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Volley Tigers honored at MSC banquet

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Campbellsville University placed three players on the Mid-South Conference Volleyball First Team, two were named Honorable Mention, and five made the MSC Academic Team, as announced Thursday night at the conference's annual banquet.



  

Rinata Aisena, Laura DeGear and Kelly Moyer were tapped for First Team honors and Kira Stewart and Daiane Souza were Honorable Mention. Tara Robertson, sophomore, Knoxville, Tenn.; Lexis Lloyd, junior, Palm City Fla.; Stewart, Aisena and Souza received academic recognition.

 

In all, 62 Mid-South Conference volleyball student-athletes earned Academic All MSC honors.

In order to be nominated by an institution, a student-athlete must maintain a minimum grade point average of 3.25 on a 4.0 scale and must have achieved at least sophomore academic status.

Aisena, a junior outside hitter from Latvia, was seventh in the conference in hitting percentage (.314), 12th in kills per set (2.7), 12th in service aces and eighth in blocks per set. She had 285 kills and reached double-figure kills in 14 of her 30 matches. She scored 388 points, highest on the team.

 

DeGear, a senior from Big Rapids, Mich, had a season-high 23 kills against Bethel University and sported a .279 hitting percentage. She had double-figure kills in 12 of her 27 matches and totaled 252 kills and 69 blocks. She was credited with 303 points.

 

Moyer, a junior middle blocker from LaGrange, Ky., accounted for 235 kills with a .223 hitting percentage, 58 blocks, 103 digs and 301 points.

 

Souza, a junior right-side hitter from Sao Paulo, Brazil, accumulated 268 kills with a .232 hitting percentage and 298 points.

 

Stewart, a freshman eligibility-wise and defensive specialist/setter from Ballwin, Mo., averaged 8.33 assists per set (966 total), along with 193 digs and 23 service aces. She had 30 or more assists in 14 of the 32 matches in which she played.

 

Campbellsville, 24-9 (11-4 MSC), squares off Friday against Shawnee State, 22-12 (10-4 MSC), at 1 p.m.

 

Georgetown College's Rachel Eubanks and coach Nick Griffin, Lindsey Wilson College's Courtney Doyle and University of the Cumberlands' Abigail Dundon won special recognition.

 

Eubanks was selected Mid-South Volleyball Player of the Year and Griffin was picked by his peers as the MSC Coach of the Year.

 

The Georgetown duo led the Tigers to a 31-3 regular season and a perfect 15-0 mark in MSC play.

 

Georgetown is the top-seed in this weekend's conference tournament at the Mid-American Sports Center in Louisville.

 

Eubanks ranked in the conference's top-10 in three statistical categories during the season, including fourth in kills per set (3.1) and fifth in kills (347). She was ninth in hitting percentage (.293). Eubanks earned Mid-South Conference Player of the Week twice during the season.

 

Griffin earns his second MSC Coach of the Year award after leading the Tigers to 2012 regular season crown. He was also the 2009 conference coach of the year.

 

Doyle was picked as the MSC Freshman of the Year after helping the Blue Raiders to a 25-12 overall record and a 12-3 conference mark. Doyle was third in the MSC this season in kills (372) and kills per set (3.4).

 

Dundon was selected as the Mid-South Conference Volleyball Champions of Character recipient. She earned the award based on her academic and athletic achievement, campus and community leadership, future ambition and demonstration of the five core character values of the NAIA.

 

A total of 14 women earned All Mid-South Conference First Team while another 14 women were named all-conference honorable mention as voted on by the conference coaches. Coaches were not allowed to vote for their own players.

 

2012 Mid-South Conference Volleyball First Team

 

Name

School

Rinata Aisena

Campbellsville University

Sarah Anderson

Lindsey Wilson College

Laura DeGear

Campbellsville University

Courtney Doyle

Lindsey Wilson College

Rachel Eubanks

Georgetown College

Caraline Maher

Georgetown College

Kelly Moyer

Campbellsville University

Alex Pohl

Shawnee State University

Stacey Sebald

University of the Cumberlands

Erin Sherman

University of Rio Grande

Whitney Smith

University of Rio Grande

Andrea Taylor

Lindsey Wilson College

Allyson Wilbourn

Georgetown College

Kirsti Yates

Shawnee State University

  

2012 Mid-South Conference Volleyball Honorable Mention

 

Name

School

Mackenzie Gass

Cumberland University

Kristi Hager

Lindsey Wilson College

Chelsea Hendrix

University of the Cumberlands

Rebecca Just

St. Catharine College

Lindsey Martindale

Georgetown College

Rebekah Moore

Georgetown College

Kailey Moorhead

Lindsey Wilson College

Jasmine Morrow

Bluefield College

Corri Muha

Georgetown College

Randa Murphy

St. Catharine College

Allie Southard

St. Catharine College

Daiane Souza

Campbellsville University

Kira Stewart

Campbellsville University

Paige Zelich

Shawnee State University

  

The Mid-South Conference Volleyball Tournament begins tomorrow with four quarterfinal matches beginning at 9 a.m. ET at Mid-American Sports Center.

 
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