[Kutztown Press Release] KU VOLLEYBALL RETURNS TO ATLANTIC REGIONALS, WILL PLAY SHIPPENSBURG

[Josh Leiboff]

Nov. 12, 2007

KU VOLLEYBALL RETURNS TO ATLANTIC REGIONALS, WILL PLAY SHIPPENSBURG 

CALIFORNIA, Pa. - After posting a school record 27 wins this season, the
Kutztown University women's volleyball team qualified for its second NCAA
Division II Atlantic Regionals and will meet Shippensburg Thursday at Hamer
Hall in California, Pa.

Shippensburg (30-11), the fourth seed, swept the fifth-seeded Golden Bears
(27-9) during the regular season en route to winning the Pennsylvania State
Athletic Conference Eastern Division regular season title. California, which
won the PSAC Championship Saturday, is the No. 1 seed.

Six of the eight teams in the Atlantic Regional are from the PSAC.

California (32-3) will meet eighth-seeded Fayetteville State (26-11).
Edinboro (26-10), the third seed which defeated KU in the PSAC quarterfinals
3-2, will face sixth-seeded Slippery Rock (22-14), while second-seeded
Clarion (27-5) will take on the seventh seed, Lees-McRae (26-11).

KU and Shippensburg will play at 5 p.m. Thursday, and the winner will
advance to the semifinals to face the California/Fayetteville State winner
on Friday.

KU is led by seniors Nicole Biuso (sr. Centereach, N.Y./Ward Melville) and
Erin Waters (sr. Waymart/Western Wayne). Biuso is the school's all-time
leader in digs with 2,226 in her four years as a Golden Bear. She has a
single-season record 828 this season. Waters has 389 kills and 126 blocks.

Austin Kinney (jr. Landisville/Hempfield) has 1,119 assists and 327 digs
this season. 

Lindsay Confer (fr. Wingate/Bald Eagle Area) has a team-high 398 kills on
the season. Jamie Celia (fr. Douglassville/Daniel Boone) has backed up
Kinney at setter during the season and recorded 309 assists and 370 digs.
She also leads the Golden Bears in service aces with 56. 

Katie Miller (so. Elizabethtown/Elizabethtown), Kaitlyn Cunliffe (fr.
Levittown/Pennsbury) and Kelsey Nester (fr. Catasauqua/ Catasauqua) all have
more than 200 kills. Nester leads the team in blocks with 129.

Shippensburg has four players with more than 300 kills - Kali Antonik (426),
Brittany Roche 
(422), Colleen Toomey (394) and Cindel Young (343). Kelsi Hoffman leads the
team in digs with 484. Toomey follows with 337. Maureen DuVall has 1,356
assists.

At the Atlantic Regionals last season, KU finished 1-1 picking up a 3-0 win
over Clarion in the first round before falling 3-1 to Lock Haven.

 

 

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Josh Leiboff

Kutztown University Sports Information

Phone: (610) 683-4182

Fax: (610) 683-4676

Email: leiboff at kutztown.edu

Website: http://www.kubears.com

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