Katie Carrier
St. Norbert

A junior outside hitter from West Bend, Wis., (East HS), Carrier led the Knights to a 6-4 start, including strong showings in the UW-Superior and St. Mary's tournaments. Carrier is hitting .310 so far this season, has a team-high 107 digs to go with 12 blocks and 3 assists.

 

Amy Heberlein
Illinois College

Heberlein is a 5-11 junior middle hitter from Liberty, Ill. (Liberty H.S.) registered 81 kills and 122 digs through her first nine matches.. She is averaging 2.7 kills per game and 4.0 digs per game. Heberlein was named to the all-tournament teams at the Illinois College Classic (which IC won) and the Illinois Wesleyan Classic, where IC finished 2-2. Her best efforts came against Coe and Webster with 13 kills in each match. She also tallied 30 digs against Coe and 26 against Webster.
 

Michelle Sundberg
Beloit College

The 5-9 middle hitter is a senior from Suring, Wis. Sundberg racked up a .429 hitting percentage at the Beloit Invitational, including an impressive .625 kill mark against Ripon. In her team's win over Ripon, Sundberg was flawless and registered 10 kills with no attack errors. She posted 11 kills (with 2 errors) and four blocks against Bethany College and added 4 kills against Marian. "Michelle's strong net play and consistent offense provided the leadership we needed over the weekend," said Beloit Head Coach Vanessa MacCallum. "Her stats against Ripon speak for themselves. She played smart and she stepped it up."

Sarah Frantz
Lake Forest College

A 5-6 senior setter from Lake Geneva, WI/Badger High School, Frantz averaged 11.73 assists per game for the week...129 total assists in 11 games played...led the team with nine aces, including five versus Trinity International...her first ace against Trinity International moved her into the top stop for career aces in LF's school record book...she now is the school's career leader for assists and aces...also had 28 digs, two blocks, and two kills for the week.

Katie Carrier
St. Norbert

A junior outside hitter from West Bend, Wis., (East HS), Carrier led the Green Knights in hitting with a .280 percentage. She registered 41 kills in 100 attempts with 13 kills as the SNC women defeated Lakeland 3-0 and fell to Benedictine 3-1. Carrier's totals included one block and a team-high 28 digs.

Jaime Jones
Monmouth

A junior middle hitter from La Harpe, Ill., (La Harpe HS), Jones led the Fighting Scots in three of the five major categories at the tough Wheaton College Tournament over the weekend. Jones blasted 47 kills, had 13 blocks (six solo) and served five aces as the Scots faced strong opponents from the CCIW and the IIAC. Her highs were 15 kills against Coe and North Park, three aces against Wisconsin Lutheran and three solo blocks against North Park.

Alison Sorce
Carroll

Sorce is a senior outside hitter from Caledonia, Wis., and a graduate of Milwaukee Technical High School. For the week, Sorce hit .419 and tallied 16 kills (with 3 errors) in 31 attempts as the Pioneers defeated Maranatha Baptist Bible College, 3-1. In addition to averaging 4 kills per game, Sorce posted 10 digs, 3 service aces, 1 solo block and 2 block assists.

Angela Lagerman
Lake Forest

A junior middle blocker, Lagerman logged 50 kills and just ten errors in 102 attempts in a match against U. of Chicago and at the UW-Whitewater Invitational last week. Lagerman finished with a .392 hitting percentage, 26 blocks, (22 assists, four solos) for the Foresters who defeated Chicago 3-1 and went 2-2 at the Whitewater tourney.

Jenny Burris
Lawrence

Burris, a first-year player from Gurnee, Ill. (Warren Township High School), led the Vikings to victories over Viterbo, Monmouth and Clarke at the Clarke College Tournament. Burris blasted a team-high 19 kills against Viterbo and then posted a team-best 15 digs in a tournament loss to Luther. In the win over Clarke, the Lawrence freshman led the way with 25 digs and added 7 kills. She closed out her team's big weekend with 10 kills and 15 digs in a 3-0 win over Monmouth.

Stephanie Reinboldt
Lake Forest

A junior middle blocker from McHenry, Ill. (Marian Central Catholic H.S.), appeared in four matches and recorded 47 kills (4.70 kills/game) to lead the Foresters. Reinboldt logged a .439 hitting percentage along wth five aces, 25 digs, and six blocks for the week. She was named to the six-member Forester Invitational All-Tournament team after leading Lake Forest to three-straight three-game wins and the Forester Invite championship. Lake Forest lost in three games to Elmhurst (#16 in the nation) earlier in the week, a match in which Reinboldt had 17 kills and hit .375.

Katie Carrier
St. Norbert

Carrier blasted 70 kills in 183 attempts and finished with a fine .268 hitting mark in 4 matches at the Benedictine University Tournament (Lisle IL). The junior outside hitter from West Bend, Wis., also led the Green Knights with 59 digs. She was at her best against Lakeland when she slammed 24 kills in 55 attempts and hit .400 to rally her team to a 3-2 win after being down 0-2.

Jaime Jones
Monmouth

Megan Harris
Monmouth

Despite an 0-2 week with losses to Grinnell and Eureka junior hitter Jaime Jones (LaHarpe, IL/HS) and

sophomore setter Megan Harris (Easton, IL/Illini Central) combined to shatter a pair of MC records. "I've never seen two players so insync with each other as Jaime and Megan against Eureka," says coach Kari Shimmin. Shiimin should know of what she speaks, having played on the 1994 team whose records where broken. Versus Eureka, Jones bested the old kill mark for a five-game match with 35 kills, thanks in part to Harris' record assist mark of 54. Jones record bettered the old standard by 9 kills while Harris shattered the assist mark by 17. Numbers for the week: Jones 45 kills (record 35 vs. Eureka), percentage .544, blocks 14, digs 20 Harris assists 87 (record 54 vs Eureka), percentage .419

Kayte Hansen
Lawrence

The junior hitter from Ripon, Wis., (Ripon HS), led the Vikings to wins over Beloit and Wisconsin Lutheran. She hit .432 with 20 kills, 3 blocks and 9 digs in LU's 5-game win over Beloit, and she pounded out a .462 kill percentage in a 3-game sweep of Wis. Lutheran. In the latter match, Hansen had 7 kills, 3 digs and 2 blocks.

Amy Heberlein
Illinois C.

Heberlein is a junior outside hitter from Liberty Ill., (Liberty H.S.). Against Millikin, Heberlein finished with 27 kills and 32 digs and posted 10 kills, 27 digs and 15 service points in the win at Grinnell. Heberlein averaged 4.6 kills per game and 7.3 digs per game over the two matches. Head Coach Candy West said the victories were the biggest of the season for the Lady Blues. Millikin came in at 15-6. West said Heberlein broke out of a mid-season slump and gave the team a big lift with consistent play. The IC junior was especially effective in the rally-scoring format used in the finale against Grinnell.

Katie Carrier
St. Norbert
The junior outside hitter put up an impressive .544 hitting percentage in the Green Knights' matches against Lawrence and Beloit. In the win over Lawrence, Carrier posted a school-record 23 kills -- the best-ever at SNC for a 3-game match. She finished the week with 36 kills in 57 attempts (with just 5 errors). For those who don't already know, Carrier is from West Bend, Wis., and is a graduate of East High School.

Angela Lagerman
Lake Forest

A junior middle blocker from Menomonee Falls,Wis. (Menomonee Falls H.S.), Lagerman led Lake Forest to three wins over the weekend, including two MWC South Division victories. Lake Forest won all three matches in three games while Lagerman played in all nine games. Lagerman recorded a team-high 33 kills (3.67 kills/game) with just four errors and also led the team with a .468 hitting percentage. Lagerman added six total blocks (one solo and five assists) and three digs while recording 19 kills with just two errors in LF's MWC South Division title-clinching win over IC.