By the Helena IR
Carroll College volleyball coach Moe Boyle has announced that the Mead High School (Spokane, Wash.) duo of Jonni Dorr and Natalie Kassa have committed to play for Carroll.
Dorr, a 5-foot-9 setter, was a two-year varsity starter and team captain in 2013. She earned first team all-league honores in her junior and senior years. Her team was twice the league champion, three times the district and regional champion and three times a state qualifier. The team won the 4A championship in 2009 and was runner-up in 2012.
Kassa, a 5-6 libero, earned 4A All-Tournament honors this past season. Kassa, who plans on majoring in nutrition while at Carroll, has a 3.9 GPA. She is a member of National Honor Society and and the group leader of Fellowship of Christian Athletes.
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By the Helena IR
Carroll College volleyball announced Tuesday the commitment of Mead High (Spokane, Wash.) middle hitter Paige Montgomery, who will join the Saints for the 2013 season.
“Montgomery is a quality student-athlete who has a lot of playing experience and has been successful at each level on the court,” Carroll coach Moe Boyle said. “With her proven work ethic and knowledge of the game, she will add tremendous depth to our veteran-loaded middle hitter position next fall.”
Montgomery (5-11) was a four-year varsity starter and a two-time team MVP at Mead. She also earned second-team all-Greater Spokane League honors in 2010 and first-team all-GSL in 2012. Her team was twice the GSL Champion, three times the district and regional champion, and three times a state qualifier, where it won the 4A championship in 2009 and was the runner-up in 2012.
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By the Helena IR
Carroll College middle hitter Elli Graff was named a 2012 Tachikara NAIA All-America Team honorable mention on Monday. Graff, a 6-foot junior from Bozeman, led the Frontier Conference with 1.4 blocks per set and tied for third with a .279 hitting percentage. She led the Saints with 332 kills and 195 blocks on the season. Graff helped lead a young Carroll squad, which will return all but two players next season, to just the program’s second NAIA Championships Final Site.
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By the Helena IR
Carroll College is coming home without a win, but the Saints leave the NAIA National Volleyball Tournament with a young roster and a better sense of what to expect on the big stage. The unranked Saints lost in three sets against 15th-ranked Madonna on Thursday in their third and final pool match by a score of 25-13, 25-23, 25-14.
The Saints also were swept by third-ranked Columbia and 10th-ranked Oklahoma Baptist at the tournament, which continues today with the knockout rounds.
“I think we battled, but we definitely were not quite ourselves here and I think the atmosphere lends itself to that,” Carroll coach Moe Boyle said. “... As much as you don’t want to say, ‘Go win,’ and not just, ‘Go for experience,’ you do have to experience what it’s like. None of these girls have ever been here before and it’s a pretty serious atmosphere. We would have liked to have done a heck of a lot better obviously.”
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By Jesse Zentz, Helena IR
When the Carroll College women’s volleyball team needed to be at its peak, it hit a low point. The unranked Saints lost to 10th-ranked Oklahoma Baptist in three sets Wednesday at the NAIA National Championship Tournament in Sioux City, Iowa, and won’t advance to the knockout round with one match remaining in pool play against 15th-ranked Madonna at noon today.
“We played our worst match of the year,” Carroll College coach Moe Boyle said the of the Saints’ second loss at the tournament, having already fallen in three sets against third-ranked Columbia on Tuesday. “We really weren’t in the match even though we were in control for a little while in the second set. We never really felt comfortable at all and never got anything going. What we normally do well, we didn’t do at all.”
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By Curt Syness, Helena IR
The Carroll College volleyball team begins competing in its second NAIA National Championship Final Site today in Sioux City, Iowa. The 24-team tournament will take place in the Tyson Center, with each team playing three matches in pool play — one per day through Thursday. The top two clubs from each pool will advance to the final 12-team single-elimination bracket.
“We’re just excited to play somebody new because I think our girls really thrive on playing our game and not worrying about game-planning,” Carroll head coach Moe Boyle said. “With these teams, we’re not going to be able to game-plan, so the focus is going to be on us and what we have to do to win. If we can continue to bring our momentum and play our game, I think we can do well.”
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