2018 Mid-American Conference Volleyball Media Guide and Record
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2018 Mid-American Conference Volleyball Media Guide and Record Book MID-AMERICAN CONFERENCE TABLE OF CONTENTS 24 PUBLIC SQUARE, 15TH FLOOR, CLEVELAND, OHIO 44113 Commissioner, Jon Steinbrecher................................................... 3 WEBSITE: WWW.GETSOMEMACTION.COM This is the Mid-American Conference ........................................4-5 2017 Season Stats .....................................................................6-9 TELEPHONE: 216-566-4622 Year-by-Year Standings ..........................................................10-13 MEDIA RELATIONS FAX: 216-858-9622 MAC Coaching History ...........................................................14-15 ADMINISTRATION FAX: 216-696-2622 Individual Award Winners ............................................................ 16 All-MAC Selections .................................................................17-20 Dr. Jon A. Steinbrecher Commissioner Academic All-MAC Selections ................................................21-23 National and Regional Accolades ...........................................24-26 Julie Kachner [email protected] Individual Records ..................................................................27-28 Executive Assistant to the Commissioner Ext. 311 Team Records ............................................................................. 29 The MAC in the NCAA Record Book ......................................30-33 Bob Gennarelli [email protected] Deputy Commissioner/Chief Operating Officer (COO) Ext. 308 Past MAC Tournament Results ..............................................34-37 All-Tournament Teams ................................................................. 38 Jeff Bacon [email protected] Individual MAC Tournament Records .......................................... 39 Sr. Assoc. Commissioner/Championships & Sport Dev’t Ext. 316 Team MAC Tournament Records ................................................ 40 MAC in Postseason Play ........................................................41-42 Ricky Stokes [email protected] Senior Assoc. Commissioner/Men’s & Women’s BB Ext. 307 2018 MAC Championship Bracket .............................................. 43 Betty Sislak [email protected] Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Ext. 328 MAC VOLLEYBALL ON TWITTER Ken Mather [email protected] Assoc. Commissioner/Media & Public Relations Ext. 301 Mid-American Conference ......................................... @MACSports Heather Klatt (Conference Volleyball Contact) ...... @HeatherKlatt_ Kristin Williams [email protected] Akron Zips ........................................................................@ZipsVB Assoc. Commissioner/Institutional Services & SWA Ext. 318 Ball State Cardinals ...............................................@BallStateWVB Bowling Green Falcons ...................................... @BGSUVolleyball Jeremy Guy [email protected] Assistant Commissioner/Integrated Digital Strategies Ext. 303 Buffalo Bulls ...............................................................@ubvolleyball Central Michigan Chippewas ................................ @CMUVolleyball Korinth Patterson [email protected] Eastern Michigan Eagles ...................................... @EMUVolleyball Assistant Commissioner/Championships Ext. 302 Kent State Golden Flashes........................................@KentStVball Miami RedHawks................................................ @MiamiOH_Vball Renee Dubuc [email protected] Director of Institutional Services Ext. 320 Northern Illinois Huskies ..................................@NIUVOLLEYBALL Ohio Bobcats .......................................................@Ohio_Volleyball Kadeem Huggins [email protected] Toledo Rockets ........................................................... @Toledo_VB Director of Digital Media Services Ext. 314 Western Michigan Broncos .................................. @WMUVolleyball Heather Klatt [email protected] Director of Visual & Creative Content Ext. 319 MAC/IMG PROPERTIES Kyle Klein [email protected] Steve Volchko [email protected] Director of Championships & Special Events Ext. 312 IMG - MAC Account Executive Rachel Konieczki [email protected] Director of Men’s & Women’s Basketball Operations Ext. 304 Tom Sitko [email protected] General Manager, MAC IMG Sports Marketing Ext. 305 Kerri Krawczak [email protected] Director of Football Operations & External Relations Ext. 324 Eric Kwaitkowski [email protected] Assistant Director of Communication Ext. 322 Logan Brooks [email protected] Championships Assistant Ext. 323 2 Mid-American Conference Volleyball Commissioner, Dr. Jon A Steinbrecher Dr. Jon A. Steinbrecher enters his sixth year with the played at All Pro Freight Stadium in Avon, Ohio. Mid-American Conference (MAC) after being named the league’s eighth commissioner on March 16, 2009. He joined the MAC after serving six years as commissioner of the Ohio Valley Conference (OVC). Prior to the OVC, Steinbrecher served as commissioner of the Mid-Continent Steinbrecher has expanded bowl opportunities for the Conference (the Summit League). He is the only person to serve as commissioner in conference and stabilized conference membership, all three NCAA Division I Subdivisions (FBS, FCS, DI). increased national and regional television exposure, launched the conference’s first-ever digital network, In six years with the OVC, Steinbrecher significantly increased the league’s exposure renegotiated the conference marketing rights agreement through additional television coverage at the regional and national level. In 2005, he with IMG College and enhanced neutral site conference negotiated a five-year contract with ESPN that secured increased exposure for the championships in basketball and baseball. league. That included being the first conference to sign a deal to have games appear on ESPNU, the OVC had the first sporting event telecast on that network (the 2005 Steinbrecher played an integral role in the development OVC Men’s Basketball Tournament Semifinal). of the new College Football Playoff and serves on the Administrative Committee. Steinbrecher led the MAC Steinbrecher secured an invitation for the OVC to participate in ESPN’s BracketBusters bid to host the 2015 NCAA Men’s Basketball Regional event. He also implemented conference merchandising and corporate partner programs at Quicken Loans Arena and also developed and imple- and in 2008 negotiated a five-year agreement with IMG College to manage the OVC’s mented a new MAC Coaches Orientation program. multimedia rights and sponsorship sales. Specifically in football, Steinbrecher has led historic achievements in the overall growth In July 2006, Steinbrecher helped spearhead a venture into streaming video with of MAC football within the FBS level. Over the last three seasons ten different MAC the launch of OVCSports.TV. The multimedia platform provided live and on-demand programs have appeared in a bowl game. Also, the MAC became the first conference coverage of every OVC football and men’s and women’s basketball games as well as in the BCS era to have two teams vying for a BCS berth in the same year without an selected other sports, coaches’ shows, press conferences and special events. In its undefeated season. In 2012 both Northern Illinois and Kent State entered the Marathon first two years of existence, OVCSports.TV streamed over 800 events and recorded MAC Football Championship Game with 11-1 records and ranked in the BCS Top 25. nearly 5,000 paid subscribers. In January, 2013, Steinbrecher witnessed Northern Illinois earn the first ever BCS bowl Under his leadership, the OVC re-emphasized its commitment to sportsmanship by berth 28by a MAC member in the Discover Orange Bowl and during the 2012 bowl implementing a series of good sports initiatives, including sportsmanship affidavits season a conference record seven teams receive bowl invitations. signed by coaches and administrators, student-athlete ethical conduct orientation and an institutional and team sportsmanship awards. Steinbrecher also initiated a Confer- Last season, Steinbrecher had five different MAC programs receive bowl invitations – ence Basketball Issues Committee and oversaw increased promotional efforts for the Bowling Green (Little Caesars Pizza Bowl); Northern Illinois (San Diego County Credit OVC Basketball Tournament, which resulted in an increase in ticket sales revenue. He Union Poinsettia Bowl); Ball State (GoDaddy Bowl); Buffalo (Famous Idaho Potato also spearheaded the efforts in bidding for, and ultimately securing, the 2014 NCAA Bowl) and Ohio (Beef O’Brady’s Bowl St. Petersburg). Division I Women’s Basketball Final Four for Nashville. Steinbrecher orchestrated the creation of four new bowl games last fall – the Raycom Prior to being named Mid-Continent Conference Commissioner in Nov. 1994, Dr. Stein- Media Camellia Bowl (Montgomery, Ala.), the Bahamas Bowl (Nassau, Bahamas), the brecher had previously served the league as Director of Communications, Director of Boca Raton Bowl (Boca Raton, Fla.) and the Miami Beach Bowl (Miami, Fla.). Marketing and Communications and Assistant Commissioner. He joined the Mid-Con staff in 1989 after previously serving in the athletics departments at Houston Baptist Steinbrecher has built the MAC primary bowl agreements this year to a conference-best University, Indiana University and Davidson College. five guaranteed bowl games (GoDaddy Bowl; Famous Idaho Potato Bowl; Raycom Me- dia Camellia