VOLLEYBALL 2009 UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO

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1 2009 SCHEDULE/RESUTS DATE OPPONENT TIME (PST) Aug. 28 #23 Long Beach State W, 3-1 Aug. 30 #2 Texas L, 3-0 Sept. 4 UC SANTA BARBARA L, 3-1 Sept. 5 UC SANTA BARBARA L, 3-2 Colorado Invitational Sept. 11 Colorado W, 3-0 Sept. 12 Cal Poly W, 3-1 Denver W, UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO VOLLEYBALL Sept. 15 SEATTLE UNIVERSITY W, 3-0 USD Invitational Sept. 17 #18 UC IRVINE W, 3-2 Sept. 19 SAN JOSE STATE W, 3-0 Sept. 25 SAN DIEGO STATE W, 3-0 Oct. 1 Loyola Marymount * W, 3-2 Oct. 3 Pepperdine * L, 3-0 Oct. 8 SAN FRANCISCO * W, 3-1 Oct. 10 SANTA CLARA * W, 3-1 Oct. 17 SAINT MARY S * 1:00 PM Oct. 22 Gonzaga * 7:00 PM Oct. 24 Portland * 1:00 PM Oct. 28 PEPPERDINE * (ESPNU) 8:00 PM Oct. 30 LOYOLA MARYMOUNT * 1:00 PM Nov. 5 Santa Clara * 7:00 PM Nov. 7 San Francisco * 1:00 PM Nov. 14 Saint Mary s * 1:00 PM Nov. 19 PORTLAND * 7:00 PM Nov. 21 GONZAGA * 1:00 PM ALL HOME MATCHES ARE IN BOLD AND WILL BE PLAYED AT USD S JENNY CRAIG PAVILION * Represents West Coast Conference Matches All Matches are Pacific Standard Time and are subject to change. TORERO TO WATCH 8 TOREY ELLICK Senior middle hitter Torey Ellick was a huge reason the Toreros posted a 2-0 record this past week. Ellick recorded 33 kills, hit for a.482 clip, and had 7 blocks. She also recorded a careerhigh 20 kills, while hitting at a clip in the win over USF. She then followed that up with 13 kills in the win over SCU, including hitting for a.435 clip in that match. WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE: The 23rd-ranked University of San Diego women s volleyball team (11-4, 3-1 WCC) will close out its three-match West Coast Conference home stand this Saturday as they host Saint Mary s College in a 1 p.m. match at the Jenny Craig Pavilion. This match will be a battle for first place in the conference. LAST TIME OUT: The Toreros posted a 2-0 record this past week picking up a pair of 3-1 wins over the University of San Francisco and Santa Clara University. In Thursday s win, Torey Ellick recorded a career-high 20 kills on 33 attempts, while only committing three errors en route to her.515 attack percentage, and she recorded a match-best five blocks. Junior Ashton Basch also had a huge night for the Toreros, as she recorded 12 kills on 18 attempts. Ali Troost was the third Torero to record double-digit kills as she had 12 and freshman outside hitter Amber Tatsch was the fourth USD player with double-digit kills, as she recorded 10. Kayleen Webster recorded a match-best 19 digs to pace the USD defense, while Kelsi Myers recorded a match-best 53 assists en route to helping steer the USD offense to a.380 attack percentage. In Saturday s win, Troost recorded her match-best 20 kills on 45 swings, while committing six errors to post a.356 attack percentage. Troost also recorded 10 digs to post a double-double. Ellick was the only other USD player in double-digit kills, as she had 13 on 23 attempts, while committing three attack errors to hit for a.435 clip. Webster recorded a match-best 17 digs, while Myers racked up 52 assists in helping direct the USD offense to a.302 attack percentage Alcala Park, San Diego, California / Fax: 619/ cloucks@sandiego.edu -

2 2009 SAN DIEGO TOREROS VOLLEYBALL 2008 VOLLEYBALL QUICK FACTS Location...San Diego, CA Founded Enrollment... 7, 800 Affiliation... NCAA Division I Conference... West Coast Conference Nickname... Toreros School Colors... Torero Blue, Navy, White Athletic Dept. Phone...(619) President...Mary E. Lyons, Ph.D. Executive Director of Athletics...Ky Snyder Senior Assoc. Athletic Director...Mike Matoso Associate Athletic Director/Business Affairs... Dan Yourg Assoc. AD for Compliance & Student Services/SWA Shaney Fink Assoc. AD for Development... Brian Fogarty Assoc. AD for Facilities & Operations... Andy Fee Assoc. AD for Sports Medicine... Carolyn Greer, A.T., C. Assoc. AD for Marketing and Promotions... Steve Becvar Director of Jenny Craig Pavilion...Josh Lawrence VOLLEYBALL HISTORY First Year of Volleyball (Div. I) (1979) Overall All-Time Record (.589) NCAA Tournament Appearances (last)...13 (2008) NCAA Tournament All-Time Record Best Postseason Finish...NCAA Sweet 16 (2004, 2006) West Coast Conference Championships...6 Best Overall Record (based on winning %) (1997) Best WCC Record (based on winning %) (2004) TEAM INFORMATION 2008 Overall Record WCC Record (Place) (1st) 2008 Home Record Road Record Neutral Court Record Post Season (NCAA First Round) Letterwinners returning/lost for /4 Starters returning/lost for /3 SCOUTING THE GAELS: Saint Mary s enters the week with an 2009 Record overall record of 12-3 and are , 4-0 WCC in the WCC after defeating San Series Record Francisco and Santa Clara this past 39-6, USD week. With the 4-0 record, the Gaels stand alone atop the WCC standings. USD leads the all-time series with the Gaels at The Gaels are led offensively by freshman outside hitter Lauren Corp, who has a team-best 180 kills and is hitting at a.268 clip while also recording 147 digs, good for second best on the team. SMC s floor leader is junior setter Kapua Kamana o, who has a team-leading 431 assists, while helping direct the SMC offense to a.268 team attack percentage. The Gaels are under the direction of sixth-year head coach Rob Browning. During his tenure in Moraga, Browning has posted an overall record of ELLICK NAMED WCC CO-PLAYER OF THE WEEK: Senior middle hitter Torey Ellick of the 23rd-ranked University of San Diego women s volleyball team as been named the West Coast Conference Co-Player of the Week, the conference office announced Monday afternoon. Ellick, a 6-2 senior from Capistrano Beach, Calif., paced the Toreros to a pair of WCC wins over San Francisco and Santa Clara this past week, as she recorded 33 kills, hit for a.482 clip and had 7 blocks. She also recorded a career-high 20 kills, while hitting at a clip in the win over USF. She then followed that up with 13 kills in the win over SCU, including hitting for a.435 clip in that match. On the season, Ellick has 170 kills, is hitting at a.363 clip and leads the team with 40 blocks. THE POLLS: The Toreros moved up one spot to No. 23 in the latest AVCA top-25 poll. Saint Mary s is not ranked in any of the top-25 polls, but is receiving votes in the AVCA top-25 poll. HOME COURT Stadium... Jenny Craig Pavilion Capacity...5,100 Press Row Phone... (619) MEDIA RELATIONS Assoc. AD for Media Relations...Ted Gosen Assistant Director of Media Relations (Volleyball) Chris Loucks Media Relations Coordinator...Ryan McCann Loucks Office phone...(619) Office Fax...(619) Loucks ... cloucks@sandiego.edu web site... A 20/20 SPECIAL: Not only did senior middle hitter Torey Ellick record a career-high 20 kills in the win over San Francisco, but junior right side Ali Troost got in on the 20-kill action as well, recording 22 kills in the win over Santa Clara this past Saturday. This one kill shy of her career high 23, that she recorded in a win against UC Irvine on Sept. 17, On the season, Troost leads the team with 190 kills, is tied with Kelsi Myers for second on the team in digs with 99 and Troost is hitting at a.308 clip. NATION S ELITE: Junior setter Kelsi Myers is currently ranked No. 4 in the nation in assists per set (12.00). Myers recorded a career-high in assists on Nov. 17 in a win over UC Irvine, when she racked up 63. On the season, Myers has now recorded 684 assists. Myers has also been busy on the defensive side of things, as she is tied for second on the team with 99 digs.

3 2009 SAN DIEGO TOREROS VOLLEYBALL TROOST NAMED WCC CO-PLAYER OF THE MONTH: Junior right side Ali Troost of the University of San Diego women s volleyball team has been named the West Coast Conference Co- Player of the Month for September, the conference office announced Thursday afternoon. Troost, a 6-2 junior from Hemet, Calif., played a huge role in helping lead USD has to a 7-2 record for September. She led the team with 115 kills, hit for a.361 clip, was second on the team with 58 digs, and she posted a career-high with 23 kills, to go along with along with 13 digs to post her first double-double of the season in a win over No. 18 UC Irvine. She has helped catapult USD to a season-high seven match win streak, and she was named the MVP of the Denver/Colorado Invitational, not to mention earned one WCC Player of the Week award. TOREROS DIG PINK: Dig Pink is a Breast Cancer Awareness Rally being held all of October to raise awareness and funds. USD has designated Oct. 10th as their Dig Pink match against Santa Clara. Every year the Toreros want to help educate and raise funds to eradicate this terrible disease. Proceeds will go towards doing something significant and identifiable in the fight against Breast Cancer. DEGROOT TO REDSHIRT IN 2009: San Diego senior outside hitter Amy Mahinalani DeGroot will sit out the 2009 season with a medical redshirt. Last season, DeGroot led the team with 392 kills (4.22 kps) and was second in digs with 231 en route to being named the WCC Player of the Year and earning an All-America honorable mention honor from the AVCA. DeGroot will return in the 2010 season. AVCA Top-25 Poll as of Oct. 12, 2009 School... Record 1. Penn State Texas Hawai i Washington Stanford Minnesota Nebraska Kentucky Florida Illinois Michigan UCLA Iowa State California Oregon Southern California Florida State Arizona Baylor Saint Louis UC Irvine Texas A&M SAN DIEGO LSU Long Beach State Opponents in Bold LIGHTS, CAMERA ACTION: All USD home matches, as well as select road matches, will be streamed live via video on the athletics department website. Fans can watch all the action live from the comfort of their home by logging onto usdtoreros.com. There is no cost for this service. The Toreros will also be adding in a live play-by-play with the home video stream this season, as Paul Duchesne will be calling all the action. GAMETRACKER AVAILABLE: All San Diego volleyball home and select road matches can be followed live via Gametracker on the Toreros athletic web site at Gametracker is a service of CBS College Sports, the official web provider for San Diego athletics, and is a real time update of the action West Coast Conference Standings WCC OVERALL Team W L Pct. W L Pct. Saint Mary s #24 SAN DIEGO Pepperdine Gonzaga San Francisco Portland Santa Clara Loyola Marymount WCC Players of the Week 8/31... Kiah Fiers, PEP 9/7...Stevi Robinson, PEP 9/14...Haley Carroll, USF 9/21... Ali Troost, USD 9/28... Dana Knudsen, SCU 10/5...Chanteal Satele, SMC 10/12...Torey Ellick, USD... Lauren Jaeckel, SMC 10/ / / / / / /30...

4 2009 SAN DIEGO TOREROS VOLLEYBALL No. Player Pos. Ht. Yr. Hometown/Previous School 1 Kelsi Myers S 5-8 JR Winter Park, CO/Middle Park HS 3 Colleen Carlson MB 5-10 JR Reno, NV/Damonte Ranch HS 4 Amy Mahinalani DeGroot OH 6-0 SR Frenchtown, MT/Loyola Sacred Heart HS 5 Kayleen Webster L 5-9 SR La Habra, CA/Sonora HS 6 Mariah Jakosky OH 5-11 FR Newport Beach, CA/Mater Dei HS 7 Amber Tatsch OH 6-1 FR San Antonio, TX/Ronald Reagan HS 8 Torey Ellick MH 6-2 SR Capistrano Beach, CA/San Clemente HS 10 Ashton Senner L 5-6 FR Los Gatos, CA/Los Gatos, HS 11 Carrie Baird OH 6-1 FR Greenwood Village, CO/Cherry Creek HS 12 Erica Taylor S 5-9 FR Upland, CA/Upland HS 13 Ashton Basch MH 6-0 JR Lake Forest, CA/El Toro HS 14 Sarah Schatzman MH 6-0 SO San Jose, CA/Presentation HS 15 Ali Troost RS 6-2 JR Hemet, CA/Hemet HS 16 Shelby Staab MH 6-4 FR Bakersfield, CA/Garces Memorial HS * Indicates redshirt season used Head Coach: Jennifer Petrie (11th season, William & Mary, 1992) Associate Head Coach: Brent Hilliard (9th season, Long Beach State, 1993) Assistant Coaches: Stephanie Moreno (4th season, San Diego, 2002) Paul Warren (4th Season, UC San Diego 1992) TOREROS TABBED AS FAVORIATES TO WIN WCC: Fresh off its fourth conference championship in the last five years, the University of San Diego has once again been selected as the preseason favorite to take home the 2009 West Coast Conference regular season title. The Toreros, who will be returning five starters from last year s squad, received the maximum seven first place votes for a total of 49 points. Head Coach Jennifer Petrie returns the reigning WCC Player of the Year in Amy Mahinalani DeGroot as well as Ali Troost, both of whom were named to the preseason all-conference team, also selected by the league s head coaches. THE COACH: 11th-Year head coach Jennifer Petrie has done an outstanding job directing the fortunes of San Diego volleyball since taking over as the Toreros head coach in Honored as the 2004 and 2008 West Coast Conference Coach of the Year, Petrie continues to establish the University of San Diego as one of the top volleyball programs in the nation. In nine complete seasons as head coach, Petrie has led San Diego to seven appearances in the NCAA Tournament (1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007 & 2008) with her 2004 team reaching the Sweet-16. FAB 50 INVADES SAN DIEGO: A pair of USD freshman, Amber Tatsch and Carrie Baird, have been named as two of the Fab-50 incoming freshman according to Sports Imports. 8 Tatsch comes to the Toreros from San Antonio, Texas, where she was not only a stand-out on the Ronald Reagan High School team but also a valuable member of the Austin Junior Volleyball club team, where she helped lead the team to the 2008 National Championship. While at Ronald Regan High School, she recorded 602 kills and 442 digs en route to being named All-American, named to the All-State Team, and being named the Express Payer of the Year as a senior. 8 Baird, a native of Greenwood Village, Colo., played club volleyball for the Front Range Volleyball 18-1 Black team, where she helped lead her team to 14 top-5 finishes in national club tournaments, was a USA High Performance A2 Team member, and played in Global Challenge Tournament in Europe, where she helped her team qualify for the Junior Olympics by taking a Gold medal in the Big South Qualifier in While at Cherry Creek High School, she was a three-time first-team All-Centennial League selection and as a senior she helped led her team to a perfect 31-0 record and a 5A state championship while breaking the schools 12-year old career kills record, and now sits atop the record books with 963 career kills.

5 The Automated ScoreBook USD Combined Team Statistics (as of Oct 12, 2009) All matches RECORD: OVERALL HOME AWAY NEUTRAL ALL GAMES CONFERENCE NON-CONFERENCE Attack Set Serve Dig Blocking ## Player sp k k/s e ta pct a a/s sa se sa/s re dig dig/s bs ba total blk/s be bhe points 15 TROOST, Ali ELLICK, Torey BASCH, Ashton TATSCH, Amber CARLSON, Colleen BAIRD, Carrie MYERS, Kelsi SCHATZMAN, Sarah STAAB, Shelby WEBSTER, Kayleen SENNER, Ashton TAYLOR, Erica TEAM USD Opponents Team Statistics USD OPP ATTACK K il l s Er rors Total Attacks Attack Pct Ki lls /Set SET A s s i s t s As s is t s /Set SERVE Ac es Errors Ac es /Set SERVE RECEPTIONS Errors Errors /Set DEFENSE D igs D igs /Set BLOCKING Block Solo Block Assist Total Blocks B loc k s / S et Block Errors Ball handling errors 8 11 ATTENDANCE To ta l Dates/Avg Per Date 8/336 5/567 Neutral site #/Avg 2/416 Current win streak 2 - Home win streak 6 - Date Opponent Score Score by set Att. Aug 28 at #23 Long Beach State W ,15-25,25-22, Aug 30 vs #2 Texas L ,16-25, Sep 04 UCSB L ,22-25,16-25, Sep 05 UCSB L ,21-25,19-25,25-19, Sep 11 at Colorado W ,25-21, Sep 12 vs Cal Poly W ,25-19,20-25, %09/12/09 at Denver W ,25-17,23-25, Sep 15 SEATTLE W ,25-14, Sep 17 #18 UC IRVINE W ,25-15,23-25,22-25, Sep 19 SAN JOSE STATE W ,25-12, Sep 25 SAN DIEGO STATE W ,25-17, *Oct 01 at LMU W ,16-25,25-18,19-25, *Oct 03 at Pepperdine L ,23-25, *Oct 08 SAN FRANCISCO W ,22-25,25-17, *Oct 10 SANTA CLARA W ,23-25,25-18, Record in 3-set matches: 4-2 Record in 4-set matches: 5-1 Record in 5-set matches: 2-1

6 The Automated ScoreBook USD Combined Team Statistics (as of Oct 12, 2009) Conference matches RECORD: OVERALL HOME AWAY NEUTRAL ALL GAMES CONFERENCE NON-CONFERENCE Attack Set Serve Dig Blocking ## Player sp k k/s e ta pct a a/s sa se sa/s re dig dig/s bs ba total blk/s be bhe points 15 TROOST, Ali ELLICK, Torey BAIRD, Carrie BASCH, Ashton TATSCH, Amber SCHATZMAN, Sarah MYERS, Kelsi STAAB, Shelby WEBSTER, Kayleen SENNER, Ashton TEAM USD Opponents Team Statistics USD OPP ATTACK K il l s Errors Total Attacks Attack Pct Ki lls /Set SET A s s i s t s As s is t s /Set SERVE Ac es Errors Ac es /Set SERVE RECEPTIONS Errors Errors /Set DEFENSE D igs D igs /Set BLOCKING Block Solo Block Assist Total Blocks B loc k s / S et Block Errors 11 9 Ball handling errors 3 4 ATTENDANCE To ta l Dates/Avg Per Date 2/266 2/344 Neutral site #/Avg 0/0 Current win streak 2 - Home win streak 2 - Date Opponent Score Score by set Att. *Oct 01 at LMU W ,16-25,25-18,19-25, *Oct 03 at Pepperdine L ,23-25, *Oct 08 SAN FRANCISCO W ,22-25,25-17, *Oct 10 SANTA CLARA W ,23-25,25-18, Record in 3-set matches: 0-1 Record in 4-set matches: 2-0 Record in 5-set matches: 1-0