Looking at 2012 - November 20, 2012

This 2012 season was one of the best ever!

• A school record 29 wins.
• Winning the 10th Annual Greyhound Premiere Tournament.
• Getting ranked in the NCAA Mid Atlantic Region (6th).  Eight teams are ranked weekly and there are 74 teams in the region.
• Competed in the Landmark Conference semi’s and qualified as the #2 seed in the ECAC South Championships.  We beat Swarthmore in the semifinals and then lost to host Bethany (in West Virginia) in the finals.
• Individual Honors included freshman middle hitter Victoria Bobyak receiving the Landmark Conference Rookie of the Year honors and second team All Conference, junior setter Kelly Brown was second team All Conference, senior libero Jess Krasley was Conference Specialist of the year and First Team All Conference, and senior right side hitter Sam Savite was named Second Team All Conference as well.  Both Jesse and Sam were also named to the 2012 Mid Atlantic All Region team, and as 2012 American Volleyball Coaches Association Division III Honorable Mention All-Americans for the second straight year.
• Sam had her 1,000th kill this season, Kelly her 2,000th assist and Jess her 2,000th dig.  Jess also broke every school dig record in existence!
• Sam Savite, Brittany O’Hara and Taylor Jennings were all named to the Landmark Conference Academic Fall Honor Roll.
• I (Shelley) earned my 400th win in September.

But what really made this year special was our 13 players showing so much love and respect to each other and the coaching staff, they were so fun and funny, and not a day went by where we didn’t work hard and have a great laugh at the same time!  Lastly, none of this would have been possible without two of the best assistant coaches ever: Deb Schlosser and John Yanek!

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A Look Back at 2011 - March 27, 2012

The 2011 Hound volleyball team had a great year!  We went 8-0 to start the season which was the best start in school history.  We won the 9th Annual Greyhound Premiere Tournament and the Muhlenberg Buttermaker tournament the following weekend.  The team worked hard throughout the year competing against several regionally ranked and nationally ranked teams.  We made it to the conference playoffs (the past 14 out of 15 years), and then to the second round of ECACs as well as finishing the season at 23-13 (22-12 last year).  This was our sixth ECAC Tournament appearance in the last 11 years.  Kelly Brown, Jesse Krasley and Sam Savite were named to the Landmark All-Conference team and Krasley and Savite were both named to the All Region team too.  We received the American Volleyball Coaches Association Team Academic Award (minimum team GPA 3.3) last season and are hoping to earn it this year as well. 

We still were a rather young team with half of the starters underclassmen, so while I will miss our two seniors, Ashley Schmidt and Katie Moquete, I'm looking forward to another successful campaign in 2012.  I have planned a challenging schedule for next year, we will be playing two of the 2011 Division III Final Four teams, aside from our normal competitive schedule.  We will also be traveling to Christopher Newport in Virginia at the end of the season for some outstanding competition and as a last team trip for the seniors.   

Currently the team has been working out with Spencer Brown, our new strength and conditioning coach, for the past month and has benefitted greatly from his workouts.  We are in our third week of spring season practice, and we will be playing our alumni on March 31 and then for the first time ever we are going to play in a spring tournament at Lehigh on April 15, facing all Division 1 teams.

In closing, there remains one thing left to say... "GO HOUNDS!!"