CONFERENCE USA WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
UPCOMING GAMES/RECENT RESULTS
C-USA STANDINGS
Thur., November 20
Southern Miss at South Alabama 7 p.m.
New Mexico State at UTEP 8 p.m.
Fri., November 21
Fifth Third Classic, Huntington, W.Va.
Tennessee State at Marshall 6 p.m.
Presbyterian at East Carolina 6 p.m.
Memphis at Mississippi 6 p.m.
UAB at Charlotte 6 p.m.
Florida A&M at UCF 6 p.m.
Miami at Houston 7 p.m.
SMU at Arkansas 7 p.m.
Sat., November 22
Tulsa at Oral Roberts 12 p.m.
Fifth Third Classic, Huntington, W.Va.
Morgan State/UL Monroe at Marshall 3/6 p.m.
Florida Atlantic at UCF 4 p.m.
Savannah State at UTEP 8 p.m.
Sun., November 23
Baylor at Rice 2 p.m.
RECENT RESULTS
Mon., November 17
Marshall 78, North Texas 69
Southern Miss 79, Tennessee State 56
South Alabama 77, UAB 64
Tue., November 18
East Carolina 80, Appalachian State 75
Memphis 67, Louisiana Tech 60
Wed., November 19
Houston 69, Oregon State 47
Rice Prairie View A&M
Tulsa 64, Missouri State 56
Bold denotes C-USA Teams
2008-09 WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
Team C-USA Overall
W L W L
East Carolina 0 0 2 0
Houston 0 0 2 0
Marshall 0 0 2 0
Rice 0 0 2 0
Southern Miss 0 0 2 0
Tulsa 0 0 2 0
Memphis 0 0 2 1
Tulane 0 0 1 1
UAB 0 0 1 1
SMU 0 0 0 1
UCF 0 0 0 1
UTEP 0 0 0 2
2009 C-USA CHAMPIONSHIP
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The 2009 C-USA Women's Basketball Championship is slated for March 5-8,
2009, in New Orleans, La. The event will be hosted by Tulane inside the
historic Fogelman Arena.
All 12 teams will participate in the tournament, which will feature four
first-round games on Thursday, March 6 and four quarterfinal games on
Friday, March 6. Afternoon games are at 12- and 2:30 p.m., followed by the
night session at 5:30- and 8 p.m.
The two semifinal games on Saturday, March 7 will be televised on CSTV
with 2 and 4:30 p.m. CT tip times.
The championship game will take place on Sunday, March 8 and will be
televised by ESPN2 at 2:30 p.m. CT.
Ticket Prices are as followed:
General Admission:
All Sessions: Adult $50; Youth $40
Single Session: Adult $10; Youth $7
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C-USA Volleyball All-Conference Awards Announced
Conference USA announced its 2008 all-conference first and second teams
and postseason award winners for volleyball today, as selected by the
conference's head coaches. The awards are announced on the eve of the 14th
Annual C-USA Volleyball Championship, which is scheduled for Thursday
through Sunday, Nov. 20-23, in Memphis, Tenn. The four-day, 12-team event
will be hosted by the University of Memphis inside the Elma Roane
Fieldhouse.
Rice, Tulane and UAB dominate the All-Conference honors and four of five
individual award winners came from one of these programs.
C-USA's Player of the Year goes to Tulane senior Sara Radosevic.
Radosevic, also a two-time All-C-USA first team pick, is one of four
current C-USA players that have more than 1,000 kills and 1,000 digs. The
6-1 outside hitter owns 1,845 career kills, ranking eighth best in C-USA
history, 1,087 career digs and 183 aces that rank fifth-best in the
league's annals. Radosevic's kills and aces are second best in Green Wave
history, while her career digs appear at No. 7. She also tops the charts
at No. 2 in the league in kills (3.62) and points (4.13) per set this
season.
Tulane senior Bridget Wells earns her second straight All-C-USA first team
honor. Wells ranks second on the team in kills (330), kills per set (3.17)
and attack percentage (.291), while sitting third on the club in blocks
(78) and blocks per set (0.75). She also ranks ninth in C-USA in both
kills per set and attack percentage. She became the 13th player in Tulane
history to record 1,000 career kills earlier in the year and currently
ranks 10th in the Green Wave record book with 1,158 kills. Wells also has
248 career blocks, and her 235 career block assists sits 11th in school
history.
Repeating their All-C-USA second team merits from a year ago is Green Wave
Jenn Miller and Jen Linder, while freshman Visnja Djurdjevic earns her
first All-C-USA second team honor. Djurdjevic was also voted the league's
Freshman of the Year, an honor Tulane has claimed three of the last four
years. Djurdjevic ranks third on the team in kills per set with an average
of 2.34, and average 2.80 points, 2.44 digs and a .229 hitting efficiency.
The 6-1 outside hitter was named the conference's Offensive Player of the
Week once and earned tournament MVP honors at the Allstate Sugar Bowl
Classic.
Miller, the 2007 C-USA Libero of the Year, ranks sixth in the league in
digs per set with 3.89 and has earned two C-USA Defensive Player of the
Week honors. Her career dig figure blossomed to 1,493, for an average of
5.09 digs per set, which ranks No. 1 at Tulane and No. 3 in the
conference.
Linder, a 6-0 middle blocker, registered a single-match attack percentage
of .909 (10K-0E-11TA) against SMU on Oct. 12 ranks third best of all-time
in overall and C-USA matches. The senior currently leads the league with a
.476 hitting efficiency, ranks sixth in blocks (1.16) and 12th in service
aces (0.23) per set against league foes.
This year's award winners led the Green Wave to the program's first
outright regular season title with a 15-1 conference mark and an overall
record of 24-5.
Rice accounts for six All-Conference honors, including three first team
selections, two second-team honorees and one All-Freshman pick as well as
the Libero of the Year in sophomore Tracey Lam. Lam was also voted to the
All-C-USA second team. The 5-6 defensive specialist earned a league-best
four Defensive Player of the Week honors and ranks 26th in the nation in
digs, averaging 5.0 per set. Lam's 39 digs, for a five-game match,
against UAB stands as a C-USA single-match high for 2008. Lam is 11 digs
shy of 1,000.
First team accolades goes to Rice senior Karyn Morgan, junior Natalie
Bogan and sophomore Meredith Schamun.
Morgan has had a solid senior campaign as she ranks among the top five in
the league in two categories - points (3.87/fifth) and digs (3.44/fourth).
She also has produced 12 double-doubles, fourth most in the league.
Earlier this season, she joined the 1,000 kill and 1,000 dig club and
currently owns 1,314 career kills and 1,185 career digs, figures that rank
eighth- and sixth-best at Rice, respectively.
Bogan leads the Owls and ranks fifth in the conference in hitting
percentage with an overall accuracy of .331. She also tops the club in
points per set with 3.38, which ranks 11th in the league as well as second
on the team in blocks (0.79) per set. She currently has 912 career kills
and is 88 shy of 1,000.
At one point in the season, Schamun ranked among the nation's top three
setters in assists per set. She enters championship week dishing out a
league-best 11.56 assists per set, which currently ranks 11th in the
country. Schamun's 59 assists in a four-game match against SMU is a C-USA
single-match high for the season. She has accumulated 2,439 assists in
only two seasons to rank sixth in school history.
Repeating her All-C-USA second team honor from a year ago is Rice senior
Jessica Holderness . The 5-11 outside hitter ranks 13th and 15th in C-USA
in kills (2.92) and digs (3.17) per set, respectively. She also owns nine
double-doubles on the season and enters this week with 939 career kills
and 945 career digs.
Owning a C-USA freshman best in hitting accuracy (.302) and kills (3.10)
per set, Rice rookie Ashleigh McCord was the sixth Owl honored with an
All-Freshman team selection. McCord also accounted for 3.32 points per
set.
Taking 2008 Setter of the Year honors is UAB senior Nevena Stefanov. The
two-time All-C-USA first team selection ranks as one of the top setters in
program and C-USA history. She stands second at UAB and third in the
league in career assists (5,562) and, earlier this season, became just the
second Blazer to reach the 5,000-assist mark. She is also one of only two
current setters in the league with more than 5,000 assists. This season,
Stefanov ranks second in the conference with 11.02 assists per set and has
been named the league's Setter of the Week twice and seven times in her
career.
Joining Stefanov on the All-C-USA first team are seniors Ivana Bozic and
Casey Dent. These three seniors have been part of the most successful era
in UAB volleyball history, including three consecutive 20-win seasons, two
Conference USA Tournament championship match appearances and one NCAA
Tournament berth.
Bozic garnered national attention earlier this month when she was named
the Collegiate Volleyball Update National Player of the Week on October
21. She ranks third in UAB history and ninth all-time in C-USA with 1,795
career kills and sixth in school annals with 1,307 digs. The four-time
Conference USA Player of the Week selection became just the ninth player
in program history to join the 1,000 kill, 1,000 dig club.
Dent ranks second all-time in Blazer annals with a .335 career attack
percentage and ninth in school history with 1,234 kills. Dent's current
.383 attack percentage (297K-57E-627TA) ranks third in Conference USA and
25th in the nation. In addition to second team all-conference honors last
season, Dent has been honored three times on the Conference USA
All-Academic Team and three times on the ESPN The Magazine/CoSIDA Academic
All-Region Team.
Producing All-C-USA second team honors for the Blazers is senior Lilly
Domingos. Domingos, the 2007 C-USA Newcomer of the Year, ranks seventh in
the league in block per set (1.0) and was named Conference USA Defensive
Player of the Week once.
Houston senior and three-time All-C-USA first team honoree Justin Farmer
will wrap up her collegiate career as one of the conference's all-time
best. The El Paso, Texas native enters championship week with 2,075 career
kills and 1,522 career digs, figures that rank fourth and 10th best,
respectively, on C-USA's career charts. She tops the league in points
(4.71) and kills (4.29) and ranks 22nd in digs (2.55) per set.
Also earning All-C-USA first team honors for the Cougars is sophomore
middle blocker Lucy Charuk. Charuk ranks 32nd in the NCAA in blocks per
set with an average of 1.27. However, in league matches she tops the chart
with 1.48 BPS and ranks 10th in points per set with 3.47. Wrapping up UH's
honors is Ingrida Zauere, who was selected to the All-C-USA Freshman team
after having a stellar rookie campaign. She averaged 2.69 kills per set,
second most among league freshmen.
Memphis senior Laura Côté is the other C-USA setter with more than 5,000
career assists. Côté currently sports 5,920, a figure that ranks third
best on the league's all-time charts. The two-time All-C-USA second team
honoree is just 26 assists short of the No. 2 spot. Sophomore Emily
Underwood was also named to the All-C-USA second team. She ranks third in
the nation with 1.51 blocks per set. After accounting for 2.40 kills and
1.18 blocks per set, rookie Carolyn Baker wraps up the Tigers individual
honors as she was voted to the All-C-USA Freshman team.
Tulsa outside hitter Jennifer Eichler is the 2008 Newcomer of the Year.
Eichler, a 6-0 junior transfer from Western Nebraska Community College,
averaged 3.11 kills and 3.62 points per set for the Golden Hurricane.
Eichler was also named to the All-C-USA second team. Joining Eichler is
teammate and senior outside hitter Beth Hodge, who was named to the
All-C-USA first team. Hodge led Tulsa with 3.48 kills, 2.68 digs and 3.82
points per set. All-Freshmen honors went to setter Rachel Vukson, who
ranked fourth in league matches with 10.98 assists per set.
Marshall's lone selection to the all-conference team is senior outside
hitter Jalicia Ross. Ross, who was a 2007 second team pick, earned
first-team accolades this season after ranking eighth in the nation in
hitting percentage with an impressive .414. That ranks fifth on C-USA's
single season charts.
Senior Stephanie Serna earned UCF's first All-C-USA honor as she was named
to the second team after leading the Knights with 3.45 kills per set in
league play. That figure ranks seventh right behind her .314 hitting
efficiency that appears sixth best in the conference.
SMU and Southern Miss each placed a player on the All-Freshman team in
Dana Powell and Lauren Sears, respectively. Powell ranked fourth among
C-USA freshmen in kills (2.52) and digs (2.53) per set, while Sears ranked
19th in league matches with a .256 hitting percentage and 20th in service
aces.
Co-Coach of the Year honors are awarded to Rice's Genny Volpe and Tulane's
Liz Kritza. Kritza also tied for the award in 2007. The Green Wave tops
the conference with a No. 1 seed, a stellar 15-1 C-USA record and an
overall performance of 24-5. Tulane's 24-wins are the most in the league
this season. Kritza led Tulane to the program's first C-USA regular
season title and coached five players to all-conference honors, including
the program's first Player of the Year selection in Radosevic.
Volpe earns her first C-USA Coach of the Year honor after guiding the Owls
to a No.3 seed in this week's C-USA Championship. Volpe's club produced an
overall record of 21-6 and went 12-4 in league play. The 12 conference
victories are the most under Volpe as are the league-best six players
earning all-conference awards.
Tulane followed Rice with five honorees, while four came from UAB and
three from Tulsa. Houston and Memphis had two each, while Marshall, UCF,
SMU and Southern Miss each had one all-conference honoree.
2008 C-USA VOLLEYBALL AWARDS ALL-CONFERENCE TEAMS
All-Conference First Team
Lucy Charuk, So., MB, Houston
Justine Farmer, Sr., OH, Houston
Jalicia Ross, Sr., MB, Marshall
Natalie Bogan, Jr., MB, Rice
Karyn Morgan, Sr., OH, Rice
Meredith Schamun, So., S, Rice
Sara Radosevic, Sr, OH, Tulane
Bridget Wells, Sr., RS, Tulane
Beth Hodge, Sr., OH, Tulsa
Ivana Bozic, Sr., OH, UAB
Casey Dent, Sr., MB, UAB
Nevena Stefanov, Sr., S, UAB
All-Conference Second Team
Laura Côté, Sr., S, Memphis
Emily Underwood, So., MB, Memphis
Jessica Holderness, Sr., OH, Rice
Tracey Lam, So., L, Rice
Visnja Djurdjevic, Fr., OH, Tulane
Jen Linder, Sr., MB, Tulane
Jenn Miller, Jr., L, Tulane
Jennifer Eichler, Jr., OH, Tulsa
Lilly Domingos, Sr., MB, UAB
Stephanie Serna, Sr., RS, UCF
All-Freshman Team
Ingrida Zauere, MB, Houston
Carolyn Baker, MH, Memphis
Ashleigh McCord, MB, Rice
Dana Powell, OH, SMU
Lauren Sears, MS, Southern Miss
Visnja Djurdjevic, OH, Tulane
Rachel Vukson, S, Tulsa
INDIVIDUAL AWARDS
Newcomer of the Year
Jennifer Eichler, Tulsa
Freshman of the Year
Visnja Djurdjevic, Tulane
Libero of the Year
Tracey Lam, Rice
Setter of the Year
Nevena Stefanov, UAB
Player of the Year
Sara Radosevic, Tulane
Co-Coach of the Year
Liz Kritza, Tulane
Genny Volpe, Rice
Courtesy of Debbie Davis, Conference USA, Associate Director of
Communications
C-USA Volleyball All-Academic Team Announced
Eleven volleyball student-athletes were named to the 2008 Conference USA
All-Academic Team, as announced by the league office today. Tulane and
Memphis each placed two representatives on the team while East Carolina,
Houston, Marshall, Rice, Southern Miss, UAB and UCF had one apiece. The
all-academic team consists of student-athletes that have earned a 3.2
cumulative grade point average or better and are a starter or key reserve
on the volleyball team.
Four seniors, two juniors, and five sophomores make up the 2008 Conference
USA Volleyball All-Academic Team. Among the 11 student-athletes seven were
named ESPN the Magazine CoSIDA Academic All-District Teams earlier this
season and six of them are repeat selections from last year's squad.
Headlining this year's squad is three-peat honoree, Ashley Petrinec of
Southern Miss. Petrinec, also a two-time ESPN the Magazine CoSIDA Academic
All-District VI selection, holds a 3.94 GPA as a double major in
mathematics and computer science. On the court, the senior outside hitter
leads the Golden Eagles in kills and ranks second on the team in digs.
Houston senior setter Kelsey King earns her second consecutive C-USA
all-academic honor while majoring in psychology a 3.97 GPA. King was also
named ESPN the Magazine CoSIDA Academic All-District VI and currently
ranks fourth on the C-USA assists charts averaging 10.97 assists per game.
East Carolina junior Stephanie Turner and Marshall sophomore Elizabeth
Fleming earn their first C-USA all-academic team honor. Turner, a health
fitness specialist major, holds a 3.59 GPA while having led the Pirates
through the regular season in kills (229), aces (27) and points (281.5).
Fleming proved strengths on and off the court as she quarterbacked the
Thundering Herd from the setter position while maintaining a perfect 4.0
GPA in International affairs. The South Bend, Ind., native dished out
more than a thousand sets this season and was also named to the ESPN the
Magazine CoSIDA Academic All-District II team.
Memphis is represented by two-time C-USA all-academic honoree Christine
Bach and C-USA second teamer Emily Underwood. Bach is another 2008 ESPN
the Magazine CoSIDA Academic All-District II selection is an international
business major with a minor in French owning a 3.96 GPA. The redshirt
sophomore also ranks second in the league in digs per game (4.5).
Underwood landed on the all-conference team after topping the league
blocking charts with an average 1.52 blocks per game. The sophomore middle
blocker is a psychology major with a minor in sociology and carries a 3.81
GPA.
C-USA Libero of the Year Tracey Lam of Rice was also named to both the
C-USA All-Academic Team and ESPN the Magazine CoSIDA Academic All-District
VI team. The sophomore is a triple major in economics, management and
Asian studies with a 3.81 GPA.
Tulane, the C-USA regular season champions, landed two players on the
all-academic team in junior libero Jenn Miller and sophomore middle
blocker Lindsey Shepard. Miller, a repeat selection, was also named to the
C-USA All-Conference Second Team and ranks sixth in C-USA in digs (377).
The junior holds a 3.63 GPA as a business major. Shepard is a biomedical
engineering major with a 3.85 GPA. The Albuquerque, N.M., native ranks
second on the Tulane squad in total blocks (84).
Rounding out the list of C-USA All-Academic Team are repeat selections,
Casey Dent of UAB and Jenny Heppert of UCF. Dent makes her second
consecutive appearance on the All-Academic Team after being named to the
C-USA all-conference first team and ESPN the Magazine CoSIDA Academic
All-District IV team. The senior middle blocker ranks third in the league
in hitting percentage (.389) while maintaining a 3.74 GPA as a business
finance major.
Heppert closes out her collegiate career as both a two-time C-USA
All-Academic Team and ESPN the Magazine CoSIDA Academic All-District III
selection. The senior middle blocker has a perfect 4.0 GPA as a biology
major and ranks sixth on the league's hitting percentage charts (.319) and
15th in services aces (27).
2008 C-USA VOLLEYBALL ALL-ACADEMIC TEAM
NAME SCHOOL CLASS
GPA MAJOR
Stephanie Turner East Carolina Junior
3.59 Health and Fitness Specialist
*Kelsey King Houston Senior
3.97 Psychology
Elizabeth Fleming Marshall Sophomore 4.00
International Affairs
*Christine Bach Memphis R-Sophomore 3.96
International Business (Minor: French)
Emily Underwood Memphis Sophomore 3.81
Psychology (Minor: Sociology)
Tracey Lam Rice Sophomore
3.81 Economics, Management, Asian Studies
*Ashley Petrinec Southern Miss Senior
3.94 Mathematics and Computer Science
*Jenn Miller Tulane Junior
3.63 Business
Lindsey Shepard Tulane Sophomore
3.85 Biomedical Engineering
*Casey Dent UAB Senior
3.74 Business Finance
*Jenny Heppert UCF Senior
4.00 Biology
*Repeat Selection
Courtesy of Nia Vaitai, Conference USA Media Relations Intern
