2013 COLLEGIATE WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL CHAMPIONSHIPS
2013 AVCA Players of the Year
Division I Krista Vansant • Junior • OH University of Washington
Division II
Kate Lange • Sr. • OH University of Minnesota Duluth
Division III
Megan Rietema • Sr. • Setter Calvin College
NAIA
Danica Markovic • Sr. • OH University of Texas-Brownsville
Two-Year Colleges Annie Mitchem • Fr. • MB Irvine Valley College
NCCAA
Kylie Rupe • Jr. • OH Manhattan Christian College
2013 AVCA
Coaches of the Year Division I
Russ Rose (Head Coach) Penn State University • Salima Rockwell (Assistant Coach) University of Texas
Division II
Shelton Collier (Head Coach) Wingate University • Heather Roberts (Assistant Coach) Colorado School of Mines
Division III Amber Warners (Head Coach) Calvin College • Zach Villarreal (Assistant Coach) University of Texas at Dallas
NAIA Aaron Seltzer (Head Coach) Biola University • Dan Priest (Assistant Coach) Indiana Wesleyan University
Two-Year Colleges Jenifer Bahner (Head Coach)
Cowley College • Scott Keister (Assistant Coach) Salt Lake Community College
NCCAA
Sarah Gustin (Head Coach) Point Loma Nazarene University • Billy Gregory (As- sistant Coach) Campbellsville University
See digital issue for more coverage on Division II, III, NAIA, Two-Year Colleges and NCCAA. (
usavolleyball.org/mag)
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responding to the big moment in a big-time way.”
What was her mindset at crunch time? “I didn’t want it to go fi ve,” said Han- cock, who began developing her game and her wicked serve at a very early age. (See story on Page 43). “They’re a scrappy team, and they played great. I just went back there and said, ‘This is it. This is a good situation, and we should just play like we’ve played all season.’ I just tried to stay calm and poised even though things weren’t going our way and tried to play defense off our serve.”
Hancock’s contributions earned her the Most Outstanding Player award of an all-tournament team that included Car- lini, crafty 5-7 Wisconsin outside hitter Deme Morales, Washington outside hitter Krista Vansant and three Penn State seniors: middle blocker Katie Slay, opposite Ariel Scott and outside hitter Deja McClendon. Carlini, in particular, drew plenty of praise from coaches in Seattle. She’s only a freshman, but, by all accounts, she was the best pure setter in the tournament. She consistently demonstrated her talent for exploiting the opponent’s weaknesses by setting sauce to the right hitters at the right time.
“She has an incredible ability to make others around her better,” Penn State Coach Russ Rose said. “That’s a great intangible.” She’s back for three more years, and also back are seven of the other eight players who saw time in the title match – everybody but senior libero Annemarie Hickey, who will defi nitely be missed. Hickey led all diggers in the fi nal with 26, despite playing a good part of the match with a dislocated shoulder. Hancock, a junior, is back for Penn
State, but they lose some huge contributors. One is Scott, whose right-side attacks led to a match-high 21 kills in the fi nal. Gone, too, are the 6-6 Slay, who led both teams in hitting percentage (.481) in the fi nal, and McClendon, who had key swings down the stretch in the fi nal and was incredible on defense against Washington in the semifi nal with 13 digs.
Rose has been at the helm of the Nittany Lions for all six titles; he was hired in 1979. Near the end of the post-match press con- ference, he was asked where this champion- ship ranks. As usual, his answer included a slice of sarcasm. “It’s like asking me about the birth of my children – how do they rank? I don’t rate it, you know what I mean? … We’re just trying to compete. We want to grind.
MAINSTAY: Katie Slay played a key role for the Nittany Lions in the fi nals. (Photo: Mark Selders)
This is what we do.”
NO SLEEPING IN SEATTLE: KeyArena was hopping for semfi nal matches which in- cluded host University of Washington. (Photo: Mark Selders)
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