3 0
Fall
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SAINT MARY’S UNIVERSITY CARDINALS Head coach: Mike Lester • Assistants: Jacki Jones, Chris Rohde, Ashley Gossen
MEET THE CARDINALS No. Name
Pos.
Ht.
Yr.
Hometown / High School
1 Lex Krogstad
L
5-4
So.
Chicago, Ill. / Resurrection
2 Morgan Thomas
L
5-3
Fr.
Palos Park, Ill. / Amos Alonzo Stagg
3 Kaylee Bunne
MH
5-8
Sr.
LeRoy, Minn. / LeRoy-Ostrander
4 Jenna Sullivan
OH
5-10
So.
Woodbury, Minn. / Woodbury
RS/MH
6-0
Jr.
Zumbrota, Minn. / Zumbrota-Mazeppa
6 Alex Peterson
OH
6-0
So.
Harmony, Minn. / Fillmore Central
7 Kenzie Lind
OH
5-9
So.
Rushford, Minn. / Rushford-Peterson
9 Maddie Hess
S
5-7
Fr.
Lewiston, Minn. / Lewiston-Altura
12 Mary Nordick
MH
6-3
Jr.
Plymouth, Minn. / Providence Academy
13 Macki Fadness
OH
5-10
So.
Eau Claire, Wis. / Eau Claire North
14 Janae Fry
RS
5-11
Jr.
Burr Ridge, Ill. / Hinsdale South
15 Emily Diercks
MH
5-10
So.
Red Wing, Minn. / Red Wing
16 Jordan Wolfe
L
5-4
So.
Wabasha, Minn. / Wabasha-Kellogg
MH
5-10
Fr.
Roseville, Minn. / Cretin-Derham Hall
S
5-6
So.
Dodge Center, Minn. / Triton
OH
5-7
So.
Altura, Minn. / Lewiston-Altura
S
5-8
Sr.
Northbrook, Ill. / Glenbrook North
5 Molly Grover
17 Molly Urban 18 Tayler MacVey 22 Brooke Schilling 27 Lexi Assimos
THE SCHEDULE Date Opponent Time Aug. 30-31 Sugar Loaf Classic Aug. 30 Lakeland W, 3-0 Aug. 30 Dominican L, 3-1 Aug. 31 Luther L, 3-0 Aug. 31 St. Scholastica W, 3-1 Sept. 6-7 North Park Tourn. Sept. 6 Marian W, 3-0 Sept. 6 Aurora W, 3-1 Sept. 7 Denison W, 3-0 Sept. 7 Manchester W, 3-0 Sept. 11 UW-La Crosse W, 3-1 Sept. 18 at Bethel W, 3-1 Sept. 20-21 Ripon Invite Sept. 20 Lakeland W, 3-0 Sept. 20 Concordia (Wis.) W, 3-0 Sept. 21 St. Norbert W, 3-0 Sept. 21 Ripon W, 3-1 Sept. 24 at Macalester L, 3-1 Sept. 27 Saint Benedict L, 3-0 Sept. 28 Concordia L, 3-2 Oct. 2 Carleton W, 3-0 Oct. 4-5 SMU Cardinal Invite Oct. 4 Central-Iowa W, 3-1 Oct. 5 U. of Dubuque W, 3-0 Oct. 5 Augustana (Ill.) W, 3-0 Oct. 9 Hamline W, 3-1 Oct. 11-12 No. Central (Ill.) Invite Oct. 11 North Park W, 3-1 Oct. 11 UW-Oshkosh W, 3-2 Oct. 12 Wheaton (Ill.) L, 3-2 Oct. 12 No. Central (Ill.) W, 3-0 Oct. 18 at St. Catherine W, 3-0 Oct. 19 at Augsburg L, 3-1 Oct. 23 at St. Olaf W, 3-0 Oct. 26 at Gustavus Nov. 2 St. Thomas 3:00
UNIVERSITY OF ST. THOMAS TOMMIES Head coach: Thanh Pham • Assistants: Dave Orren, Joy Tietz, Drew Nowak, Maggie McNamara
MEET THE TOMMIES No. Name
Yr.
Pos.
Ht.
Hometown / High School
1 Sara Atkinson
Jr.
RS
6-1
Shoreview, Minn. / Mounds View
2 Whitney Abrahamson
Jr.
DS
5-6
Lakeville, Minn. / North
3 Kelly Biermann
So.
MH
6-0
Cedar Rapids, Iowa / Xavier
4 Mackenzie Piechowski
Sr.
MH
6-0
Hutchinson, Minn. / Hutchinson
6 Nicole Potts
Sr.
OH
5-10
Dubuque, Iowa / Wahlert
7 Katie Maher
Sr.
S
5-5
Hutchinson, Minn. / Hutchinson
8 Jill Greenfield
Jr.
OH
5-10
Minnetonka, Minn. / Hopkins
9 Kelly Foley
Jr.
MH
5-11
St. Paul, Minn. / Cretin-Derham Hall
10 Paige Brimeyer
Sr.
MH
6-0
Dubuque, Iowa / Hempstead
11 McKenna Reagan
Sr.
OH
5-9
Elkhorn, Neb. / Elkhorn
12 Ashley Dahly
So.
OH
5-11
Blaine, Minn. / Totino-Grace
13 Taryn Glynn
Jr.
OH
5-7
Apple Valley, Minn. / Visitation
14 Sydney Westfield
Jr.
OH
5-10
Walker, Minn. / Walker-Hackensack-Akeley
15 Mallory Johnson
Jr.
MH
5-11
Maple Grove, Minn. / Maple Grove
16 Bailey Lundquist
Fr.
S
5-8
Elk River, Minn. / Elk River
17 Maddie Reese
Fr.
S
5-7
Eden Prairie, Minn. / Eden Prairie
18 Jennifer Wild
Fr.
OH
5-9
Alexandria, Minn. / Alexandria
19 Panhia Moua
Fr.
DS
5-3
Menasha, Wis. / Menasha
20 Maddie Borwege
Fr.
MH
5-11
Fairbault, Minn. / Bethlehem Academy
21 Allisen Mellin
Fr.
MH
5-11
Bloomington, Minn. / Jefferson
22 Taylor Lewis
Fr.
OH
5-10
Lincoln, Neb. / Southeast
23 Anna Bazal
Fr.
DS
5-9
Eagan, Minn. / Cretin-Derham Hall
THE SCHEDULE Date Opponent Time Aug. 30-31 Aug. 30 Emory L, 3-2 Aug. 31 Johns Hopkins W, 3-0 Aug. 31 Wittenberg W, 3-1 Sept. 6-7 Augsburg Tournament Sept. 6 UW-Eau Claire W, 3-0 Sept. 6 UW-Stevens Point W, 3-0 Sept. 7 Wartburg W, 3-0 Sept. 7 UW-La Crosse W, 3-0 Sept. 13-14 at Carthage Tournament Sept. 13 UW-Platteville W, 3-1 Sept. 13 Carthage W, 3-1 Sept. 14 U. of Chicago W, 3-0 Sept. 18 Macalester W, 3-0 Sept. 21 Gustavus W, 3-0 Sept. 25 at St. Catherine W, 3-0 Sept. 28 at St. Olaf W, 3-0 Oct. 2 at Saint Benedict W, 3-0 Oct. 4-5 Wartburg Invitational Oct. 4 Luther W, 3-0 Oct. 4 Wartburg W, 3-0 Oct. 5 Coe W, 3-0 Oct. 5 Elmhurst W, 3-1 Oct. 9 Concordia L, 3-2 Oct. 11 at UW-River Falls W, 3-0 Oct. 11 at UW-Eau Claire W, 3-0 Oct. 16 at Augsburg W, 3-1 Oct. 19 Hamline W, 3-0 Oct. 23 Carleton W, 3-0 Oct. 26 Bethel W, 3-0 Oct. 30 at Northwestern W, 3-0 Nov. 2 at Saint Mary’s 3:00
CARDINALS BY THE NUMBERS: THROUGH FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2013 ## Name 27 Lexi Assimos 12 Mary Nordick 17 Molly Urban 3 Kaylee Bunne 6 Alex Peterson 13 Macki Fadness 5 Molly Grover 7 Kenzie Lind 15 Emily Diercks 4 Jenna Sullivan 2 Morgan Thomas 14 Janae Fry 16 Jordan Wolfe 1 Lex Krogstad 22 Brooke Schilling 10 Colleen Seba 18 Tayler MacVey Saint Mary’s Opponents
Yr Sr So Fr Jr So So Jr So So So Fr Jr So So So So So
Pos mp sp k k/s S 30 107 118 1.10 MH 29 99 222 2.24 MH 9 19 28 1.47 MH 29 97 106 1.09 OH 30 105 377 3.59 OH 19 52 126 2.42 RS 18 57 128 2.25 OH 28 96 257 2.68 MH 4 4 3 0.75 OH 11 28 21 0.75 LB 29 104 2 0.02 OH 6 7 5 0.71 LB 30 102 3 0.03 LB 30 107 7 0.07 OH 23 78 16 0.21 RS 1 1 0 0.00 S 8 17 0 0.00 30 108 1419 13.14 30 108 1265 11.71
e ta pct a a/s sa 21 275 .353 1105 10.33 34 60 540 .300 3 0.03 1 11 72 .236 1 0.05 0 32 338 .219 12 0.12 22 166 1013 .208 2 0.02 0 58 334 .204 2 0.04 0 55 381 .192 3 0.05 0 126 839 .156 4 0.04 1 2 10 .100 0 0.00 0 14 73 .096 5 0.18 5 1 16 .062 13 0.12 37 4 24 .042 0 0.00 0 3 16 .000 28 0.27 15 9 50 -.040 81 0.76 17 24 106 -.075 8 0.10 12 2 3 -.667 0 0.00 0 1 1 -1.000 7 0.41 4 589 4091 .203 1274 11.80 149 610 4033 .162 1144 10.59 125
sa/s digs d/s bs 0.32 262 2.45 12 0.01 13 0.13 20 0.00 5 0.26 4 0.23 69 0.71 4 0.00 85 0.81 8 0.00 29 0.56 7 0.00 32 0.56 2 0.01 119 1.24 1 0.00 4 1.00 0 0.18 42 1.50 0 0.36 268 2.58 0 0.00 5 0.71 1 0.15 261 2.56 0 0.16 517 4.83 0 0.15 163 2.09 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.24 34 2.00 0 1.38 1910 17.69 59 1.16 1780 16.48 68
ba tot 47 59 82 102 7 11 51 55 30 38 16 23 26 28 18 19 1 1 0 0 1 1 3 4 0 0 0 0 2 2 1 1 0 0 285 202 280 208
b/s pts pts/s 0.55 187.5 1.8 1.03 284.0 2.9 0.58 35.5 1.9 0.57 157.5 1.6 0.36 400.0 3.8 0.44 141.0 2.7 0.49 143.0 2.5 0.20 268.0 2.8 0.25 3.5 0.9 0.00 26.0 0.9 0.01 39.5 0.4 0.57 7.5 1.1 0.00 18.0 0.2 0.00 24.0 0.2 0.03 29.0 0.4 1.00 0.5 0.5 0.00 4.0 0.2 1.87 1769.5 16.4 1.93 1598.0 14.8
ba tot 0 0 2 2 2 2 0 0 90 105 42 46 2 2 36 49 1 1 62 72 0 0 3 3 77 85 0 0 4 4 23 35 3 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 348 236 242 163
b/s pts pts/s 0.00 1.0 1.0 0.50 8.0 2.0 0.50 5.0 1.2 0.00 42.0 0.5 1.18 353.0 4.0 0.55 225.0 2.7 0.25 19.0 2.4 0.55 319.0 3.6 0.33 5.5 1.8 0.81 202.0 2.3 0.00 3.0 0.1 0.18 13.5 0.8 0.94 137.5 1.5 0.00 2.0 0.5 0.29 22.0 1.6 0.41 206.5 2.4 0.03 25.5 0.3 0.06 8.5 0.5 0.00 14.0 0.2 0.00 1.0 0.2 2.57 1613.0 17.5 1.77 1266.0 13.8
TOMMIES BY THE NUMBERS: THROUGH FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2013 ## Name 20 Maddie Borwege 16 Bailey Lundquist 15 Mallory Johnson 17 Maddie Reese 9 Kelly Foley 1 Sara Atkinson 14 Sydney Westfield 8 Jill Greenfield 19 Panhia Moua 10 Paige Brimeyer 2 Whitney Abrahamson 3 Kelly Biermann 4 Mackenzie Piechowski 22 Taylor Lewis 12 Ashley Dahly 6 Nicole Potts 7 Katie Maher 13 Taryn Glynn 11 McKenna Reagan 5 Elizabeth Hawkins St. Thomas Opponents
mp 1 2 4 26 26 24 7 26 1 26 15 10 27 4 10 27 27 13 26 3 27 27
sp k k/s 1 1 1.00 4 7 1.75 4 4 1.00 88 21 0.24 89 284 3.19 83 200 2.41 8 18 2.25 89 268 3.01 3 2 0.67 89 161 1.81 22 1 0.05 17 12 0.71 90 91 1.01 4 2 0.50 14 18 1.29 86 164 1.91 92 9 0.10 18 6 0.33 87 2 0.02 4 0 0.00 92 1271 13.82 92 1023 11.12
e ta pct a a/s sa 0 1 1.000 0 0.00 0 0 12 .583 0 0.00 0 0 7 .571 0 0.00 0 3 44 .409 537 6.10 21 68 567 .381 11 0.12 9 61 372 .374 4 0.05 0 3 49 .306 1 0.12 0 77 668 .286 13 0.15 20 0 7 .286 28 9.33 3 49 419 .267 3 0.03 0 0 4 .250 5 0.23 2 5 32 .219 1 0.06 0 36 256 .215 10 0.11 0 1 8 .125 0 0.00 0 11 64 .109 1 0.07 2 101 579 .109 17 0.20 19 8 32 .031 480 5.22 15 6 19 .000 0 0.00 2 3 64 -.016 62 0.71 12 1 2 -.500 7 1.75 1 433 3206 .261 1180 12.83 106 595 3383 .127 928 10.09 80
sa/s digs d/s bs 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.00 1 0.25 0 0.24 137 1.56 0 0.10 74 0.83 15 0.00 27 0.33 4 0.00 10 1.25 0 0.22 322 3.62 13 1.00 5 1.67 0 0.00 41 0.46 10 0.09 18 0.82 0 0.00 8 0.47 0 0.00 31 0.34 8 0.00 1 0.25 0 0.14 6 0.43 0 0.22 210 2.44 12 0.16 135 1.47 0 0.11 13 0.72 0 0.14 463 5.32 0 0.25 4 1.00 0 1.15 1512 16.43 62 0.87 1289 14.01 42
SAINT MARY’S CARDINALS
ST. THOMAS TOMMIES
6-4 MIAC 23-7 Overall
9-1 MIAC 25-2 Overall
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2013 • SMU GYM SCOUTING THE SMU CARDINALS Saturday’s match against St. Thomas is the final home collegiate match for SMU seniors Lexi Assimos (Northbrook, Ill.) and Kaylee Bunne (LeRoy, Minn.). … With their 3-1 win over Gustavus last Saturday, the Cardinals earned their first post-season appearance since 2010. … SMU’s victory over Gustavus last Saturday was its 23nd win of the season — the most wins in a season since 2000, when the Cardinals won 27 en route to their first-ever MIAC regular-season title and an NCAA Division III national tournament appearance. … The Cardinals have won 20 or more matches seven times under coach Mike Lester. … SMU heads into its regular-season finale against defending national champion St. Thomas with an 11-2 record over its last 13 matches. … With their win over Gustavus, the Cardinals improved to 15-3 on the road this season. … Alex Peterson (Harmony, Minn.) — who accounted for 20 of the Cardinals’ 47 kills in their sweep of St. Olaf on Oct. 23 — put together an 18-kill effort against Gustavus last Saturday. … Peterson has eclipsed 20 kills in a match twice this season — collecting 20 kills vs. St. Olaf on Oct. 23 and a careerhigh 23 kills against Central (Iowa) on Oct. 4. … Peterson’s 23-kill match against Central (Iowa) on Oct. 4 was the most by a Cardinal this season and the most since Kara Grant recorded 26 kills against Clarke on Sept. 30, 2011. … Peterson has notched 10 or more kills in 18 straight matches and 28 times in the Cardinals’ 30 matches this season. … Mary Nordick (Plymouth, Minn.) and Kenzie Lind (Rushford, Minn.) have also put together career-high kill performances this season. Nordick notched a career-best 19 kills against Wheaton (Ill.) on Oct. 12, while Lind has recorded a career-best 17 kills twice — against North Central on Oct. 12 and vs. Concordia on Sept. 28. … Peterson heads into Saturday’s conference match against St. Thomas boasting a team-leading 377 kills, while Lind (257), Nordick (222), Molly Grover (Zumbrota, Minn. / 128), Macki Fadness (Eau Claire, Wis. / 126), Lexi Assimos (Northbrook, Ill. / 118) and Kaylee Bunne (LeRoy, Minn. / 106) have also eclipsed the 100-kill plateau. … Assimos pushed her single-season career-high to 1,105 assists with 38 helpers against Gustavus last Saturday. … Assimos, who has now recorded 1,000 or more assists twice in her fouryear collegiate career, also moved past Brittany Cherwinka and into the No. 2 spot all-time with 3,171 assists. … Assimos has now recorded 40 or more assists 11 times this season and 31 times in her collegiate career. … After recording 502 digs as a freshman a year ago, Lex Krogstad (Chicago, Ill.) has shattered that mark this year, heading into Saturday’s match against St. Thomas with a team-leading 517
digs — giving the sophomore libero 1,019 career digs in her two-year collegiate career. … Krogstad’s 517 digs this season rank No. 4 all-time, 56 digs shy of Theresa Perrini’s 563 digs during the 2006 season. … Krogstad is one of four Cardinals with 200 or more digs — Morgan Thomas (Palos Park, Ill. / 268), Assimos (262) and Jordan Wolfe (Wabasha, Minn. / 261) are the others. … SMU has recoded 149 aces this season — led by Thomas with 37. … The Cardinals have won the first set in 20 of their 23 wins and 22 times in 30 matches this season. … Thirteen of the Cardinals’ 23 wins have come in 3-0 sweeps. SCOUTING THE ST. THOMAS TOMMIES With a victory on Saturday against Saint Mary’s, the Tommies would tie Augsburg for the conference title — the program’s seventh consecutive outright or shared MIAC championship — and claim the top seed for next week’s MIAC playoffs. … If St. Thomas loses to Saint Mary’s, the Tommies share second place, but still wins the tie-breaker to take the playoffs’ No. 2 seed and a first-round bye. … With its 3-0 win over Northwestern on Wednesday, UST extended its road victory streak to 18 dating back to Sept. 2012. … As a team, the Tommies rank in the top seven nationally in attack % (.268), kills-per-set, blocks-per-set, assists-per-set and win %. … Kelly Foley and Sara Atkinson are each hitting a team-best .383 this season and rank 11th and 12th nationally. … In coach Thanh Pham’s 11 years, UST is averaging nearly 29 wins a season and has a 108-12 mark (.900) in MIAC regular-season games. … The Tommies, who won the 2012 NCAA Division III national crown, are 65-3 over the last two seasons. The three defeats were all in five sets — including two against Emory (Ga.). UST won its last 35 matches of last season and had an 18match win streak earlier this season. … UST has won its last 29 Saturday matches. … UST is a combined 58-0 in three- and four-set matches over the last two seasons. … UST’s 3-2 loss to Concordia on Oct. 9 halted a 33-match home-court winning streak — the longest among all 955 teams in NCAA volleyball from all divisions. … The Tommies are No. 4 in this week’s AVCA national poll and have been ranked in the national top 25 for 40 consecutive polls. … UST junior Jill Greenfield needs eight kills to reach 1,000 on her career. Junior teammate Kelly Foley surpassed the 1,000-kill milestone last month. … The Tommies have five seniors — All-America hitter Paige Brimeyer; MB Mackenzie Piechowski; OH Nicole Potts; libero McKenna Reagan; and setter Katie Maher. Potts, Reagan and Maher all had older sisters that played for St. Thomas volleyball. … The Tommies went 14-0 last season against conference opponents and are 9-1 so far in 2013.
SAINT MARY’S: LAST ACTION vs. at Gustavus • Sat., Oct. 26, 2013
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ST. THOMAS: LAST ACTION vs. at Northwestern • Wed., Oct. 30, 2013
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SAINT MARY’S: UP NEXT vs. at Concordia • Tues., Nov. 5 • 7 p.m.
2013 MIAC STANDINGS Team Augsburg^ St. Thomas^ Saint Benedict^ Concordia^ Saint Mary's^ Hamline^ Bethel Macalester Gustavus Carleton St. Olaf St. Catherine ^MIAC Playoff qualifier
MIAC 10-1 9-1 9-2 9-2 6-4 5-5 4-6 4-7 4-7 1-9 1-9 1-10
O’All 27-3 25-2 24-2 18-9 23-7 18-12 13-15 13-14 10-19 13-13 8-19 8-20
Today’s Matches Buena Vista at Gustavus, 10:30 UW-River Falls at Augsburg, 11:00 St. Catherine at St. Norbert, Noon Concordia at UM-Morris, 1:00 St. Catherine at UW-Stevens Point, 2:00 UW-Superior at Gustavus, 2:30 St. Tomas at Saint Mary’s, 3:00 Northwestern at Concordia, 3:00
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SAINT MARY’S UNIVERSITY CARDINALS Head coach: Mike Lester • Assistants: Jacki Jones, Chris Rohde, Ashley Gossen
MEET THE CARDINALS No. Name
Pos.
Ht.
Yr.
Hometown / High School
1 Lex Krogstad
L
5-4
So.
Chicago, Ill. / Resurrection
2 Morgan Thomas
L
5-3
Fr.
Palos Park, Ill. / Amos Alonzo Stagg
3 Kaylee Bunne
MH
5-8
Sr.
LeRoy, Minn. / LeRoy-Ostrander
4 Jenna Sullivan
OH
5-10
So.
Woodbury, Minn. / Woodbury
RS/MH
6-0
Jr.
Zumbrota, Minn. / Zumbrota-Mazeppa
6 Alex Peterson
OH
6-0
So.
Harmony, Minn. / Fillmore Central
7 Kenzie Lind
OH
5-9
So.
Rushford, Minn. / Rushford-Peterson
9 Maddie Hess
S
5-7
Fr.
Lewiston, Minn. / Lewiston-Altura
12 Mary Nordick
MH
6-3
Jr.
Plymouth, Minn. / Providence Academy
13 Macki Fadness
OH
5-10
So.
Eau Claire, Wis. / Eau Claire North
14 Janae Fry
RS
5-11
Jr.
Burr Ridge, Ill. / Hinsdale South
15 Emily Diercks
MH
5-10
So.
Red Wing, Minn. / Red Wing
16 Jordan Wolfe
L
5-4
So.
Wabasha, Minn. / Wabasha-Kellogg
MH
5-10
Fr.
Roseville, Minn. / Cretin-Derham Hall
S
5-6
So.
Dodge Center, Minn. / Triton
OH
5-7
So.
Altura, Minn. / Lewiston-Altura
S
5-8
Sr.
Northbrook, Ill. / Glenbrook North
5 Molly Grover
17 Molly Urban 18 Tayler MacVey 22 Brooke Schilling 27 Lexi Assimos
THE SCHEDULE Date Opponent Time Aug. 30-31 Sugar Loaf Classic Aug. 30 Lakeland W, 3-0 Aug. 30 Dominican L, 3-1 Aug. 31 Luther L, 3-0 Aug. 31 St. Scholastica W, 3-1 Sept. 6-7 North Park Tourn. Sept. 6 Marian W, 3-0 Sept. 6 Aurora W, 3-1 Sept. 7 Denison W, 3-0 Sept. 7 Manchester W, 3-0 Sept. 11 UW-La Crosse W, 3-1 Sept. 18 at Bethel W, 3-1 Sept. 20-21 Ripon Invite Sept. 20 Lakeland W, 3-0 Sept. 20 Concordia (Wis.) W, 3-0 Sept. 21 St. Norbert W, 3-0 Sept. 21 Ripon W, 3-1 Sept. 24 at Macalester L, 3-1 Sept. 27 Saint Benedict L, 3-0 Sept. 28 Concordia L, 3-2 Oct. 2 Carleton W, 3-0 Oct. 4-5 SMU Cardinal Invite Oct. 4 Central-Iowa W, 3-1 Oct. 5 U. of Dubuque W, 3-0 Oct. 5 Augustana (Ill.) W, 3-0 Oct. 9 Hamline W, 3-1 Oct. 11-12 No. Central (Ill.) Invite Oct. 11 North Park W, 3-1 Oct. 11 UW-Oshkosh W, 3-2 Oct. 12 Wheaton (Ill.) L, 3-2 Oct. 12 No. Central (Ill.) W, 3-0 Oct. 18 at St. Catherine W, 3-0 Oct. 19 at Augsburg L, 3-1 Oct. 23 at St. Olaf W, 3-0 Oct. 26 at Gustavus Nov. 2 St. Thomas 3:00
UNIVERSITY OF ST. THOMAS TOMMIES Head coach: Thanh Pham • Assistants: Dave Orren, Joy Tietz, Drew Nowak, Maggie McNamara
MEET THE TOMMIES No. Name
Yr.
Pos.
Ht.
Hometown / High School
1 Sara Atkinson
Jr.
RS
6-1
Shoreview, Minn. / Mounds View
2 Whitney Abrahamson
Jr.
DS
5-6
Lakeville, Minn. / North
3 Kelly Biermann
So.
MH
6-0
Cedar Rapids, Iowa / Xavier
4 Mackenzie Piechowski
Sr.
MH
6-0
Hutchinson, Minn. / Hutchinson
6 Nicole Potts
Sr.
OH
5-10
Dubuque, Iowa / Wahlert
7 Katie Maher
Sr.
S
5-5
Hutchinson, Minn. / Hutchinson
8 Jill Greenfield
Jr.
OH
5-10
Minnetonka, Minn. / Hopkins
9 Kelly Foley
Jr.
MH
5-11
St. Paul, Minn. / Cretin-Derham Hall
10 Paige Brimeyer
Sr.
MH
6-0
Dubuque, Iowa / Hempstead
11 McKenna Reagan
Sr.
OH
5-9
Elkhorn, Neb. / Elkhorn
12 Ashley Dahly
So.
OH
5-11
Blaine, Minn. / Totino-Grace
13 Taryn Glynn
Jr.
OH
5-7
Apple Valley, Minn. / Visitation
14 Sydney Westfield
Jr.
OH
5-10
Walker, Minn. / Walker-Hackensack-Akeley
15 Mallory Johnson
Jr.
MH
5-11
Maple Grove, Minn. / Maple Grove
16 Bailey Lundquist
Fr.
S
5-8
Elk River, Minn. / Elk River
17 Maddie Reese
Fr.
S
5-7
Eden Prairie, Minn. / Eden Prairie
18 Jennifer Wild
Fr.
OH
5-9
Alexandria, Minn. / Alexandria
19 Panhia Moua
Fr.
DS
5-3
Menasha, Wis. / Menasha
20 Maddie Borwege
Fr.
MH
5-11
Fairbault, Minn. / Bethlehem Academy
21 Allisen Mellin
Fr.
MH
5-11
Bloomington, Minn. / Jefferson
22 Taylor Lewis
Fr.
OH
5-10
Lincoln, Neb. / Southeast
23 Anna Bazal
Fr.
DS
5-9
Eagan, Minn. / Cretin-Derham Hall
THE SCHEDULE Date Opponent Time Aug. 30-31 Aug. 30 Emory L, 3-2 Aug. 31 Johns Hopkins W, 3-0 Aug. 31 Wittenberg W, 3-1 Sept. 6-7 Augsburg Tournament Sept. 6 UW-Eau Claire W, 3-0 Sept. 6 UW-Stevens Point W, 3-0 Sept. 7 Wartburg W, 3-0 Sept. 7 UW-La Crosse W, 3-0 Sept. 13-14 at Carthage Tournament Sept. 13 UW-Platteville W, 3-1 Sept. 13 Carthage W, 3-1 Sept. 14 U. of Chicago W, 3-0 Sept. 18 Macalester W, 3-0 Sept. 21 Gustavus W, 3-0 Sept. 25 at St. Catherine W, 3-0 Sept. 28 at St. Olaf W, 3-0 Oct. 2 at Saint Benedict W, 3-0 Oct. 4-5 Wartburg Invitational Oct. 4 Luther W, 3-0 Oct. 4 Wartburg W, 3-0 Oct. 5 Coe W, 3-0 Oct. 5 Elmhurst W, 3-1 Oct. 9 Concordia L, 3-2 Oct. 11 at UW-River Falls W, 3-0 Oct. 11 at UW-Eau Claire W, 3-0 Oct. 16 at Augsburg W, 3-1 Oct. 19 Hamline W, 3-0 Oct. 23 Carleton W, 3-0 Oct. 26 Bethel W, 3-0 Oct. 30 at Northwestern W, 3-0 Nov. 2 at Saint Mary’s 3:00
CARDINALS BY THE NUMBERS: THROUGH FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2013 ## Name 27 Lexi Assimos 12 Mary Nordick 17 Molly Urban 3 Kaylee Bunne 6 Alex Peterson 13 Macki Fadness 5 Molly Grover 7 Kenzie Lind 15 Emily Diercks 4 Jenna Sullivan 2 Morgan Thomas 14 Janae Fry 16 Jordan Wolfe 1 Lex Krogstad 22 Brooke Schilling 10 Colleen Seba 18 Tayler MacVey Saint Mary’s Opponents
Yr Sr So Fr Jr So So Jr So So So Fr Jr So So So So So
Pos mp sp k k/s S 30 107 118 1.10 MH 29 99 222 2.24 MH 9 19 28 1.47 MH 29 97 106 1.09 OH 30 105 377 3.59 OH 19 52 126 2.42 RS 18 57 128 2.25 OH 28 96 257 2.68 MH 4 4 3 0.75 OH 11 28 21 0.75 LB 29 104 2 0.02 OH 6 7 5 0.71 LB 30 102 3 0.03 LB 30 107 7 0.07 OH 23 78 16 0.21 RS 1 1 0 0.00 S 8 17 0 0.00 30 108 1419 13.14 30 108 1265 11.71
e ta pct a a/s sa 21 275 .353 1105 10.33 34 60 540 .300 3 0.03 1 11 72 .236 1 0.05 0 32 338 .219 12 0.12 22 166 1013 .208 2 0.02 0 58 334 .204 2 0.04 0 55 381 .192 3 0.05 0 126 839 .156 4 0.04 1 2 10 .100 0 0.00 0 14 73 .096 5 0.18 5 1 16 .062 13 0.12 37 4 24 .042 0 0.00 0 3 16 .000 28 0.27 15 9 50 -.040 81 0.76 17 24 106 -.075 8 0.10 12 2 3 -.667 0 0.00 0 1 1 -1.000 7 0.41 4 589 4091 .203 1274 11.80 149 610 4033 .162 1144 10.59 125
sa/s digs d/s bs 0.32 262 2.45 12 0.01 13 0.13 20 0.00 5 0.26 4 0.23 69 0.71 4 0.00 85 0.81 8 0.00 29 0.56 7 0.00 32 0.56 2 0.01 119 1.24 1 0.00 4 1.00 0 0.18 42 1.50 0 0.36 268 2.58 0 0.00 5 0.71 1 0.15 261 2.56 0 0.16 517 4.83 0 0.15 163 2.09 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.24 34 2.00 0 1.38 1910 17.69 59 1.16 1780 16.48 68
ba tot 47 59 82 102 7 11 51 55 30 38 16 23 26 28 18 19 1 1 0 0 1 1 3 4 0 0 0 0 2 2 1 1 0 0 285 202 280 208
b/s pts pts/s 0.55 187.5 1.8 1.03 284.0 2.9 0.58 35.5 1.9 0.57 157.5 1.6 0.36 400.0 3.8 0.44 141.0 2.7 0.49 143.0 2.5 0.20 268.0 2.8 0.25 3.5 0.9 0.00 26.0 0.9 0.01 39.5 0.4 0.57 7.5 1.1 0.00 18.0 0.2 0.00 24.0 0.2 0.03 29.0 0.4 1.00 0.5 0.5 0.00 4.0 0.2 1.87 1769.5 16.4 1.93 1598.0 14.8
ba tot 0 0 2 2 2 2 0 0 90 105 42 46 2 2 36 49 1 1 62 72 0 0 3 3 77 85 0 0 4 4 23 35 3 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 348 236 242 163
b/s pts pts/s 0.00 1.0 1.0 0.50 8.0 2.0 0.50 5.0 1.2 0.00 42.0 0.5 1.18 353.0 4.0 0.55 225.0 2.7 0.25 19.0 2.4 0.55 319.0 3.6 0.33 5.5 1.8 0.81 202.0 2.3 0.00 3.0 0.1 0.18 13.5 0.8 0.94 137.5 1.5 0.00 2.0 0.5 0.29 22.0 1.6 0.41 206.5 2.4 0.03 25.5 0.3 0.06 8.5 0.5 0.00 14.0 0.2 0.00 1.0 0.2 2.57 1613.0 17.5 1.77 1266.0 13.8
TOMMIES BY THE NUMBERS: THROUGH FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2013 ## Name 20 Maddie Borwege 16 Bailey Lundquist 15 Mallory Johnson 17 Maddie Reese 9 Kelly Foley 1 Sara Atkinson 14 Sydney Westfield 8 Jill Greenfield 19 Panhia Moua 10 Paige Brimeyer 2 Whitney Abrahamson 3 Kelly Biermann 4 Mackenzie Piechowski 22 Taylor Lewis 12 Ashley Dahly 6 Nicole Potts 7 Katie Maher 13 Taryn Glynn 11 McKenna Reagan 5 Elizabeth Hawkins St. Thomas Opponents
mp 1 2 4 26 26 24 7 26 1 26 15 10 27 4 10 27 27 13 26 3 27 27
sp k k/s 1 1 1.00 4 7 1.75 4 4 1.00 88 21 0.24 89 284 3.19 83 200 2.41 8 18 2.25 89 268 3.01 3 2 0.67 89 161 1.81 22 1 0.05 17 12 0.71 90 91 1.01 4 2 0.50 14 18 1.29 86 164 1.91 92 9 0.10 18 6 0.33 87 2 0.02 4 0 0.00 92 1271 13.82 92 1023 11.12
e ta pct a a/s sa 0 1 1.000 0 0.00 0 0 12 .583 0 0.00 0 0 7 .571 0 0.00 0 3 44 .409 537 6.10 21 68 567 .381 11 0.12 9 61 372 .374 4 0.05 0 3 49 .306 1 0.12 0 77 668 .286 13 0.15 20 0 7 .286 28 9.33 3 49 419 .267 3 0.03 0 0 4 .250 5 0.23 2 5 32 .219 1 0.06 0 36 256 .215 10 0.11 0 1 8 .125 0 0.00 0 11 64 .109 1 0.07 2 101 579 .109 17 0.20 19 8 32 .031 480 5.22 15 6 19 .000 0 0.00 2 3 64 -.016 62 0.71 12 1 2 -.500 7 1.75 1 433 3206 .261 1180 12.83 106 595 3383 .127 928 10.09 80
sa/s digs d/s bs 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.00 1 0.25 0 0.24 137 1.56 0 0.10 74 0.83 15 0.00 27 0.33 4 0.00 10 1.25 0 0.22 322 3.62 13 1.00 5 1.67 0 0.00 41 0.46 10 0.09 18 0.82 0 0.00 8 0.47 0 0.00 31 0.34 8 0.00 1 0.25 0 0.14 6 0.43 0 0.22 210 2.44 12 0.16 135 1.47 0 0.11 13 0.72 0 0.14 463 5.32 0 0.25 4 1.00 0 1.15 1512 16.43 62 0.87 1289 14.01 42
SAINT MARY’S CARDINALS
ST. THOMAS TOMMIES
6-4 MIAC 23-7 Overall
9-1 MIAC 25-2 Overall
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2013 • SMU GYM SCOUTING THE SMU CARDINALS Saturday’s match against St. Thomas is the final home collegiate match for SMU seniors Lexi Assimos (Northbrook, Ill.) and Kaylee Bunne (LeRoy, Minn.). … With their 3-1 win over Gustavus last Saturday, the Cardinals earned their first post-season appearance since 2010. … SMU’s victory over Gustavus last Saturday was its 23nd win of the season — the most wins in a season since 2000, when the Cardinals won 27 en route to their first-ever MIAC regular-season title and an NCAA Division III national tournament appearance. … The Cardinals have won 20 or more matches seven times under coach Mike Lester. … SMU heads into its regular-season finale against defending national champion St. Thomas with an 11-2 record over its last 13 matches. … With their win over Gustavus, the Cardinals improved to 15-3 on the road this season. … Alex Peterson (Harmony, Minn.) — who accounted for 20 of the Cardinals’ 47 kills in their sweep of St. Olaf on Oct. 23 — put together an 18-kill effort against Gustavus last Saturday. … Peterson has eclipsed 20 kills in a match twice this season — collecting 20 kills vs. St. Olaf on Oct. 23 and a careerhigh 23 kills against Central (Iowa) on Oct. 4. … Peterson’s 23-kill match against Central (Iowa) on Oct. 4 was the most by a Cardinal this season and the most since Kara Grant recorded 26 kills against Clarke on Sept. 30, 2011. … Peterson has notched 10 or more kills in 18 straight matches and 28 times in the Cardinals’ 30 matches this season. … Mary Nordick (Plymouth, Minn.) and Kenzie Lind (Rushford, Minn.) have also put together career-high kill performances this season. Nordick notched a career-best 19 kills against Wheaton (Ill.) on Oct. 12, while Lind has recorded a career-best 17 kills twice — against North Central on Oct. 12 and vs. Concordia on Sept. 28. … Peterson heads into Saturday’s conference match against St. Thomas boasting a team-leading 377 kills, while Lind (257), Nordick (222), Molly Grover (Zumbrota, Minn. / 128), Macki Fadness (Eau Claire, Wis. / 126), Lexi Assimos (Northbrook, Ill. / 118) and Kaylee Bunne (LeRoy, Minn. / 106) have also eclipsed the 100-kill plateau. … Assimos pushed her single-season career-high to 1,105 assists with 38 helpers against Gustavus last Saturday. … Assimos, who has now recorded 1,000 or more assists twice in her fouryear collegiate career, also moved past Brittany Cherwinka and into the No. 2 spot all-time with 3,171 assists. … Assimos has now recorded 40 or more assists 11 times this season and 31 times in her collegiate career. … After recording 502 digs as a freshman a year ago, Lex Krogstad (Chicago, Ill.) has shattered that mark this year, heading into Saturday’s match against St. Thomas with a team-leading 517
digs — giving the sophomore libero 1,019 career digs in her two-year collegiate career. … Krogstad’s 517 digs this season rank No. 4 all-time, 56 digs shy of Theresa Perrini’s 563 digs during the 2006 season. … Krogstad is one of four Cardinals with 200 or more digs — Morgan Thomas (Palos Park, Ill. / 268), Assimos (262) and Jordan Wolfe (Wabasha, Minn. / 261) are the others. … SMU has recoded 149 aces this season — led by Thomas with 37. … The Cardinals have won the first set in 20 of their 23 wins and 22 times in 30 matches this season. … Thirteen of the Cardinals’ 23 wins have come in 3-0 sweeps. SCOUTING THE ST. THOMAS TOMMIES With a victory on Saturday against Saint Mary’s, the Tommies would tie Augsburg for the conference title — the program’s seventh consecutive outright or shared MIAC championship — and claim the top seed for next week’s MIAC playoffs. … If St. Thomas loses to Saint Mary’s, the Tommies share second place, but still wins the tie-breaker to take the playoffs’ No. 2 seed and a first-round bye. … With its 3-0 win over Northwestern on Wednesday, UST extended its road victory streak to 18 dating back to Sept. 2012. … As a team, the Tommies rank in the top seven nationally in attack % (.268), kills-per-set, blocks-per-set, assists-per-set and win %. … Kelly Foley and Sara Atkinson are each hitting a team-best .383 this season and rank 11th and 12th nationally. … In coach Thanh Pham’s 11 years, UST is averaging nearly 29 wins a season and has a 108-12 mark (.900) in MIAC regular-season games. … The Tommies, who won the 2012 NCAA Division III national crown, are 65-3 over the last two seasons. The three defeats were all in five sets — including two against Emory (Ga.). UST won its last 35 matches of last season and had an 18match win streak earlier this season. … UST has won its last 29 Saturday matches. … UST is a combined 58-0 in three- and four-set matches over the last two seasons. … UST’s 3-2 loss to Concordia on Oct. 9 halted a 33-match home-court winning streak — the longest among all 955 teams in NCAA volleyball from all divisions. … The Tommies are No. 4 in this week’s AVCA national poll and have been ranked in the national top 25 for 40 consecutive polls. … UST junior Jill Greenfield needs eight kills to reach 1,000 on her career. Junior teammate Kelly Foley surpassed the 1,000-kill milestone last month. … The Tommies have five seniors — All-America hitter Paige Brimeyer; MB Mackenzie Piechowski; OH Nicole Potts; libero McKenna Reagan; and setter Katie Maher. Potts, Reagan and Maher all had older sisters that played for St. Thomas volleyball. … The Tommies went 14-0 last season against conference opponents and are 9-1 so far in 2013.
SAINT MARY’S: LAST ACTION vs. at Gustavus • Sat., Oct. 26, 2013
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ST. THOMAS: LAST ACTION vs. at Northwestern • Wed., Oct. 30, 2013
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SAINT MARY’S: UP NEXT vs. at Concordia • Tues., Nov. 5 • 7 p.m.
2013 MIAC STANDINGS Team Augsburg^ St. Thomas^ Saint Benedict^ Concordia^ Saint Mary's^ Hamline^ Bethel Macalester Gustavus Carleton St. Olaf St. Catherine ^MIAC Playoff qualifier
MIAC 10-1 9-1 9-2 9-2 6-4 5-5 4-6 4-7 4-7 1-9 1-9 1-10
O’All 27-3 25-2 24-2 18-9 23-7 18-12 13-15 13-14 10-19 13-13 8-19 8-20
Today’s Matches Buena Vista at Gustavus, 10:30 UW-River Falls at Augsburg, 11:00 St. Catherine at St. Norbert, Noon Concordia at UM-Morris, 1:00 St. Catherine at UW-Stevens Point, 2:00 UW-Superior at Gustavus, 2:30 St. Tomas at Saint Mary’s, 3:00 Northwestern at Concordia, 3:00
