the right, and merge right, following the Coliseum sign. Stay on Westover as it becomes Aycock Street. Turn left at the fourth stoplight onto Spring Garden Street. Turn left on Stirling Street, and the Walker Avenue Parking Deck will be on your left at the corner of Stirling and Theta Streets.

From the South on Highway 421 (Sanford, Fayetteville):From highway 421 North, take I-40 West towards Winston-Salem. Take the Freeman Mill Road/Coliseum Area exit, and turn right in Freeman Mill Rd. Turn left at the fi rst stoplight onto Coliseum Boulevard. Follow for approximately 1.5 miles and turn right at third stoplight onto Spring Garden Street. Turn left on Stirling Street, and the Walker Avenue Parking Deck will be on your left at the corner of Stirling and Theta Streets, approximately .7 miles.