MILWAUKEE VOLLEYBALL 2019 RECORD BOOK 2019 MILWAUKEE PANTHERS 1 2 3 4 5 6 JENNA MILLER MAKENZIE MROCZENSKI LOUISE KIEKHOFER CARMEN HEILEMANN KAILYNN MONGAN ARI MILLER JR 5-10 MB/RS JR 6-2 MB SR 5-9 OH JR 6-0 MB JR 5-5 DS FR 5-11 MB APPLETON, WIS. NEW BERLIN, WIS. ELM GROVE, WIS. SENDEN, GERMANY GERMANTOWN, WIS. JACKSON, WIS. 7 8 9 10 11 12 LAUREN SPAULDING JENN DORE ALLISON GRZEBIEN LEXIE USELDING KLEJA CERNIAUSKAITE JESS GRABOWSKI SO 5-9 OH SR 5-11 S SR 6-2 OH SR 5-8 DS/OH SO 6-2 MB SO 5-4 DS SHEBOYGAN, WIS. NAPERVILLE, ILL. DES PLAINES, ILL. WEST BEND, WIS. CRYSTAL LAKE, ILL. GREENDALE, WIS. 13 14 15 16 17 18 RYLIE VAUGHN KYLIE WILKS SHARI VOLPIS ABBY KOENEN MATI JAKSCHT MORGAN THIEL SO 5-9 S SR 5-8 OH SR 5-11 OH SO 6-0 OH/RS FR 5-6 DS FR 5-6 DS HATLEY, WIS. UNION GROVE, WIS. MANHATTAN BEACH, CALIF. BURLINGTON, WIS. EAST TROY, WIS. OSHKOSH, WIS. SUSIE JOHNSON LINDSEY VANDEN BERG ELI SHARPING ANDY COLE HEAD COACH ASSOCIATE COACH ASSISTANT COACH VOLUNTEER ASSISTANT COACH Milwaukee Volleyball Quick Facts • General Information • Table of Contents School: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee TV/Radio Roster IFC City/Zip: Milwaukee, Wis./53201 Table of Contents 1 Founded: 1885 Head Coach Susie Johnson 2-3 Enrollment: 24,836 Associate Head Coach Lindsey Vanden Berg 4 Nickname: Panthers Assistant Coach Eli Sharping 4 Colors: Black and Gold Support Staff 5 Arena: Klotsche Center (2,500) Media Information 6 Affiliation: NCAA Division I 2019 Roster 7 Conference: Horizon League 2018 In Review 8-12 Chancellor: Mark Mone Hall of Fame Inductees 13 Athletic Director: Amanda Braun All-Americans 14 Senior Woman Administrator: Kathy Litzau Players of the Year 15 Ticket Phone: 414-229-5886 All-Time Roster 16 Award Winners 17-18 • Volleyball History Program History 19-20 First Year of Volleyball: 1973 Year-by-Year Leaders 21 Overall all-time record: 1,066-639-9 Records 22-27 First Year In Division I: 1990 Series History 28-30 Division I Record: 499-386 Year-by-Year Results 31-39 NCAA Appearances/Last Appearance: 10/2013 Klotsche Center 40 Last NCAA opponent/Result: @ Wisconsin, L 3-0 • Coaching Staff • Introduction Head Coach: Susie Johnson The Milwaukee Sports Information Department welcomes your Alma Mater/Year: Idaho State, ‘93 coverage of the 2019 Panther volleyball team. Athletic Commu- Record At School (Season): 198-159 (13th season) nications staff member Cody Bohl serves as the main contacts Career Record (Season): 218-206 (15th season) for volleyball. He can be reached in the office at (920) 740-3936, Office Phone: 414-229-4483 by fax at (414) 229-5749 or by e-mail at [email protected]. You can Assistant Coach: Lindsey Vanden Berg also follow the team on Twitter (@MKE_Volleyball). Assistant Coach: Eli Sharping Volleyball Athletic Trainer: Ryan McCauley • About the 2019 Information and Record Book The 2019 Milwaukee Volleyball Information and Record Book • Media Relations is written and designed by Cody Bohl, with editorial assistance Associate SID/Volleyball Contact: Cody Bohl by Chris Zills. Photography courtesy of Trevor Thompson, Mike Cell Phone: (920) 740-3936 Gryniewicz, Jose Juarez, and UWM Photo Services. Due to NCAA E-Mail: [email protected] regulations, this publication cannot be distributed to prospec- SID Fax: 414-229-5749 tive student-athletes, coaches and others. Additional informa- Website: MKEPanthers.com tion no longer included in this printed publication is available Video Channel: BlackandGoldNetwork.com online at MKEPanthers.com. Facebook: facebook.com/MilwaukeePanthers Twitter: @MKE_Volleyball; @MKEPanthers Always Stay Connected @MKE_Volleyball instagram.com/ facebook.com/ @MKEPanthers mke_volleyball MilwaukeePanthers 10 NCAA Tournaments • 13 League Championships 1 Milwaukee Volleyball Head Coach Susie Johnson SUSIE JOHNSON HEAD COACH 13TH SEASON IDAHO STATE ‘93 Susie Johnson has continued the winning tradition of Milwaukee Panther volleyball. Johnson was named head coach in May of 2007 after 10 years as an assistant and associate head coach at Milwaukee. Since taking over the reigns, Johnson has led MKE to 198 wins, five regular-season titles, four league-tournament crowns and four NCAA Tournament berths. Success With Susie The past three seasons have seen Johnson with one of the youngest rosters not only in the Horizon League, but also in the nation. Never one for excuses, Johnson still coached her young squads to a combined 35 wins over that span. Despite their youth, Johnson 198 again also helped her players reach an impressive amount of accolades, earning a total Wins In 12 Years As Head Coach of eight league honors, including three named to the all-freshman team and the Horizon League Freshman of the Year in 2016. In 2014, Johnson led her team to a second-place finish in the regular season despite a 241-77 slew of injuries and challenges. The Panthers made it all the way to the Horizon League League Record In 22 MKE Seasons Tournament Championship match before coming up just short of their fifth NCAA Tournament bid with Johnson at the helm. That comes on the heels of a very impressive 2013 campaign in which Johnson was 10 named coach of the year for the fifth time overall. She led the Panthers on the path to a Panther NCAA Tournament Berths remarkable turnaround, going from an injury-plagued, seventh-place finish in 2012 to a ninth regular-season title in 11 years. 13 Her overall run has included the first undefeated Horizon League season in 17 years, a school-record 18-match winning streak and the program’s best-ever NCAA Tournament 20-Win Seasons At MKE performance - a heartbreaking five-set loss to Dayton in 2009. The 2011 season may well have been her best. The Panthers went 25-5 overall and MKE 13 went 16-0 in league play, becoming the first Horizon League team to go through the league schedule without a loss since Notre Dame did it in 1994. Milwaukee also set a MKE Regular Season League Titles school record with 18 straight wins and nearly upset Iowa State in the first round of the postseason. 5 One season earlier, she led the Panthers to a 15-1 league mark and an 11-match winning League Coach Of The Year Honors streak. In fact, MKE started the season 3-7 against a difficult non-league schedule but then won 17 of 19 matches after that, capturing the league crown. For more information and a In 2009, she directed her team to another 11-match winning streak. The first eight wins photo gallery, go to helped her team move from eighth to third in the league standings before three more wins in the league tournament helped her squad to the title and an eighth NCAA Tournament MKEPanthers.com berth. 2 10 NCAA Tournaments • 13 League Championships Milwaukee Volleyball Head Coach Susie Johnson Susie Johnson Against The Horizon League Butler* 6-2 Cleveland State 14-14 Green Bay 15-10 Northern Kentucky 5-3 Oakland 7-7 Loyola-Chicago* 9-2 UIC 16-9 Valparaiso* 18-8 Wright State 21-3 Youngstown State 19-5 TOTAL 131-64 *No longer Horizon League member seven league tournament titles while League Players of the Year, with Kerri Schuh In 2008, Johnson directed a squad that Milwaukee has gone 254-102 in Horizon winning the award twice and Neuberger included 12 freshmen and sophomores League play since joining the conference claiming the distinction in 2013. to the top of the league standings. MKE (then the MCC) in 1994. also beat then-#18 Iowa State during In all, players have earned all-league non-league play and claimed the Horizon In her 22 seasons in Milwaukee, UWM has honors 54 times under Johnson and League Tournament title and automatic compiled a 424-229 record. That number the recognition for Panther players has berth into the NCAA Tournament. During includes a 241-77 mark in league play and extended far beyond the Horizon League. her first season as head coach, Johnson a 203-61 record at home. Plus, the Panthers With Johnson’s assistance, UWM players led the Panthers to a school-record 26 have won 131 of their 163 home league have earned AVCA All-America honors wins and a fifth-straight Horizon League matches with Johnson on the bench. nine times and AVCA All-Region honors regular season title. MKE also put together 21 times. Plus, three Panthers have winning streaks of 14 and 12 matches. Johnson’s efforts on the recruiting trail earned AVCA Region Freshman of the Year have led to eight league newcomers of accolades, including Rachel Neuberger MKE has won either the regular season the year during her tenure, including and Kayla Price. or tournament championship in league Rachel Neuberger in 2009 and Bridget play in 16 of the 22 seasons Johnson has Wallenberger in 2016. Plus, 22 Panther Johnson’s playing background is at setter, been on the staff at UWM, while 10 of the players have earned a spot on the league’s where she earned All-Big Sky and All- last 21 Panther squads have qualified for all-newcomer team in the last 22 years. Northwest Region honors at Idaho State. the NCAA Tournament. In fact, UWM has Panther players have then consistently She was also a two-time Academic All-Big staked its claim to clearly being the top developed into the best players in the Sky honoree and has helped direct the volleyball program in the Horizon League. Horizon League. In her 22 seasons in Panthers to great success in the classroom, The Panthers have won a league-record Milwaukee, Johnson has coached 10 with two Academic All-Americans and a team GPA above 3.3.