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2009 Outlook
When you lose three of your top four offensive players, the top Forget rebuilding, Pierre and the Saints simply reload, and
setter in school history and the school’s all-time leader in digs, this season the reloading has been done in a big way. Pierre
most programs would be settling in for a rebuilding year. Instead, welcomes nine freshmen to Loudonville to join seven returnees
expectations are higher than ever in Loudonville where Garvey who have each been with the program at least two years. The
Pierre and the Saints are co-favorites to capture their fifth con- class features three Texans, a Hawaiian and five newcomers
secutive league title. whose hometowns are scattered across the Northeast.
That’s mainly because Siena returns the two-time MAAC Pierre begins his seventh season as head coach at Siena, now
Offensive Player of the Year, Burgandy McCurty, along with overseeing a far different program from the one he inherited in
one of the top outside hitters in the league, red-shirt sophomore 2003. The Saints have won 20 or more matches in each of the
Aubrey Bobo. The duo complements a seasoned back row last four years and made four of the program’s five NCAA
that features one of the most versatile players in program Tournament appearances over that time. He won his 100th
history, senior Kau’i Robello. match as Siena coach in the 2008 Metro Atlantic Athletic
Conference Championship triumph over Fairfield.
The road to a fifth straight MAAC title won’t be an easy one,
especially at first. With so many new faces, it will likely take
time for the team to gel. The most important loss from last year
may have been the graduation of setter April London. The
2008 First Team Academic All-District selection and MAAC
Setter of the Year destroyed all of the school’s assist records.
Still, if the recent past is any indication, Pierre will have the
Saints in peak form when the stakes are the highest.
Front Row
McCurty may very well graduate as not only the top volleyball
player in school history, but the best ever in the MAAC. She
enters her senior season just 94 kills shy of the school’s all-
time record, and it won’t take her long to get there if she sticks
to her school-record 3.94 kills/set pace. McCurty is a genius in
the middle and possesses athleticism and leaping ability that
more than make up for her average 5-9 frame.
The past two years she has ranked among the nation’s leaders
in kills and attack efficiency. As a junior she added a new
dimension to her game when she was asked to remain in the
rotation in the back row. She ended the season second on the
team with 287 digs (2.4/set) and paced the team’s net defense
with 97 blocks (.82/set), while finishing fifth nationally with
4.71 kills/set.
Two-Time MAAC Offensive Player of the Year and Preseason
Player of the Year, Burgandy McCurty, may be the greatest
volleyball player ever to come through the MAAC.
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