| 2012 MAC STANDINGS | ||
| EAST TEAMS | MAC | OVERALL |
| Bowling Green | 8-0 | 13-7 |
| Ohio | 7-1 | 12-8 |
| Akron | 3-5 | 10-10 |
| Kent State | 2-6 | 5-15 |
| Buffalo | 1-7 | 7-13 |
| Miami | 1-7 | 6-15 |
| WEST TEAMS | MAC | OVERALL |
| Western Michigan | 6-2 | 13-7 |
| Central Michigan | 6-2 | 12-7 |
| Northern Illinois | 6-2 | 15-9 |
| Eastern Michigan | 3-5 | 13-11 |
| Ball State | 3-5 | 10-11 |
| Toledo | 2-6 | 8-12 |
DIG FOR THE CURE
Friday night?s match has been designated as Bowling Green?s Dig For The Cure game to raise awareness of breast cancer. Fans are encouraged to wear pink in support.
LINKS, LINKS, LINKS
Here's a list of links that fans may find interesting heading into the weekend's matches:
* BGSU volleyball players single-match season and career highs (.pdf)
* Mid-American Conference statistical leaders
* NCAA statistical leaders
* NCAA RPI Rankings
* Dunn Named MAC Defensive Player of the Week For Third Time
* Ball State Preview (not yet available)
* Toledo Preview
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ABOUT BALL STATE
Ball State enters the weekend with a record of 10-11 overall and 3-5 in Mid-American Conference play. The Cardinals opened conference play with a pair of wins but have lost five of six since that time and are just 1-4 in true road contests this year. Ball State lives on its offense and the Cardinals are second in the MAC in kills and first in attack percentage. On the flip side, the Cardinals rank 11th in the MAC in blocks and service aces. Kara Bates, a 6-foot-1 senior outside hitter, ranks third in the conference with 3.91 kills per set and 5-10 junior setter Jacqui Seidel is also third with 11.20 assists per set. Senior Lisa Scott, a 6-3 middle blocker, is hitting a MAC best .440 in conference matches. Head Coach Steve Shondell is 59-24 in three years at Ball State after a long and highly successful career as a high school coach in Muncie (1,183-95 record with 21 state championships).
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ABOUT TOLEDO
Toledo comes into the week with an 8-12 record overall and 2-6 in MAC play. The Rockets have been highly competitive throughout, but have come up on the short end of a pair of five-setters in league play, and will be looking to make a push for a MAC Tournament berth over the final half of conference action. Toledo is a solid defensive team at the net, getting 2.15 blocks per set. Dakota Harkins, a 6-foot-1 junior middle blocker, is among the MAC leaders in both blocks (fourth at 1.11 per set) and attack percentage (fifth at .297). Head Coach Greg Smith is 48-59 in his fourth year at Toledo and has a career mark of 129-153 in 10 years.
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FOLLOWING THE FALCONS
If you can?t be in the Stroh Center this weekend, there are a variety of ways to follow the action. Live stats, audio and video will be available via links on BGSUFalcons.com. Saturday night?s match against Toledo will be televised live on BCSN, broadcasting to the greater Toledo area. As well, fans can keep up with the action on Twitter by following @BGAthletics and @jknavel.
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TURN THE DIAL
The Bowling Green Radio Sports Organization (BGRSO) will provide a radio broadcast of all BGSU volleyball home matches this season, which will also be available on the web via live streaming. Follow links at BGSUFalcons.com to listen on the web.
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ON THE TUBE
The Buckeye Cable Sports Network (BCSN), broadcasting to the greater Toledo area, has televised three BGSU home matches this year and will add a fourth Saturday against Toledo. The station televised the team?s Orange and Brown scrimmage and followed that up by broadcasting both the Kent State and Western Michigan victories.
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LEADERS OF THE MAC
At 8-0 in conference play, Bowling Green is the only unbeaten team remaining in the MAC. Ohio sits one game back at 7-1 and three teams ? Central Michigan, Northern Illinois, and Western Michigan ? are two games behind at 6-2. The Falcons are 8-0 for the first time since the 2006 team started 10-0 and this year?s team swept their first three league matches in straight sets for the first time in program history. In fact, the team has four straight-set victories in conference play this year.
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HOME COURT ADVANTAGE
BGSU is 5-0 inside the Stroh Center in 2012 and the Falcons have the third-best home attendance in the league at 715 (only Ohio and Western Michigan are better). A year ago, BGSU stunned Michigan State in four sets in the Stroh Center behind a program-record crowd of 2,961.
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EIGHT IS GREAT
BGSU has started 8-0 in MAC play for the fourth time in program history. Most recently, the 2006 team started conference play with 10 straight wins and went on to finish 13-3, tied for second in the MAC East Division. Prior to that, the 1992 team started 13-0 and won the conference with a record of 17-1. The only other 8-0 start came in 1989, when the league played just eight conference matches and the Falcons won them all to earn a conference title.
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BETTER THAN A YEAR AGO
With eight Mid-American Conference wins this year, Bowling Green has already surpassed its conference win total from a year ago when the squad went 6-10. It marks the second consecutive year in which the team has shown an increased league win total. Akron is the only other MAC team with more wins than a year ago as the Zips are 3-5 after going 1-15 in 2011.
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LOOKING WAY AHEAD
Eight teams advance to the Mid-American Conference Tournament played at the SPIRE Institute in Geneva, Ohio beginning Nov. 16. If play were to start today, the Falcons would be the No. 1 seed for the tournament and would face off against one of three teams with a 3-5 conference record ? Akron, Eastern Michigan or Ball State. The Falcons hold a six-match lead in an attempt to qualify for the tournament.
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FIVE-SETTERS
Bowling Green has played in four consecutive matches that have gone the entire five sets. Prior to the last two weeks, the Falcons had played in just one five-set match, a loss to Utah. But the team has now won four in a row. It is the first time in program history that the team has played four straight five-set matches.
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CAN YOU DIG IT?
Early in the year, BGSU?s defense was a weak point and the Falcons had 28 fewer digs than their opponents in the first three matches. But hard work has paid off and Bowling Green is now one of the best digging teams in the MAC. The Falcons have outdug 14 of their 17 opponents since that time (including 7-of-8 conference teams) and had an amazing 112 digs against Oakland, the most for the program in 12 years. In those 17 matches since the slow start, BGSU has posted 108 more digs than their opponents. In eight league matches, BGSU has 67 more digs.
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RPI LEADERS
The NCAA released the latest Ratings Percentage Index (RPI) ranking of the 2012 season Monday and Bowling Green was up 15 spots from a week ago to No. 50, the highest ranking of any school in the MAC. A year ago, BGSU finished the year at No. 138. The Falcons? opponents this week are ranked No. 121 (Ball State) and No. 183 (Toledo).
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HOGGING THE HARDWARE
In a five-week stretch, the Mid-American Conference has honored BGSU by handing down six MAC Player of the Week awards. Ashley Dunn has been named MAC East Division Defensive Player of the Week in each of the past three weeks. The week prior to that, Lindsey Butterfield earned Offensive Player of the Week honors and Leah Shaw was named Defensive Player of the Week. The week before that, Paige Penrod earned MAC East Division Offensive Player of the Week honors. Dunn has now been named MAC Defensive Player of the Week five times in her career. For Penrod, she has earned three Player of the Week honors (two offensive and one defensive), while Butterfield and Shaw were named for the first time. Along with those four, Danielle Tonyan and Kari Galen also have been named MAC Player of the Week at least one time in their careers.
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HITTING ON ALL CYLINDERS
Over the past 12 matches, junior outside hitter Paige Penrod and junior setter Laura Avila have been playing at an extraordinary level. Penrod is averaging 4.38 kills per set in that span and has posted at least 11 kills in each of those matches. During the same stretch, Avila has averaged 11.1 assists per set, dishing out at least 50 in a match five times. Prior to these past 12 matches, Avila handed out at least 50 assists just one time in her career.
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SHE?S ON A ROLL
Junior outside hitter Lindsey Butterfield has possibly been the most critical part of the Falcons? 8-0 start in league play, stepping up her game once conference action began. Butterfield never had more than seven kills a year ago and reached double-digit kill totals just four times in 11 non-conference matches this year. But since MAC play has begun, she has at least 10 kills in 8-of-9 matches and is hitting .289, a strong improvement over her .221 attack percentage in non-conference contests.
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BLOCK PARTY
Senior middle Leah Shaw and junior middle Kaitlyn Skinner have been almost impossible to hit around since MAC play began. Shaw tied a program record with 11 block assists in a four-set victory over Buffalo and the duo are each averaging more than 1.00 block per set in league play. Shaw has 36 blocks in MAC matches, an average of 1.16 per set, while Skinner has 35 blocks, an average of 1.40.
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DUNN IS DIGGING IT
Ashley Dunn keeps climbing the BGSU dig charts. She already has two of the best 10 single-seasons in Bowling Green history for digs and now has 1,247 career digs, tied for fifth-most all-time with Linda Popovich (1986-89). Dunn has reached at least 24 digs in four straight matches and is believed to be the first player in program history to do that. She is on pace to end the 2011 regular season with 476 digs, which would be her career-high in a season and would rank fifth in BGSU history. Her current average of 4.42 digs per set is the fourth-best season in program history.
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MORE DIGS
Against Oakland in a mid-week non-conference match, Bowling Green had 112 team digs, the most for the program since 2000. In that contest, Laura Avila had a career-high 36 digs, coming up just two shy of the program record, set by Chelsey Meek in 2007.
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300 TIMES THREE
Against Central Michigan, junior Paige Penrod recorded her 300th kill of the 2011 season, giving her at least that many in each year of her career. Only one player in program history, Corey Domek, has had four 300-kill seasons in her career. Remarkably, junior teammate Danielle Tonyan is only 50 kills from posting the third 300-kill season of her career as well.
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A RECORD-BREAKING NIGHT
In Bowling Green?s win over Buffalo, the Falcons set or tied a number of blocking records. The team had 23.0 team blocks, which are the most ever by a BGSU team in a four-set victory. The team also had a program record 40 block assists, while Leah Shaw tied the school record with 11 block assists in a four-set match.
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NEW COACHING STAFF
For the first time in 30 years, the BGSU volleyball team has a new head coach. Three-time Sun Belt Conference Coach of the Year Danijela Tomic takes over leadership of the program after 29-year head coach Denise Van De Walle retired following the 2011 season. Tomic spent seven years as the head coach at FIU, racking up a career record of 158-61. Assistant coaches Tucker Short and Jessica Hohl are also new to the program, as is Coordinator of Operations Lindsay Laurent.
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STACKING UP THE MAC
The list below shows where BGSU ranks as a team and individuals among the MAC leaders in various statistical categories. Team or individual stats that rank first in the MAC are bolded and italicized:
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OVERALL STAT LEADERS
TEAM STATS (Rank out of 12 MAC team)
Hitting Percentage ? 6. BGSU .213
Opponent Hitting Percentage ? 4. BGSU .193
Assists ? 5. BGSU 12.35
Kills ? 4. BGSU 13.62
Blocks ? 3. BGSU 2.28
Service Aces ? 5. BGSU 1.19
Digs ? 6. BGSU 15.33
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INDIVIDUAL STATS (Top 10 rankings)
Kills ? 2. Paige Penrod 4.03; 9. Danielle Tonyan 3.29
Assists ? 4. Laura Avila 10.53
Service Aces ? 2. Paige Penrod 0.32
Blocks ? 3. Kaitlyn Skinner 1.12
Digs ? 7. Ashley Dunn 4.38
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MAC MATCHES ONLY STAT LEADERS
TEAM STATS (Rank out of 12 MAC team)
Hitting Percentage ? 4. BGSU .238
Opponent Hitting Percentage ? 1. BGSU .137
Assists ? 5. BGSU 12.77
Kills ? 3. BGSU 14.06
Blocks ? 3. BGSU 2.74
Service Aces ? 6. BGSU 1.10
Digs ? 3. BGSU 17.13
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INDIVIDUAL STATS (Top 10 rankings)
Hitting Percentage ? 7. Lindsey Butterfield .312
Kills ? 3. Paige Penrod 3.90; 10. Lindsey Butterfield 3.35
Assists ? 6. Laura Avila 10.81
Blocks ? T2. Kaitlyn Skinner 1.40; 5. Leah Shaw 1.16
Digs ? 1. Ashley Dunn 5.42
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NATIONAL RANKINGS
Listed below is how BG ranks nationally as a team and individually:
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TEAM STATS (Rank out of 328 NCAA Division I teams)
Service Aces ? 184. Bowling Green 1.19
Assists ? 95. Bowling Green 12.35
Blocks ? 89. Bowling Green 2.30
Digs ? 99. Bowling Green 15.79
Hitting Percentage ? 124. Bowling Green .211
Kills ? 69. Bowling Green 13.56
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INDIVIDUAL STATS (Top 250 Nationally)
Aces ? 218. Paige Penrod 0.30
Assists ? 71. Laura Avila 10.44
Blocks ? 78. Kaitlyn Skinner 1.18
Digs ? 124. Ashley Dunn 4.42
Kills ? 45. Paige Penrod 4.06; 202. Danielle Tonyan 3.25
Points ? 44. Paige Penrod 4.58; 212. Danielle Tonyan 3.71
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CHARTING THEIR CAREERS
Junior setter Laura Avila moved into 10th place in career assists at BGSU earlier this year and became just the 10th player in program history with 2,000 career assists in the win over Ohio. She needs 246 more to tie Wendy Watkins (1994-97) for ninth place on the leaderboard. Paige Penrod is closing in on the top 10 in career attack attempts and needs 36 more to tie Kendra Halm for 10th place. Ashley Dunn is already tied for fifth place in career digs at BGSU and needs 97 more to tie Holli Costein for fourth place.
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THE DYNAMIC DUO
Bowling Green has one of the most talented attacking duos in the Mid-American Conference in juniors Paige Penrod and Danielle Tonyan. The pair is one of only two sets of teammates in the MAC to both rank in the top nine in the league in kills (Penrod is second and Tonyan is eighth) and they were the only set of teammates to both rank in the top 10 a year ago. Both have recorded more than 300 kills in each of their first two years and are on pace to reach that total again this year (Penrod has already reached 300 this year). Only one player in program history, Corey Domek, reached 300 kills in all four years of a career.
DOUBLE-DOUBLES
Five active players have recorded at least one double-double in their career (posting at least 10 kills, digs, assists, blocks, or aces in a match in two of those categories). Paige Penrod has a team-high 28 career double-doubles after posting 12 so far this year. Laura Avila follows with 19 (nine this year) and Erica Fullenkamp has five. Danielle Tonyan all four of her career double-doubles this year and Ashley Dunn has one. Penrod?s 28 career double-doubles are the most since Chrissy Gothke had 38 from 2003-06.
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Double-Doubles In 2012
8/24/12 at Marquette ? Danielle Tonyan 12 kills, 10 digs
8/25/12 vs. Northwestern ? Danielle Tonyan 19 kills, 10 digs
8/25/12 vs. Northwestern ? Paige Penrod 13 kills, 11 digs
9/1/12 at Indiana ? Paige Penrod 26 kills, 10 digs
9/1/12 at Indiana ? Laura Avila 44 assists, 10 digs
9/7/12 vs. Portland State ? Laura Avila 49 assists, 11 digs
9/8/12 at BYU ? Paige Penrod 11 kills, 13 digs
9/8/12 vs. Utah ? Paige Penrod 30 kills, 19 digs
9/8/12 vs. Utah ? Laura Avila 64 assists, 14 digs
9/14/12 vs. UAB ? Paige Penrod 19 kills, 12 digs
9/14/12 vs. UAB ? Laura Avila 60 assists, 10 digs
9/14/12 vs. Jacksonville State ? Laura Avila 50 assists, 15 digs
9/21/12 vs. Ohio ? Paige Penrod 14 kills, 13 digs
9/21/12 vs. Ohio ? Laura Avila 37 assists, 11 digs
9/28/12 at Akron ? Paige Penrod 15 kills, 15 digs
9/29/12 at Buffalo ? Paige Penrod 11 kills, 11 digs
10/6/12 vs. Western Michigan ? Paige Penrod 21 kills, 14 digs
10/9/12 vs. Oakland ? Paige Penrod 23 kills, 16 digs
10/9/12 vs. Oakland ? Laura Avila 46 assists, 36 digs
10/12/12 at Eastern Michigan ? Paige Penrod 21 kills, 11 digs
10/12/12 at Eastern Michigan ? Laura Avila 55 assists, 17 digs
10/12/12 at Eastern Michigan ? Danielle Tonyan 16 kills, 18 digs
10/13/12 at Central Michigan ? Danielle Tonyan 14 kills, 12 digs
10/13/12 at Central Michigan ? Paige Penrod 16 kills, 14 digs
10/13/12 at Central Michigan ? Laura Avila 44 assists, 16 digs
20 KILLS OR 20 DIGS
Paige Penrod has posted 20 kills in a match 11 times in her career and Danielle Tonyan has reached that total eight times. Lindsey Butterfield had her first career-20 kill match against Eastern Michigan. Those 11 career 20-kill matches for Penrod are the most since Caty Rommeck had 17 from 1999-01. Ashley Dunn posted seven 20-dig matches as a freshman, three more as a sophomore, and has seven more this year for a career total of 17. Her career total is the most since Chelsey Meek had 44 career matches with at least 20 digs from 2005-08. Cassie Berning posted the first 20-dig match of her career against UAB and Laura Avila did the same against Oakland.
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20-Dig Matches In 2012
8/25/12 vs. Northwestern ? Ashley Dunn 23 digs
9/1/12 at Indiana ? Ashley Dunn 20 digs
9/14/12 vs. UAB ? Cassie Berning 22 digs
9/29/12 at Buffalo ? Ashley Dunn 27 digs
10/6/12 vs. Western Michigan ? Ashley Dunn 29 digs
10/9/12 vs. Oakland ? Laura Avila 36 digs
10/9/12 vs. Oakland ? Ashley Dunn 25 digs
10/12/12 at Eastern Michigan ? Ashley Dunn 28 digs
10/13/12 at Central Michigan ? Ashley Dunn 24 digs
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20-Kill Matches In 2012
9/1/12 at Indiana ? Paige Penrod 26 kills
9/8/12 vs. Utah ? Paige Penrod 30 kills
9/14/12 vs. Jacksonville State ? Paige Penrod 21 kills
9/14/12 vs. Jacksonville State ? Danielle Tonyan 20 kills
10/6/12 vs. Western Michigan ? Paige Penrod 21 kills
10/9/12 vs. Oakland ? Paige Penrod 23 kills
10/12/12 at Eastern Michigan ? Paige Penrod 21 kills
10/12/12 at Eastern Michigan ? Lindsey Butterfield 21 kills
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THE CLASSROOM COMES FIRST
Following her MAC East Offensive Player of the Week recognition, Lindsey Butterfield was also named the MAC Scholar-Athlete of the Week on Sept. 26. A biology major with a 3.89 GPA, Butterfield earned the league?s weekly award given to just one male and one female student-athlete across all sports.
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ALL-TOURNAMENT HONORS
Four different BGSU players earned all-tournament honors at one of the four pre-conference tournament this year. Paige Penrod earned the honor twice (making five in her career), being named to the team at the last two tournaments, the Purdue Active Ankle Challenge and the BYU Nike Invitational. Laura Avila was also named all-tournament at the Purdue Active Ankle Challenge (the second of her career), while Kaitlyn Skinner earned her first career all-tournament honor at the Indiana Invitational. Danielle Tonyan opened the year by being named to the Marquette Challenge All-Tournament team, the third all-tournament honor she has earned in her three years at BGSU.
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PRESEASON PICKS
BGSU was picked to finish third in the Mid-American Conference East Division, by vote of the league?s 12 head coaches in the MAC Preseason Poll. The Falcons trailed just Ohio and Miami in the poll, and ranked ahead of Buffalo, Kent State, and Akron. Western Michigan was picked to win the West and the Broncos were also selected as the overall regular season champions and the tournament champions.
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TONYAN NAMED PRESEASON ALL-MAC
Junior right side hitter Danielle Tonyan was named East Division Preseason All-MAC, in voting by the league?s 12 head coaches. Tonyan is coming off of a sophomore year in which she was named first team All-MAC and ranked third in the league in kills. She finished the year among the top 100 nationally in both kills and points. She joined Ohio?s Chelsea Bilger, Lexie Hartnett and Kelly Lamberti, Buffalo?s Liz Scott and Miami?s Madison Hardy on the team. The West Division Preseason All-MAC team consisted of Western Michigan?s Jessica Brown and Terin Norris, Ball State?s Kara Bates, Central Michigan?s Kaitlyn McIntyre, Eastern Michigan?s Rachel Iaquaniello, and Northern Illinois? Mary Kurisch.
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OLD SCHOOL
For the past few years, we?ve talked about how young the BGSU volleyball team is, but that?s not the case anymore. Eleven of the 13 team members are either juniors or seniors (four seniors and seven juniors). That total is more than any other in the Mid-American Conference. Akron, Ball State, and Northern Illinois all have nine juniors and seniors. On the other end of the spectrum, Kent State has just three and Western Michigan has four.
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TRANSFER OF POWER
The lone newcomer on the BGSU volleyball team is sophomore transfer Kelsey Bates. Bates, who hails from Willshire, Ohio, spent her freshman season at Syracuse before returning to her home state for this season.
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MOST IMPROVED
With an 11-win increase over a year ago, Bowling Green was easily the most improved team in the Mid-American Conference a year ago. The Falcons improved from 8-24 in 2010 to 19-12 in 2011. The second most improved team in the conference was Central Michigan, which had a five-win increase.
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MAC ATTACK
Danielle Tonyan was named first team All-MAC as a sophomore in 2011, becoming the first player to earn that honor since Shari Luther in 2009. Kendra Halm, in 2006, was the last BGSU sophomore to be named first-team All-MAC and she went on to earn first team honors again as both a junior and senior.
HITTING THE BOOKS
Bowling Green has always stressed academics and Falcon volleyball has been a model of that philosophy. The 2011 BGSU volleyball team received the AVCA Academic Team Award for the 12th consecutive season, compiling a cumulative grade point average of 3.30 or better. The Falcons have the second longest streak in all of NCAA Division I and has received the award 13 times overall. Two BGSU players, Laura Avila and Kari Galen, were named Academic All-MAC a year ago, while Lindsey Butterfield, Libby Dachenhaus, Ashley Dunn, and the graduated Emily Kauth were named honorable mention.
Source: http://www.bgsufalcons.com/news/2012/10/15/VB_1015120436.aspx
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