Pepperdine's Kim Hill Earns WCC Volleyball Player of the Month Honor
MALIBU, Calif. – Pepperdine women’s volleyball player Kim Hill was named the West Coast Conference’s Player of the Month for November, the league office announced today.
Hill (Portland, Ore./Portland Christian HS), a sophomore middle blocker, had a team-high 4.22 kills along with a remarkable .519 hitting percentage (97-16-156) during the Waves’ final five matches of the 2009 season (four of which were wins). She also averaged 0.78 blocks and 4.72 points in 23 sets.
She had at least 14 kills in each match and had 20 or more in three of the five matches, including a career-high 23 in the finale at San Francisco. She hit no worse than .421 in any of the five matches and was over .500 in three of them with a .594 (22-3-32) performance against Gonzaga.
Her big finish helped her to a .425 hitting percentage for the year, which ranks fifth in the country.
Hill was named to the All-WCC first team this season, and was the WCC Freshman of the Year in 2008 as well as an All-WCC honorable mention selection. For the 2009 season, she averaged 3.01 kills and 0.72 blocks.
Pepperdine concluded its regular season with a 16-11 overall record and in third place in the WCC with a 9-5 mark.
ASU's Sarah Reaves and Ashley Kastl Named to the All Pac-10 Team
WALNUT CREEK, Calif. - The Pac-10 Conference announced the 2009 All Pac-10 Volleyball Team Monday afternoon which included outside hitter Sarah Reaves collecting her third career All Pac-10 Team Honorable Mention honor, as well as freshman Ashley Kastl, who was named as an Honorable Mention to the Pac-10 All-Freshman Team, the sixth consecutive year that ASU has had a freshman named to Pac-10 All-Freshman team.
2009 ALL-PAC-10 WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL TEAM
PLAYER, TEAM POS. HT. YR. HOMETOWN
Kindra Carlson, WASH MB/OH 6-1 Jr. Eaton, Colo.
Hana Cutura, CAL*** OH 6-3 Sr. Zagreb, Croatia
Neticia Enesi, ORE** MB 6-1 Sr. The Dalles, Ore.
Amanda Gil, UCLA MB 6-6 So. San Jose, Calif.
Jessica Gysin, USC** OH 6-1 Sr. Los Gatos, Calif.
Jenna Hagglund, WASH S 5-9 Jr. West Chester, Ohio
Alex Jupiter, USC OH 6-3 So. Hermosa Beach, Calif.
Alix Klineman, STAN*** OH 6-4 Jr. Manhattan Beach, Calif.
Cassidy Lichtman, STAN OH 6-1 Jr. Poway, Calif.
Tamari Miyashiro, WASH L 5-7 Sr. Honolulu, Hawaii
Sonja Newcombe, ORE** OH 6-1 Sr. Lake Arrowhead, Calif.
Janet Okogbaa, STAN MB 6-3 Sr. Tampa, Fla.
Rachel Rourke, OSU** OH 6-5 Sr. Aroona, Queensland, Australia
Kaitlin Sather, UCLA OH 6-1 Sr. Santa Rosa, Calif.
Honorable Mention: Gabi Ailes, STAN; Kendall Bateman, USC; Reneé Bordeleon, WSU; Lauren Cook, UCLA;
Nevena Djordjevic, ORE; Whitney Dosty, ARIZ: Lainey Gera, UCLA; Carli Lloyd, CAL; Dicey McGraw, UCLA;
Heather Meyers, ORE; Tarah Murrey, CAL; Jacy Norton, ARIZ; Tiffany Owens, ARIZ; Sarah Reeves, ASU; Cassie
Robbins, WSU; Bianca Rowland, WASH; Airial Salvo, WASH; Paige Weber, ARIZ; Mindi Wiley, CAL.
2009 PAC-10 ALL-FRESHMAN TEAM
PLAYER, TEAM POS. HT. HOMETOWN
Oceana Bush, WSU L 5-5 Spokane, Wash.
Karissa Cook, STAN S 5-11 Santa Cruz, Calif.
Lauren Cook, UCLA S 5-7 Lincoln, Neb.
Katherine Fischer, ORE OH 5-10 Los Altos, Calif.
Corey Johnson, CAL MH 6-4 Winter Park, Fla.
Bojana Todorovic, UCLA S/DS/OH 5-11 Irvine, Calif.
Jessica Walker, STAN MB 6-1 Houston, Texas
Honorable Mention: Hannah Benjamin, STAN; Kat Brown, CAL; Ashley Eneliko, OSU; Mari Hole, UCLA; Ashley
Kastl, ASU; Rachel Todorovich, WSU.
Andrew Palileo Named Pac-10 Volleyball Coach of the Year
Cougars Renee Bodelon, Cassie Robbins, Ocean Bush and Rachel Todorovich honored by Pac-10.
WALNUT CREEK, Calif. -- Washington State’s Andrew Palileo was named the Pacific-10 Conference Volleyball Coach of the Year for 2009, in just his second year with the Cougars volleyball program.
Seniors Renee Bordelon and Cassie Robbins were named to the All-Pac-10 honorable mention team. Oceana Bush was voted to the Pac-10 All-Freshman Team and Rachel Todorovich was named to the All-Freshman honorable mention team.
Palileo, who inherited a program that hadn’t won more than three conference matches in a year for four consecutive seasons, mentored the Cougars to an 18-12 overall record and into the 2009 NCAA Championship Tournament for the first time in seven years. In his first season at Washington State, Palileo’s team went 10-19 overall and 3-15 in Pac-10 play. The Cougars finished 6-12 (8th) in the Pac-10 in 2009 and only one of the losses came to a team not ranked in the top 18 nationally. Washington State will play No. 20 Northern Iowa (30-2) in an NCAA first round match Friday, Dec. 4, in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Palileo was named the 2007 Summit League Coach of the Year while at South Dakota State. The only other Washington State volleyball coach to receive Pac-10 Coach of the Year honors was Cindy Fredrick in 1995 when WSU went 22-7 overall, 12-6 (t-2nd) in conference action.
Bordelon, a setter from Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, averages 11.46 assists per set which is third-best in the Pac-10 and 14th-best in the NCAA. Bordelon’s two-year total of 2,058 assists is seventh-best in WSU career records. Robbins, a middle blocker from Yakima, Wash., averages 1.24 blocks per set which is fourth-best in the conference and 40th nationally. Robbins’s four-year career totals for solo blocks (49), block assists (299) and total blocks (348) are all ranked 10th in WSU all-time standings.
Bush, a libero from Spokane, Wash., averages 4.81 digs per set which is third-best in the Pac-10 and 49th nationally. Her 520 digs for this season is the third-highest in WSU single-season records. Todorovich, a right-side hitter from Walla Walla, Wash., averaged 2.10 kills per set and her 68 blocks is third-best on the team.
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