Sept. 22, 2009

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Match Info
Date: Wednesday, Sept. 23
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Location: Columbia, Mo.
Arena: Hearnes Center
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Series Information: The Tigers lead the all-time series with against UMKC, 29-3, including winning the last nine meetings. Mizzou has lost only one total set in that span as well and that came back in 1995.

What You Need To Know
• Junior Paola Ampudia was named Big 12 Rookie of the Week for the second-straight week. She is the first Tiger in program history to earn Big 12 weekly laurels in back-to-back weeks.
• Libero Caitlyn Vann sits just 17 digs shy of moving into seventh-place all time in career digs at Mizzou. She currently has 1,050 after posting 40 last week (19 against Kansas, 21 at Oklahoma).
• With a win on Wednesday, Team Kreklow (Wayne and Susan together) will earn its 700th victory. The two have been coaching together since their days at Columbia College, when they tutored both the women's and men's teams. The pair has won 190 of those matches during their 10 seasons at Mizzou.
• The Tigers rank 25th in the nation in kills per set at 13.90 while their 13.26 assists per set ranks 12th nationally. Senior setter Lei Wang-Francisco is a big reason for that rank as she comes in at 33rd nationally with 10.67 helpers per frame.

This Week
The Tigers will take a small reprieve from Big 12 play when they clash with in-state opponent UMKC on Wednesday (Sept. 23) at the Hearnes Center. Mizzou leads the all-time series with the Kangaroos, 29-3, and have won the last nine matches. During that span, Mizzou has lost just one set to UMKC, and that came in a 3-1 win on Oct. 10, 1995.

Last Week
Mizzou moved its record to 8-4 on the season and 1-1 in Big 12 play after topping archrival Kansas, 3-1 (19-25, 25-22, 27-25, 26-24), last Wednesday and falling at Oklahoma, 3-1 (25-21, 22-25, 23-25, 15-25), on Saturday. Junior outside hitter Julianna Klein led the Tigers with 27 kills in the two matches while junior libero Caitlyn Vann posted 40 digs in the two matches, her most over any two matches so far this season.

Last Wednesday's match against Kansas also served as the program's first-ever `Dig for a Cure' as the Tigers helped collect money for the Susan G. Komen Foundation to help raise breast cancer awareness. The Tigers are currently holding an online auction in which 14 game-worn jerseys are up for bid. All of the proceeds will go to the Komen Foundation.

Movin' On Up
Libero Caitlyn Vann collected 40 digs last week, including a season-best 21 at Oklahoma, moving her career total to 1,050, which now ranks eighth all-time at Mizzou. Vann passed both Lindsey Hunter and Chandra Hopkins and now needs 17 this week to move into sole possession of seventh place. If Vann stays at her current pace, she should hit that mark against Texas A&M on Saturday.

Double Double-Double
Both Lei Wang-Francisco and Julianna Klein posted double-doubles in the Tigers' match at Oklahoma last weekend. Wang-Francisco passed out 32 assists and collected 12 digs while Klein led the team with 11 kills and added 11 digs. The pair now has five of the Tigers' six double-doubles on the season while Klein leads all Tigers with three.

Tiger Point Guard
Lei Wang-Francisco handed out a season-best 55 assists in the Tigers' win over Kansas last week as she anchored a Mizzou attack that posted 64 kills. The 55 assists that she passed out are the second-best single-match total in the Big 12 this season and is tops in Big 12 matches. Only Kaylee Manns of Iowa State has a better single-match total on the season as she posted 56 against Minnesota earlier this season. Wang-Francisco also holds the Big 12's second-best three-set match assist total this season with 41 assists against Ole Miss.

Rookie of the Week Part Deux
Junior Paola Ampudia was named Big 12 Rookie of the Week for the second-consecutive week. During that span of six matches, Ampudia has posted 57 kills, 25 digs and 14 total blocks and accounted for 66.5 total points. Ampudia is the first Tiger ever to take home back-to-back Big 12 weekly honors.

Ampudia collected 23 kills to rank second on the team and 10th in the Big 12 last week with a 2.88 kills per set average. She also chipped in 12 digs and four blocks (one solo, three assists) and 25.5 total points. On Wednesday's victory over Kansas, Ampudia posted career-bests in kills (15), digs (nine) and attacks (37).

Hey, Ms. Wilson!
Junior middle hitter Catie Wilson has been arguably the Tigers' most consistent player this season as she has 98 kills, a team-best 34 blocks (eight solo, 24 assists), 31 digs, 10 service aces and a .335 hitting percentage. Wilson hit .500 with 12 kills last Wednesday against Kansas which, at the time, was the top mark in a Big 12 match this season; it currently ranks second in the league. Wilson also hit .857 with six kills earlier this season against Ole Miss.

Wilson has hit better than .300 in seven of 12 matches and has been better than .400 four times. She is also averaging 2.45 kills per set and has posted a season-best 12 kills on two separate occasions with the most recent coming against Kansas last Wednesday.

Tigers in the National Ranks
As a team, Mizzou ranks 12th nationally in assists per set at 13.26 while they come in at 25th overall with 13.90 kills per set. Senior setter Lei Wang-Francisco has anchored the Tiger attack all season and currently ranks 33rd nationally with 10.67 assists per set.

The 700-Club
With a win on Wednesday over UMKC, Wayne and Susan Kreklow would earn their 700th victory together, dating back to their days coaching both the women and the men at Columbia College. Overall, the Kreklows are 699-208 as head coaches of both men's and women's volleyball teams, including a 190-98 mark in 10 seasons at Mizzou.

Milestone for Wang-Francisco
Senior setter Lei Wang-Francisco has passed out 416 assists this season, moving her into sole possession of third-place on the all-time career assist list at Mizzou. She now has 4,093 in her career, which passed former Tiger Cindy Atteberry. She now needs 861 assists to tie Michelle Gerber for second place. If she stays at her average of 34.67 assists per match, she would need 24 matches to do so. With only 20 matches left this season, it is a record to keep an eye on. Passing that mark would also rank her in the Big 12 all-time top five.

Following in her Footsteps?
As Wang-Francisco's time winds down at Mizzou, freshman setter Kate Harris seems up to the task of taking over for her in the future. Harris has seen her playing time increase as of late, highlighted by the Tigers' match with Fairfield at the Michigan/Pepsi Challenge. After Wang-Francisco quarterbacked the offense in the first set, Harris came on and passed out 28 helpers in the final two sets, averaging 14.00 per frame, a career-high total. Harris now has 57 assists on the season and has gained plenty of valuable experience after coming off of the bench this season.

...It's Wendy's!
Tiger junior Weiwen Wang currently ranks sixth in the Big 12 with a .367 hitting percentage this season. Wang has committed only eight errors on the season while posting 44 kills. At the Michigan/Pepsi Challenge, Wang hit .435 with 12 kills to pace the Tigers in the middle and hit .286 with six kills last Wednesday against Kansas. Wang is averaging 1.91 kills per set this season.

Vann Has an Ace in the Hole
Junior libero Caitlyn Vann, who leads the team with 174 digs this season, has added another element to her game. Vann has served up 15 aces this season, which ranks fourth in the Big 12 this season while her 0.36 per set ranks her third in the league. Vann posted seven aces at the Michigan/Pepsi Challenge two weeks ago and now has 61 aces in her career, the second-most all-time among active players. She trails only Lei Wang-Francisco, who has 65 and an entire extra season under her belt compared to Vann, who is only a junior.

Scouting UMKC
The `Roos lost their match at Western Illinois last Saturday, leaving them with an overall record of 4-9 and a Summit League record of 0-4. Despite the loss, UMKC collected 110 digs in the four-set match, averaging 27.5 per set, marking one of the finest defensive performances in program history. As a team this season, UMKC has a .162 attack percentage, just shy of their opponents at .169. Overall, the `Roos average more errors in attacks (293), serves (111), and blocking (19) than do their opponents.

Brittany Fossier has been a key player with an attack percentage of .276, while teammate Kelsey Knoche has had 152 kills during the Kangaroo's 2009 season. UMKC has four players with more than 100 digs while libero Nicole Kerkman has 203 on the season, averaging nearly 5.00 digs per set. She finished the match against Western Illinois with 26 digs. Mizzou leads the all-time series with UMKC, 29-3, including winning the last nine meetings. Mizzou has dropped just one set in that span and that came back in 1995 when the Tigers played at UMKC.

- Lauren Hays; Mizzou Media Relations Student Assistant

Mr. 400
With the Tigers' win over Fairfield earlier this season, head coach Wayne Kreklow earned his 400th victory as a head coach and added 401 vs. KU last Wednesday. Dating back to his time at Columbia College, where he coached both the men's and women's teams, Kreklow has compiled a 401-105 record as a head coach, including a 348-81 mark coaching women's volleyball. 81 of his 347 wins in women's volleyball have come during his time at Mizzou. For a complete list of Kreklow's coaching records, see page 16.

A Well-Spread Attack
For the second time this season, Mizzou had four players hit the double-digit kill mark against Kansas. Julianna Klein, Paola Ampudia, Catie Wilson and Rosa Medrano all finished with 10 or more kills, totalling 16, 15, 12 and 10 respectively, and accounted for 53 of the team's 62 kills. The only other time Mizzou had four players in double-digits was against Utah Valley, when Mizzou posted a Big 12-leading 70 kills in its four-set win. The 64 kills against KU ranks eighth in the Big 12 this season. Those two marks - 70 and 64 - are the only of the Big 12 top 10 single-match kill totals that came in four sets this season; the other eight were all done in five sets.

An Efficient Attack
Mizzou hit .354 in its four-set win over Utah Valley last weekend, its best hitting efficiency of the season in a single match. That mark currently ranks as the second-best team hitting-percentage in a three-set match this season. Six Tigers hit better than .300 in the match while two - Paola Ampudia and Weiwen Wang - hit better than .400. Additionally, in the Tigers' three-set sweep of Ole Miss at the Tiger Invitational, the team hit .333. Five of the Tigers' top six attackers in the match hit better than .286 while Catie Wilson had six kills on seven attacks, hitting at a career-best clip of .857. Mizzou hit better than .333 just twice last season - .337 at Texas Tech (10/4) and .427 against Texas Tech at home (11/1).

Shutting `Em Down
Mizzou held its opponents to a .135 hitting percentage during the Tiger Invitational, including holding Texas State to a clip of .061, the Tigers' best opponent attack percentage since Sept. 5, 2008 when they held Maryland to a .019 hitting percentage. The Tigers also held BYU to a .130 hitting percentage, due in large part to a season-high 63 digs and 11.0 blocks. Libero Caitlyn Vann collected 18 digs in the match to lead the team. MU also held Morehead State to a .075 hitting percentage last weekend.

Big Night for Brit
Tiger sophomore Brittney Brimmage tallied 13 kills with only one error on 20 swings in the Tigers' four-set loss to No. 17 Utah. That stat line gave Brimmage a .600 hitting percentage in the match, which is the fourth-best single match mark in the Big 12 this season. The .600 clip is also a career-best for Brimmage as she becomes one of only 26 athletes in school history to post a .600 hitting percentage with more than 10 kills.

Block Party
Mizzou posted 14.5 total blocks in its win over Texas State to open the season. That mark is the best in a three-set match in the Big 12 this season and ranks fifth overall. Senior middle blocker Amanda Hantouli paced the Tigers with eight total blocks (one solo, seven assists) in that match, which is the second-best individual total in a three-set match in the Big 12 this season and ranks fourth overall. Hantouli also has 323 blocks in her career, which ranks fifth all-time at Mizzou.

Ninth Time in Ten Seasons?
Since the Kreklows took over the Mizzou program in 2000, the Tigers have appeared in eight NCAA Tournaments and have ranked amongst the Big 12 and national elite. This season will mark Wayne and Susan Kreklow's 10th year at the helm as they will look to make it nine out of 10 in 2009. The Tigers' best NCAA Tournament run came back in 2005 when they advanced to the NCAA Regional Final after topping Hawaii in the round of 16.

From Colombia to Columbia
Junior transfer Paola Ampudia joins the 2009 Tiger roster after spending two years at Miami Dade Community College. Ampudia, a Cali, Colombia, native, was dubbed Preseason Big 12 Newcomer of the Year by the Big 12's coaches earlier this month. In 2007, Ampudia led Miami Dade to the National Junior College Athletics Association (NJCAA) national title game and helped the Sharks to a 30-0 regular season record that season. For her efforts, Ampudia was named NJCAA National Player of the Year as she ranked in the nation's top 10 in both hitting efficiency (.578) and kills per set (3.85).

A New Addition
There is a fresh new face on the Tiger bench this season and that face is assistant coach Chirs Muscat. Muscat joins the Tiger staff after spending two years as an assistant under coach John Dunning with the Stanford Cardinal women's volleyball team. At Stanford, Muscat was a part of two Pac-10 championship teams and two national runner-up squads. Muscat's many duties while at Stanford included player development, video analysis and opponent scouting. Stanford posted a 63-7 record during Muscat's tenure with the Cardinal and produced seven All-Americans.

As a player, Muscat was a member of two national championship teams at UCLA in 1998 and 2000 as a middle and outside hitter. Due to injury, he sat out during his last season and graduated with a degree in Biology. Muscat's primary responsibilities will be working with the Tigers at the net, working with outside hitters and middle blockers on their attacking and blocking technique, as well as playing a large role in the recruitment of future players to the Missouri program.

One of Mizzou's Finest
Freshman Annie Lopez was recently named to the Omicron Delta Kappa list of top freshmen at the University of Missouri. Only the best 14 students in their first year of college are selected to the group and Lopez had no idea at the time that one of her fellow teammates believed she had the credentials to make the group.

"I received an e-mail one day and found out I had been selected a finalist for the award, and that Lei (Wang) had nominated me," Lopez said. "I was honored that one of my teammates would think so highly of me."

Getting nominated was the first step, but it was far from the last, as Lopez would need to write an essay and submit a resume to make it to round two. She made it to round two, which consisted of an hour-long interview where she, and 20 other people, would be asked questions about themselves and any obstacles they've overcome in their lifetime. Soon after she completed the entire application process, Lopez received word that she had been selected as one of the 14 Omicron Delta Kappa honorees for the 2009 class. Lopez' current major is Textile Apparel Management with minors in Spanish and possibly Business.

All-Access Video and Radio
Be sure to follow the Tiger volleyball program all season long on www.mutigers.com. The matches will be streamed live on Mizzou All-Access and KCOU, Mizzou's student radio station, will provide play-by-play of each home match over the video. Also, all Big 12 road matches will be available for radio streaming on www.mutigers.com.

Tigers on Television
Mizzou will play in three matches that will be televised this season - at home against Colorado on Oct. 7, at Kansas State on Oct. 14 and at Nebraska on Nov. 4. Mizzou's match with Colorado will air on the Mizzou Sports Network with Beau Baehman and Craig Sherman providing the play-by-play and color analysis. The match against Kansas State will air on FSN-Kansas City. The Tigers' match with Nebraska will air in Lincoln, Neb., on Nebraska Education Television.

Next Up
Mizzou will continue its homestand as it welcomes Big 12 South rival Texas A&M to the Hearnes Center. The match with the Aggies is scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m.

Updated Player Bios

Lei Wang-Francisco
Notched a season-high 55 assists, helping four different attackers post double-digit kills against Kansas last Wednesday ... The 55 assists rank second-best overall in the Big 12 this season and tops in Big 12 matches only ... Followed that performance by posting her second double-double of the season at Oklahoma where she passed out 32 assists and collected 12 digs ... Handed out 109 assists and posted eight kills and eight total blocks at the Michigan/Pepsi Challenge last weekend ... Passed out a then season-high 51 assists against Utah Valley, helping the Tigers to a four-set win ... Has totaled 416 assists this season which has moved her career total to 4,093, passing Cindy Atteberry and moving into third-place all-time on the Mizzou career assist list ... Her 10.67 assists per set this season ranks her fourth amongst setters in the Big 12 this season and her 10.88 in Big 12 play rank third ... Named to the Tiger Invitational All-Tournament team after passing out 102 assists during the three matches, good enough for 10.20 per set ... Handed out a then season-best 41 assists in the Tigers' sweep of Ole Miss ... Currently ranks third on the team with 84 digs, including a season-best 12 in the Tigers' season-opening match against Texas State and at Oklahoma last Saturday ... Pitched in eight kills while hitting .350 at the Tiger Invitational and posted four service aces and five block assists, accounting for 14.5 total points ... Her 10.63 career assists per set also ranks third on the all-time Mizzou assist list ... Needs to play in 16 matches and 38 more sets to move into 10th place in both matches played and sets played all-time at Mizzou ... Is in her fourth season as the Tigers' setter and has posted two triple-doubles in her career and boasts nine matches with at least 60 assists during her career.

Brittney Brimmage
Has 58 kills on 124 attacks while committing only 20 errors on the season while hitting .306 ... Posted 16 kills and five blocks at the Michigan/Pepsi Challenge ... Had one of her finest weekends in a Tiger uniform at the UVU La Quinta Invite, finishing with 26 kills while hitting .458 ... Tallied a season- and career-best 13 kills while hitting a career-high .600 in the Tigers' match against Utah ... Her .600 attack percentage in that match is tied for the fourth-best mark in the Big 12 this season and is the best four-set mark ... Totaled 14.0 total points in that match as well, also a career-best ... Pitched in five total blocks on the weekend as well and totaled a season-best two digs against Utah ... Posted 12 kills at a clip of .269 during the opening weekend of play at the Tiger Invitational ... Played in nine sets during that weekend and earned starts in the each of the three matches ... Has accounted for 70.0 total points this season, which ranks fifth on the team ... Has posted 16 blocks this season, which ranks second on the team while her 38 kills ranks her fourth ... Averaging 0.71 blocks per set and has committed only one blocking error this season.

Caitlyn Vann
Posted 40 digs last week (19 vs. KU, 21 at OU) to move into sole posession of eighth place all-time on the Mizzou career digs list with 1,050 ... Needs just 17 this week to move into seventh place ... Ranks fifth in the Big 12 this season, averaging 0.36 service aces per set and is fourth with 15 overall ... Her 4.14 digs per set ranks sixth in the league ... Finished the Oklahoma match with a season-best 21 digs and added 19 against Kansas in the previos match, giving her 40 in the first two matches of Big 12 play ... The 40 digs are the most over a two-match span for the Tiger libero this season ... Pulled in 54 digs and dealt out seven service aces at the Michigan/Pepsi Challenge ... Collected 41 digs - including 17 against Utah Valley - at the UVU La Quinta Invitational ... Led the Tigers with 39 digs during the three-match Tiger Invitational, averaging 3.90 per set ... Posted a season-high 18 digs in the Tigers' win over BYU ... Added 11 digs in the Tigers' sweep of Texas State and posted 10 in the three-set win over Ole Miss ... Helped limit Texas State to a .061 hitting percentage in the first match of the Tiger Invitational ... The .061 hitting percentage was the Tigers' best hitting percentage allowed since holding Maryland to .019 on Sept. 5, 2008 ... Led the team with five service aces during the opening weekend of play, posting a pair of aces against both Ole Miss and BYU and adding another against Texas State ... Added six assists to her ledger, highlighted by three against Texas State.

Amanda Hantouli
Moved her career average blocks per set to 0.92 with two total blocks last Wednesday against Kansas, which now ranks third all-time at Mizzou behind only All-Americans Christy Myers and Nicole Wilson ... Moved her career block total to 323 on Saturday against Oklahoma, which moves her into fifth place all time ... Posted five kills on 10 attacks for a season-best .500 hitting percentage against Morehead State during the Michigan/Pepsi Challenge ... Posted nine kills during the Tiger Invitational and led the team with 13 total blocks (one solo, 12 assists) ... Her eight total blocks (one solo, seven assists) is the seventh-best total in a single match in the Big 12 this season and is the second-best total in the a three-set match in 2009 ... Needs 18 solo blocks this season to gain sole possession of 10th place on the career solo block list ... Is 17 matches shy of moving into 10th place all-time on the matches played list as well ... Is one of only two seniors on this season's squad and led the Tigers with a .253 hitting percentage last season and has led the Tigers in attack efficiency in each of the last two seasons.

Julianna Klein
Has led the Tigers in kills in seven of the last eight matches and has hit her season-best 16 kills three times in that span, including last Wednesday against Kansas ... Led Mizzou with 11 kills and posted 11 digs at Oklahoma to earn her team-leading third double-double of the season ... Earned a spot on her second-straight All-Tournament team after being named to the Michigan/Pepsi Challenge team ... Tallied 50 kills while hitting .280 on the weekend and pitched in 13 digs ... Hit a season-best .357 against Fairfield, her best hitting percentage since Nov. 1, 2008, when she hit .444 against Texas Tech at the Hearnes Center, and hit .324 the match before against Morehead State ... Posted two double-doubles at the Pepsi Challenge - at Michigan (12 kills, 11 digs) and vs. Morehead State (16 kills, 10 digs) - for her first two of the season ... Did not commit a reception errors on 41 chances at the Michigan/Pepsi Challenge ... Posted 30 digs and five service aces on the weekend as well ... Named to the UVU La Quinta All-Tournament team after finishing with 38 kills, 18 digs and six blocks while hitting .229 ... Hit .286 with a season-best 16 kills in the Tigers' win over Utah Valley ... Posted 15 kills against No. 17 Utah, her second-best total of the season ... Pitched in three solo blocks and three block assists during the UVU Invite as well ... Finished in a tie for second on the team after posting 21 total kills in the Tigers' three matches during the Tiger Invitational, good enough for 2.10 per set ... Added 15 digs in the opening weekend of play as well ... Added a then season-best two total blocks (two assists) in that match ... Has 842 career kills - the most among active Mizzou players - and ranks 10th all time with 3.56 points per set and 3.11 kills per set in her career.

Rosa Medrano
Ranks second on the team with 112 kills and has 55 digs on the season ... Posted nine kills, a dig and a block at Oklahoma on Saturday ... Added 10 kills while hitting .250 against Kansas last Wednesday and added seven digs ... Finished the Michigan/Pepsi Challenge with 27 kills and 13 digs while pitching in two service aces and seven total blocks ... Tallied 23 kills, six digs and two blocks at the UVU La Quinta Invitational ... Named Tiger Invitational Tournament Most Valuable Player after totaling 43 kills (4.30 per set) and 28 digs (2.80 per set) and accounting for 47.5 total points ... Posted 19 kills, 14 digs and a .424 hitting percentage in the Tigers' sweep of Ole Miss, all career-best numbers ... Had a career-best 43 attacks in the Tigers' four-set win over BYU ... Added a season- and career-best three aces in that match as well ... Hit a respectable .221 from the left side during the weekend and led Mizzou with 104 total attacks, 27 more than the next-closest attacker ... Her 19 kills against Ole Miss are the third-best three-set mark in the Big 12 this season ... Her three total aces in the BYU match is the third-best single-match mark in the league this season and tops in the a four-set match in the Big 12 ... Posted a team-best eight kills while hitting .500 at the annual Black and Gold scrimmage ... Teammate of current Tiger Paola Ampudia at Miami Dade Junior College before attending Mizzou.

Kate Harris
Played in five sets during the Michigan/Pepsi Challenge and passed out 34 assists, including a career-best 28 in the Tigers' win over Fairfield ... Played each of the final two sets of that match at setter and averaged 14.00 helpers per frame ... Passed out 15 assists while playing in the final two sets of the Tigers' match against No. 17 Utah ... Entered the Utah match in the third set when the score was 19-14 in favor of Utah and finished the set with five assists, four of which were to different attackers ... Came back and started the fourth set at the setter position and passed out a then set career-best 10 helpers ... Nine of those assists came on quick sets to middle hitters Brittney Brimmange and Weiwen Wang ... The other came on a right-side set to Paola Ampudia ... Added a dig in the Utah match as well, tying her career-best, set earlier in the tournament against Washington State ... Handed out five assists in that match against WSU while playing in only the final 11 points of the third set.

Paola Ampudia
Set career-bests in kills (15), attacks (37) and digs (nine) against Kansas last Wednesday ... Added eight kills, three digs and two blocks on Saturday at Oklahoma ... Named Big 12 Rookie of the Week in back-to-back weeks, becoming the first Tiger in program history to earn Big 12 weekly honors in consecutive weeks ... Has posted 66.5 of her 101.5 total points in the last six matches ... Named to the Michigan Pepsi/Challenge All-Tournament Team after posting 34 kills, 10 blocks and 13 digs ... Hit a season-best .500 with 11 kills against VCU during the tournament and followed that with a 12-kill performance against Morehead State while hitting .250 ... Tallied 23 kills while hitting .274 at the UVU La Quinta Invitational ... Collected six digs and added two blocks in the tournament and registered the first service ace of her career ... Overall, she accounted for 25.0 total points while playing primarily on the right side ... Played in 10 of the 11 Tiger sets at UVU and posted eight kills against both Utah and Washington State ... Had seven kills with only one attack error while hitting .400 against Utah Valley ... Played in six sets during the Tiger Invitational and posted seven kills while adding three total blocks (two solo, one assist) while accounting for 9.5 total points on the weekend ... Best match of the Tiger Invite came against BYU when she tallied five kills while hitting .200, two solo blocks, three total blocks, two digs and 7.5 total points, which at the time were all season-best marks ... Was named Big 12 Preseason Player of the Year and was the 2007 National Junior College Athletics Association (NJCAA) Player of the Year ... Played on the same team - Miami Dade College - as current Tiger junior Rosa Medrano.

Priscilla Armendariz
Collected nine digs at Oklahoma last Saturday ... Pulled in seven digs, helping Mizzou corral a season-best 73 against Kansas last Wednesday ... Now has 98 on the season which ranks second on the team behind only libero Caitlyn Vann ... Added 33 digs to her ledger at the Michigan/Pepsi Challenge ... Had 10 digs against VCU, nine against Michigan and eight against Fairfield ... Served a career-best two aces against both Morehead State and VCU, tying her career-best in points and aces ... Had seven aces during the tournament, moving her season total to nine, which is third on the team ... Had 26 digs at the UVU Invitational, highlighted by a season-best 14 against Utah Valley ... Pitched in eight digs against Utah and added four against Washington State ... Added a service ace to her ledger against Washington State ... Posted 23 digs in three matches at the Tiger Invitational, averaging 2.30 per set, both of which ranked third on the team behind Caitlyn Vann and Rosa Medrano, during the Tiger Invitational ... Had a then season-best 12 digs in the Tigers' win over BYU and posted six against Ole Miss and five against Texas State ... Added an ace in the Tigers' match against Texas State ... Played in all 115 sets during the 2008 season while starting in 21 contests ... Racked up 250 total digs on the season and finished the campaign with the fourth-most digs on the team.

Annie Lopez
Pulled in three digs against Oklahoma on Saturday and finished the match against Kansas last Wednesday with eight digs which moved her season total to 54 ... Notched 17 digs at the Michigan/Pepsi Challenge, good for 1.55 per set ... Posted an individual tournament-best seven digs in the Tigers' match at Michigan ... Collected 16 digs at the UVU La Quinta Invitational ... Her best match of the tournament came against No. 17 Utah when she tallied seven digs and posted a season-high two service aces ... Boasted a .947 reception percentage at the UVU Invite while committing just one reception error on 19 attempts ... Finished the Tiger Invitational with 13 total digs, including a season-best nine in the Tigers' four-set win over BYU ... Pitched in three digs against Texas State, helping limit the Bobcats to a .061 hitting percentage, and posted one dig against Ole Miss ... Saw action in nine of 10 sets over that weekend and handed out one assist ... Totaled 242 digs in her first season as a Tiger, a mark that ranked fifth on the team in 2008.

Weiwen Wang
Currently ranks sixth in the Big 12 with a .367 hitting percentage on the season ... Had six kills on .283 hitting against Kansas last Wednesday ... Hit a season-best .500 with six kills against Morehead State at the Michigan/Pepsi Challenge with six kills, also her best of the season ... Passed out three assists against Morehead State, a season-high and hit the six-kill mark against Michigan as well ... Pitched in a season-best two total blocks against No.7 Michigan ... Hit .435 with 12 kills at the Michigan/Pepsi Challenge ... Key contributor for the Tigers at the UVU La Quinta Invitational after playing in only five sets at the Tiger Invite ... Posted a .412 hitting percentage and totaled 16 kills on 34 attacks with only two errors ... Her .412 attack efficiency was second on the team during the weekend ... Posted nine kills while hitting .348 during the Tiger Invitational while playing in five sets throughout the tournament ... Had a season-best six kills while hitting .333 against BYU, a match in which she added a dig and accounted for 6.0 total points ... Posted a season-high 18 attacks in the Tigers' four-set win over BYU ... One of the Tigers' top attackers during the 2008 season, finishing ranked second on the team in both kills (246) and hitting efficiency (.242) ... 2007 Big 12 Freshman of the Year and finished 2008 with 90 total blocks, ranking her second on the team.

Catie Wilson
Currently leads the team with 34 total blocks (eight solo, 26 assists) this season ... Has 98 kills at a clip of .335, which ranks second on the team this season and has accounted for 129.0 total points, which is also second on the team ... Served 10 aces on the season which ranks second amongst Tigers behind only Cautlyn Vann ... Tied her season-best with 12 kills while hitting .500 against Kansas last Wednesday ... Posted a career-best seven digs in that match as well ... Finished the Michigan/Pepsi Challenge with an impressive stat line as she posted 30 kills at a .289 clip with 12 blocks, 11 digs and four service aces ... Posted 11 kills at a .455 clip, both of which are her second-best totals of the season, against Fairfield ... Collected a four digs in that match as well and finished the Morehead State match with a then career-best six digs ... Hit .338 with 31 kills and eight blocks (four solo, four assists) during the Utah Valley La Quinta Invitational ... Had a career-best 12 kills and a season-high 29 total attacks in the Tigers' match against Washington State ... Added a career-best two solo blocks against Utah Valley and added 11 kills in that match while hitting at a clip of .381 ... Tied a career-best with 15.0 total points in that match as well ... Named to the Tiger Invitational All-Tournament team after finishing the Tigers' three matches with 21 kills while hitting a team-best .385 and pitching in 10 blocks (two solo, 10 assists) ... Hit an impressive .857 with six kills in the Tigers' win over Ole Miss to pace the team; her .857 hitting percentage is a career-best and the third-best in a single match in Mizzou history ... Had a then season-best eight kills against BYU while hitting .429 and had seven kills against Texas State ... Posted a team-high two solo blocks and accounted for 10.0 total blocks after adding eight block assists at the Tiger Invitational ... Served three aces, moving her weekend point total to 30.0, which ranked second on the team behind only Rosa Medrano ... Earned 83 kills despite only seeing action in 57 sets in 2008 ... Posted a career-best 12 kills at Kansas State last season and finished 2008 averaging nearly 1.46 kills per set while hitting .239, third-best on the team.