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PAGE 2 - 2010 SCAC VOLLEYBALL PROSPECTUS PAGE 3 - 2010 SCAC VOLLEYBALL PROSPECTUS Past SCAC Champions Colorado College favored to win 2010 SCAC volleyball Championship Year School Conference Overall SUWANEE, Ga. – For the first time since joining the league in 2007, Colorado College was selected as the 1991 Rhodes College 5-0 20-14 preseason favorite to win the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference volleyball championship in 2010. 1992 Trinity University 7-0 30-12 1993 Trinity University 7-0 30-6 The Tigers were tabbed as the preseason favorite to win the SCAC title just ahead of Trinity University. In the 1994 Trinity University 7-0 32-7 annual preseason vote by the league’s head coaches, Colorado College tallied seven of 12 first place votes and 1995 Southwestern University 5-2 29-8 received 126 points to headline the poll. 1996 Trinity University 7-0 31-6 Head coach Rick Swan and his Tigers finished 2009 with a 35-5 overall record and a 12-2 mark in SCAC play and 1997 Southwestern University 5-2 25-13 lost a 3-1 decision to Washington (Mo.) in the Division III national quarterfinals. Colorado College is ranked fifth in 1998 Trinity University 9-0 36-5 the 2010 AVCA Division III Coaches Top 25 preseason poll. 1999 Trinity University 9--0 38-3 2000 Trinity University 17-1 33-8 Trinity University closely followed Colorado Colleg and checked in at No. 2 in the preseason poll for the second straight year. The Tigers garnered 120 points and three first place votes. Trinity, who is 12th in the 2010 AVCA 2001 Trinity University 18-0 35-5 Division III Coaches Top 25 preseason poll, bowed out of the Division III national quarterfinals with a 3-0 loss to 2002 Trinity University 18-0 38-5 Juniata. 2003 Trinity University 18-0 33-5 2004 Trinity University 18-0 31-6 Defending SCAC champion Southwestern University (111 points, two first place votes), was the only other team 2005 Southwestern University 17-1 36-5 to receive first place votes and checked into the poll in third place.The Pirates are ranked 16th in the 2010 AVCA Division III Coaches Top 25 preseason poll. Trinity University 17-1 25-12 2006 Trinity University 17-1 34-7 DePauw University and Austin College tallied 96 and 83 points to finish fourth and fifth respectively Centre College 2007 Trinity University 15-0 35-3 rounds out the top six with 65 points. 2008 Trinity University 13-1 31-10 Rounding out the 2010 predicted order of finish: Millsaps College was tabbed seventh with 56 points and Rhodes 2009 Southwestern University 14-0 35-4 College was just behind in eighth place, picking up 55 points. Hendrix College followed with 35 points while Oglethorpe University (10th, 33 points) and Sewanee: University of the South (11th, 12 points) complete the poll. NOTES: From 1992 through 1999, the conference champion was based on the SCAC Tour- nament. In 1991 and again from 2000 through 2006, the conference champion was based DePauw returns nine letterwinners return from last year’s 28-9 team which finished fourth at the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference tournament and narrowly missed an at-large bid to the NCAA Division III postseason. on regular season finish. The SCAC went back to a post-season tournament in 2007. Leading the Tigers’ returnees are a pair of second team all-SCAC senior players in setter Ali Smith and middle hitter Kristen Chynoweth. Smith averaged 9.7 assists per set and her 1,248 on the season were the fifth-highest single- season total in school history. She also ranks fifth in school history with 2,878 career assists. Austin College will be led by junior Jessica Fleming and senior Jordan Anderton, who have both been All-SCAC and All-Region honorees in their time at Austin College. Last season Fleming led the nation in blocks and was in the top ten in the country in attacks, averaging 1.7 blocks and 3.43 kills per set with a .402 attack percentage. Anderton finished second in the SCAC in assists, averaging 10.25 per set. PAGE 4 - 2010 SCAC VOLLEYBALL PROSPECTUS PAGE 5 - 2010 SCAC VOLLEYBALL PROSPECTUS Colorado College preseason favorite - continued Centre still returns a core of players who have seen plenty of action. Both starting middle hitters, senior Ashton Hupman and junior Stephanie Woeste return and should help the team as leading forces along the net. Woeste and Hupman were first and third on the team in hitting efficiency and first and second in blocks/game respectively. Hupman was named the MVP of the Hanover tournament while Woeste earned Second Team All-Conference honors. All-SCAC selection Kate Hall returns to anchor Millsaps’ outside line. Hall led the team in kills with 370 last season, good for 3.2 kills per game. Joining Hall will be junior Maggie Tumminello who finished second behind Hall in kills with 274 for 2.3 kills per game on the season. 2010 SCAC Composite Conference Schedule Returning for the Lynx will be a trio of senior’s: Libero Kayla McCrury, RS/OH attacker Phylicia Douglas and defensive specialist Alana Fritsche. McCrury looks to anchor the team’s defense and has a chance to break the career record at Rhodes for all time digs. Currently McCrury ranks 5th all time in digs with 1,539. Saturday, October 9 Friday, September 17 SCAC West/Central Divisional (@ Millsaps College) Hendrix returns four seniors in 2010. Sara Gawor and Kim Larson will be the senior leaders on the back line, while SCAC West/Central Divisional (@ Southwestern University) Court 1 Court 2 Court 1 Court 2 Leah Groat and Becca Clancy will guide the front row. Larson is coming off a 582 dig season and Gawor posted a Hendrix vs. Colo. Col. Trinity vs. Rhodes Noon Rhodes vs. Trinity Birmingham vs. Austin Noon 200 dig year in 2009. Groat and Clancy combined for over 380 kills last year. Southwestern vs. Birmingham Austin vs. Millsaps 2 pm Millsaps vs. Southwestern Hendrix vs. Colo. Col. 2 pm Austin vs. Birmingham Trinity vs. Hendrix 4 pm Hendrix vs. Southwestern Austin vs. Rhodes 4 pm Oglethorpe will boast the services of three returning seniors who have each started for the Petrels since they Southwestern vs. Millsaps Colo.Col. vs. Rhodes 6 pm Millsaps vs. Trinity Colo. Col. vs. Birmingham 6 pm arrived on campus as freshmen. Captain libero and dig master Hilary Miller leads the charge alongside outside Saturday, September 18 Saturday, October 10 hitters and co-captains Trupti Patel and Sara Blair. Also returning is senior outside hitter Samantha Von Ende. SCAC West/Central Divisional (@ Southwestern University) SCAC Central/East Divisional (@ Millsaps College) Court 1 Court 2 Court 1 Court 2 Juniors Blair Barrows, Liz Boddiford, Adrienne Borchardt, and Kim Conkell, along with sophomores Erin Brahm Austin vs. Hendrix Trinity vs. Birmingham 9 am Hendrix vs. Austin Rhodes vs. Southwestern 9 am and Callie Sims all return for Sewanee after being significant contributors last year. Barrows returns at libero for the Southwestern vs. Rhodes Millsaps vs. Colo. Col. 11 am Millsaps vs. Colo. Col. Trinity vs. Birmingham 11 am Rhodes vs. Birmingham Hendrix vs. Millsaps 1 pm Trinity vs. Colo. Col. Southwestern vs. Austin 1 pm Tigers after racking up 148 digs in 2009. Boddiford led the Tigers with 176 kills and recorded six total blocks in ‘09, Millsaps vs. Rhodes Birmingham vs. Hendrix 3 pm while Borchardt recorded 241 digs, more than any other Tiger. Sims added 18 kills and was third on the team with Southwestern vs. Trinity Austin vs. Col. Col. 3 pm 18 assists last year. Saturday, September 25 Friday, October 15 SCAC East/West Divisional (@ Sewanee: University of the South) SCAC East/West Divisional (@ Austin College) As an NCAA Division III provisional member, Birmingham-Southern was not considered in the preseason poll. Court 1 Court 2 Court 1 Court 2 Leading the returners for the Panthers is senior defensive specialist Jennifer McKannan. McKannan led the team Colo. Col. vs. Centre Trinity vs. DePauw Noon Austin vs. Oglethorpe Colo. Col. vs. DePauw Noon Trinity vs. Centre Sewanee vs. Southwestern 2 pm and was third in the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference last season averaging 4.98 digs per game. Classmate Sewanee vs. Southwestern Austin vs. Oglethorpe 2 pm Trinity vs. Centre Southwestern vs. Oglethorpe 4 pm Colo. Col. vs. Sewanee Trinity vs. Oglethorpe 4 pm Christine Denning returns at setter. Denning is coming off a 2009 in which she fifth in the SCAC averaging 8.93 Sewanee vs. Austin DePauw vs. Colo. Col. 6 pm Austin vs. Centre Southwestern vs. DePauw 6 pm assists per game. Sunday, September 26 Saturday, October 16 SCAC East/West Divisional (@ Sewanee: University of the South) SCAC East/West Divisional (@ Austin College) Court 1 Court 2 Court 1 Court 2 2010 SCAC Predicted Order of Finish Southwestern vs. Centre Trinity vs. Oglethorpe 9 am Trinity vs. Sewanee Oglethorpe vs. Colo. Col. 9 am Sewanee vs. Colo. Col. DePauw vs. Austin 11 am Austin vs. DePauw Centre vs. Southwestern 11 am No. of votes 2009 Record Austin vs. Trinity Southwestern vs. Colo. Col 1 pm Oglethorpe vs. DePauw Sewanee vs. Centre 1 pm 1. Colorado College Tigers 126 (7) 12-2 35-5 Sewanee vs. DePauw Oglethorpe vs. Centre 3 pm Austin vs. Colo. Col. Trinity vs. Southwestern 3 pm 2. Trinity University Tigers 120 (3) 11-4 30-12 3. Southwestern University Pirates 111 (2) 14-0 35-4 Saturday, October 2 Saturday, October 23 4. DePauw University Tigers 96 11-3 28-9 SCAC East/Central Divisional (@ Birmingham-Southern College) SCAC East/Central Divisional (@ Oglethorpe University) Court 1 Court 2 5.